Johannes Stelzer

Immersive AI · Digital Therapeutics · Generative Art

Physicist by training, neuroscientist by detour, builder of immersive AI systems by conviction. I work where real-time machine perception, generative models, and people in physical space meet — in the clinic and in the exhibition space.

Research

I work on Immersive AI Systems at the Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown in Lisbon: therapeutic environments under real-time AI control, where sensing and generative models close the loop with the patient — movement rehabilitation for Parkinson’s, exposure therapy for OCD, and more to come. Alongside: agentic coding and AI for science — how agents can verify their own code, and write literature reviews whose citations are real, peer-reviewed, and screened for retractions.

Before Lisbon: a PhD in neuroscience and machine learning at the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences in Leipzig, postdoctoral research on ultra-high-field fMRI at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics in Tübingen and at the Danish Research Centre for Magnetic Resonance in Copenhagen, and four years as co-founder & CEO of an applied-AI company in Cyber Valley.

Art

Founding member of Lunar Ring, an AI art collective exploring generative models as a new kind of instrument — played live, in real time, in museums, festivals, and public spaces; featured in the NVIDIA AI Art Gallery. There is also a TEDx talk from the early days.

Code

Open source: real-time diffusion, tools for interactive exhibitions, and agent skills for science and software verification — on GitHub and at lunarring.