I am a Member of Technical Staff at Cohere. Before that, I was a PhD Student at the University of Tübingen and the International Max Planck Research School (IMPRS) for Intelligent Systems (IS). My PhD was co-supervised by Oliver Bringmann and Wieland Brendel. Before my PhD, I have obtained a B.Sc. and a M.Sc. in Physics at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. During my Master’s, I have participated in several research projects centered around numerical optics, and my Master thesis has been published at Nature Communications.

I have completed research internships at:

• FAIR under the guidance of Ari Morcos and Kamalika Chaudhuri. During that internship, I have been working on pruning of large-scale datasets for CLIP training. This work has been published at ICLR 2024.
• Google Deepmind under the guidance of Olivier Hénaff as a member of the Active Learning team.
• Cohere where I worked with Pierre Richemond as part of the multi-modal team.

Latest publications

Low-Pass Filtering Improves Behavioral Alignment of Vision Models, ICLR 2026
Max Wolff, Thomas Klein, Evgenia Rusak, Felix Wichmann, Wieland Brendel

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