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04/05/2024

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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04/03/2024

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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03/27/2024

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.

Portrait of Yves Moreau sitting on a sofa

03/25/2024

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.

03/12/2024

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.

Beklebter Laternenpfahl mit Schriftzug "Big data is watching you"

03/12/2024

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

02/13/2024

The "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.

Porträt Yves Moreau

02/02/2024

The 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".

Illustration zu Enzymen, die Speicherfett abbauen

01/26/2024

Biochemist 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.

01/22/2024

Until 30 April 2024, the annual €500,000 Einstein Foundation Award for Promoting Quality in Research is inviting applications and nominations again. Find out more and apply!

Porträt Stefan Flasche

01/15/2024

Following a funding recommendation by the Einstein Foundation and a decision by the Board of Directors of the Berlin University Alliance, Prof. Dr Stefan Flasche took up the Einstein-BUA Professorship for Infection Dynamics and Global Health at Charité Berlin on 1 January 2024.

01/15/2024

In December, the Einstein Foundation Berlin's Executive Board approved funding among others for Oya Cingöz and Christoph Sander as the first Einstein Starting Researcher.