News Reports
The latest news reports on our events, technology developments, awards, scientific successes and more.
JUPITER selects first AI projects – Bonn research team led by Prof. Dr. Jürgen Gall among the winners
Only ten teams nationwide will receive exclusive access to the European exascale supercomputer. With the HoMe project, AI research in Bonn is sending a strong signal in the fields of vision, robotics, and generative AI.
RiverMamba: New AI architecture improves flood forecasting
Extreme weather events such as heavy rain and flooding pose growing challenges for early warning systems worldwide. Researchers at the University Bonn, the Forschungszentrum Jülich (FZJ), and the Lamarr Institute for Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence have developed RiverMamba, a new AI model that can predict river discharges and flood risks more accurately than previous methods. The research paper has been accepted for NeurIPS 2025 – a sign of scientific excellence in Bonn-based research. RiverMamba thus makes an important contribution to climate adaptation and risk prevention – topics that are receiving special attention worldwide, particularly around UN World Tsunami Awareness Day on November 5th.
Colloquium: Research Talk by Prof. Dr. Andreas Nüchter on November 07
Topic: Mixed-Media – Towards Precise 3D Scanning and Photogrammetry from Air into Water
Colloquium: Research Talk by Dr. Felix Govaers on November 4
Topic: From Classical Fusion to Quantum-Inspired Tracking: Advances in State Estimation and Information Fusion
Colloquium: Research Talk by Dr. Pia Bideau on October 23.
Topic: Action-Informed Perception – Learning visual representations through interaction with the environment
Colloquium: Research Talk by Prof. Dr. Michael Möller on October 2
We cordially invite you to the colloquium of Prof. Dr. Michael Möller on October 2!
ERC Starting Grant for Prof. Dr. Lucie Flek
Great success for the Computer Science Department: Prof. Dr. Lucie Flek, Professor of Data Science and Language Technologies at the Institute of Computer Science and the Bonn-Aachen International Center for Information Technology (b-it), has been awarded one of the highly coveted ERC Starting Grants. The award is endowed with €1.5 million and will enable her to carry out her own research project over the next five years. With the Starting Grant, the European Research Council (ERC) supports excellent scientists at the beginning of their careers. Prof. Flek prevailed in the highly competitive selection process and will provide important impetus in computer science with her research. In addition to her, Jun.-Prof. Dr. Amelie Schiprowski (economics) and Dr. Moritz Lürig (evolutionary biology) from the University of Bonn also received ERC Starting Grants.
EGOI 2025: Europe's young female IT talents are guests at Institute of Computer Science
Creativity, lines of code and bright minds: at EGOI 2025, Europe's best young female computer scientists came together in Bonn for a week full of algorithmic challenges, debates about diversity and inspiring encounters. The kick-off event on the Campus Poppelsdorf showed why diversity in Computer Science is not an option, but a requirement.
Fending Off Cyberattacks in Healthcare
Artificial intelligence (AI) is designed to make our health system even more efficient. Yet cyberattacks are capable not only of jeopardizing patient safety but also impairing medical devices and hindering the work of emergency responders. With the “SecureNeuroAI” project, researchers from the University of Bonn, University Hospital Bonn and FIZ Karlsruhe – the Leibniz Institute for Information Infrastructure are aiming to develop secure, AI-powered methods for detecting medical emergencies in real time using the example of epileptic seizures, although their findings should be applicable to many other areas. The Federal Ministry of Research, Technology and Space (BMFTR) is providing almost €2.5 million in funding over a three-year period.
#Hack4Surgery: Computer science students win hackathon with the BOSTER
At the #Hack4Surgery hackathon, twelve teams developed solutions for real-life challenges in the emergency department. The event took place on June 6, 2025 at the Bonn Surgical Technology Center (BOSTER) of the University Hospital Bonn (UKB). The winners were two Master's students from Bonn Informatics.
From the field to the universe: Computer Science drives excellence in Bonn
Bonn does excellent research and Computer Science is right in the middle of it. In four of Bonn's eight Clusters of Excellence, it provides impetus for AI, robotics, universe models and mathematical excellence. Bonn's Computer Science department is also represented nationally in a Cluster of Excellence at Ruhr University Bochum.
Register now for the #Hack4Surgery - Hackathon on digital surgery
Improving medical decisions in the emergency department with machine learning - that is the challenge of the #Hack4Surgery hackathon. Students and young scientists are developing innovative solutions to optimize emergency surgery and thus save lives. They use machine learning methods and artificial intelligence to do so. The hackathon will take place all day on June 6, 2025 at the Bonner Bogen. Interested teams can register until May 30. The event is a cooperation between the Bonn Surgical Technology Center (Boster) of the University Hospital Bonn (UKB) and the Transfer Center enaCom of the University of Bonn.
From the BSI to the lecture hall: Dr. Gerhard Schabhüser strengthens cryptography teaching
With the start of the summer semester 2025, the Institute of Computer Science is gaining a lecturer with impressive practical experience: Dr. Gerhard Schabhüser, long-time Vice President of the Federal Office for Information Security (BSI), is now bringing his knowledge to university teaching. With his lecture “Classical Cryptography, Cryptanalysis and Boolean Functions”, he is building a bridge between theory and application-oriented security technology.
Girls'Day 2025: young women discover computer science in Bonn
Computer science is much more than just programming: on April 4, numerous young women were given hands-on insights into studying and working at the Institute of Computer Science in Bonn.
AI in the natural sciences: Between black box and scientific knowledge
Explainable artificial intelligence is helpful and valuable in a scientific context if its statements can be scientifically categorized. If there is no scientific basis, scientists must be aware of potential misunderstandings when dealing with AI. This is the conclusion of a recent publication by the University of Bonn, which has now appeared in the journal “Cell Reports Physical Science”. Background: Researchers in chemistry, biology, and medicine are increasingly relying on AI models to develop new hypotheses. However, it is often unclear on what basis the algorithms arrive at their results and to what extent they can be generalized.
Happy Birthday, Supercomputer Marvin!
Our ultimate answer to (almost) all questions: Supercomputer Marvin has been available to researchers for exactly one year - and the University of Bonn can look back on 365 days in which numerous projects could be realized thanks to its computing power. Scientists and employees now had the opportunity to celebrate one year of successful High Performance Computing (HPC) at a ceremony on the Poppelsdorf campus and to select the three most exciting projects from a wide range of disciplines as winners.
Congratulations NimbRo@Home: Our household robots win the RoboCup German open again
Under the direction of Prof. Dr. Sven Behnke, the domestic service robots impress at the open German championships in Nuremberg.
WestAI research project enables easy access to Artificial Intelligence
SMEs and research institutions have increasing need for expertise and computing capacity for their AI research. Prominent academic institutions of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, led by the Institute for Computer Science at the University of Bonn, have jointly formed the AI service center WestAI to provide AI services and proprietary AI research in support of business and research. The state-of-the-art computing infrastructures of RWTH Aachen and Forschungszentrum Jülich are utilized for the services. As of now, interested outside parties can request computing time for AI projects via the WestAI website. At present the services are provided free of charge thanks to funding from the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF).
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Daria Tomala is a consultant for science communication at the Institute for Computer Science at the University of Bonn and at the Bonn Aachen International Center for Information Technology (b-it).
Her work focuses on press work on research activities and scientific results.
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Maximilian Waidhas
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Maximilian Waidhas is a communication designer at the Institute for Computer Science at the University of Bonn, the Bonn-Aachen International Center for Information Technology (b-it) and for the AI Service Center WestAI.
His work focuses on corporate design, (ai-based) user interface and user experience design as well as photography and video production.