Faculty of Technology: News

Study Abroad Opportunity for TechFak Students!

2026-04-15T11:05:37+02:00

A semester abroad is a valuable academic and personal experience – and with the right financial support, it becomes much easier to realize. Through the Cross-Border Studies Programme of the Phoenix Contact Foundation, international study stays for students of the Faculty of Technology are specifically funded – both within and outside Europe. The Faculty and the International Office warmly welcome this funding opportunity and explicitly encourages students to consider spending a semester at one of our numerous partner universities. What does the programme offer? Funding for a semester abroad in the upcoming academic year (winter or summer semester)

Two scholarships awarded per calendar year
Can be combined with other funding programmes
Application period 📅 13 April – 15 May 2026

The call for applications is published once a year in March. Applications are only possible within this period. An international study experience enhances not only your academic profile, but also the intercultural skills, language proficiency, and global perspective – qualifications highly valued in both academia and industry.

Further information on the programme, eligibility requirements, and the application process can be found here: https://www.uni-bielefeld.de/international/go-out/stipendien/phoenix-contact/

IISY Symposium 2026: Highlights

2026-03-26T15:28:25+01:00

We look back on a truly successful and inspiring IISY Symposium that took place on March 25, 2026. Across two presentation sessions and one poster session, Master IISY students showcased the results of their research projects. A special highlight of the day was the final presentation of the Best Project Work award. After careful deliberation, the jury (Sven Wachsmuth, Benjamin Paaßen, and Thomas Herrmann)—selected Dana Meyer and Colin Watson as this year’s winners. Their project stood out for its quality, innovation, and excellent presentation, earning them a prize of €100. We warmly congratulate them on this well-deserved achievement. At the same time, we would like to emphasize that the symposium featured many outstanding projects. The high overall quality made the jury’s decision particularly challenging, reflecting the dedication and talent of all participants.

We would also like to extend our sincere thanks to Team TOBI for their impressive demo and for sharing their exciting experiences and insights from RoboCup. Their contribution added an extra layer of inspiration to the event. We hope that everyone who attended enjoyed the symposium as much as we did. Beyond showcasing excellent work, the event provided valuable insights and inspiration for future projects, research, and studies. Thank you once again to everyone who made this day possible—we look forward to the next IISY Symposium in 2027!

IISY Symposium 2026 takes place at CITEC on March 25th

2026-03-24T09:40:26+01:00

We are happy to invite you to our annual IISY Symposium, which will take place on March 25 at CITEC. During the symposium, 19 student project groups will present their work across two presentation sessions and one poster session. We are also pleased to announce that Team TOBI from RoboCup Homecoming 2026 will present a live demo as part of the IISY Symposium.

Professorship (W3) for Interactive Robotics

2026-01-12T21:16:49+01:00

Bielefeld University is inviting applications for a W3 Professorship in Interactive Robotics within our Faculty of Technology, to be filled at the earliest possible date. The position targets internationally recognized researchers with strong expertise in robotics engineering, particularly in real-time perception, motion, learning, and control for autonomous and interactive robots. The successful candidate will represent robotics in research and teaching, contribute to interdisciplinary collaborations—especially in AI and intelligent interactive systems—and participate in Bachelor’s and Master’s programs. Applications in German or English are welcome via the university’s online portal by 28 February 2026. More information about the opening can be found here: https://www.uni-bielefeld.de/uni/karriere/professuren/wiss3086_englisch.xml

Renewal of TRR 318

2025-12-15T12:38:28+01:00

The Collaborative Research Centre/Transregio ‘Constructing Explainability’ (TRR 318) at Bielefeld and Paderborn Universities, funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG), will enter its second funding phase in January 2026. The DFG announced on 21 November that it will extend the interdisciplinary research network on ‘social artificial intelligence’ for another three and a half years after a very successful first term of four and a half years. Around 14 million euros have been approved for this purpose.

