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Vacant PhD position in my team at Utrecht University

I am happy to announce that I recruit a PhD student (full time, 5 years) to investigate fairness of algorithmic curation, adaptation and personalization in the music or entertainment sector.

7 January 2021 1 min read News
Summary of ISMIR 2020 Special Session Do we help artists? published in SIGIR Forum

I am glad that my summary of the ISMIR 2020 special session: ‘‘How do we—in MIR research—help artists? Do we?’’ made it to the December 2020 issue of the ACM SIGIR Forum.

6 January 2021 1 min read News
Guest in Austrian radio program Mahlzeit Burgenland

I had the honor being a guest at the Austrian radio program ‘‘Mahlzeit Burgenland’’. We talked about music recommenders, Austrian food, saxophones, the current Covid-19 situation, and many other things.

29 December 2020 1 min read News
The videos of all the ComplexRec2020 workshop talks are online

The videos of all ComplexRec 2020 workshop talks at RecSys 2020—including my keynote—can now be found on the RecSys YouTube channel.


Christine Bauer (2020). Ratings in, rankings out. Keep it simple, they said. But we need more than that.. Proceedings of the Recommendation in Complex Scenarios and the Impact of Recommender Systems 2020 (ComplexRec-ImpactRS 2020).

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27 November 2020 1 min read News
Recording of panel on gender bias and discrimination in AI on YouTube

The recording of the panel on gender bias and discrimination in AI (in German) at the VUT Indie Days 2020 (as part of c/o pop xoxo) last week is now also available on YouTube.

26 October 2020 1 min read News
Tomorrow, panel at VUT Indie Days 2020

I am looking forward to join the panel on gender bias and discrimination in AI at the VUT Indie Days 2020 tomorrow. The panel is scheduled for 13:15 CEST and will be streamed on c/o pop xoxo in channel 1. Although originally planned to be held in English, the discussion will be in German. Maybe a good reason to brush up your German skills ;-)

22 October 2020 1 min read News
Panelist at VUT Indie Days, co-located with c/o pop xoxo

I am happy to announce that I will be part of this year’s online edition of VUT Indie Days 2020, co-located with c/o pop xoxo. I will join the panel on Gender biases and discrimination in AI.

26 September 2020 1 min read News
ACM Author-izer is integrated—again

ACM Author-izer is integrated—again. There were some troubles with my ACM account, which took quite some time to solve. I am happy that it works now :-)

19 September 2020 1 min read News
Joined Utrecht University

I am happy to announce that I joined Utrecht University as of today.

1 September 2020 1 min read News
Video of my interview for LIWEST Kundenmagazin is online

My interview for LIWEST Kundenmagazin, Ausgabe Juli 2020 (pdf, e-paper) was recorded.

A 10 minutes cut of this interview is now online as a video on YouTube.


Cooperation of LIWEST und dorf tv. Topic: Wie wissen Online-Plattformen wie Spotify & Co, welche Musik ihren Nutzern gefällt? (How do online platforms such as Spotify know what music its users like?). Interviewer: Christian Naderer. Camera and cut: Roland Freinschlag.

23 August 2020 1 min read News