Timo Freiesleben

Hi visitor, welcome to my personal website. I am a postdoc in the Emmy Noether research group "From Bias to Knowledge: The Epistemology of Machine Learning", led by Dr. Tom Sterkenburg, at the Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy (LMU Munich) and I am also a member of the Munich Center for Machine Learning. Before that, I was a postdoc in the philosophy and ethics group at the Machine Learning in Science Cluster at the University of Tübingen with Dr. Thomas Grote.

I am interested in topics like:

• Philosophy and Ethics of AI
• Philosophy of Science and Scientific Modeling
• Explainable Artificial Intelligence
• Evaluation and Robustness of Machine Learning Systems

I did my PhD at the Graduate School of Systemic Neurosciences (GSN) under the supervision of Prof. Stephan Hartmann on the question what explainable AI explains. Before my PhD I studied mathematics, philosophy of science, computer science and neuroscience in Tübingen, Oslo, and Munich. You can find my complete CV here (Version 10-2025).

Beyond the above topics, I am interested in classical literature, modern physics, existentialist philosophy, hiking, football, stand-up-paddling, cooking, board games, and many more things.

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