Tim Rocktäschel is co-founder and chief scientist of Recursive and professor of AI at UCL. He is also a principal investigator at the BOLD Lab and an ELLIS fellow. His research focuses on open-ended learning and recursive self-improvement. Previously, he led open-endedness research at Google DeepMind and reinforcement learning at Meta FAIR London. He conducted postdoctoral research at Oxford after earning his PhD at UCL and his computer-science Diplom at Humboldt University of Berlin.