For five years, the new members have the opportunity to initiate interdisciplinary research projects and working groups or to participate in existing projects and groups. In addition to their research work, the 50 members of the Die Junge Akademie work together at the interface of science, art and society. The sponsoring academies, the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities and the Junge Akademie take turns selecting the new members.
Niki Kilbertus has been Professor of Ethics in Systems Design and Machine Learning at TUM in the Department of Computer Science since 2021 and Helmholtz AI Research Group Leader at Helmholtz Munich since 2020. He researches interactions between machine learning algorithms and humans, with regard to ethical consequences and the reliability of these systems. In 2024, he already won the Leopoldina Prize for Junior Scientists.