Marcus Birkenkrahe, Ph.D.

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Marcus Birkenkrahe, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Computer Science

Computer Science Department, College of Arts & Sciences

Education 

Ph.D. (Dr. rer. nat.) in Physics, 1994, University of Hamburg, Germany; Diploma (M.S. equivalent) in Physics, 1990, University of Hamburg, Germany

Biography 

Dr. Marcus Birkenkrahe is a computer scientist whose career spans theoretical physics, corporate knowledge management and higher education. He began his research career in lattice gauge theory at the University of Hamburg, earning a Ph.D. in physics. He went on to hold executive positions at Accenture and Shell International in London, England, before becoming professor of business information systems at the Berlin School of Economics and Law in Berlin. His research interests include literate programming and reproducible data science, physics-informed machine learning and the role of generative AI in research and education.