Mario Krenn
@mariokrenn.bsky.social
Professor for "Machine Learning in Science", University of Tübingen.
Artificial Intellgence as a source of inspiration in Science.
https://mariokrenn.wordpress.com/
Artificial Intellgence as a source of inspiration in Science.
https://mariokrenn.wordpress.com/
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Mario Krenn
@mariokrenn.bsky.social
· Mar 12
Very happy to announce that I'll be joining the University of Tübingen @unituebingen.bsky.social as a Full Professor (W3) of "Machine Learning for Science" in the Computer Science Department within the Faculty of Science and the #ExcellenceCluster @ml4science.bsky.social
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Our professor @mariokrenn.bsky.social is featured in the latest issue of @spiegel.de! He talks about #AI designing better physics experiments than humans, his vision for artificial scientists, and why - despite all this - he cannot imagine science without humans.
www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft...
www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft...
(S+) Mario Krenn über künstliche Intelligenz in Forschung und Wissenschaft: »KI-generierte Ideen sind schon so gut, dass selbst Spitzenforscher sie interessant finden«
Der Physiker Mario Krenn möchte künstliche Wissenschaftler bauen. Schon jetzt entwerfen seine KI-Programme Experimente, an die Menschen nicht denken. Die Versuche könnten die Forschung entscheidend vo...
www.spiegel.de
November 14, 2025 at 10:44 AM
Our professor @mariokrenn.bsky.social is featured in the latest issue of @spiegel.de! He talks about #AI designing better physics experiments than humans, his vision for artificial scientists, and why - despite all this - he cannot imagine science without humans.
www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft...
www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft...
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Tenure Track in quantum informatics! Super cool position. Super cool team. World-class research. Scientifically outstanding work.
(I/III) We're excited to announce a new tenure track opening! The position is called 'quantum informatics' and is affiliated with our QUICK group within the CS+AI division at @jku.at 🇦🇹. Application deadline is November 30th, 2025: www.jku.at/en/the-jku/w...
October 22, 2025 at 7:36 AM
Tenure Track in quantum informatics! Super cool position. Super cool team. World-class research. Scientifically outstanding work.
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Network Science, and three of its avengers, featured in the latest @veritasium.bsky.social video (one of the largest youtube channels for Science education)!! youtu.be/CYlon2tvywA?... @stevenstrogatz.com Duncan Watts @barabasi.bsky.social
Something Strange Happens When You Trace How Connected We Are
YouTube video by Veritasium
youtu.be
October 1, 2025 at 6:58 AM
Network Science, and three of its avengers, featured in the latest @veritasium.bsky.social video (one of the largest youtube channels for Science education)!! youtu.be/CYlon2tvywA?... @stevenstrogatz.com Duncan Watts @barabasi.bsky.social
📢Several PhD and Postdoc positions in my group (focusing on AI for Scientific Discovery in Physics) at @unituebingen.bsky.social
If you are excited about using AI to design new ways for observing the universe, please apply here: uni-tuebingen.de/en/128980#c2...
If you are excited about using AI to design new ways for observing the universe, please apply here: uni-tuebingen.de/en/128980#c2...
October 1, 2025 at 11:43 PM
📢Several PhD and Postdoc positions in my group (focusing on AI for Scientific Discovery in Physics) at @unituebingen.bsky.social
If you are excited about using AI to design new ways for observing the universe, please apply here: uni-tuebingen.de/en/128980#c2...
If you are excited about using AI to design new ways for observing the universe, please apply here: uni-tuebingen.de/en/128980#c2...
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PhD and Postdoc positions in AI for Scientific Discovery in Physics (Uni Tuebingen, Germany) @unituebingen.bsky.social
www.quantiki.org/position/phd...
www.quantiki.org/position/phd...
September 29, 2025 at 9:37 AM
PhD and Postdoc positions in AI for Scientific Discovery in Physics (Uni Tuebingen, Germany) @unituebingen.bsky.social
www.quantiki.org/position/phd...
www.quantiki.org/position/phd...
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I'm delighted happy to feature on the homepage of Die Zeit @diezeit.bsky.social today, for the first in a new feature of theirs, called "Just One Question", launching across print, online, audio, video, & newsletter www.zeit.de/wissen/2025-...
September 17, 2025 at 12:38 PM
I'm delighted happy to feature on the homepage of Die Zeit @diezeit.bsky.social today, for the first in a new feature of theirs, called "Just One Question", launching across print, online, audio, video, & newsletter www.zeit.de/wissen/2025-...
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Blog post: "Actually, you can't test if quantum uses complex numbers" algassert.com/post/2501
I doom the concept of that 2021 Nature paper by showing how to compile any distributed quantum protocol into real-only gates while preserving locality.
