Curriculum Vitae

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  • LMU München (DE)
  • Focus: Neurosymbolic Architectures for Trustworthy ML
  • Social Data Science and AI Lab (SODA)
  • Advisor: Prof. Dr. Christoph Kern

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  • University of Bamberg (DE)
  • Focus: Cognitive Systems
  • Thesis: Tree-Vitality Classification from Image Data: A Comparison of Multispectral Index Scores and Deep Learning Approaches
  • Advisor: Prof. Dr. Ute Schmid

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  • University of Ljubljana (SI)
  • Selected topics:
    • Neurosymbolic AI
    • Uncertainty in Sequential Decision Making*
    • Planning and RL
    • AI for Science

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  • University of Dubrovnik (HR)

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  • University of Bamberg (DE)
  • Thesis: Affecting Insight: The Influence of Negative Affect on Creative and Analytic Thought
  • Advisor: Prof. Dr. Jascha Rüsseler
  • Co-founder
  • Data Science and AI Consulting and Software Development for the Public Sector
  • Located in Munich (DE)

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  • Academic Employee
  • Member of the ADA initiative that organises data analysis workshops and support for public authorities
  • Research on neurosymbolic architectures for trustworthy ML
  • Co-organisation of the Datafest hackathon at LMU Münchend AI Consulting and Software Development for the Public Sector

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  • Freelance Data Scientist
  • Assistance in the ADA workshop series on applied data analysis for public authorities in Bavaria
  • Planning of an infrastructure solution for storage and processing of geo-spatial data in Bavarian public authorities
  • Development of a Shiny application that aids archivists in the task of court record sampling

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  • Data Scientist and AI Engineer
  • Engineering of Python-backends
  • Training and deployment of Machine Learning models for price regression (CatBoost) and time series prediction (LSTM)
  • Development of RAG interfaces
  • LLM Finetuning
  • Teaching Assistant
  • Introduction to Artificial Intelligence (Bachelor level)
  • Preparation and correction of assignments
  • Tutorials for ∼40 students

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  • Teaching Assistant
  • Introduction to Computer Architectures and Operating Systems (Bachelor level)
  • Tutorials for ∼15 students

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Heilmann, X., Manganini, C., Cerrato, M., Kestel, L., & Belle, V. (2026). A Neurosymbolic Approach to Counterfactual Fairness. In Neurosymbolic Artificial Intelligence (2). doi: 10.1177/29498732261443184

Kestel, L., & Kern, C. (2026). Neurosymbolic Architectures for Algorithmic Fairness.

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  • Fellow
  • Graduate Center for Doctoral Researchers

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  • Affiliated Junior Researcher
  • German AI Competence Center

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  • Lecturer,Instructor
  • LMU München
  • Bachelor level
  • Lecturer, Instructor
  • LMU München
  • Bachelor level
  • Instructor
  • LMU München
  • Bachelor level
  • Teaching Assistant
  • University of Bamberg
  • Bachelor level
  • Teaching Assistant
  • University of Bamberg
  • Bachelor level
  • Role: Advisory board member
  • Organisation: Non-profit organisation for the promotion of culture and arts

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  • Role: Mentor to secondary school students on opportunities and fundamentals of a degree in computer science
  • Organisation: Equal Opportunity Office (University of Bamberg)

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  • Role: Member, Treasurer
  • Organisation: Faculty of Human Sciences and Education (University of Bamberg)

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  • Role: Caregiver for people with intellectual disabilities
  • Organisation: Lebenshilfe gGmbH (Munich and Bamberg)

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  • Role: Caregiver for people with intellectual disabilities
  • Organisation: OBA München

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  • Role: Organisation of children’s and youth camps
  • Organisation: Lutheran Youth Organisation Munich (EJM)

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