Bernhard Schölkopf is the Director of the Department of Empirical Inference at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems and Honorary Professor at TU Berlin and the University of Tübingen. In 2018, Bernhard Schölkopf was awarded the Leibniz Prize, and shortly thereafter he received the Baden-Württemberg State Research Award. He is editor of the Journal of Machine Learning Research, the premier journal in the field of machine learning. He is also one of the founders of the Machine Learning Summer School and was instrumental in founding and shaping both the Cyber Valley Research Collaboration and the ELLIS Initiative (European Laboratory for Learning and Intelligent Systems).