I doom the concept of that 2021 Nature paper by showing how to compile any distributed quantum protocol into real-only gates while preserving locality.
September 15, 2025 at 4:20 AM
Blog post: "Actually, you can't test if quantum uses complex numbers" algassert.com/post/2501
I doom the concept of that 2021 Nature paper by showing how to compile any distributed quantum protocol into real-only gates while preserving locality.
I doom the concept of that 2021 Nature paper by showing how to compile any distributed quantum protocol into real-only gates while preserving locality.
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A nice historical look at the origins of the Ising model.
www.arxiv.org/abs/2509.00632
www.arxiv.org/abs/2509.00632
Origins of the Ising model
In 1925, Ernest Ising published a paper analyzing a model proposed in 1920 by Wilhelm Lenz for ferromagnetism. The model is composed of constituent units that take only two states and interact only wh...
www.arxiv.org
September 8, 2025 at 8:19 AM
A nice historical look at the origins of the Ising model.
www.arxiv.org/abs/2509.00632
www.arxiv.org/abs/2509.00632
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Big grant news today! I feel very lucky and honored for this opportunity from @erc.europa.eu . We will attempt to go for a big qualitative step up in how we use AI/ML to predict how particles interact with matter. Stoked to get started on this in 2026. we will release job advertisements soon!
Congratulations to six of our #researchers, including Lukas Heinrich, who receive prestigious ERC #StartingGrants worth up to 1.5 million euros each for projects in #informatics, #medicine, #LifeSciences & #NaturalSciences: go.tum.de/682017 👏
#ERCStG @erc.europa.eu
📷A.Eckert
#ERCStG @erc.europa.eu
📷A.Eckert
Six ERC Starting Grants for researchers at TUM
Six further researchers at TUM are to receive the prestigious ERC Starting Grants for their projects.
go.tum.de
September 4, 2025 at 10:45 AM
Big grant news today! I feel very lucky and honored for this opportunity from @erc.europa.eu . We will attempt to go for a big qualitative step up in how we use AI/ML to predict how particles interact with matter. Stoked to get started on this in 2026. we will release job advertisements soon!
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Can artificial intelligence predict future research directions in quantum science? Listen to this episode of the Physics World Weekly podcast to discover what is already possible. 🧪⚛️ ow.ly/SMZ150WRg5F
Artificial intelligence predicts future directions in quantum science – Physics World
This podcast explains what happens when 66,000 research papers are used as training data
ow.ly
September 4, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Can artificial intelligence predict future research directions in quantum science? Listen to this episode of the Physics World Weekly podcast to discover what is already possible. 🧪⚛️ ow.ly/SMZ150WRg5F
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The researchers conducted an empirical study comparing an LLM to human programmers comprehending clean and confusing code.
Based on their analysis, both LLMs (via LLM perplexity) and humans (via EEG) are similarly confused about the code.
How do Humans and LLMs Process Confusing Code?
Based on their analysis, both LLMs (via LLM perplexity) and humans (via EEG) are similarly confused about the code.
How do Humans and LLMs Process Confusing Code?
August 30, 2025 at 1:39 AM
The researchers conducted an empirical study comparing an LLM to human programmers comprehending clean and confusing code.
Based on their analysis, both LLMs (via LLM perplexity) and humans (via EEG) are similarly confused about the code.
How do Humans and LLMs Process Confusing Code?
Based on their analysis, both LLMs (via LLM perplexity) and humans (via EEG) are similarly confused about the code.
How do Humans and LLMs Process Confusing Code?
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Hi, I am here! Will mostly post about Quantum Foundations/Computing and Quantum Music.
September 1, 2025 at 9:48 AM
Hi, I am here! Will mostly post about Quantum Foundations/Computing and Quantum Music.
August 28, 2025 at 8:04 AM
Super exciting paper by the groups of Jan-Åke Larsson & Marek Żukowski (two top-experts in Bell's theorem):
arxiv.org/abs/2508.19207
They analysed our recent paper on a very strange nonlocal interference effect (science.org/doi/10.1126/...).
They found that while the inequality we used ...
arxiv.org/abs/2508.19207
They analysed our recent paper on a very strange nonlocal interference effect (science.org/doi/10.1126/...).
They found that while the inequality we used ...
Unquestionable Bell theorem for interwoven frustrated down conversion processes
In the Wang et al. paper "Violation of Bell inequality with unentangled photons'' [Science Advances, 1 Aug 2025 Vol 11, Issue 31], in which a brilliant experiment involving two interwoven frustrated d...
arxiv.org
August 28, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Super exciting paper by the groups of Jan-Åke Larsson & Marek Żukowski (two top-experts in Bell's theorem):
arxiv.org/abs/2508.19207
They analysed our recent paper on a very strange nonlocal interference effect (science.org/doi/10.1126/...).
