Leaders need clear accounts of how AI contributed and how results were checked. Approved tools, open discussion and time for verification make that possible.
Academic leadership needs evidence of how people develop, teams work and shared capability endures. An argument for evaluating leadership in practice alongside research achievement.
I founded and direct SFI MediaFutures to connect responsible media AI research with newsroom practice, verification and recommendation.
The centre’s outcomes are collective achievements; my contribution combines research and scientific leadership with building the teams and partnerships behind the work.
20+ yearsacross research, applied AI and innovation
Christoph Trattner is Professor of Information Science at the University of Bergen and founder and director of SFI MediaFutures, the Research Centre for Responsible Media Technology & Innovation. His research focuses on responsible AI for media and health: how digital systems shape what people read, trust and choose.
He connects algorithm design with experiments on human behaviour. His media research spans responsible news recommendation, AI-supported journalism and content provenance. In health, he studies trustworthy information and AI-assisted decisions, with a longstanding focus on the healthiness and sustainability of online recipes and food recommendation. He is Principal Investigator of CuratedAI and VaccAI, and founder and leader of the DARS research group.
His work includes research in Nature Food, ACM RecSys and The Web Conference, alongside scholarly commentary in Science and Nature Sustainability. Through international academic and industry collaborations, he develops and evaluates systems designed to support informed choices and professional judgement.