© privat News / People / Research 13. November 2025 Our Solar System Is Moving Faster Than Expected Our solar system is racing through space faster than current models predict – as shown by a new study from Bielefeld University. The surprising findings challenge fundamental assumptions of cosmology. © ZEN SUMR News / People / Research 22. October 2025 Public Opinion Divided on Military Service Conflict Monitor: Younger People Favor Voluntarism, Older Generations Call for Compulsory Service. © Alex Photo/stock.adobe.com News / People / Research 21. October 2025 Polio Vaccination Remains Essential A new study shows: The polio vaccine remains essential. Prof. Dr. Oliver Razum emphasizes: Eradication is unlikely, vaccination protection remains indispensable. © Bielefeld University/Mike-Dennis Müller News / Research 10. October 2025 Clinical Guidelines as a lever for more equitable healthcare How can clinical guidelines be designed to enable equitable and inclusive healthcare – and at the same time promote research and innovation? Professor Dr Sabine Oertelt-Prigione and her colleagues discuss these questions in their contribution to the current special edition of the British Medical Journal. © Bielefeld University/ Patrick Pollmeier News / People / Research / Story 7. October 2025 New paths in mathematics The ESyMath focus area aims to bring together different areas of mathematics and related sciences in order to exploit and further develop synergies. © Universität Bielefeld /Sarah Jonek News / People / Research 6. October 2025 Research Team Explores Inclusion at Conferences A research team from Bielefeld University investigates how inclusive academic conferences really are and offers concrete recommendations to promote participation and diversity. © Marc Gilles News / People / Research 24. September 2025 City lizards turn out to be surprisingly social Narrow walls, few hideouts: in cities, wall lizards build more social ties and form stable bonds, unlike their more solitary counterparts in natural habitats. © Bielefeld Univerity News / People / Research / Story 23. September 2025 How humans and AI work as a team How can cooperation succeed between humans and AI? The FAITH focus area at Bielefeld University is researching the hybrid teamwork of tomorrow. © Bielefeld University News / Research 19. September 2025 Partnerships boost life satisfaction Life satisfaction rises significantly when people move from living alone into a committed relationship and start living with a partner. This is shown by a new study from Bielefeld University and the University of Greifswald and the University of Warwick. © TRR 318 und Sarah Jonek News / People / Research 15. September 2025 Humans and Machines Learn Differently Bielefeld researchers analyze in “Nature Machine Intelligence” how humans and AI systems learn new things and what this means for the future of Artificial Intelligence. © TRR 318/ Stefan Sättele News / People / Research / Story 9. September 2025 Developing explanations together After four years of intensive research, the Transregional Collaborative Research Centre 318 “Constructing Explainability” takes stock. In this interview, the two spokespersons share key insights. © TRR 318 News / People / Research 2. September 2025 Robot Nao as an Attentive Explainer How can a robot best support us linguistically in solving tasks? Researchers from TRR 318 Constructing Explainability have investigated this question. © Bielefeld University News / People / Research 19. August 2025 How Cells Build Complex Structures as a Team How does the collective interaction of many individual cells create a perfectly formed organism? This question is the focus of a new study. © privat News / People / Research 19. August 2025 How to Understand Complex Systems An international research group on the theory of random matrices is being launched at the ZiF in Bielefeld. It is investigating how new methods can be used to better understand complex systems ranging from ecology to AI. © Patrick Pollmeier News / Research 15. August 2025 Your morning coffee really does make you happier Researchers from Bielefeld University and the University of Warwick tracked young adults’ behaviour and mood in everyday life for four weeks. © University of Osaka Culture / News 12. August 2025 Strategic links with Asia strengthened The Rector of the University Professor Dr Angelika Epple and Professor Dr Michaela Vogt, Vice Rector for International Affairs, Diversity and Society, visiting partner institutions in China and Japan. © Universität Bielefeld News / Research 24. July 2025 Terahertz light controls atomically thin semiconductors A research team from Bielefeld and Dresden uses pulses of terahertz light to control nanomaterials – opening up new possibilities for ultrafast nanoelectronics. © Thomas Pajot/stock.adobe.com News / People / Research 22. July 2025 “We develop models to improve decision-making” CUDE researchers explore how to make better decisions in uncertain times. © Anton Sorochak Campus / News / People 9. July 2025 ‘We are still inside history’ Ukrainian poet and scholar Dr Ostap Slyvynsky is a visiting researcher at the university. 3 questions for the Vice President of PEN Ukraine. © Gent, Bielefeld and Waterloo Universities News / People / Research 7. July 2025 Counting with uncertainties The theory of imprecise probabilities is the focus of ISIPTA 2025 at the Bielefeld ZiF. © Bielefeld University Campus / News 30. June 2025 Protest group occupies Lecture Hall On the evening of 26 June, the protest group “Bielefeld unkürzbar” occupied Lecture Hall 15. The background to this is protests against the reduction in funding allocations from 2026 by the Ministry of Culture and Science of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia. Following discussions with the protest group, the Rectorate assumes that the protest action will end on Saturday, 5 July. © Fortunato Rayan News / People / Research 26. June 2025 Unexpected Animal Partnership Discovered in the Amazon Researchers from Bielefeld University documented a puzzling relationship between ocelots and opossums in the rainforest for the first time – potentially an unknown cooperation between these two species. © Sarah Jonek/Universität Bielefeld News / Research / Studies and Teaching 26. May 2025 New EU Project: Trustworthy AI for Better Decision-Making Bielefeld Project Linking Operations Research and Machine Learning Receives Over €4.6 Million in EU Funding. © TRR 318 News / People / Research 19. May 2025 Looking at Explanations of AI in Context How can explanations of artificially intelligent systems be made comprehensible, and what role does context play in this? These questions are the focus of the 3rd TRR 318 conference ‘Contextualising Explanations’, which will take place on 17 and 18 June in Bielefeld. Page navigationCurrent Page 1Page 2Page 3›»
© ZEN SUMR News / People / Research 22. October 2025 Public Opinion Divided on Military Service Conflict Monitor: Younger People Favor Voluntarism, Older Generations Call for Compulsory Service. © Alex Photo/stock.adobe.com News / People / Research 21. October 2025 Polio Vaccination Remains Essential A new study shows: The polio vaccine remains essential. Prof. Dr. Oliver Razum emphasizes: Eradication is unlikely, vaccination protection remains indispensable. © Bielefeld University/Mike-Dennis Müller News / Research 10. October 2025 Clinical Guidelines as a lever for more equitable healthcare How can clinical guidelines be designed to enable equitable and inclusive healthcare – and at the same time promote research and innovation? Professor Dr Sabine Oertelt-Prigione and her colleagues discuss these questions in their contribution to the current special edition of the British Medical Journal. © Bielefeld University/ Patrick Pollmeier News / People / Research / Story 7. October 2025 New paths in mathematics The ESyMath focus area aims to bring together different areas of mathematics and related sciences in order to exploit and further develop synergies. © Universität Bielefeld /Sarah Jonek News / People / Research 6. October 2025 Research Team Explores Inclusion at Conferences A research team from Bielefeld University investigates how inclusive academic conferences really are and offers concrete