Full house at CeBiTec: The traditional Student Brewery Competition was held again

2023-01-26T11:05:28+01:00

After a long and thirsty break due to the corona pandemic, Mid-January 2023 about 200 members and friends of the Center for Biotechnology met in the CeBiTec foyer to taste and judge four home-brewed beers.

In the seminar "Process development and process management in modern brewing", the participating students first learned about the theoretical background of brewing beer. Then, with the support of a student “master brewer”, they worked in four groups to create their own recipes. The students' creativity was expressed not only in the recipes, but also in the choice of names for the beers: Annalena Beerbock (Bock Beer), Brewdolf Renbier (Wheat Beer), GALA (Ginger Amber Lemon Ale) and Skalden Ale (Red Ale). The brewing process started about six months ago for the bock beer and three to four months ago for the other beers, as an appropriate maturation period is what makes the beers tasty in the first place.

The Herford Brewery supported the event with four dispensing systems including equipment and a barrel of Pilsener beer. The German pilsner was a good starting point for further tasting of the home-brewed beers in the competition. All the beers were very well received. Both, the audience and the jury rated almost identically.

The first prize went to the Wheat Beer “Brewdolf Renbier” with its fine fruit aromas, followed by the impressive red brown coloured Skalden Ale, the Annalena Beerbock with its perfect dense foam and the most pleasant smelling Gala. At 8:30 p.m. all 230 litres of draught beer were well spent. Many thanks to the great audience, the jury and the Herforder Brewery for sponsoring the event. We are looking forward to the next time!

The CeBiTec

The Center for Biotechnology is one of the largest faculty-spanning central academic institutions at Bielefeld University. Its purpose is to bundle the biotechnological activities and research projects at the university, to foster cross-linking of research approaches and technologies from different research fields and to develop innovative projects within its two main research areas: Large Scale Genomics and Big Data Bioinformatics and Metabolic Engineering of Unicellular Systems and Bioproduction.

Merry Christmas

2022-12-23T15:09:15+01:00

The Faculty of Technology wishes all staff and students a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year 2023!

How the Brain Integrates Sensory Input

2019-05-03T12:45:24+02:00

Bielefeld researchers publish study on the flexibility of sensory perception

Hearing, sight, touch – our brain captures a wide range of distinct sensory stimuli and links them together. The brain has a kind of built-in filter function for this: sensory impressions are only integrated if it is necessary and useful for the task at hand. Researchers from Bielefeld University, Oxford University (Great Britain), and Aix-Marseille University (France) investigated this phenomenon of flexibility in perception, and have now published a study on their findings that appears in the scientific journal “Neuron” (29 April 2019). In their publication, the researchers reveal where sensory stimuli are integrated in the brain, and in which area of the brain this flexibility can be located. From Bielefeld University, Professor Dr. Christoph Kayser and Dr. Hame Park from the Cluster of Excellence CITEC were involved in the study.

Prof. Dr. Christoph Kayser. Photo: CITEC/ Universität Bielefeld

“We are interested in how the brain processes sensory input,” says Kayser, who heads the “Cognitive Neuroscience” research group. In his work, Kayser deals with multi-sensory integration – the combination of various sensory data. This happens, for instance, when watching a movie: you hear what the characters are saying to each other while at the same time watching the movements of their lips. It is not always useful, however, for auditory and visual information to be automatically integrated in the brain: one example of this would be watching a foreign-language film that is dubbed and the movements of the actors’ lips do not match the spoken sounds.

The researchers’ study was looking to identify the areas of the brain in which flexible sensory integration takes place. For this, they tested out three potential models. While different sensory stimuli were processed completely apart from each other in the first model, they were automatically integrated in the second model. The third variant was the model of “causal inference” in which different sensory stimuli are only integrated if they are not distant from each other in spatial or chronological terms. For example, if you always hear a sound and see an image at the same time, the brain integrates this information. However, if the sound and image appear together, they will not be integrated – even though they were previously separate from each other. “In the ‘causal inference’ model, the brain infers that the source of the sensory stimuli might be the same. Sensory stimuli are therefore not automatically integrated – this is only the case if they do originate from the same source,” says Kayser.

