Biography

Short Bio:
Philipp does research in information systems with a focus on human-AI collaboration, explainable AI, decision making, and healthcare IT. To do so, he employs behavioral and design-oriented information systems methods, as well as methods from the fields of medical informatics and computer science. Philipp received his Bachelor’s and Master’s at the University of Cologne and is currently a PhD student as part of the joint venture Helmholtz Information & Data Science School for Health, at the Karlsruhe Institute for Technology (KIT) and German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) Heidelberg. His current project is 'XAI-Omics: Explainable Artificial Intelligence in Life Science - An Application to Omics Data.'

Education:
- Since 07/2020: Ph.D. student in Information Systems at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology as part of the Helmholtz Information & Data Science School for Health, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) Heidelberg.
- 10/2018 – 06/2020: Master of Science in Information Systems at the University of Cologne.
- 10/2016 – 10/2017: Bachelor of Science in Information Systems at the University of Cologne.

Work Experience:
- Since 10/2024: Affiliated researcher at Information Infrastructures Research Group at Technical University Munich.
- Since 07/2020: Research associate at Critical Information Infrastructures Research Group at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology.
- 05/2018 - 06/2020: Research assistant at Critical Information Infrastructures Research Group at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology.
- 11/2017 - 04/2018: Research assistant at the Chair for Information Systems and Systems Engineering at the University of Kassel.

Honors and Awards:
- Best Paper Nomination at the Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS) 2024.
- Dean's Award of the Faculty of Management, Economics and Social Science at the University of Cologne. Belonging to the best 5% of his cohort in his postgraduate studies (2019).

Academic Services:
- Reviewer for (alphabetical): 
AIS Transactions on Human-Computer Interaction (THCI); BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making; Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal (CSBJ); Electronic Markets (EM); European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS); GamiFIN Conference; Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS); Health Policy and Technology (HPT); Information Processing and Management (IPM); Journal of Medical Internet Research (JMIR); JMIR Medical Informatics; Journal of the Association for Information Systems (JAIS).

Invited Talks:
- The Role of Explainable Artificial Intelligence for AI-based Clinical Decision Support Systems; 2nd Global Technology Forum, TUM Campus Heilbronn, Germany; Nov. 2024.
 

Projects

• XAIOmics: Explainable Artificial Intelligence in Life Science: An Application to Omics Data