Oliver Bensch

Oliver Bensch is a researcher at the German Aerospace Center (DLR) and a Visiting Researcher in the Geometric Machine Learning Group at Harvard. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Business Informatics from the University of Cologne and a Master’s degree in Artificial Intelligence from Maastricht University.

Oliver is currently pursuing a PhD at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) in collaboration with DLR and the University of Washington. His research focuses on integrating large language models with knowledge graphs for applications such as automated scientific discovery and intelligent personal assistants for astronauts.

As part of his research, Oliver has visited the Alan Turing Institute and Imperial College London. Previously, he developed an AI Quiz Robot for Germany’s largest private television network (RTL), leveraging large language models and knowledge graphs. He is now developing an AI assistant for astronauts alongside Leonie Bensch, which is also being integrated into the Payload Dashboard.