Ulrike von Luxburg is a full professor for the Theory of Machine Learning at the University of Tuebingen, Germany. Her research analyzes machine learning algorithms from a theoretical point of view, tries to understand their implicit mechanisms, and to give formal statistical guarantees for their performance. In this way, she reveals fundamental assumptions, biases and strenghts and weaknesses of widely used machine learning algorithms, for example in the field of explainable machine learning. Next to her own research group, she is coordinating a large research consortium on Machine Learning in Science. She is an active participant in local debates about ethics and responsibility in machine learning.