Sanne Abeln appointed Professor of AI Technology for Life

Utrecht University has appointed Sanne Abeln as Professor of AI Technology for Life. Abeln and her research group will focus on developing technology in the field of artificial intelligence (AI) with the aim of gaining more insight into complex biological systems, such as cells, organisms and ecosystems. In this way, Abeln and her colleagues form a bridge between the university's Department of Biology and Department of Information and Computing Science. Abeln will start on 1 April. At the moment, major developments are taking place in the field of AI. Take ChatGPT, the 'intelligent' chatbot that is able to have human-like conversations and to write convincing texts on almost any topic imaginable. ChatGPT is an AI application trained with huge amounts of texts.