Illustration of sensory processing in the brain: at the lowest level, sensory input is processed separately (blue) and then is automatically integrated in the parietal lobe (pink). Flexibility only takes place at a higher level of processing located in the frontal lobe (red). Photo: Bielefeld University, C. Kayser

To test these three models, study participants were exposed to visual and auditory stimuli. In the experiment, light and sound stimuli were shown, at times simultaneously, and at other times with different frequencies. Meanwhile, the researchers recorded the brain activity of their study participants using magnetoencephalography (MEG). They found that the three models match up to different areas in the brain, and thus correspond with distinct levels of processing. At the lowest level, sensory information is mapped separately in the visual and auditory cortexes. Following this, this information is automatically integrated in the parietal lobe, which is located in the upper area of the brain. Only at a higher level of processing does the brain parse out the information from the previous stages and, if necessary, filter out disruptive sensory stimuli. This flexibility in perception is located in special areas of the frontal lobe that are responsible for abstract thinking. “It has long been known how people deal with different sensory information – but at the level of behavior. With our study, we were able to show for the first time how and where in the brain this kind of information is processed,” says Kayser.

The findings of the study could be of use in many other areas of research, particularly in work on abstract thinking, as flexibility and causal relationships play an important role in this process. “How the brain processes sensory input is relevant for technical applications, including the integration of humans and machines,” says Kayser. This is a key topic for Kayser’s colleagues at Bielefeld University’s Cluster of Excellence CITEC. The findings of this study are also important in the clinical context, where the findings could be used to help better understand diseases in which patients have difficulty in correctly processing sensory information, such as autism.

Kayser is a biologist and mathematician, and in 2017, he accepted a professorship in cognitive neuroscience at Bielefeld University. In 2015, he was awarded a “Consolidator Grant” from the European Research Council, which runs until 2020. With this award, the European Research Council supports promising researchers at the beginning of their independent careers.

Original Publication:
Yinan Cao, Christopher Summerfield, Hame Park, Bruno Lucio Giordano, Christoph Kayser: Causal Inference in the Multisensory Brain. Neuron, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuron.2019.03.043, Reprint in BioRxiv, https://doi.org/10.1101/500413

More Information is available online at:
Press release: “A Specialist in Sensory Integration” (02.11.2017): https://www.cit-ec.de/en/news/specialist-sensory-integration

Junior Professor Dr. Alexander Grünberger accepted as member of the Young Scientists and Artists Group

2019-01-16T10:35:31+01:00

Junior Professor Dr. Alexander Grünberger accepted as member of the Young Scientists and Artists Group of the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences and the Arts.

Concurrent with the New Years’s Concert on the 15th of January 2019, the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences and the Arts affiliated Junior Professor Dr. Alexander Grünberger to “Das Junge Kolleg”, the group of the Young Scientists Group of the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences and the Arts.

In 2017, Jun.-Prof. Dr. Alexander Grünberger was assigned to Bielefeld University at the newly founded chair for Multiscale Bioengineering. Here he develops new microfluidic cultivation systems for the practice in the domain of biotechnology and bioengineering.

The nomination is a special award for the twelve young scientists and artists accepted and is connected with an annual scholarship of 10.000 Euro for four years. Scientists and artists of all subjects, who have already achieved outstanding results beyond their dissertation, can be chosen. They should not be older than 36 years and should not yet have a permanent position.

Broschüre Junges Kolleg 2019der Nordrhein-Westfälischen Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Künste

Faculty of Technology with two sessions at BI.teach

2019-01-10T14:23:20+01:00

Faculty of Technology with two sessions at BI.teach

On the 26th of November BI.teach, the day of teaching took place at Bielefeld university. The Faculty of Technology contributed an internal session and took part in a workshop within the public part of BI.teach.

Prof. Dr. Anette Frank from Heidelberg University spoke about „Evaluation of teaching within systematic accreditation of study programs”. Especially the question of institutional consequences out of the evaluation results to improve teaching was discussed.

