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Schmidt Sciences Awards $400,000 to AI Project on Restoring Alchemical Knowledge Co-Led by Guillermo Restrepo
The project (Al-)Chemical Space In Silico (AXIS), led by Dr. Guillermo Restrepo (ISoS, Bielefeld University) and Dr. Sarah Lang (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science), has received funding of $400,000 over three years from Schmidt Sciences. Selected from more than 500 applications from 42 countries, AXIS is one of 19 projects chosen for this year’s awards from Schmidt Sciences' Humanities and AI Virtual Institute (HAVI). AXIS will use AI to rebuild and translate historical alchemical recipe collections. Selected particularly significant recipes will be tested in the laboratory.
The project aims to shed new light on the history of chemistry before 1800 and make its tools and data openly available for future research.
To learn more, read the full press release:
https://aktuell.uni-bielefeld.de/2026/10/15/vergessenes-chemiewissen-mit-ki-aufspueren/