Maximilian Dax Won Hector RCD Award 2025

Principal Investigator Maximilian Dax has been awarded the prestigious Hector Research Career Development (RCD) Award. Established in 2020, the award recognizes outstanding early-career researchers and is granted annually to three scientists nationwide. It includes research funding as well as support for one doctoral researcher position.

Max is no stranger to the Hector ecosystem: He was previously a Young Researcher of the Hector Fellow Academy. Now, he returns to the network as RCD awardee. 

At the ELLIS Institute Tübingen, Max is building the Science and Probabilistic Intelligence (SPIN) group. His research centers on probabilistic inference, with the aim of driving scientific discovery through machine learning. The group focuses on generative modeling, inverse problems, and simulation-based inference, developing methods that are efficient, accurate, and reliable.

In the project supported through the RCD award,  Max will develop new AI models for the analysis of long-duration gravitational wave signals — bridging cutting-edge machine learning with fundamental questions in physics.

In addition to his role at ELLIS Institute Tübingen, Max is a member of the LIGO Scientific Collaboration and holds affiliations with the Max-Planck-Institute for Intelligent Systems and the Tübingen AI Center.

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