Bio:

Christoph Trattner is currently appointed as Lead Professor (1404) by the University Board of the University of Bergen (UiB). At UiB, he serves as the Founder and Center Director of the Research Centre for Responsible Media Technology & Innovation, known as SFI MediaFutures, which has secured funding and in-kind contributions totaling approximately 300 million NOK. Additionally, he is the Founder and Leader of the DARS research group, Norway’s largest research group specializing in Recommender Systems.

He holds a PhD (with distinction), MSc (with distinction), and BSc in Computer Science and Telematics from Graz University of Technology in Austria and is an ACM Senior Member. Christoph has been awarded numerous prestigious fellowships, including those from the Austrian Research Promotion Agency (FFG), the Marshall Plan Foundation, and the European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics (ERICM). His previous academic appointments include positions at Graz University of Technology (2009-2012), the University of Pittsburgh (2011-2012), and the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (2014-2015). He has also held visiting research appointments at Yahoo! Labs in Barcelona (2014) and CWI Amsterdam (2015, twice).

Christoph’s research focuses on the development of new kinds of Responsible AI, with a focus on “Data Science” and “Recommender Systems.” Since 2009, he has published over 150 papers in leading academic venues, including NATURE Food, NATURE Sustainability, JASIST, IPM, UMUAI, WWW, AAAI ICWSM, ACM SIGIR, and ACM RecSys. He has successfully secured over 650 million NOK in funding for research initiatives at both the European and international levels, with 365 million NOK as Principal Investigator. Additionally, he has received several Best Paper/Poster Awards and Honorable Mentions, including the Best Paper Award Honorable Mention at the highly regarded CORE A* ranked The Web Conference in 2017.

He actively contributes to the academic community by serving as a senior program committee (PC) member for several top-tier conferences (CORE A* ranked) and by co-organizing and chairing conferences and workshops. Christoph has co-chaired (Workshop/Late-Breaking Results/Tutorials) at ACM RecSys (2018-2020 & 2024), served as program co-chair for MMM2023, and as general co-chair for the HealthRecys workshop series at ACM RecSys. He also serves on the board of preforma, a pioneering Norwegian health-tech start-up focused on women’s health, and is a former board member of Media City Bergen, Norway’s largest media cluster. Furthermore, he provides advisory services to tech start-ups and serves on the editorial boards of prominent academic journals, including Springer’s Journal of Intelligent Information Systems and Springer’s AI and Ethics journal.

Since 2009, Christoph has taught over 2000 students across more than 35 courses at the BSc, MSc, MBA, and PhD levels in Austria and Norway, and has supervised over 35 Master’s and PhD theses. In June 2021, he was appointed as an ACM Distinguished Speaker, one of only two such appointments in Norway.