Dennis Hoffmann, Dorian Lehmenkühler und Barbara Fassnacht from the Student Representative Committee had a talk within the workshop “Evaluation Practice at Bielefeld University” about the evaluation of lectures by questionnaires and the online-evaluation of tutors in the Faculty of Technology.

Prof. Dr. Markus Nebel new Vice Dean of the Faculty of Technology

2018-07-20T00:00:00+02:00

Prof. Dr. Markus Nebel was elected as the new vice dean of the Faculty of Technology. He will support the actual dean of the faculty Prof. Dr. Philipp Cimiano.

Prof. Dr. Markus Nebel started working at Bielefeld university in april 2016 and is head of the research group Algorithmics and Bioinformatics.
His science addresses algorithmic questions. He investigates the efficiency of algorithms and data structures trying to improve them. A second emphasis of his work are Bioinformatics. Here the group researches the folding of RNA molecules, its algorithmic prediction as well as the denoising of big sequence data volumes.

On the Trail of the Brain

2018-07-17T00:00:00+02:00

“Human Brain Project” at Bielefeld University extended for two years

Professor Dr. Ulrich Rückert, a researcher at Bielefeld University’s Cluster of Excellence CITEC and the Faculty of Technology, is working to better understand the human brain with the help of computer-based models. This project is taking place throughout the European Union – the goal of which is to gather findings on the brain and make new connections with this information.

Professor Dr. Ulrich Rückert is part of the “Human Brain Project.” Photo: CITEC / Bielefeld University

Professor Dr. Ulrich Rückert is part of the “Human Brain Project.”Professor Dr. Ulrich Rückert is part of the “Human Brain Project.” Photo: CITEC / Bielefeld UniversityThe brain is not actually that big, but what it lacks in size, it makes up for in incredible complexity: “Still today, we don’t know exactly how the brain really works,” says Professor Dr. Ulrich Rückert, a computer scientist and engineer who is participating in the “Human Brain Project.” The various international projects groups working on this research project are gathering data on the human brain not only to better understand it, but also to reproduce it in the abstract.

The HBP is set to run for total of ten years, until 2023. The project is divided into different subphases: the third (and current) phase will run from 2018–2020, and the fourth phase is planned for 2020–2023. With each phase, project groups are required to submit proposals for continued funding. This project, which Bielefeld University is contributing to, has been evaluated as “very good” and a total of 1.19 billion Euro has been budgeted for the EU project.

“We have, relatively speaking, a lot of detailed knowledge about the brain,” says Rückert, who heads the “Cognitronics and Sensor Systems” research group at Bielefeld University’s Faculty of Technology. This research group is also part of the Cluster of Excellence Cognitive Interaction Technology (CITEC) at Bielefeld University.

It is clear, for instance, that nerve cells interact via electrical impulses. “In addition to this, the functions of individual regions of the brain are also known,” says Rückert. But it is not clear how the molecular level of the brain relates to its larger structures. “In this area, there’s still a big gap,” says the engineer.

The goal of the overarching project is to gather knowledge about the human brain and forge connections with this information. This knowledge is meant to serve the fields of medicine and computer science in particular: if researchers succeed in simulating the brain as accurately as possible, neurological diseases such as Alzheimer’s or Parkinson’s, for instance, could be better understood – or perhaps even cured. The efficacy and side effects of medications could also be tested with computer-based models.

In HBP, Ulrich Rückert deals with associative memory, conducting research on neuronal networks. “This is about developing a new architecture for computers,” he says. Computers can make things incredibly efficient, such as playing chess or solving computational tasks. “They are always good when there are set rules and structures,” says Rückert.

The human brain, however, works in a completely different way: it is very good at putting different things together in relationships. “When we go into a room, for example, we know right away where we are and where we are located in the space,” says Rückert. “For a computer, on the other hand, this would be a very complicated computational operation.”

The brain operates under very different principles than a computer does. “A computer often needs 1000x more energy than the brain for such operations,” says Rückert. “If we can simulate how the brain works, then the energy usage of technical systems could be reduced in many areas.” This applies to very different systems in robotics, such as autonomous driving. “Energy supply has thus far been a major problem with this,” says Rückert. As he explains, “one solution could be having certain processes such as orientation run more energy efficiently.”

