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On 12 and 13 October, the ReBOUND Conference in Berlin will bring together researchers and stakeholders from science policy and research governance to develop shared perspectives on research culture and generate concrete impulses for its further development.

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From the question of how older adults can continue to live independently to how mathematics helps us understand the brain: check out the events offered by the Einstein Center Digital Future.

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In August, the German Academic International Network (GAIN) conference will once again bring together postdocs, early-career researchers, German research institutions, and partners from science and politics. The Einstein Foundation will be on site to showcase Berlin as a hub for science.

Einstein BUA/Oxford Visiting Fellow Stefano Evangelista will be holding sessions on "Writing Cosmopolitanism: World Literature, World Citizenship" as part of the IWL Summer School in July. The event at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin brings together students from all over the world with leading scholars in literary studies.

Einstein Professor Kallol Ray and Einstein Visiting Fellow Wonwoo Nam will bring together international coordination chemistry researchers in Berlin-Adlershof from 4 to 6 July. Our Managing Director Thorsten Wilhelmy will deliver the welcome address.

On 1 July, Einstein Visiting Fellow Tomila Lankina will deliver the 2026 Löwenthal Lecture at the Institute for East European Studies at Freie Universität Berlin. She will speak about her forthcoming book, “To Live For Freedom: A History of Dissent in Russia”, which traces 400 years of Russian history.

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Physicist and Einstein Professor Cecilia Clementi (Freie Universität Berlin) is set to receive an Advanced Grant worth roughly 3 million euros from the European Research Council. By means of the ERC Advanced Grant, the European Union aims to support exceptional researchers with a strong research track record who want to pursue groundbreaking, ambitious projects in new fields of research

To what extent are results from progression-free survival in cancer trials biased by informative censoring and trial design? As a guest of the Einstein Circle Causal Inference from Observational Health Data, Miquel Serra-Burriel will give a lecture at the BIH in English. Registration (for digital or on-site participation) is required.

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New research led by Matthew Larkum, with vital contributions from former Einstein Visiting Fellow Dieter Jaeger, reveals how tuft dendrites in the frontal motor cortex enable flexible learning. Discover this groundbreaking study now published in Science.

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A warm welcome to Prof. Dr. Fatma Deniz! The President of TU Berlin officially took up her position on the Foundation Council of the Einstein Foundation Berlin on 1 April 2026. She succeeds the President of FU Berlin, Prof. Günter M. Ziegler, to whom we extend our heartfelt thanks for his many years of dedication and commitment!

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Congratulations to Einstein BUA/Oxford Visiting Fellow Tarik Abou-Chadi on his new position! The political scientist from Oxford will establish a new research unit on democracy at the WZB starting in January 2027.

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Detecting and treating disease before symptoms appear: the Einstein Center for Early Disease Interception has officially opened. Backed by six million euros from the Einstein Foundation, the new center brings together leading institutions across Berlin.