recommendations to promote participation and diversity. © Marc Gilles News / People / Research 24. September 2025 City lizards turn out to be surprisingly social Narrow walls, few hideouts: in cities, wall lizards build more social ties and form stable bonds, unlike their more solitary counterparts in natural habitats. © Bielefeld Univerity News / People / Research / Story 23. September 2025 How humans and AI work as a team How can cooperation succeed between humans and AI? The FAITH focus area at Bielefeld University is researching the hybrid teamwork of tomorrow. © Bielefeld University News / Research 19. September 2025 Partnerships boost life satisfaction Life satisfaction rises significantly when people move from living alone into a committed relationship and start living with a partner. This is shown by a new study from Bielefeld University and the University of Greifswald and the University of Warwick. © TRR 318 und Sarah Jonek News / People / Research 15. September 2025 Humans and Machines Learn Differently Bielefeld researchers analyze in “Nature Machine Intelligence” how humans and AI systems learn new things and what this means for the future of Artificial Intelligence. © TRR 318/ Stefan Sättele News / People / Research / Story 9. September 2025 Developing explanations together After four years of intensive research, the Transregional Collaborative Research Centre 318 “Constructing Explainability” takes stock. In this interview, the two spokespersons share key insights. © TRR 318 News / People / Research 2. September 2025 Robot Nao as an Attentive Explainer How can a robot best support us linguistically in solving tasks? Researchers from TRR 318 Constructing Explainability have investigated this question. © Bielefeld University News / People / Research 19. August 2025 How Cells Build Complex Structures as a Team How does the collective interaction of many individual cells create a perfectly formed organism? This question is the focus of a new study. © privat News / People / Research 19. August 2025 How to Understand Complex Systems An international research group on the theory of random matrices is being launched at the ZiF in Bielefeld. It is investigating how new methods can be used to better understand complex systems ranging from ecology to AI. © Patrick Pollmeier News / Research 15. August 2025 Your morning coffee really does make you happier Researchers from Bielefeld University and the University of Warwick tracked young adults’ behaviour and mood in everyday life for four weeks. © University of Osaka Culture / News 12. August 2025 Strategic links with Asia strengthened The Rector of the University Professor Dr Angelika Epple and Professor Dr Michaela Vogt, Vice Rector for International Affairs, Diversity and Society, visiting partner institutions in China and Japan. © Universität Bielefeld News / Research 24. July 2025 Terahertz light controls atomically thin semiconductors A research team from Bielefeld and Dresden uses pulses of terahertz light to control nanomaterials – opening up new possibilities for ultrafast nanoelectronics. © Thomas Pajot/stock.adobe.com News / People / Research 22. July 2025 “We develop models to improve decision-making” CUDE researchers explore how to make better decisions in uncertain times. © Anton Sorochak Campus / News / People 9. July 2025 ‘We are still inside history’ Ukrainian poet and scholar Dr Ostap Slyvynsky is a visiting researcher at the university. 3 questions for the Vice President of PEN Ukraine. © Gent, Bielefeld and Waterloo Universities News / People / Research 7. July 2025 Counting with uncertainties The theory of imprecise probabilities is the focus of ISIPTA 2025 at the Bielefeld ZiF. © Bielefeld University Campus / News 30. June 2025 Protest group occupies Lecture Hall On the evening of 26 June, the protest group “Bielefeld unkürzbar” occupied Lecture Hall 15. The background to this is protests against the reduction in funding allocations from 2026 by the Ministry of Culture and Science of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia. Following discussions with the protest group, the Rectorate assumes that the protest action will end on Saturday, 5 July. © Fortunato Rayan News / People / Research 26. June 2025 Unexpected Animal Partnership Discovered in the Amazon Researchers from Bielefeld University documented a puzzling relationship between ocelots and opossums in the rainforest for the first time – potentially an unknown cooperation between these two species. © Sarah Jonek/Universität Bielefeld News / Research / Studies and Teaching 26. May 2025 New EU Project: Trustworthy AI for Better Decision-Making Bielefeld Project Linking Operations Research and Machine Learning Receives Over €4.6 Million in EU Funding. © TRR 318 News / People / Research 19. May 2025 Looking at Explanations of AI in Context How can explanations of artificially intelligent systems be made comprehensible, and what role does context play in this? 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© Alex Photo/stock.adobe.com News / People / Research 21. October 2025 Polio Vaccination Remains Essential A new study shows: The polio vaccine remains essential. Prof. Dr. Oliver Razum emphasizes: Eradication is unlikely, vaccination protection remains indispensable. © Bielefeld University/Mike-Dennis Müller News / Research 10. October 2025 Clinical Guidelines as a lever for more equitable healthcare How can clinical guidelines be designed to enable equitable and inclusive healthcare – and at the same time promote research and innovation? Professor Dr Sabine Oertelt-Prigione and her colleagues discuss these questions in their contribution to the current special edition of the British Medical Journal. © Bielefeld University/ Patrick Pollmeier News / People / Research / Story 7. October 2025 New paths in mathematics The ESyMath focus area aims to bring together different areas of mathematics and related sciences in order to exploit and further develop synergies. © Universität Bielefeld /Sarah Jonek News / People / Research 6. October 2025 Research Team Explores Inclusion at Conferences A research team from Bielefeld University investigates how inclusive academic conferences really are and offers concrete recommendations to promote participation and diversity. © Marc Gilles News / People / Research 24. September 2025 City lizards turn out to be surprisingly social Narrow walls, few hideouts: in cities, wall lizards build more social ties and form stable bonds, unlike their more solitary counterparts in natural habitats. © Bielefeld Univerity News / People / Research / Story 23. September 2025 How humans and AI work as a team How can cooperation succeed between humans and AI? The FAITH focus area at Bielefeld University is researching the hybrid teamwork of tomorrow. © Bielefeld University News / Research 19. September 2025 Partnerships boost life satisfaction Life satisfaction rises significantly when people move from living alone into a committed relationship and start living with a partner. This is shown by a new study from Bielefeld University and the University of Greifswald and the University of Warwick. © TRR 318 und Sarah Jonek News / People / Research 15. September 2025 Humans and Machines Learn Differently Bielefeld researchers analyze in “Nature Machine Intelligence” how humans and AI systems learn new things and what this means for the future of Artificial Intelligence. © TRR 318/ Stefan Sättele News / People / Research / Story 9. September 2025 Developing explanations together After four years of intensive research, the Transregional Collaborative Research Centre 318 “Constructing Explainability” takes stock. In this interview, the two spokespersons share key insights. © TRR 318 News / People / Research 2. September 2025 Robot Nao as an Attentive Explainer How can a robot best support us linguistically in solving tasks? Researchers from TRR 318 Constructing Explainability have investigated this question. © Bielefeld University News / People / Research 19. August 2025 How Cells Build Complex Structures as a Team How does the collective interaction of many individual cells create a perfectly formed organism? This question is the focus of a new study. © privat News / People / Research 19. August 2025 How to Understand