They found that while the inequality we used ...
arxiv.org/abs/2508.19207
They analysed our recent paper on a very strange nonlocal interference effect (science.org/doi/10.1126/...).
They found that while the inequality we used ...
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Last year, a team identified 47,176,870 as the fifth “busy beaver” number, a quantity tied to one of the hardest problems in computation. They've now found that the sixth number is so big, it's impossible to write without special notation. www.quantamagazine.org/busy-beaver-...
Busy Beaver Hunters Reach Numbers That Overwhelm Ordinary Math | Quanta Magazine
The quest to find the longest-running simple computer program has identified a new champion. It’s physically impossible to write out the numbers involved using standard mathematical notation.
www.quantamagazine.org
August 22, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Last year, a team identified 47,176,870 as the fifth “busy beaver” number, a quantity tied to one of the hardest problems in computation. They've now found that the sixth number is so big, it's impossible to write without special notation. www.quantamagazine.org/busy-beaver-...
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It was such a pleasure being a guest on "Math-Life Balance", a podcast devoted to interviews with mathematicians. Mura Yakerson is a fantastic interviewer! Check out our chat at www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gx8F... #mathsky
Interview with Steven Strogatz
YouTube video by Math-life balance
www.youtube.com
August 22, 2025 at 8:33 PM
It was such a pleasure being a guest on "Math-Life Balance", a podcast devoted to interviews with mathematicians. Mura Yakerson is a fantastic interviewer! Check out our chat at www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gx8F... #mathsky
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AI can improve the design of experiments. “It takes a lot to think this far outside of the accepted solution,” Adhikari said. “We really needed the AI.”
www.quantamagazine.org/ai-comes-up-...
www.quantamagazine.org/ai-comes-up-...
AI Comes Up with Bizarre Physics Experiments. But They Work. | Quanta Magazine
Artificial intelligence software is designing novel experimental protocols that improve upon the work of human physicists, although the humans are still “doing a lot of baby-sitting.”
www.quantamagazine.org
August 1, 2025 at 2:41 PM
AI can improve the design of experiments. “It takes a lot to think this far outside of the accepted solution,” Adhikari said. “We really needed the AI.”
www.quantamagazine.org/ai-comes-up-...
www.quantamagazine.org/ai-comes-up-...
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🚀 Excited to share our latest Review paper published in Nature Reviews Chemistry, exploring how machine learning (ML), when integrated with high-throughput experimental and computational data, can accelerate the discovery and design of heterogeneous catalysts.
Paper link: lnkd.in/eYQkUsWn
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Paper link: lnkd.in/eYQkUsWn
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July 18, 2025 at 6:24 PM
🚀 Excited to share our latest Review paper published in Nature Reviews Chemistry, exploring how machine learning (ML), when integrated with high-throughput experimental and computational data, can accelerate the discovery and design of heterogeneous catalysts.
Paper link: lnkd.in/eYQkUsWn
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Paper link: lnkd.in/eYQkUsWn
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This year quantum physics turns 100, so @nature.com decided to conduct the biggest ever survey of what lies behind it. Do physicists really believe in multiple universes? Can influences happen instantaneously? Is the Copenhagen interpretation all it's cut out to be? ⚛️🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Physicists disagree wildly on what quantum mechanics says about reality, Nature survey shows
First major attempt to chart researchers’ views finds interpretations in conflict.
www.nature.com
July 30, 2025 at 2:19 PM
This year quantum physics turns 100, so @nature.com decided to conduct the biggest ever survey of what lies behind it. Do physicists really believe in multiple universes? Can influences happen instantaneously? Is the Copenhagen interpretation all it's cut out to be? ⚛️🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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A nice article by @anilananth.bsky.social on using AI to explore design spaces, find unexpected solutions, (re)discover symmetries, and propose new relationships featuring @yuqirose.bsky.social @mariokrenn.bsky.social & myself.
Note AI ≠ LLMs in this piece.
www.quantamagazine.org/ai-comes-up-...
Note AI ≠ LLMs in this piece.
www.quantamagazine.org/ai-comes-up-...
AI Comes Up with Bizarre Physics Experiments. But They Work. | Quanta Magazine
Artificial intelligence software is designing novel experimental protocols that improve upon the work of human physicists, although the humans are still “doing a lot of baby-sitting.”
www.quantamagazine.org
July 22, 2025 at 1:58 PM
A nice article by @anilananth.bsky.social on using AI to explore design spaces, find unexpected solutions, (re)discover symmetries, and propose new relationships featuring @yuqirose.bsky.social @mariokrenn.bsky.social & myself.
