Important stage in the competition for millions in funding as part of the Excellence Strategy: From November 2024 to the end of January 2025, the three existing Clusters of Excellence at TU Dresden and the three new Cluster of Excellence initiatives went through the highly competitive review process of the The German Science and Humanities Council (Wissenschaftsrat, WR) and the German Research Foundation (DFG).

A clear vision of learning - international research team highlights brain's adaptability

The Autonomous Province of South Tyrol continues to endow the Valentin Braitenberg Award – honouring researchers in computer-assisted neuroscience

University of Bonn study opens the door to neural networks that require much less energy

The Foresight Institute in San Francisco, USA, has awarded Prof. Dr. Klaus-Robert Müller, Co-Director of BIFOLD and Head of the Machine Learning Group at the TU Berlin, the Foresight Feynman Prize 2024 in the category ‘Theory’. The renowned Feynman Prizes, named in honour of physicist Richard Feynman, recognise current and outstanding achievements that have contributed significantly to the advancement of nanotechnology.

Researchers at the University Medical Center Göttingen (UMG), Germany, have discovered that nerve cells in the eye often process natural visual stimuli from the environment jointly in cell groups and in a coordinated manner. The coordinated cooperation of nerve cells enhances signal transmission in scenes with high contrast and movement. These findings could help to improve the treatment of blindness. The results have been published in the renowned scientific journal “Nature”.

Eight professors currently belong to the Chemnitz team of the Robotic Institute Germany - Prof. Dr. Florian Röhrbein is the spokesperson for this group.

Machine learning (ML) models have recently become popular in the field of heterogeneous catalyst design.

The European Research Council (ERC) has awarded a Consolidator Grant to the computer scientist and neuroscientist Professor Fabian Sinz at the University of Göttingen. The project “Vision2Action: A data-driven computational framework to discover how behavior impacts processing in mouse visual cortex” has been awarded around two million Euro for five years. In the project, Sinz and his team plan to develop new machine learning methods to understand how motor movement influences visual processing in the brain.

Can electric stimulation help the brain regain speech after a stroke? Can generative artificial intelligence create realistic 3D objects? Can qubits, the fundamental units of quantum computing, be entangled using light? These are among the questions that five research teams at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) aim to answer with the support of prestigious ERC Consolidator Grants.