Complex Systems An international research group on the theory of random matrices is being launched at the ZiF in Bielefeld. It is investigating how new methods can be used to better understand complex systems ranging from ecology to AI. © Patrick Pollmeier News / Research 15. August 2025 Your morning coffee really does make you happier Researchers from Bielefeld University and the University of Warwick tracked young adults’ behaviour and mood in everyday life for four weeks. © University of Osaka Culture / News 12. August 2025 Strategic links with Asia strengthened The Rector of the University Professor Dr Angelika Epple and Professor Dr Michaela Vogt, Vice Rector for International Affairs, Diversity and Society, visiting partner institutions in China and Japan. © Universität Bielefeld News / Research 24. July 2025 Terahertz light controls atomically thin semiconductors A research team from Bielefeld and Dresden uses pulses of terahertz light to control nanomaterials – opening up new possibilities for ultrafast nanoelectronics. © Thomas Pajot/stock.adobe.com News / People / Research 22. July 2025 “We develop models to improve decision-making” CUDE researchers explore how to make better decisions in uncertain times. © Anton Sorochak Campus / News / People 9. July 2025 ‘We are still inside history’ Ukrainian poet and scholar Dr Ostap Slyvynsky is a visiting researcher at the university. 3 questions for the Vice President of PEN Ukraine. © Gent, Bielefeld and Waterloo Universities News / People / Research 7. July 2025 Counting with uncertainties The theory of imprecise probabilities is the focus of ISIPTA 2025 at the Bielefeld ZiF. © Bielefeld University Campus / News 30. June 2025 Protest group occupies Lecture Hall On the evening of 26 June, the protest group “Bielefeld unkürzbar” occupied Lecture Hall 15. The background to this is protests against the reduction in funding allocations from 2026 by the Ministry of Culture and Science of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia. Following discussions with the protest group, the Rectorate assumes that the protest action will end on Saturday, 5 July. © Fortunato Rayan News / People / Research 26. June 2025 Unexpected Animal Partnership Discovered in the Amazon Researchers from Bielefeld University documented a puzzling relationship between ocelots and opossums in the rainforest for the first time – potentially an unknown cooperation between these two species. © Sarah Jonek/Universität Bielefeld News / Research / Studies and Teaching 26. May 2025 New EU Project: Trustworthy AI for Better Decision-Making Bielefeld Project Linking Operations Research and Machine Learning Receives Over €4.6 Million in EU Funding. © TRR 318 News / People / Research 19. May 2025 Looking at Explanations of AI in Context How can explanations of artificially intelligent systems be made comprehensible, and what role does context play in this? 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© Bielefeld University/Mike-Dennis Müller News / Research 10. October 2025 Clinical Guidelines as a lever for more equitable healthcare How can clinical guidelines be designed to enable equitable and inclusive healthcare – and at the same time promote research and innovation? Professor Dr Sabine Oertelt-Prigione and her colleagues discuss these questions in their contribution to the current special edition of the British Medical Journal. © Bielefeld University/ Patrick Pollmeier News / People / Research / Story 7. October 2025 New paths in mathematics The ESyMath focus area aims to bring together different areas of mathematics and related sciences in order to exploit and further develop synergies. © Universität Bielefeld /Sarah Jonek News / People / Research 6. October 2025 Research Team Explores Inclusion at Conferences A research team from Bielefeld University investigates how inclusive academic conferences really are and offers concrete recommendations to promote participation and diversity. © Marc Gilles News / People / Research 24. September 2025 City lizards turn out to be surprisingly social Narrow walls, few hideouts: in cities, wall lizards build more social ties and form stable bonds, unlike their more solitary counterparts in natural habitats. © Bielefeld Univerity News / People / Research / Story 23. September 2025 How humans and AI work as a team How can cooperation succeed between humans and AI? The FAITH focus area at Bielefeld University is researching the hybrid teamwork of tomorrow. © Bielefeld University News / Research 19. September 2025 Partnerships boost life satisfaction Life satisfaction rises significantly when people move from living alone into a committed relationship and start living with a partner. This is shown by a new study from Bielefeld University and the University of Greifswald and the University of Warwick. © TRR 318 und Sarah Jonek News / People / Research 15. September 2025 Humans and Machines Learn Differently Bielefeld researchers analyze in “Nature Machine Intelligence” how humans and AI systems learn new things and what this means for the future of Artificial Intelligence. © TRR 318/ Stefan Sättele News / People / Research / Story 9. September 2025 Developing explanations together After four years of intensive research, the Transregional Collaborative Research Centre 318 “Constructing Explainability” takes stock. In this interview, the two spokespersons share key insights. © TRR 318 News / People / Research 2. September 2025 Robot Nao as an Attentive Explainer How can a robot best support us linguistically in solving tasks? Researchers from TRR 318 Constructing Explainability have investigated this question. © Bielefeld University News / People / Research 19. August 2025 How Cells Build Complex Structures as a Team How does the collective interaction of many individual cells create a perfectly formed organism? This question is the focus of a new study. © privat News / People / Research 19. August 2025 How to Understand Complex Systems An international research group on the theory of random matrices is being launched at the ZiF in Bielefeld. It is investigating how new methods can be used to better understand complex systems ranging from ecology to AI. © Patrick Pollmeier News / Research 15. August 2025 Your morning coffee really does make you happier Researchers from Bielefeld University and the University of Warwick tracked young adults’ behaviour and mood in everyday life for four weeks. © University of Osaka Culture / News 12. August 2025 Strategic links with Asia strengthened The Rector of the University Professor Dr Angelika Epple and Professor Dr Michaela Vogt, Vice Rector for International Affairs, Diversity and Society, visiting partner institutions in China and Japan. © Universität Bielefeld News / Research 24. July 2025 Terahertz light controls atomically thin semiconductors A research team from Bielefeld and Dresden uses pulses of terahertz light to control nanomaterials – opening up new possibilities for ultrafast nanoelectronics. © Thomas Pajot/stock.adobe.com News / People / Research 22. July 2025 “We develop models to improve decision-making” CUDE researchers explore how to make better decisions in uncertain times. © Anton Sorochak Campus / News / People 9. July 2025 ‘We are still inside history’ Ukrainian poet and scholar Dr Ostap Slyvynsky is a visiting researcher at the university. 3 questions for the Vice President of PEN Ukraine. © Gent, Bielefeld and Waterloo Universities News / People / Research 7. July 2025 Counting with uncertainties The theory of imprecise probabilities is the focus of ISIPTA 2025 at the Bielefeld ZiF. © Bielefeld University Campus / News 30. June 2025 Protest group occupies Lecture Hall On the evening of 26 June, the protest group “Bielefeld unkürzbar” occupied Lecture Hall 15. The background to this is protests against the reduction in funding allocations from 2026 by the Ministry of Culture and Science of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia. Following discussions with the protest group, the Rectorate assumes that the protest action will end on Saturday, 5 July. © Fortunato Rayan News / People / Research 26. June 2025 Unexpected Animal Partnership Discovered in the Amazon Researchers from Bielefeld University documented a puzzling relationship between ocelots and opossums in the rainforest for the first time – potentially an unknown cooperation between these two species. © Sarah Jonek/Universität Bielefeld News / Research / Studies and Teaching 26. May 2025 New EU Project: Trustworthy AI for Better Decision-Making Bielefeld Project Linking Operations Research and Machine Learning Receives Over €4.6 Million in EU Funding. © TRR 318 News / People / Research 19. May 2025 Looking at Explanations of AI in Context How can explanations of artificially intelligent systems be made comprehensible, and what role does context play in this? These questions are the focus of the 3rd TRR 318 conference ‘Contextualising Explanations’, which will take place on 17 and 18 June in Bielefeld. Page navigationCurrent Page 1Page 2Page 3›»
