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Alexander von Humboldt Professorship for Artificial Intelligence 2020 Peter Dayan At the University of Tübingen, Peter Dayan will connect informatics and neuroscience, also building bridges to clinica
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Alexander von Humboldt Professorship for Artificial Intelligence 2020 Peter Dayan At the University of Tübingen, Peter Dayan will connect informatics and neuroscience, also building bridges to clinica
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Alexander von Humboldt Professorship 2020 Francisco Moreno-Fernández At the University of Heidelberg, Francisco Moreno-Fernández is set to head the new interdisciplinary Heidelberg Center for Ibero-Am
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With its university and non-university research institutes, the University of Tübingen already has a very broadly established portfolio in educational science with a focus on the intersection of educational practice and research. Murayama’s appointment as a Humboldt Professor aims to expand educational research yet further and intensify its interdisciplinary approach.
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Watching life evolving – Jan Huisken’s work makes it possible. A pioneer of modern microscopy, he is now set to reinforce the existing research focus in microscopy at the University of Göttingen and help to better understand the development of cells and organs.
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Mathematician, science historian, sinologist and philosopher Andrea Bréard investigates the history of mathematics in China. She draws on economic, political and social history to acquire insights into China’s intellectual history in its entirety.
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Cancer cells grow significantly quicker in the body than normal cells. Their metabolism thus functions differently and utilises nutrients at a much faster rate. The metabolism researcher Christian Frezza is searching for ways of disturbing or even preventing nutrient utilisation in cancer cells so that they can no long grow and eventually die.
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At the University of Cologne, Bart Thomma is to continue his research on soil organisms and their interactions with plants. He is expected to head a new Centre for Microbial Interactomics that is due to be established and within which he will focus on evolutionary microbiology. He will also cooperate with human biologists. After all, if we understand more about the genetics and interactions of microorganisms in the soil, this could be of use to medicine, too – in improving antibiotics, for instance.
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Whether you think in terms of autonomous drones, self-driving cars or robots that care for the sick or support older people, machines constantly have to respond to new and unexpected situations. Not all of these situations can be predicted and programmed with the appropriate default response. Machine learning and robots that learn from their experience are the solution.
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As a specialist in Einstein field equations, the mathematician Gustav Holzegel studies physical theories on the properties of the universe. He has, for instance, managed to find solutions to the mathematical equations in the general theory of relativity which explain the stability of black holes.
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Living and working with robots changes people. How can artificial intelligence (AI) be innovative whilst respecting social values at the same time? In the person of Aimee van Wynsberghe, Bonn is gaining one of the world’s leading researchers in AI and robot ethics.
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