NewsJackie Schiller 04/11/2024 Einstein Visiting Fellow Jackie Schiller wins ERC-Grant The neuroscientist has been researching autism spectrum disorders as an Einstein Visiting Fellow together with the team led by Professor Sarah Shoichet and Professor Dietmar Schmitz (at Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin) since the beginning of 2022. The funding from the European Research Council amounts to 2.5 million euros.PressEinstein Center Population Diversity 04/09/2024 Through the lens of the family: Einstein Center Population Diversity opened todayHow are societies changing as a result of immigration, aging, and new forms of work and social relationships? And what opportunities, but also challenges, arise from these changes? The new Einstein Center Population Diversity aims to answer these questions. It brings together researchers from various Berlin institutions to study demographic change through the lens of the family.E&BMartin Skutella 04/08/2024 Intersecting ProblemsTraffic doesn’t have to be chaotic. Mathematician Martin Skutella develops algorithms for faster and more efficient optimization of road traffic and other dynamic networks. This benefits both mathematics and transportation planning.Einstein Foundation AwardTip 04/05/2024 BITSS Research Transparency and Reproducibility TrainingThe 2023 Einstein Foundation Award Winner, the Berkeley Initiative for Transparency in the Social Sciences (BITSS), will hold its next Research Transparency and Reproducibility Training (RT2) in Berkeley, CA, June 5-7, 2024.NewsStefano Evangelista 04/03/2024 World Literature and Periodical Formats: Circulation, Translation, ElisionsThe ‘Boundaries of Cosmopolis’ project, led by Einstein BUA/Oxford Visiting Fellow Prof. Stefano Evangelista (Trinity College, Oxford), held its first workshop at the Centre for British Studies on 15 March 2024.NewsWonwoo Nam 03/27/2024 In demand from Seoul to Berlin: green energy of the futureKallol Ray's UniSysCat group receives prominent support from Korea: Einstein Visiting Fellow Wonwoo Nam visits the group at Humboldt-Universität Berlin for a four-year research stay to work on green catalytic systems.PodcastEinstein Foundation Award 03/25/2024 AI and ethics: Do they go together?AskDifferent #31 – If you ask Yves Moreau, we are drunk teenagers losing control of the car we are driving – at least when it comes to artificial intelligence. The 2023 Einstein Foundation Individual Award winner studies biomedical DNA data and describes himself as a “concerned scientist.” In this metaphor-packed episode of #AskDifferent, he describes the cultural shift he would like to see regarding the way we deal with artificial intelligence, how he helped push prestigious scientific journals to retract articles, and what the future holds for ethical standards in technological engineering.Tip 03/12/2024 Start of the Exhibition "We were, we are, and we will be"The exhibition portraits gender struggle in trade unions in German, Turkish, and Kurdish language. It was co-developed by Einstein Fellow Handan Çağlayan and will be on display between March 15th and April 15th 2024 before moving on.VideoResearch qualityEinstein Center Digital FutureSusanne Schreiber 03/12/2024 Video: The Pitfalls of Bad Practices in Genetic Big Data and AIWatch the video of the panel discussion with 2023 Einstein Foundation Award winner Yves Moreau et al on March 14, 2024.TipMaike SanderKathrin Zippel 02/13/2024 Celebrating women in scienceThe "STEM Passion" exhibition, opened by Einstein Fellows Maike Sander and Kathrin Zippel, among others, runs through March 12 at the Rahel Hirsch Center for Translational Medicine.Einstein Foundation AwardListen 02/02/2024 BBC interview with Yves MoreauThe 2023 Individual Award winner, who campaigns for ethical standards in the use of human DNA data in research, talks about unethical data gathering in China on the BBC's Science in Action programme from 7'56" to 15'22". E&BRudolf Zechner 01/26/2024 The Fat-Eating EnzymeBiochemist Rudolf Zechner and his team have discovered an enzyme that is a key factor in the breakdown of lipid (triglycerides) in fat cells. In Berlin, he has taken on the task of deactivating this enzyme in order to fight cardiac insufficiency and heart failure. previous 12345678910111213141516 next