About me

Christoph Bergmeir is a María Zambrano (Senior) Fellow in the Department of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence at University of Granada, Spain, and an Adjunct Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Data Science and Artificial Intelligence at Monash University. Before this, he was a Visiting Research Data Scientist at Meta Inc. (former Facebook Inc.) in California in the US, and a Senior Lecturer at Monash University. He has a track record of working in forecasting for capacity planning, sustainable energy, and supply chain, and has led teams that have delivered systems for short-term power production forecasting of wind and solar farms, and energy price forecasting. Christoph holds a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Granada, and an M.Sc. degree in Computer Science from the University of Ulm, Germany. He has over 5,800 citations and an h-index of 30. He has received more than AUD $2.7 million in external research funding. Four of his publications on time series forecasting over the last years have been Clarivate Web of Science Highly Cited Papers (top 1% of their research field).

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Education and qualifications

  • 2013 Ph.D. in Computer Science and Information Technology, University of Granada, Spain
  • 2009 Master in Soft Computing and Intelligent Systems, University of Granada, Spain
  • 2008 Dipl.-Inf. (equivalent to M.Sc.) in Computer Science University of Ulm, Germany

Employment history

  • since 2023 María Zambrano (Senior) Fellow, Dept. of Computer Science and AI, University of Granada, Spain

  • 10/2022-04/2023 Visiting Researcher, Research Data Scientist, Infrastructure Data Science, Meta Platforms Inc.

  • 2020-2023 Senior Lecturer in Data Science and AI, Faculty of Information Technology, Monash University

  • 2019-2022 ARC DECRA Fellow, Faculty of Information Technology, Monash University, Melbourne

  • 2018-2020 Lecturer in Data Science and AI, Faculty of Information Technology, Monash University

  • 2014–2018 Research Fellow (Applied Machine Learning), Faculty of Information Technology, Monash University

  • 2013–2014 Postdoctoral researcher within the project OPTIRAIL (FP7), University of Granada, Spain

Other positions

  • since 2023 Adjunct Senior Research Fellow, Dept. of Data Science and AI, Faculty of IT, Monash University
  • 2020-2022 Director of Engagement, Dept. of Data Science and AI, Faculty of IT, Monash University
  • 2019–2020 External Engagement Coordinator, Dept. of Data Science and AI, Faculty of IT, Monash University
  • 2018–2019 External Engagement Coordinator, Machine Learning Subgroup, Faculty of IT, Monash University
  • 2015–2017 Postdoctoral Fellow in Computer Science (Honorary), Information Services Dept, Alfred Health, Melbourne

Honours and awards

  • 2022 María Zambrano (Senior) Fellow, Dept. of Computer Science and AI, University of Granada, Spain
  • 2022 Ramón y Cajal Fellowship, Spanish Government (offered), ranked 2nd in Computer Science in Spain nationwide
  • 2021 Dean’s Award for Excellence in Research Enterprise, Monash University
  • 2018 Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA), Australian Research Council
  • 2018 Dean’s Award for Excellence in Research of an Early Career Researcher, Monash University

Other interests

  • I’m the organiser of one of Melbourne’s biggest Spanish Language Exchange meetup groups, “Spanish Amigos Language Group”, with over 3,300 members and with weekly meetings that are attended by usually 25-35 persons. I’m also the Duolingo Global Embassador for Spanish in Melbourne. [Meetup] [Facebook] [Duolingo]
  • I’m one of the organisers of what is probably the biggest snorkelling meetup group in Melbourne, “Snorkelling Melbourne Victoria,” with over 1,400 members. I’m also a RAID-certified Advanced Freediver. [Meetup]