Fraunhofer
UKL Leipzig
BMBF
Media Lab Bayern
FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg
Prototype Fund
Bay. Staatskanzlei
The Bina School
LJKE Bayern
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Strategic AI Advisory
Readiness assessment, roadmap, and ethical governance — for organisations navigating the AI landscape with intent.
A philosopher-engineer's practice for serious artificial intelligence.
Dr. Mark Wernsdorfer advises research institutes, hospitals, and small and medium enterprises on machine-learning systems where the theoretical stakes are as consequential as the technical ones — from clinical decision support to disinformation detection.
Partners, institutions, and collaborators on record.
Index 01
§ 01 · Services
Four ways the practice is commissioned.
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Research→Production Translation
Commercialising academic work into shipped systems. Proof of concept, prototypes, grants. €2.8M+ secured.
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Domain-Specific AI Solutions
Healthcare, laboratory medicine, geosciences, cultural heritage. Where generic toolkits fail, domain models deliver.
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Responsible AI Implementation
Explainability, bias, privacy. Stakeholder engagement. Implementation that can be defended, not just demoed.
§ 02 · Portfolio
Selected works from the past decade.
2023 — 24
DoppelCheck
Browser-based machine-learning tool for real-time identification of disinformation with privacy-first local processing. Finalist, International Award for Innovation in Journalism 2024.
2019 — 21
AMPEL
Clinical decision support system for real-time laboratory diagnostics, deployed across 1,500+ hospital beds at University Hospital Leipzig. Co-first author, JMIR Medical Informatics.
Ongoing
The Bina School
Precision-education platform for a Cognia-accredited online school serving ages 4 – 12 across 40+ countries. Adaptive learning paths, real-time progress, personalised curricula.
2023
ARTeFact (Spiegelbox)
Interactive AI installation exhibited at Globe Theatre Leipzig, examining the ethical dimensions of AI empathy exploitation through phenomenological composition.
2011 — 19
Symbol Grounding
Foundational doctoral research on how artificial systems develop conceptual understanding. Dissertation and award-winning publication, 11th Conference on Artificial General Intelligence.
For the most difficult problems he found very effective solutions, which he successfully implemented in practice at all times, thus always achieving excellent work results.Prof. Dr. Berend Isermann Institute Director · University of Leipzig
§ 03 · On record
What colleagues have written.
Dr. Marija Radic
Department Head · Fraunhofer IMW
“Outstanding and highly in-depth specialised knowledge. Exceptionally analytical thinking and very rapid comprehension. An extremely loyal colleague who integrated very well into the team.”
Dr. D. Steuer-Flieser
Chancellor · Universität Bamberg
“Thanks to his positive attitude, he contributed significantly to excellent teamwork at all times. He knew how to convince through his cooperative, confident, and accommodating manner.”
Michael Lauer
Managing Partner · Orpheus GmbH
“Dedicated himself to difficult tasks with great enthusiasm and always found customer-oriented and goal-oriented solutions. Thanks to his quick comprehension, he easily grasped complex interrelations.”
Prof. Dr. Berend Isermann
Institute Director · Universität Leipzig
“Particularly noteworthy are his exceptionally analytical thinking ability and his very rapid comprehension. His reliability and dependability were exemplary at all times.”
§ 04 · Method
A philosopher-engineer's way of working.
The practice combines Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Philosophy of Mind, and Cognitive Science in a single working body — a rare combination that allows theoretical problems and engineering problems to be addressed together, not serially.
Work moves between two poles: foundational inquiry into how artificial systems represent meaning (symbol grounding, consciousness, phenomenology of computation) and the concrete construction of machine-learning systems in environments where correctness matters — clinical laboratories, editorial newsrooms, classroom software. The result is advice and implementation that can be defended technically, philosophically, and operationally.
The practice is based in Berlin. Multilingual in German, English, and French. Available for remote and on-site engagements across Europe.
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PhD
Cognitive Systems, Bamberg
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€3M+
AI Project Funding
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Best Paper
Springer · AGI 2018
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15 yr.
Research → Production
Have a difficult problem
worth thinking carefully about?
Initial consultations are free, 90-minute conversations — an opportunity to describe the problem in detail and establish whether the practice is the right fit. Written follow-up is provided; further engagement is by mutual agreement.