Bettina Finzel
staff
| E-mail: | bettina.finzel [at] isp.uni-luebeck.de |
| Address: | Institute for Software Engineering and Programming Languages
MFC I
Maria-Goeppert-Str. 1 23562 Lübeck
Germany |
| Phone: | +49 451 3101 6542 |
| Room: | 2nd floor |
Bettina Finzel holds a bachelor and a master degree in Applied Computer Science from the University of Bamberg and a master degree in Computational Biomedical Engineering from the Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona. She is mainly interested in machine learning and biomedical research, especially for applications in healthcare. From 2018 to 2025 she worked at the chair of Cognitive Systems as a teaching and research assistant. She researched on the topic of Explainability for Deep Neural Networks in the project Transparent Medical Expert Companion (TraMeExCo), which has been funded by the Federal Ministry for Education and Research from September 2018 until December 2021. From January 2022 until March 2023 she continued her research on Explainability for clinical decision-making in the PainFaceReader Project, funded by the German Research Foundation. As a teaching assistant at the chair of Cognitive Systems she gave introductory courses on artificial intelligence, machine learning, AI evaluation and neuro-symbolic systems until June 2025. Since September 2026 she is research assistant at the University of Lübeck, giving a course on Web and Data Science and researching on time series analysis as member of the team of Prof. Dr. Martin Leucker.
She has been board member of the Bamberg Center for Artificial Intelligence (BaCAI) which is part of the ELLIS Unit Franconia. She is furthermore member of the German Informatics Society, the Federation of German Scientists (VDW), and the national Society for Cognitive Science (GK). She actively supports various associations outside the university, including ArbeiterKind.de and the network Gendermedizin & Öffentlichkeit which operate across Germany. She is alumni of the make IT mentoring program of the University of Bamberg.
Bettina Finzel is Junior Fellow of the German Informatics Society.
Short portrait of research at the Research in Bavaria webpage. Short interview for I'am a Scientist (Wissenschaft im Dialog). Episode on AI in Healthcare for the German podcast Servus KI! .
Profiles on ORCID, Google Scholar, DBLP, LinkedIn and researchgate.