© Bielefeld University/ Patrick Pollmeier News / People / Research / Story 7. October 2025 New paths in mathematics The ESyMath focus area aims to bring together different areas of mathematics and related sciences in order to exploit and further develop synergies. © Universität Bielefeld /Sarah Jonek News / People / Research 6. October 2025 Research Team Explores Inclusion at Conferences A research team from Bielefeld University investigates how inclusive academic conferences really are and offers concrete recommendations to promote participation and diversity. © Marc Gilles News / People / Research 24. September 2025 City lizards turn out to be surprisingly social Narrow walls, few hideouts: in cities, wall lizards build more social ties and form stable bonds, unlike their more solitary counterparts in natural habitats. © Bielefeld Univerity News / People / Research / Story 23. September 2025 How humans and AI work as a team How can cooperation succeed between humans and AI? The FAITH focus area at Bielefeld University is researching the hybrid teamwork of tomorrow. © Bielefeld University News / Research 19. September 2025 Partnerships boost life satisfaction Life satisfaction rises significantly when people move from living alone into a committed relationship and start living with a partner. This is shown by a new study from Bielefeld University and the University of Greifswald and the University of Warwick. © TRR 318 und Sarah Jonek News / People / Research 15. September 2025 Humans and Machines Learn Differently Bielefeld researchers analyze in “Nature Machine Intelligence” how humans and AI systems learn new things and what this means for the future of Artificial Intelligence. © TRR 318/ Stefan Sättele News / People / Research / Story 9. September 2025 Developing explanations together After four years of intensive research, the Transregional Collaborative Research Centre 318 “Constructing Explainability” takes stock. In this interview, the two spokespersons share key insights. © TRR 318 News / People / Research 2. September 2025 Robot Nao as an Attentive Explainer How can a robot best support us linguistically in solving tasks? Researchers from TRR 318 Constructing Explainability have investigated this question. © Bielefeld University News / People / Research 19. August 2025 How Cells Build Complex Structures as a Team How does the collective interaction of many individual cells create a perfectly formed organism? This question is the focus of a new study. © privat News / People / Research 19. August 2025 How to Understand Complex Systems An international research group on the theory of random matrices is being launched at the ZiF in Bielefeld. It is investigating how new methods can be used to better understand complex systems ranging from ecology to AI. © Patrick Pollmeier News / Research 15. August 2025 Your morning coffee really does make you happier Researchers from Bielefeld University and the University of Warwick tracked young adults’ behaviour and mood in everyday life for four weeks. © University of Osaka Culture / News 12. August 2025 Strategic links with Asia strengthened The Rector of the University Professor Dr Angelika Epple and Professor Dr Michaela Vogt, Vice Rector for International Affairs, Diversity and Society, visiting partner institutions in China and Japan. © Universität Bielefeld News / Research 24. July 2025 Terahertz light controls atomically thin semiconductors A research team from Bielefeld and Dresden uses pulses of terahertz light to control nanomaterials – opening up new possibilities for ultrafast nanoelectronics. © Thomas Pajot/stock.adobe.com News / People / Research 22. July 2025 “We develop models to improve decision-making” CUDE researchers explore how to make better decisions in uncertain times. © Anton Sorochak Campus / News / People 9. July 2025 ‘We are still inside history’ Ukrainian poet and scholar Dr Ostap Slyvynsky is a visiting researcher at the university. 3 questions for the Vice President of PEN Ukraine. © Gent, Bielefeld and Waterloo Universities News / People / Research 7. July 2025 Counting with uncertainties The theory of imprecise probabilities is the focus of ISIPTA 2025 at the Bielefeld ZiF. © Bielefeld University Campus / News 30. June 2025 Protest group occupies Lecture Hall On the evening of 26 June, the protest group “Bielefeld unkürzbar” occupied Lecture Hall 15. The background to this is protests against the reduction in funding allocations from 2026 by the Ministry of Culture and Science of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia. Following discussions with the protest group, the Rectorate assumes that the protest action will end on Saturday, 5 July. © Fortunato Rayan News / People / Research 26. June 2025 Unexpected Animal Partnership Discovered in the Amazon Researchers from Bielefeld University documented a puzzling relationship between ocelots and opossums in the rainforest for the first time – potentially an unknown cooperation between these two species. © Sarah Jonek/Universität Bielefeld News / Research / Studies and Teaching 26. May 2025 New EU Project: Trustworthy AI for Better Decision-Making Bielefeld Project Linking Operations Research and Machine Learning Receives Over €4.6 Million in EU Funding. © TRR 318 News / People / Research 19. May 2025 Looking at Explanations of AI in Context How can explanations of artificially intelligent systems be made comprehensible, and what role does context play in this? These questions are the focus of the 3rd TRR 318 conference ‘Contextualising Explanations’, which will take place on 17 and 18 June in Bielefeld. Page navigationCurrent Page 1Page 2Page 3›»
© Universität Bielefeld /Sarah Jonek News / People / Research 6. October 2025 Research Team Explores Inclusion at Conferences A research team from Bielefeld University investigates how inclusive academic conferences really are and offers concrete recommendations to promote participation and diversity. © Marc Gilles News / People / Research 24. September 2025 City lizards turn out to be surprisingly social Narrow walls, few hideouts: in cities, wall lizards build more social ties and form stable bonds, unlike their more solitary counterparts in natural habitats. © Bielefeld Univerity News / People / Research / Story 23. September 2025 How humans and AI work as a team How can cooperation succeed between humans and AI? The FAITH focus area at Bielefeld University is researching the hybrid teamwork of tomorrow. © Bielefeld University News / Research 19. September 2025 Partnerships boost life satisfaction Life satisfaction rises significantly when people move from living alone into a committed relationship and start living with a partner. This is shown by a new study from Bielefeld University and the University of Greifswald and the University of Warwick. © TRR 318 und Sarah Jonek News / People / Research 15. September 2025 Humans and Machines Learn Differently Bielefeld researchers analyze in “Nature Machine Intelligence” how humans and AI systems learn new things and what this means for the future of Artificial Intelligence. © TRR 318/ Stefan Sättele News / People / Research / Story 9. September 2025 Developing explanations together After four years of intensive research, the Transregional Collaborative Research Centre 318 “Constructing Explainability” takes stock. In this interview, the two spokespersons share key insights. © TRR 318 News / People / Research 2. September 2025 Robot Nao as an Attentive Explainer