Note AI ≠ LLMs in this piece.
www.quantamagazine.org/ai-comes-up-...
Note AI ≠ LLMs in this piece.
www.quantamagazine.org/ai-comes-up-...
"AI Comes Up with Bizarre Physics Experiments. But They Work." by @anilananth.bsky.social @quantamagazine.bsky.social:
www.quantamagazine.org/ai-comes-up-...
Covering our work with Rana Adhikari @ligo.org on discovering GW detectors & work by @yuqirose.bsky.social & @kylecranmer.bsky.social on ...
www.quantamagazine.org/ai-comes-up-...
Covering our work with Rana Adhikari @ligo.org on discovering GW detectors & work by @yuqirose.bsky.social & @kylecranmer.bsky.social on ...
AI Comes Up with Bizarre Physics Experiments. But They Work. | Quanta Magazine
Artificial intelligence software is designing novel experimental protocols that improve upon the work of human physicists, although the humans are still “doing a lot of baby-sitting.”
www.quantamagazine.org
July 21, 2025 at 7:33 PM
"AI Comes Up with Bizarre Physics Experiments. But They Work." by @anilananth.bsky.social @quantamagazine.bsky.social:
www.quantamagazine.org/ai-comes-up-...
Covering our work with Rana Adhikari @ligo.org on discovering GW detectors & work by @yuqirose.bsky.social & @kylecranmer.bsky.social on ...
www.quantamagazine.org/ai-comes-up-...
Covering our work with Rana Adhikari @ligo.org on discovering GW detectors & work by @yuqirose.bsky.social & @kylecranmer.bsky.social on ...
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Come work with us in Tübingen! Our new professor @mariokrenn.bsky.social is looking for PhDs and postdocs! The group builds #AI systems for discovering new concepts, experiments and ideas in #physics. Find out more: uni-tuebingen.de/en/128980#c2... #AIforScience
July 16, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Come work with us in Tübingen! Our new professor @mariokrenn.bsky.social is looking for PhDs and postdocs! The group builds #AI systems for discovering new concepts, experiments and ideas in #physics. Find out more: uni-tuebingen.de/en/128980#c2... #AIforScience
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Very excited to have officially joined @mariokrenn.bsky.social as a PhD student at @unituebingen.bsky.social. Looking forward to the next few years of cool research on AI-driven detector design!
If you’re in Tübingen, I’d be happy to discuss research ideas over lunch or coffee!
If you’re in Tübingen, I’d be happy to discuss research ideas over lunch or coffee!
July 2, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Very excited to have officially joined @mariokrenn.bsky.social as a PhD student at @unituebingen.bsky.social. Looking forward to the next few years of cool research on AI-driven detector design!
If you’re in Tübingen, I’d be happy to discuss research ideas over lunch or coffee!
If you’re in Tübingen, I’d be happy to discuss research ideas over lunch or coffee!
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On our blog: Science is moving fast. How do we keep up? #ScholarInbox, developed by the Autonomous Vision Group led by @andreasgeiger.bsky.social, helps researchers stay ahead - by making the discovery of #openaccess papers smarter and more personal: www.machinelearningforscience.de/en/scholar-i...
Scholar Inbox: Daily Research Recommendations just for You
Science is moving fast. How can we keep up? Scholar Inbox helps researchers stay ahead by making the discovery of open access papers more personal.
www.machinelearningforscience.de
June 30, 2025 at 12:40 PM
On our blog: Science is moving fast. How do we keep up? #ScholarInbox, developed by the Autonomous Vision Group led by @andreasgeiger.bsky.social, helps researchers stay ahead - by making the discovery of #openaccess papers smarter and more personal: www.machinelearningforscience.de/en/scholar-i...
Had great fun in my first ever, live, radio interview, with ORF's Ö1 (Punkt Eins, with Barbara Zeithammer) -- on the occasion of my new professorship at the University of Tübingen @ml4science.bsky.social, talking about AI for Science.
Listen to it here: oe1.orf.at/programm/202...
(54mins, german)
Listen to it here: oe1.orf.at/programm/202...
(54mins, german)
June 26, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Had great fun in my first ever, live, radio interview, with ORF's Ö1 (Punkt Eins, with Barbara Zeithammer) -- on the occasion of my new professorship at the University of Tübingen @ml4science.bsky.social, talking about AI for Science.
Listen to it here: oe1.orf.at/programm/202...
(54mins, german)
Listen to it here: oe1.orf.at/programm/202...
(54mins, german)