Heidelberg University
Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
Axel SauerCo-founder · Black Forest LabsResearcher↗RR
Researcher · Founder
Robin Rombach
Black Forest LabsCo-founder and CEO
Rombach led the research behind Stable Diffusion, making high-quality image generation dramatically cheaper to run and widely accessible. He has continued developing open visual AI through the FLUX family of image-generation models.
Career & education
Current roleBlack Forest Labs2024-presentCo-founder and CEO
Black Forest Labs2024-presentPreviously
Stability AI2022-2024Researcher
Stability AI2022-2024Work and education history is primarily focused on AI-relevant roles and may not be comprehensive.
Citation Trend
Total citations to scholarly work, including research papers, technical reports, books and theses, as recorded by Google Scholar. Each point is a dated snapshot.
citations70,393As of Oct 19, '26
citations+9,879Since last snapshot, Jun 15, '26
Selected contributions
High-Resolution Image Synthesis with Latent Diffusion Models
Made diffusion image generation more efficient by working with compressed image representations.
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