The brain is not particularly fast, but it is efficient in using energy. “For a single operation, a computer is faster” says Rückert. “But a big strength of the brain is that different processes run in parallel and are linked with each another.” In HBP, the models for this are primarily virtual, but they are also replicated in analog form.

Currently, Rückert has been given the task of assessing the neuronal models from two research groups in Heidelberg and Mannheim. “We are working closely together and are having intensive exchange with the individual groups in the project” says Rückert. “I’m really looking forward to the results.”

More Information:
www.humanbrainproject.eu

Contact:
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Ulrich Rückert, Bielefeld University
Cluster of Excellence Cognitive Interaction Technology (CITEC) / Faculty of Technology
Telephone: 0521 106-12050
Email: rueckert@techfak.uni-bielefeld.de

Following nature's example: animals are prototypes for robotics

2018-07-11T00:00:00+02:00

The natural way in which living beings orient themselves and move in their environment, avoid obstacles, and find their way home again without their brain consuming much energy is a model for scientists who also want to equip robots with such complex abilities. Because in this field there is a wide gulf between the brain and electronics. The exchange of expertise between behavioural neurologists and robotics scientists is the focus of a symposium at the FENS Forum 2018 in Berlin (7.-11.7. 2018).

Bumblebees have a small brain but they cover considerable distance in the search for food. Depending on the species, their radius is up to three kilometres. The flight route is teeming with enemies and obstacles. Changing wind speeds and wind directions add to the hazards. The insects have to steer their flight through a changeable environment, navigate extensively and learn how to find a good source of food and get home to their nests.

"When bumblebees leave their nest for the first time, they take flights to learn their surroundings so that they can find their way back," says Dr. Olivier Bertrand from the Department of Neurobiology at Bielefeld University, Germany. "These flights have a loop-like pattern, whereby the pattern varies from animal to animal, as our studies show. We assume that the bumblebees store snapshots of their environment in their brain, the usefulness of which is checked on subsequent flights."

When flying within a complex cluttered environment, bees constantly need to evaluate the environmental features and have to make decisions that influence the flight course. Dr. Shridar Ravi from the RMTI University in Melbourne, Australia, used bumblebees to seek insights into the mechanisms used for gap identification when the bees are confronted with an obstacle in their flight path and have to assess gap properties. Bees spend significant time in the near vicinity of the gap while performing rapid lateral maneuvers and looking at the gap, as if they would scan the gap to collect important information. In doing so the bee could detect the edges of the gap by utilising the difference between the relative motion of the gap edges and the foreground or background: a closer object moves relative faster than objects in the background.

As long as the capabilities of robots are limited, linking the abilities of animals with those of robots could be helpful. The team led by Prof. Dr. Noriyasu Ando from the Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology in Tokyo has taken this path: they have developed an insect-driven mobile robot. "A male silkmoth sits in a cockpit and his walking controls the robot

and directs it to a female moth as soon as he notices her sexual pheromone and reacts to it", is how Professor Ando describes the principle.
"From a technical point of view, this hybrid robot’s performance matches our goal: the future insect mimetic robot will have the model of the insect brain." The hybrid robot also provides scientists with insights into the behaviour of insects. By changing the sensory input and/or the motor output of the robot, the team was able to uncover the sensory-motor control of the reactions of silkmoths to odours. "The hybrid robot enables us to compare an insect brain with an electronic model," said Professor Ando. "Now the robot is controlled directly by a real silkmoth. If the insect is replaced by a robot model of this insect, we can directly compare the performance of the insect brain with that of the model brain on this robot platform. It's still a conceptual idea, but we're working on it.”

