Jochen Büttner

Jochen Büttner is a senior researcher at the Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology in Jena, focusing on the intersection of history, technology, and artificial intelligence. Trained as a physicist with a PhD in the history of science, he worked at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin where he explored the role of practical knowledge and increasingly applied computational methods. He was a Research Associate at the Berlin Institute for the Foundations of Data and Learning (BIFOLD), developing and exploring machine learning and AI for historical sciences and archaeology. His work includes using ML and Explainable AI  to analyze large historical corpora, such as early modern astronomy texts, to understand knowledge evolution. At MPI GEA, he works in the Department of Structural Changes of the Technosphere and coordinates the development of an AI Research Assistant for Geoanthropology, bringing his expertise in AI applications for historical and archaeological data analysis to understand long-term human-Earth system interactions.