How can a robot best support us linguistically in solving tasks? Researchers from TRR 318 Constructing Explainability have investigated this question. © Bielefeld University News / People / Research 19. August 2025 How Cells Build Complex Structures as a Team How does the collective interaction of many individual cells create a perfectly formed organism? This question is the focus of a new study. © privat News / People / Research 19. August 2025 How to Understand Complex Systems An international research group on the theory of random matrices is being launched at the ZiF in Bielefeld. It is investigating how new methods can be used to better understand complex systems ranging from ecology to AI. © Patrick Pollmeier News / Research 15. August 2025 Your morning coffee really does make you happier Researchers from Bielefeld University and the University of Warwick tracked young adults’ behaviour and mood in everyday life for four weeks. © University of Osaka Culture / News 12. August 2025 Strategic links with Asia strengthened The Rector of the University Professor Dr Angelika Epple and Professor Dr Michaela Vogt, Vice Rector for International Affairs, Diversity and Society, visiting partner institutions in China and Japan. © Universität Bielefeld News / Research 24. July 2025 Terahertz light controls atomically thin semiconductors A research team from Bielefeld and Dresden uses pulses of terahertz light to control nanomaterials – opening up new possibilities for ultrafast nanoelectronics. © Thomas Pajot/stock.adobe.com News / People / Research 22. July 2025 “We develop models to improve decision-making” CUDE researchers explore how to make better decisions in uncertain times. © Anton Sorochak Campus / News / People 9. July 2025 ‘We are still inside history’ Ukrainian poet and scholar Dr Ostap Slyvynsky is a visiting researcher at the university. 3 questions for the Vice President of PEN Ukraine. © Gent, Bielefeld and Waterloo Universities News / People / Research 7. July 2025 Counting with uncertainties The theory of imprecise probabilities is the focus of ISIPTA 2025 at the Bielefeld ZiF. © Bielefeld University Campus / News 30. June 2025 Protest group occupies Lecture Hall On the evening of 26 June, the protest group “Bielefeld unkürzbar” occupied Lecture Hall 15. The background to this is protests against the reduction in funding allocations from 2026 by the Ministry of Culture and Science of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia. Following discussions with the protest group, the Rectorate assumes that the protest action will end on Saturday, 5 July. © Fortunato Rayan News / People / Research 26. June 2025 Unexpected Animal Partnership Discovered in the Amazon Researchers from Bielefeld University documented a puzzling relationship between ocelots and opossums in the rainforest for the first time – potentially an unknown cooperation between these two species. © Sarah Jonek/Universität Bielefeld News / Research / Studies and Teaching 26. May 2025 New EU Project: Trustworthy AI for Better Decision-Making Bielefeld Project Linking Operations Research and Machine Learning Receives Over €4.6 Million in EU Funding. © TRR 318 News / People / Research 19. May 2025 Looking at Explanations of AI in Context How can explanations of artificially intelligent systems be made comprehensible, and what role does context play in this? 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© Marc Gilles News / People / Research 24. September 2025 City lizards turn out to be surprisingly social Narrow walls, few hideouts: in cities, wall lizards build more social ties and form stable bonds, unlike their more solitary counterparts in natural habitats. © Bielefeld Univerity News / People / Research / Story 23. September 2025 How humans and AI work as a team How can cooperation succeed between humans and AI? The FAITH focus area at Bielefeld University is researching the hybrid teamwork of tomorrow. © Bielefeld University News / Research 19. September 2025 Partnerships boost life satisfaction Life satisfaction rises significantly when people move from living alone into a committed relationship and start living with a partner. This is shown by a new study from Bielefeld University and the University of Greifswald and the University of Warwick. © TRR 318 und Sarah Jonek News / People / Research 15. 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© Bielefeld Univerity News / People / Research / Story 23. September 2025 How humans and AI work as a team How can cooperation succeed between humans and AI? The FAITH focus area at Bielefeld University is researching the hybrid teamwork of tomorrow. © Bielefeld University News / Research 19. September 2025 Partnerships boost life satisfaction Life satisfaction rises significantly when people move from living alone into a committed relationship and start living with a partner. This is shown by a new study from Bielefeld University and the University of Greifswald and the University of Warwick. © TRR 318 und Sarah Jonek News / People / Research 15. September 2025 Humans and Machines Learn Differently Bielefeld researchers analyze in “Nature Machine Intelligence” how humans and AI systems learn new things and what this means for the future of Artificial Intelligence. © TRR 318/ Stefan Sättele News / People / Research / Story 9. September 2025 Developing explanations together After four years of intensive research, the Transregional Collaborative Research Centre 318 “Constructing Explainability” takes stock. In this interview, the two spokespersons share key insights. © TRR 318 News / People / Research 2. September 2025 Robot Nao as an Attentive Explainer How can a robot best support us linguistically in solving tasks? Researchers from TRR 318 Constructing Explainability have investigated this question. © Bielefeld University News / People / Research 19. August 2025 How Cells Build Complex Structures as a Team How does the collective interaction of many individual cells create a perfectly formed organism? This question is the focus of a new study. © privat News / People / Research 19. August 2025 How to Understand Complex Systems An international research group on the theory of random matrices is being launched at the ZiF in Bielefeld. It is investigating how new methods can be used to better understand complex systems ranging from ecology to AI. © Patrick Pollmeier News / Research 15. August 2025 Your morning coffee really does make you happier Researchers from Bielefeld University and the University of Warwick tracked young adults’ behaviour and mood in everyday life for four weeks. © University of Osaka Culture / News 12. August 2025 Strategic links with Asia strengthened The Rector of the University Professor Dr Angelika Epple and Professor Dr Michaela Vogt, Vice Rector for International Affairs, Diversity and Society, visiting partner institutions in China and Japan. © Universität Bielefeld News / Research 24. July 2025 Terahertz light controls atomically thin semiconductors A research team from Bielefeld and Dresden uses pulses of terahertz light to control nanomaterials – opening up new possibilities for ultrafast nanoelectronics. © Thomas Pajot/stock.adobe.com News / People / Research 22. July 2025 “We develop models to improve decision-making” CUDE researchers explore how to make better decisions in uncertain times. © Anton Sorochak Campus / News / People 9. July 2025 ‘We are still inside history’ Ukrainian poet and scholar Dr Ostap Slyvynsky is a visiting researcher at the university. 3 questions for the Vice President of PEN Ukraine. © Gent, Bielefeld and Waterloo Universities News / People / Research 7. July 2025 Counting with uncertainties The theory of imprecise probabilities is the focus of ISIPTA 2025 at the Bielefeld ZiF. © Bielefeld University Campus / News 30. June 2025 Protest group occupies Lecture Hall On the evening of 26 June, the protest group “Bielefeld unkürzbar” occupied Lecture Hall 15. The background to this is protests against the reduction in funding allocations from 2026 by the Ministry of Culture and Science of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia. Following discussions with the protest group, the Rectorate assumes that the protest action will end on Saturday, 5 July. © Fortunato Rayan News / People / Research 26. June 2025 Unexpected Animal Partnership Discovered in the Amazon Researchers from Bielefeld University documented a puzzling relationship between ocelots and opossums in the rainforest for the first time – potentially an unknown cooperation between these two species. © Sarah Jonek/Universität Bielefeld News / Research / Studies and Teaching 26. May 2025 New EU Project: Trustworthy AI for Better Decision-Making Bielefeld Project Linking Operations Research and Machine Learning Receives Over €4.6 Million in EU Funding. © TRR 318 News / People / Research 19. May 2025 Looking at Explanations of AI in Context How can explanations of artificially intelligent systems be made comprehensible, and what role does context play in this? These questions are the focus of the 3rd TRR 318 conference ‘Contextualising Explanations’, which will take place on 17 and 18 June in Bielefeld. Page navigationCurrent Page 1Page 2Page 3›»
