Uli Köppen is interested in all things journalism, automation, algorithms and digital strategy. She had the chance to found two teams together with amazing people: BR Data and the new AI + Automation Lab at German Public Broadcaster Bayerischer Rundfunk. She’s thrilled to be working with both teams of journalists, coders and designers specializing in investigative data stories, interactive storytelling and experimentation with new research methods such as bots and machine learning. As a Nieman Fellow 2019 she spent an academic year at Harvard and MIT and has won several awards together with her colleagues.

Photo: BR - Lisa Hinder