Computer scientist Yaochu Jin receives Germany’s highest international research award

Bielefeld University has been awarded its second Alexander von Humboldt Professorship. This time, it goes to the computer scientist Professor Dr Yaochu Jin. He is one of the world’s leading experts on evolutionary algorithms—a form of artificial intelligence (AI) that optimizes its own capabilities. In autumn 2021, Jin will move from the University of Surrey (UK) to Bielefeld University. The Humboldt Professorship enables researchers who have previously been working abroad to take up a professorship at a German university where they can conduct pioneering research. It is the most highly endowed international research award in the country. Yaochu Jin will receive 3.5 million euros in prize money over a period of five years. It was announced today (01.07.2021) that a total of six new Humboldt Professorships have been selected. Jin is one of three award winners who will be honoured with the award for their research on AI.

 

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At the invitation of the Observatory Magna Charta in Bologna, Italy, Bielefeld University participated in the virtual ceremony for the official signing of the 2020 Magna Charta Universitatum, which took place on June 16th and 17th. Rector Professor Dr.-Ing. Gerhard Sagerer served as signatory in the ceremony. In a video message, Rector Sagerer explained how the values of the Magna Charta Universitatum are put into practice at Bielefeld University. This presentation was selected as an exemplary model of “Best Practices” at the ceremony.

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German Research Foundation (DFG) supports network with 10 million euros in funding

Bielefeld University’s maths-oriented Collaborative Research Centre (CRC) 1283 is to be funded for another four years as of July 2021. The CRC bears the title ‘Taming uncertainty and profiting from randomness and low regularity in analysis, stochastics and their applications’. The German Research Foundation (DFG) announced that it will be extending the interdisciplinary research network for an additional period. Around 10 million euros has been approved for the second funding period. The DFG also reported today that two applications for Transregional Collaborative Research Centres, in which Bielefeld University is involved, have also been approved: CRC/TRR 318 will be newly established and CRC/TRR 211 will be extended.[Weiterlesen]

Research team demonstrates control mechanism for quantum material

How can large amounts of data be transferred or processed as quickly as possible? One key to this could be graphene. The ultra-thin material is only one atomic layer thick, and the electrons it contains have very special properties due to quantum effects. It could therefore be very well suited for use in high-performance electronic components. Up to this point, however, there has been a lack of knowledge about how to suitably control certain properties of graphene. A new study by a team of scientists from Bielefeld and Berlin, together with researchers from other research institutes in Germany and Spain, is changing this. The team’s findings have been published in the journal Science Advances. 

 

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Angelika Epple: ‘Developing talents in the best possible way without failing because of the given structures’.

After an intensive two-year auditing process, the Stifterverband für die Deutsche Wissenschaft [Donors’ Association for the Promotion of Sciences and Humanities in Germany] has now (09.03.2021) awarded Bielefeld University the ‘Shaping Diversity’ certificate. With this award, the Stifterverband recognizes the university’s commitment to developing an organizational culture that takes a critical stance towards discrimination. Professor Dr Angelika Epple, the Vice-rector for International Affairs and Diversity, accepted the certificate on behalf of the university during a digital ceremony.[Weiterlesen]

One year into the coronavirus pandemic—an interim assessment for Bielefeld University

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Bielefeld researchers provide 3D images of coronaviruses

Scientists at Bielefeld University’s Faculty of Physics have succeeded for the first time in imaging the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus with a helium ion microscope. In contrast to the more conventional electron microscopy, the samples do not need a thin metal coating in helium ion microscopy. This allows interactions between the coronaviruses and their host cell to be observed particularly clearly. The scientists have published their findings, obtained in collaboration with researchers from Bielefeld University's Medical School OWL and Justus Liebig University Giessen, in the Beilstein Journal of Nanotechnology.

 

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Bielefeld researchers publish study in Nature Communications

In order to produce tiny electronic memories or sensors in future, it is essential to be able to arrange individual metal atoms on an insulating layer. Scientists at Bielefeld University’s Faculty of Chemistry have now demonstrated that this is possible at room temperature: molecules of the metal-containing compound molybdenum acetate form an ordered structure on the insulator calcite without jumping to other positions or rotating. Their findings have been presented in the Nature Communications journal. The work was done in cooperation with researchers from the universities of Kaiserslautern, Lincoln (UK) and Mainz.

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German Research Foundation (DFG) supports network with 11.9 million euros in funding

The German Research Foundation (DFG) is funding Bielefeld University’s Collaborative Research Centre ‘Practices of comparing: ordering and changing the world’ (SFB 1288) for another four years as of January 2021. Today (27/11/2020), the DFG announced that it will be extending the interdisciplinary research network for an additional period. 11.9 million euros have been approved for the second funding period. This is a great success which acknowledges the work of the SFB members over the past four years,’ says Professor Dr.-Ing. Gerhard Sagerer, Rector of Bielefeld University.

 

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