Prof. Dr. Elisabetta Chicca

Neuromorphic systems are similar to the neuronal networks of the brain. Their hardware is highly specialized and highly interconnected. A team led by Prof. Dr. Elisabetta Chicca of Bielefeld University has developed a neuromorphic model that will enable autonomous mobile systems to navigate better and avoid obstacles in complex environments. The "laser eyes" (laser rangefinder) of autonomous cars detect obstacles, but are very expensive despite many years of development. They consume a lot of energy and - as current incidents have shown - misinterpretations occur in certain situations. The system of the Bielefeld scientists could bring progress in this area.
"We have developed a new electronic motion detector, the “Spiking Elementary Motion Detector”, which can detect the relative motion of objects”, says Professor Chicca. Every car or train driver knows what a "relative movement" is: the church tower in the distance glides slowly past, while the tree at the roadside rushes very quickly past. Insects use such information during navigation in the terrain to avoid collisions.
The new motion detector, sEMD for short, is a technical nerve cell with an artificial synapse. It can pick up signals and produce signals when two pulses arrive within a certain time - hence the name suffix "spiking". A chip can carry thousands of these detectors, depending on the experiment.

The detectors receive their input from innovative neuromorphic cameras, developed by a company in switzerland. In contrast to normal cameras, the pixels of the sensors in these cameras only produce a signal independently if something changes in their "field of vision". These signals are picked up by the motion detector's receptive fields. Each detector has two receptive fields, each receiving signals from nine pixels. If more than half of the pixels of a receptive field are activated, the receptive field produces a signal that is further processed by the detector. The detector can calculate the relative speed at which an object moves in front of the camera based on the time intervals between the signals of two adjacent receptive fields. "Our experiments show that it is possible to generate information for the navigation of robots that avoid collisions," explains Professor Chicca. "Our results pave the way for the construction of low-power compact systems for autonomous navigation. In addition, the sEMD is a universally applicable element for calculating time differences and can therefore also be used for processing other sensory stimuli, for example for locating the source of a sound.

Contact
Dr. Olivier Bertrand
Universität Bielefeld, Neurobiologie
https://ekvv.uni-bielefeld.de/pers_publ/publ/PersonDetail.jsp?personId=34427052

Prof. Dr. Elisabetta Chicca
Universität Bielefeld, AG Neuromorphic Behaving Systems
https://ekvv.uni-bielefeld.de/pers_publ/publ/PersonDetail.jsp?personId=26461080

Team from Cluster of Excellence CITEC prevails in RoboCup finale

2018-06-25T00:00:00+02:00

Team from Cluster of Excellence CITEC prevails in RoboCup finale

A team of students and researchers from the Cluster of Excellence Cognitive Interaction Technology (CITEC) at Bielefeld University won the RoboCup World Championship in Montreal, Canada. RoboCup is the leading, and largest, competition for intelligent robots in the world. The “Team of Bielefeld” (ToBi) showed its skills with Pepper the robot in the household service league. More than 400 teams from around the world competed in the various leagues of the competition from 18-22 June 2018. The researchers are now back in Bielefeld.

The CITEC team earned first place with Pepper in the household service league of the RoboCup World Championship. Photo: Bielefeld University/CITEC

Dr. Sven Wachsmuth, who heads the CITEC Central Labs, and his research associate Florian Lier led the team, together with Master’s student Johannes Kummert. “It’s fantastic to see how the students have progressed from the first preparations to the competition,” says Wachsmuth. “They learned to deal with complex systems like robots, and to work independently with them. That we were then able to take first place is, of course, a great success.”

Lier adds: “The team prepared itself very well, also for dealing with uncertainties. The infrastructure there is different from that in the lab. The students put a lot of work into making the software as stable as possible, and they succeeded in this.”

In the household service league RoboCup@Home, their robot had to master various assistive tasks as precisely as possible, including working as a waiter, bringing groceries into the home, loading a dishwasher, giving visitors an introductory tour of RoboCup, and finding its way in unfamiliar surroundings. The CITEC team competed in the Social Standard Platform League (SSPL), a subleague of the household service league. In the SSPL, teams only compete with Pepper, a robot produced by the company Softbank. Second place went to the team from Australia, where the next RoboCup competition will be held, and the team from Chile took third place.