© Bielefeld University News / Research 19. September 2025 Partnerships boost life satisfaction Life satisfaction rises significantly when people move from living alone into a committed relationship and start living with a partner. This is shown by a new study from Bielefeld University and the University of Greifswald and the University of Warwick. © TRR 318 und Sarah Jonek News / People / Research 15. September 2025 Humans and Machines Learn Differently Bielefeld researchers analyze in “Nature Machine Intelligence” how humans and AI systems learn new things and what this means for the future of Artificial Intelligence. © TRR 318/ Stefan Sättele News / People / Research / Story 9. September 2025 Developing explanations together After four years of intensive research, the Transregional Collaborative Research Centre 318 “Constructing Explainability” takes stock. In this interview, the two spokespersons share key insights. © TRR 318 News / People / Research 2. September 2025 Robot Nao as an Attentive Explainer How can a robot best support us linguistically in solving tasks? Researchers from TRR 318 Constructing Explainability have investigated this question. © Bielefeld University News / People / Research 19. August 2025 How Cells Build Complex Structures as a Team How does the collective interaction of many individual cells create a perfectly formed organism? This question is the focus of a new study. © privat News / People / Research 19. August 2025 How to Understand Complex Systems An international research group on the theory of random matrices is being launched at the ZiF in Bielefeld. It is investigating how new methods can be used to better understand complex systems ranging from ecology to AI. © Patrick Pollmeier News / Research 15. August 2025 Your morning coffee really does make you happier Researchers from Bielefeld University and the University of Warwick tracked young adults’ behaviour and mood in everyday life for four weeks. © University of Osaka Culture / News 12. August 2025 Strategic links with Asia strengthened The Rector of the University Professor Dr Angelika Epple and Professor Dr Michaela Vogt, Vice Rector for International Affairs, Diversity and Society, visiting partner institutions in China and Japan. © Universität Bielefeld News / Research 24. July 2025 Terahertz light controls atomically thin semiconductors A research team from Bielefeld and Dresden uses pulses of terahertz light to control nanomaterials – opening up new possibilities for ultrafast nanoelectronics. © Thomas Pajot/stock.adobe.com News / People / Research 22. July 2025 “We develop models to improve decision-making” CUDE researchers explore how to make better decisions in uncertain times. © Anton Sorochak Campus / News / People 9. July 2025 ‘We are still inside history’ Ukrainian poet and scholar Dr Ostap Slyvynsky is a visiting researcher at the university. 3 questions for the Vice President of PEN Ukraine. © Gent, Bielefeld and Waterloo Universities News / People / Research 7. July 2025 Counting with uncertainties The theory of imprecise probabilities is the focus of ISIPTA 2025 at the Bielefeld ZiF. © Bielefeld University Campus / News 30. June 2025 Protest group occupies Lecture Hall On the evening of 26 June, the protest group “Bielefeld unkürzbar” occupied Lecture Hall 15. The background to this is protests against the reduction in funding allocations from 2026 by the Ministry of Culture and Science of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia. Following discussions with the protest group, the Rectorate assumes that the protest action will end on Saturday, 5 July. © Fortunato Rayan News / People / Research 26. June 2025 Unexpected Animal Partnership Discovered in the Amazon Researchers from Bielefeld University documented a puzzling relationship between ocelots and opossums in the rainforest for the first time – potentially an unknown cooperation between these two species. © Sarah Jonek/Universität Bielefeld News / Research / Studies and Teaching 26. May 2025 New EU Project: Trustworthy AI for Better Decision-Making Bielefeld Project Linking Operations Research and Machine Learning Receives Over €4.6 Million in EU Funding. © TRR 318 News / People / Research 19. May 2025 Looking at Explanations of AI in Context How can explanations of artificially intelligent systems be made comprehensible, and what role does context play in this? These questions are the focus of the 3rd TRR 318 conference ‘Contextualising Explanations’, which will take place on 17 and 18 June in Bielefeld. Page navigationCurrent Page 1Page 2Page 3›»
© TRR 318 und Sarah Jonek News / People / Research 15. September 2025 Humans and Machines Learn Differently Bielefeld researchers analyze in “Nature Machine Intelligence” how humans and AI systems learn new things and what this means for the future of Artificial Intelligence. © TRR 318/ Stefan Sättele News / People / Research / Story 9. September 2025 Developing explanations together After four years of intensive research, the Transregional Collaborative Research Centre 318 “Constructing Explainability” takes stock. In this interview, the two spokespersons share key insights. © TRR 318 News / People / Research 2. September 2025 Robot Nao as an Attentive Explainer How can a robot best support us linguistically in solving tasks? Researchers from TRR 318 Constructing Explainability have investigated this question. © Bielefeld University News / People / Research 19. August 2025 How Cells Build Complex Structures as a Team How does the collective interaction of many individual cells create a perfectly formed organism? This question is the focus of a new study. © privat News / People / Research 19. August 2025 How to Understand Complex Systems An international research group on the theory of random matrices is being launched at the ZiF in Bielefeld. It is investigating how new methods can be used to better understand complex systems ranging from ecology to AI. © Patrick Pollmeier News / Research 15. August 2025 Your morning coffee really does make you happier Researchers from Bielefeld University and the University of Warwick tracked young adults’ behaviour and mood in everyday life for four weeks. © University of Osaka Culture / News 12. August 2025 Strategic links with Asia strengthened The Rector of the University Professor Dr Angelika Epple and Professor Dr Michaela Vogt, Vice Rector for International Affairs, Diversity and Society, visiting partner institutions in China and Japan. © Universität Bielefeld News / Research 24. July 2025 Terahertz light controls atomically thin semiconductors A research team from Bielefeld and Dresden uses pulses of terahertz light to control nanomaterials – opening up new possibilities for ultrafast nanoelectronics. © Thomas Pajot/stock.adobe.com News / People / Research 22. July 2025 “We develop models to improve decision-making” CUDE researchers explore how to make better decisions in uncertain times. © Anton Sorochak Campus / News / People 9. July 2025 ‘We are still inside history’ Ukrainian poet and scholar Dr Ostap Slyvynsky is a visiting researcher at the university. 