Jens Ludwig

Jens Ludwig is the Edwin A. and Betty L. Bergman Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago; Pritzker Director of the University of Chicago Crime Lab; Director of the Bike Shop @ UChicago, a new center dedicated to using artificial intelligence to solve pressing social problems; an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine; and author of Unforgiving Places: The Unexpected Origins of American Gun Violence (2025, University of Chicago Press), which was named one of the New Yorker’s Best Books of 2025.