Team
The machine ecology lab is currently being established. This page will be updated as soon as new members join.
Lukas Galke Poech
Head of the Group
Lukas Galke Poech is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science at the University of Southern Denmark. His research focuses on advancing AI safety through interpretability. He is the principal investigator of the MIST Project on Scalable Mechanistic Interpretability for Safe and Trustworthy Language Model Agents, supported by the Novo Nordisk Foundation. Lukas received his PhD in representation learning from Kiel University, Germany. He then joined the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics as a postdoc, where he drew inspiration from research on how language works in the human brain to understand learning, behavior, and cognition in language models. His work has been published in venues including Neural Networks and Nature Communications.
Learn more about me on my personal academic website
William Brach
Guest PhD (2025)