Lise Meitner Award Winners 2022

Every second year the Max Planck Institute for Informatics awards the Lise Meitner Award Fellowship. This postdoctoral grant supports excellent female computer scientists in their careers, giving them the opportunity to develop their scientific ideas without exertion of influence. It consists of a two-year tax-free research fellowship and business expenses.

For the strech of the next two years, up to four young female researchers in computer science are given the opportunity to pursue their research with financial help from our institute.

	Xingting Hu is a PHD candidate at Nanyang Technological University. In 2022 she joined parallel the "Computer Vision and Machine Learning" group of Bernt Schiele. Her topics are “image recoginition” and “incremental learning”.			Jiang Li was a PhD at The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), then joining the Computer Vision Group of Bernt Schiele with her topic “self-supervised learning” She became an assistant professor at The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) in 2023.
	Nidhi Rathi finished her PhD from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India in 2021. From 2021-2023, she was a postdoc fellow at Aarhus University, Denmark. Since 2023, she has been working in the Algorithms & Complexity group of Danupon Na Nongkai, and her research areas include “Computational Social Choice Theory” and “Algorithmic Game Theory”.