Prof. Dr.-Ing. Philipp Terhörst is a university professor at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU), Germany, where he holds a permanent position as Professor of Information Systems, with research focused on responsible AI and biometrics. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science in 2021 from the Technical University of Darmstadt for his dissertation titled “Mitigating Soft-Biometric Driven Bias and Privacy Concerns in Face Recognition Systems.” From 2017 to 2022, he was a researcher at Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics Research IGD. He was also an ERCIM fellow at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology funded by the European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics. From 2022 to early 2026, he led the “Responsible AI & Biometrics” research group at Paderborn University. As of April 2026, he assumed his current position as permanent professor at JGU Mainz. His research has been recognized with awards from the European Association for Biometrics (EAB) and the International Joint Conference on Biometrics (IJCB). He is also an alumnus of the “Software Campus” program, a leadership and management initiative funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF). In addition to his research, Prof. Terhörst actively contributes to the scientific community, e.g. as an Area Chair for major computer vision and biometrics conferences (including WACV, FG, and IJCB), serves as an Associate Editor for the journal Pattern Recognition, and is on the advisory board for the transregional research center TRR 318 Co-Constructing Explainability.