Dr. Katie Fitch has been head of the department Trustworthy Digital Health at Fraunhofer IKS since November 2024. Katie's enthusiasm for mathematics led her to the engineering section early on. Then she discovered medical AI research for herself.

Striving for excellence in scientific research on trustworthy Artificial Intelligence (AI), Dr. Narges Ahmidi also aims to encourage young female scientists to enter science and become leaders.

At Fraunhofer IKS, people from a wide variety of countries work on solving complex tasks: Currently we have colleagues from more than 20 different nations. We asked three of them about their experiences of living and working in Germany.

As a researcher at Fraunhofer IKS, and participant in the Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) program, João-Vitor Zacchi focuses on safe perception for autonomous driving. He grew up in Brazil and lived in France before he moved to Munich. Part 14 of our employee portrait series.

Even at a young age, Jeanette Lorenz knew she wanted to go into science. Now she works at Fraunhofer IKS researching how to make reliable and robust quantum computing possible. Part 13 of our employee portraits series.

Jan Frederik Hagen’s job is to make sure the IT infrastructure at Fraunhofer IKS runs smoothly. He knows from his time working in science how important that is for colleagues carrying out research. Part 12 of our series of employee portraits — not of a researcher this time, but of someone who provides the conditions researchers need in order to do their job.

As head of the Business Development group, Anna Guderitz leads a team that liaises between science and industry. In part eight of our employee profile series, she explains what particularly appeals to her about her role.

Andreas Kreutz, research engineer at Fraunhofer IKS, likes breaking new ground — both in his research and in his spare time. Part seven of our employee profile series.

Tom Haider has been on an expedition to find his research focus which took him halfway around the world. He arrived at the question of how to implement AI research in practice. Part 5 of our employee portraits series.

Poulami Sinhamahapatra doesn’t just work on new developments at Fraunhofer IKS – in her free time she also writes poetry and blog posts in English and Hindi. She was inspired to enter the worlds of art and research by reading science fiction books. Part 4 of our employee portraits series.