Dr. rer. nat. Magnus Bender M.Sc.

• Assistant Professor
• Programming, Logic and Intelligent Systems
• Universität Roskilde
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Curriculum Vitae

• Since May 2025 – Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the research group Programming, Logic and Intelligent Systems (PLIS), Roskilde University
• April 2024 - April 2025 – Research Associate at the Institute of Humanities-Centered Artificial Intelligence (CHAI), Universität Hamburg
• March 2021 - March 2024 – Research Assistant at the Institute of Information Systems (IFIS), University of Lübeck
• October 2017 - February 2021 – Tutor for various modules, including: Algorithms and Data Structures, Algorithm Design, Cybersecurity, Introduction to Web and Data Science, and Software Engineering (incl. Lab)

Education

• October 2024 – Dr. rer. nat., Universität zu Lübeck (PDF; Slides, German)
• September 2021 – M.Sc. in Computer Science, Universität zu Lübeck (PDF)

• October 2019 – B.Sc. in Computer Science, Universität zu Lübeck (PDF, German)

• Since October 2022 – Student of Law, Part-time, FernUni Hagen

Research

Interests

• Intellectics
  • Artificial Intelligence in the Humanities and Law
• Text understanding, especially by enriching texts with annotations and contextual representations
  • Machine Learning,
  • Data Mining and Text Mining,
  • Subjective Content Descriptions,
  • Topic Modelling,
  • Transformer (Language) Models (a.o. BERT, GPT)

Activities

• Publications
• Projects
  • Subjective Content Descriptions
  • Intelligent Subjective Agents
  • Law and AI
• Other
  • Talks
  • Prizes
  • Tutorials
  • Workshops
  • Reviews

Teaching

• Theses

Lectures

• Introduction to Python for Machine Learning and Data Science (as module “Tools for Scientific Work”, Bachelor course, Winter, 2022/23 - 2023/24)
• Introduction to R (as part of “Tools for Scientific Work”, Bachelor course, Winter, 2021/22)

Labs and Seminars

• Seminar: Multi Agent Systems (Bachelor and Master, Winter, 2024/25)
• Lab: Intelligent Agents (Master course, Winter, 2021/22 - 2023/24)

Tutorials (Teaching Assistant)

• Algorithms and Data Structures (Bachelor course, Summer, 2021 - 2023)
• Introduction to Web and Data Science (Bachelor course, Winter, 2020/21 - 2023/24)