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Science Year Freedom

Blog: A Question of Freedom

As part of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research's “Science Year 2024 - Freedom”, we are asking our fellows and associates. The first question of freedom goes to Einstein Guest Researcher Vedat Demir: What does the restriction of freedom of press mean for everyday life and science?
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International Honor Award for Marion Merklein, member of the research board

The prize will be awarded by the Society of Manufacturing Engineers at the beginning of June 2024 and honors significant accomplishments and contributions to manufacturing technologies, processes, technical writing, education, research and management.
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Einstein Visiting Fellow Elke Weber awarded with Frontiers of Knowledge Award

The researcher at Princeton University receives the award of the BBVA Foundation for her research on environmental policy decisions and the factors that motivate action against climate change.
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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.
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Through the lens of the family: Einstein Center Population Diversity opened today

How 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.
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Intersecting Problems

Traffic 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.
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BITSS Research Transparency and Reproducibility Training

The 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.
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NewsStefano Evangelista

World Literature and Periodical Formats: Circulation, Translation, Elisions

The ‘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.
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In demand from Seoul to Berlin: green energy of the future

Kallol 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.
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AI and ethics: Do they go together, Yves Moreau?

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.
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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.
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Video: The Pitfalls of Bad Practices in Genetic Big Data and AI

Watch the video of the panel discussion with 2023 Einstein Foundation Award winner Yves Moreau et al on March 14, 2024.