Dr. Philip Häusser (Science Communicator and Chief Technical Officer at Ablacon)

In this episode, Dr. Philip Häusser is our guest. 

With Fulbright, Philip earned a Master’s degree in Physics from the University of California, Santa Cruz, in 2014, before then obtaining a PhD in Computer Science and Machine Learning from the Technical University of Munich. 

Philip is a science communicator, hosting TV shows on major German TV channels incl. SWR, BR, ZDF, WDR, and ARD, producing YouTube videos for the YouTube channel Breaking Lab that now has more than 450’000 subscribers, publishing books. 

We talk about what drives his work, about his latest book „AI explained for everyone“, the impact of artificial intelligence, and more generally the role of science in society.

We also talk about Philips role as the Chief Technology Officer at Ablacon, a HealthTech start-up, that has closed a 30 Million Dollar funding round in the past year.

And we find out about the decisions that brought him there.

Interviewed by Mohamed Kari (mkari.de).