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Markus Brill

Markus Brill is a computer scientist who works on voting rules for collective decisions and applies computational social choice to AI safety. He earned a computer science PhD at TU Munich in 2012, received an honorable mention for an ECCAI Artificial Intelligence Dissertation Award, and held postdoctoral posts at Duke and Oxford. At TU Berlin, he led the Efficient Algorithms group and an Emmy Noether research group, and coauthored papers on justified representation and Phragmén voting methods. Since January 2026, he is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at Oxford and a Fellow and Tutor at Oriel College; his current project studies how to aggregate safety preferences for AI systems.

Now at
Oriel College, University of Oxford
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Timeline

  1. 2012

    Mathematics and a PhD

    He studies mathematics and computer science in Kaiserslautern, Zurich, and Munich, and earns a computer science PhD at TU Munich in 2012.

  2. By 2015

    A PhD dissertation award

    By 2015, his 2012 PhD thesis, Set-Valued Solution Concepts in Social Choice and Game Theory, earns the Bund der Freunde der TUM dissertation award and an honorable mention for the Artificial Intelligence Dissertation Award sponsored by ECCAI.

  3. 2015

    Justified representation

    In 2015, he coauthors Justified Representation in Approval-Based Committee Voting, which introduces extended justified representation (EJR) for approval-based committees. The paper shows that Proportional Approval Voting satisfies EJR.

  4. May 2015

    Postdoc at Duke

    In May 2015, he is a postdoctoral researcher in Duke University's Department of Computer Science.

  5. 2015–2016

    Postdoc at Oxford

    From 2015 to 2016, he is a postdoc at the University of Oxford with Edith Elkind.

  6. 2017–2022

    Professor at TU Berlin

    From 2017 to 2022, he is an assistant professor at TU Berlin and leads its Efficient Algorithms research group.

  7. 2018–2023

    An Emmy Noether research group

    From 2018 to 2023, he leads an Emmy Noether research group at TU Berlin.

  8. 2022–2025

    Associate Professor at Warwick

    From 2022 to 2025, he is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at the University of Warwick.

  9. March 2023–January 2024

    Phragmén’s voting methods

    With Rupert Freeman, Svante Janson, and Martin Lackner, he publishes Phragmén’s voting methods and justified representation online in March 2023; the journal issue is dated 2024. The article examines load-balancing committee rules and shows that the sequential variant satisfies proportional justified representation (PJR).

  10. Since January 2026

    Associate Professor at Oxford

    In January 2026, he joins Oriel College as a Fellow and Tutor in Computer Science and is an Associate Professor in Oxford's Department of Computer Science. He applies computational social choice to AI safety through a project on aggregating safety preferences for AI systems.

Career

  1. Since 2026Oriel College, University of OxfordFellow and Tutor in Computer Science
  2. Since 2026University of OxfordAssociate Professor
  3. 2022–2025University of WarwickAssociate Professor of Computer Science
  4. 2016–2023Technische Universität BerlinAssistant Professor, Emmy Noether Research Group Leader
  5. 2013–2015Duke UniversityPostdoctoral researcher
  6. 2012–2013Technical University of MunichPostdoctoral researcher

Education

  1. 2012Technical University of MunichPhD
  2. 2008Technical University of MunichDiploma in Mathematics
  3. 2006Technical University of MunichBSc in Mathematics

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Checked career sources: ut-capitole.fr, markus-brill.de, oriel.ox.ac.uk, oriel.ox.ac.uk.

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Sources and credits

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  1. Markus Brill - Oriel College oriel.ox.ac.uk. Checked 26 October 2026.
  2. "Crowdsourcing Societal Tradeoffs", Markus Brill, IRIT workshop - Université Toulouse Capitole ut-capitole.fr. Checked 26 October 2026.
  3. Markus Brill — University of Oxford markus-brill.de. Checked 26 October 2026.
  4. Justified Representation in Approval-Based Committee Voting | Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence ojs.aaai.org. Checked 26 October 2026.
  5. Phragmén’s voting methods and justified representation - PMC pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov. Checked 26 October 2026.
  6. New Computer Science Fellow researches algorithms for fair decision-making - Oriel College oriel.ox.ac.uk. Checked 26 October 2026.