3 questions for the Vice President of PEN Ukraine. © Gent, Bielefeld and Waterloo Universities News / People / Research 7. July 2025 Counting with uncertainties The theory of imprecise probabilities is the focus of ISIPTA 2025 at the Bielefeld ZiF. © Bielefeld University Campus / News 30. June 2025 Protest group occupies Lecture Hall On the evening of 26 June, the protest group “Bielefeld unkürzbar” occupied Lecture Hall 15. The background to this is protests against the reduction in funding allocations from 2026 by the Ministry of Culture and Science of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia. Following discussions with the protest group, the Rectorate assumes that the protest action will end on Saturday, 5 July. © Fortunato Rayan News / People / Research 26. June 2025 Unexpected Animal Partnership Discovered in the Amazon Researchers from Bielefeld University documented a puzzling relationship between ocelots and opossums in the rainforest for the first time – potentially an unknown cooperation between these two species. © Sarah Jonek/Universität Bielefeld News / Research / Studies and Teaching 26. May 2025 New EU Project: Trustworthy AI for Better Decision-Making Bielefeld Project Linking Operations Research and Machine Learning Receives Over €4.6 Million in EU Funding. © TRR 318 News / People / Research 19. May 2025 Looking at Explanations of AI in Context How can explanations of artificially intelligent systems be made comprehensible, and what role does context play in this? These questions are the focus of the 3rd TRR 318 conference ‘Contextualising Explanations’, which will take place on 17 and 18 June in Bielefeld. Page navigationCurrent Page 1Page 2Page 3›»
© TRR 318/ Stefan Sättele News / People / Research / Story 9. September 2025 Developing explanations together After four years of intensive research, the Transregional Collaborative Research Centre 318 “Constructing Explainability” takes stock. In this interview, the two spokespersons share key insights. © TRR 318 News / People / Research 2. September 2025 Robot Nao as an Attentive Explainer How can a robot best support us linguistically in solving tasks? Researchers from TRR 318 Constructing Explainability have investigated this question. © Bielefeld University News / People / Research 19. August 2025 How Cells Build Complex Structures as a Team How does the collective interaction of many individual cells create a perfectly formed organism? This question is the focus of a new study. © privat News / People / Research 19. August 2025 How to Understand Complex Systems An international research group on the theory of random matrices is being launched at the ZiF in Bielefeld. It is investigating how new methods can be used to better understand complex systems ranging from ecology to AI. © Patrick Pollmeier News / Research 15. August 2025 Your morning coffee really does make you happier Researchers from Bielefeld University and the University of Warwick tracked young adults’ behaviour and mood in everyday life for four weeks. © University of Osaka Culture / News 12. August 2025 Strategic links with Asia strengthened The Rector of the University Professor Dr Angelika Epple and Professor Dr Michaela Vogt, Vice Rector for International Affairs, Diversity and Society, visiting partner institutions in China and Japan. © Universität Bielefeld News / Research 24. July 2025 Terahertz light controls atomically thin semiconductors A research team from Bielefeld and Dresden uses pulses of terahertz light to control nanomaterials – opening up new possibilities for ultrafast nanoelectronics. © Thomas Pajot/stock.adobe.com News / People / Research 22. July 2025 “We develop models to improve decision-making” CUDE researchers explore how to make better decisions in uncertain times. © Anton Sorochak Campus / News / People 9. July 2025 ‘We are still inside history’ Ukrainian poet and scholar Dr Ostap Slyvynsky is a visiting researcher at the university. 3 questions for the Vice President of PEN Ukraine. © Gent, Bielefeld and Waterloo Universities News / People / Research 7. July 2025 Counting with uncertainties The theory of imprecise probabilities is the focus of ISIPTA 2025 at the Bielefeld ZiF. © Bielefeld University Campus / News 30. June 2025 Protest group occupies Lecture Hall On the evening of 26 June, the protest group “Bielefeld unkürzbar” occupied Lecture Hall 15. The background to this is protests against the reduction in funding allocations from 2026 by the Ministry of Culture and Science of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia. Following discussions with the protest group, the Rectorate assumes that the protest action will end on Saturday, 5 July. © Fortunato Rayan News / People / Research 26. June 2025 Unexpected Animal Partnership Discovered in the Amazon Researchers from Bielefeld University documented a puzzling relationship between ocelots and opossums in the rainforest for the first time – potentially an unknown cooperation between these two species. © Sarah Jonek/Universität Bielefeld News / Research / Studies and Teaching 26. May 2025 New EU Project: Trustworthy AI for Better Decision-Making Bielefeld Project Linking Operations Research and Machine Learning Receives Over €4.6 Million in EU Funding. © TRR 318 News / People / Research 19. May 2025 Looking at Explanations of AI in Context How can explanations of artificially intelligent systems be made comprehensible, and what role does context play in this? These questions are the focus of the 3rd TRR 318 conference ‘Contextualising Explanations’, which will take place on 17 and 18 June in Bielefeld. Page navigationCurrent Page 1Page 2Page 3›»
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© privat News / People / Research 19. August 2025 How to Understand Complex Systems An international research group on the theory of random matrices is being launched at the ZiF in Bielefeld. It is investigating how new methods can be used to better understand complex systems ranging from ecology to AI. © Patrick Pollmeier News / Research 15. August 2025 Your morning coffee really does make you happier Researchers from Bielefeld University and the University of Warwick tracked young adults’ behaviour and mood in everyday life for four weeks. © University of Osaka Culture / News 12. August 2025 Strategic links with Asia strengthened The Rector of the University Professor Dr Angelika Epple and Professor Dr Michaela Vogt, Vice Rector for International Affairs, Diversity and Society, visiting partner institutions in China and Japan. © Universität Bielefeld News / Research 24. July 2025 Terahertz light controls atomically thin semiconductors A research team from Bielefeld and Dresden uses pulses of terahertz light to control nanomaterials – opening up new possibilities for ultrafast nanoelectronics. © Thomas Pajot/stock.adobe.com News / People / Research 22. July 2025 “We develop models to improve decision-making” CUDE researchers explore how to make better decisions in uncertain times. © Anton Sorochak Campus / News / People 9. July 2025 ‘We are still inside history’ Ukrainian poet and scholar Dr Ostap Slyvynsky is a visiting researcher at the university. 3 questions for the Vice President of PEN Ukraine. © Gent, Bielefeld and Waterloo Universities News / People / Research 7. July 2025 Counting with uncertainties The theory of imprecise probabilities is the focus of ISIPTA 2025 at the Bielefeld ZiF. © Bielefeld University Campus / News 30. June 2025 Protest group occupies Lecture Hall On the evening of 26 June, the protest group “Bielefeld unkürzbar” occupied Lecture Hall 15. The background to this is protests against the reduction in funding allocations from 2026 by the Ministry of Culture and Science of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia. Following discussions with the protest group, the Rectorate assumes that the protest action will end on Saturday, 5 July. © Fortunato Rayan News / People / Research 26. June 2025 Unexpected Animal Partnership Discovered in the Amazon Researchers from Bielefeld University documented a puzzling relationship between ocelots and opossums in the rainforest for the first time – potentially an unknown cooperation between these two species. © Sarah Jonek/Universität Bielefeld News / Research / Studies and Teaching 26. May 2025 New EU Project: Trustworthy AI for Better Decision-Making Bielefeld Project Linking Operations Research and Machine Learning Receives Over €4.6 Million in EU Funding. © TRR 318 News / People / Research 19. May 2025 Looking at Explanations of AI in Context How can explanations of artificially intelligent systems be made comprehensible, and what role does context play in this? These questions are the focus of the 3rd TRR 318 conference ‘Contextualising Explanations’, which will take place on 17 and 18 June in Bielefeld. Page navigationCurrent Page 1Page 2Page 3›»
