Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Joern Ploennigs was appointed in September 2022. Previously, he led as STSM at IBM Research the international research on AI@Scale for Digital Twins and Future of Infrastructure and developed new AI products to optimize sustainability in facility and asset management. He worked in particular on AI methods that combine semantic knowledge graphs with machine learning and optimisation models to automate Digital Twins. Before that, he led the junior research group "Energy Design" at TU Dresden and, as a Feodor Lynen Fellow of the Humboldt Foundation, the Data Science group at the Irish Collaborative Research Center ITOBO for Sustainable and Optimised Building Operation. He studied electrical engineering at TU Dresden and received his PhD in computer science. He habilitated in 2017 at TU Dresden on the topic "Automating the Internet of Buildings" in which he presents methods for the automation of design and analysis methods for sustainable buildings.

Nils Krause is a research assistant and doctoral student in the Department of Civil Engineering at the University of Rostock. His focus is on the use of laser scanning, point clouds and LiDAR technologies in combination with artificial intelligence (AI) to develop innovative solutions in civil engineering. He works intensively on the application of LiDAR data for Building Information Modeling (BIM) as well as on the precise capture and analysis of building geometries. He is passionate about increasing efficiency in planning and construction processes through the use of cutting-edge technologies. I always have an open ear for any questions you may have, also in other areas. Feel free to contact me by e-mail.