Student Janneke Simmering from the CITEC team took part in the robot world championship for the first time. “The exciting question was: will the robot do what it’s supposed to do? We spent four weeks programming the software and tried to prepare for as many factors and eventualities as possible. The work paid off, and that’s a great feeling. We’re celebrating now.”

Members of this year’s team included: Robert Feldhans, Felix Friese, Kai Konen, David Leins, Jan Patrick Nülle, Sarah Schröder, Janneke Simmering, Philipp von Neumann-Cosel, Johannes Kummert, Florian Lier and Sven Wachsmuth. The preparations for RoboCup are incorporated into a university seminar – each year, new students from the course work together in the team. The Cluster of Excellence Cognitive Interaction Technology (CITEC) has participated in RoboCup since 2009. In 2016, the team earned the title of world champion for the first time, and the team has also taken third place a total of three times: 2012, in Mexico; 2015, in China; and 2017, in Japan.

The Cluster of Excellence Cognitive Interaction Technology (CITEC) at Bielefeld University is one of 43 clusters of excellence in Germany, and the only cluster with a focus in robotics. CITEC is working to make technical systems intuitive and easy to operate. CITEC’s interdisciplinary approach combines cognitive research with technology. Since 2007, CITEC has been funded as part of the Excellence Initiative of the German federal and state governments. Approximately 250 researchers work at the Cluster.

Pilot project: Study-accompanying mentoring for female BA students

2018-03-09T15:45:11+01:00

The new program series "Together for Study Success!" by the mentoring program movement is aimed at all female undergraduate students of the Faculty of Technology who wish to successfully design their studies and benefit from a structured program. The program runs from September 2018 to March 2019, application deadline is June 22, 2018. More information can be found here!

2018-03-19 | 12th CeBiTec Symposium: Big Data in Medicine and Biotechnology

2018-02-26T16:02:55+01:00

The Center for Biotechnology (CeBiTec) of Bielefeld University, the Bielefeld Center for Data Science (BiCDaS) as well as the German Network for Bioinformatics Infrastructure (de.NBI) cordially invite you to attend the 12^th CeBiTec Symposium entitled Big Data in Medicine and Biotechnology. More...

2018-03-09 | Anniversary "10 Years of Research on Thinking Technology with CITEC"

2018-02-09T13:57:54+01:00

Now for more than a decade, the Cluster of Excellence CITEC has been working to build better bridges between humans and technology with our innovative research in cognitive interaction technology. Much was achieved during these years, including the social robot head Flobi, the virtual coaching environment ICSpace, and a caring apartment – all of which were made in Bielefeld. Our strong network of partners accompanies and provides important input for our research. And for more than 200 early career researchers, Bielefeld was the launching point for their careers both in academia and beyond. We would like to celebrate our anniversary with you, and are pleased to invite you to our celebration on Friday, 9 March 2018. Please inquire kommunikation@cit-ec.uni-bielefeld.de

Internal Event
Date: 09 March 2018
Begin time: 15
End time: 19
Room: CITEC foyer

Prof. Dr. Ellen Baake appointed to the Board of the European Professional Association

2018-01-16T15:58:28+01:00

Prof. Dr. Ellen Baake
Photo: Universität Bielefeld

Professor Dr. Ellen Baake (56) has been appointed for five years to the Board of the European Society of Mathematical and Theoretical Biology (European Society of Mathematical and Theoretical Biology, ESMTB). Task of the ESMTB is the promotion of theoretical approaches and mathematical methods in the Life sciences worldwide and in Europe. The society organizes and supports conferences and summer schools on an international level and in 2018 co-ordinates diverse activities for the "Year of Mathematical Biology ". Ellen Baake leads the working group Biomathematics and Theoretical Bioinformatics at the Faculty of Engineering the University of Bielefeld. Since 2006 she is the spokeswoman for Research Center Mathematical Modeling and since 2011 coordinated the the priority program "Probabilistic Structures in Evolution "of the German Research Foundation (DFG).