© Patrick Pollmeier News / Research 15. August 2025 Your morning coffee really does make you happier Researchers from Bielefeld University and the University of Warwick tracked young adults’ behaviour and mood in everyday life for four weeks. © University of Osaka Culture / News 12. August 2025 Strategic links with Asia strengthened The Rector of the University Professor Dr Angelika Epple and Professor Dr Michaela Vogt, Vice Rector for International Affairs, Diversity and Society, visiting partner institutions in China and Japan. © Universität Bielefeld News / Research 24. July 2025 Terahertz light controls atomically thin semiconductors A research team from Bielefeld and Dresden uses pulses of terahertz light to control nanomaterials – opening up new possibilities for ultrafast nanoelectronics. © Thomas Pajot/stock.adobe.com News / People / Research 22. July 2025 “We develop models to improve decision-making” CUDE researchers explore how to make better decisions in uncertain times. © Anton Sorochak Campus / News / People 9. July 2025 ‘We are still inside history’ Ukrainian poet and scholar Dr Ostap Slyvynsky is a visiting researcher at the university. 3 questions for the Vice President of PEN Ukraine. © Gent, Bielefeld and Waterloo Universities News / People / Research 7. July 2025 Counting with uncertainties The theory of imprecise probabilities is the focus of ISIPTA 2025 at the Bielefeld ZiF. © Bielefeld University Campus / News 30. June 2025 Protest group occupies Lecture Hall On the evening of 26 June, the protest group “Bielefeld unkürzbar” occupied Lecture Hall 15. The background to this is protests against the reduction in funding allocations from 2026 by the Ministry of Culture and Science of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia. Following discussions with the protest group, the Rectorate assumes that the protest action will end on Saturday, 5 July. © Fortunato Rayan News / People / Research 26. June 2025 Unexpected Animal Partnership Discovered in the Amazon Researchers from Bielefeld University documented a puzzling relationship between ocelots and opossums in the rainforest for the first time – potentially an unknown cooperation between these two species. © Sarah Jonek/Universität Bielefeld News / Research / Studies and Teaching 26. May 2025 New EU Project: Trustworthy AI for Better Decision-Making Bielefeld Project Linking Operations Research and Machine Learning Receives Over €4.6 Million in EU Funding. © TRR 318 News / People / Research 19. May 2025 Looking at Explanations of AI in Context How can explanations of artificially intelligent systems be made comprehensible, and what role does context play in this? These questions are the focus of the 3rd TRR 318 conference ‘Contextualising Explanations’, which will take place on 17 and 18 June in Bielefeld. Page navigationCurrent Page 1Page 2Page 3›»
© University of Osaka Culture / News 12. August 2025 Strategic links with Asia strengthened The Rector of the University Professor Dr Angelika Epple and Professor Dr Michaela Vogt, Vice Rector for International Affairs, Diversity and Society, visiting partner institutions in China and Japan. © Universität Bielefeld News / Research 24. July 2025 Terahertz light controls atomically thin semiconductors A research team from Bielefeld and Dresden uses pulses of terahertz light to control nanomaterials – opening up new possibilities for ultrafast nanoelectronics. © Thomas Pajot/stock.adobe.com News / People / Research 22. July 2025 “We develop models to improve decision-making” CUDE researchers explore how to make better decisions in uncertain times. © Anton Sorochak Campus / News / People 9. July 2025 ‘We are still inside history’ Ukrainian poet and scholar Dr Ostap Slyvynsky is a visiting researcher at the university. 3 questions for the Vice President of PEN Ukraine. © Gent, Bielefeld and Waterloo Universities News / People / Research 7. July 2025 Counting with uncertainties The theory of imprecise probabilities is the focus of ISIPTA 2025 at the Bielefeld ZiF. © Bielefeld University Campus / News 30. June 2025 Protest group occupies Lecture Hall On the evening of 26 June, the protest group “Bielefeld unkürzbar” occupied Lecture Hall 15. The background to this is protests against the reduction in funding allocations from 2026 by the Ministry of Culture and Science of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia. Following discussions with the protest group, the Rectorate assumes that the protest action will end on Saturday, 5 July. © Fortunato Rayan News / People / Research 26. June 2025 Unexpected Animal Partnership Discovered in the Amazon Researchers from Bielefeld University documented a puzzling relationship between ocelots and opossums in the rainforest for the first time – potentially an unknown cooperation between these two species. © Sarah Jonek/Universität Bielefeld News / Research / Studies and Teaching 26. May 2025 New EU Project: Trustworthy AI for Better Decision-Making Bielefeld Project Linking Operations Research and Machine Learning Receives Over €4.6 Million in EU Funding. © TRR 318 News / People / Research 19. May 2025 Looking at Explanations of AI in Context How can explanations of artificially intelligent systems be made comprehensible, and what role does context play in this? These questions are the focus of the 3rd TRR 318 conference ‘Contextualising Explanations’, which will take place on 17 and 18 June in Bielefeld. Page navigationCurrent Page 1Page 2Page 3›»
© Universität Bielefeld News / Research 24. July 2025 Terahertz light controls atomically thin semiconductors A research team from Bielefeld and Dresden uses pulses of terahertz light to control nanomaterials – opening up new possibilities for ultrafast nanoelectronics. © Thomas Pajot/stock.adobe.com News / People / Research 22. July 2025 “We develop models to improve decision-making” CUDE researchers explore how to make better decisions in uncertain times. © Anton Sorochak Campus / News / People 9. July 2025 ‘We are still inside history’ Ukrainian poet and scholar Dr Ostap Slyvynsky is a visiting researcher at the university. 3 questions for the Vice President of PEN Ukraine. © Gent, Bielefeld and Waterloo Universities News / People / Research 7. July 2025 Counting with uncertainties The theory of imprecise probabilities is the focus of ISIPTA 2025 at the Bielefeld ZiF. © Bielefeld University Campus / News 30. June 2025 Protest group occupies Lecture Hall On the evening of 26 June, the protest group “Bielefeld unkürzbar” occupied Lecture Hall 15. The background to this is protests against the reduction in funding allocations from 2026 by the Ministry of Culture and Science of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia. Following discussions with the protest group, the Rectorate assumes that the protest action will end on Saturday, 5 July. © Fortunato Rayan News / People / Research 26. June 2025 Unexpected Animal Partnership Discovered in the Amazon Researchers from Bielefeld University documented a puzzling relationship between ocelots and opossums in the rainforest for the first time – potentially an unknown cooperation between these two species. © Sarah Jonek/Universität Bielefeld News / Research / Studies and Teaching 26. May 2025 New EU Project: Trustworthy AI for Better Decision-Making Bielefeld Project Linking Operations Research and Machine Learning Receives Over €4.6 Million in EU Funding. © TRR 318 News / People / Research 19. May 2025 Looking at Explanations of AI in Context How can explanations of artificially intelligent systems be made comprehensible, and what role does context play in this? These questions are the focus of the 3rd TRR 318 conference ‘Contextualising Explanations’, which will take place on 17 and 18 June in Bielefeld. Page navigationCurrent Page 1Page 2Page 3›»
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