Brief Bio

Since 2026, Zorah Lähner is a full professor at the University of Bonn and the Lamarr Institute and heads the group on Geometry in Machine Learning where she was also an assistant professor from 2024-2026. In 2021, she obtained her PhD in Computer Science from the Technical University of Munich, and was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Siegen from 2021 to 2023. She received the research award of the Faculty for Science and Technology in Siegen in 2023. Her research focuses on geometric aspects in optimization, for example in geometric deep learning and 3D geometry processing.