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Job Openings February 2024

A service for everyone looking for a new job in the US with ties to Germany and/or the German language.

News from UA Ruhr

New Horizon Europe Project: Preparing Europe for the future

From January 1, 2024, InvigoratEU* – a new Horizon Europe project coordinated by the EU-Chair at the University of Duisburg-Essen together with the Institute for European Politics in Berlin – will examine how the EU can structure its future relations with its eastern neighbors and the countries of the Western Balkans.

News from the University of Cologne

University of Cologne Researchers Find That Clinical Predictive Models Created by AI Are Accurate but Study-Specific

Scientists from Yale and the University of Cologne were able to show that statistical models created by artificial intelligence (AI) predict very accurately whether a medication responds in people with schizophrenia. However, the models are highly context-dependent and cannot be generalized. Study published in Science.

News from the University of Freiburg

Prostate cancer: Newly-developed inhibitor shows massive potential

New epigenetic inhibitor is also effective in treatment-resistant prostate cancer cells.

News from Campus OWL

Trustworthy AI for Seamless Problem Solving

With the steadily increasing integration of artificial intelligence into everyday life, it becomes increasingly important to ask how trustworthy these technologies are. The Research Training Group for Trustworthy AI Technology ‘DataNinja’ aims to contribute to this with various projects. Data Ninja connects leading universities in the area of AI from the region of North Rhine-Westphalia. It is hosted at Bielefeld University. One project is the Real-time Configuration of Algorithms with Multi-armed Bandits (EKAmBa) headed by Professors Dr Kevin Tierney (Bielefeld University) and Dr Axel-Cyrille Ngonga Ngomo (Paderborn University) together with Associate Professor Dr Eyke Hüllermeier (LMU Munich).

Information Session: Executive Master of Public Administration at the Hertie School

Find out more about the flexible mid-career program for working professionals in this online info session on February 5, 2024.

News from the Hasso Plattner Institute

Service to the Scientific Community

Prof. Felix Naumann, head of the “Information Systems” department at Hasso Plattner Institute (HPI), is the new editor-in-chief of the “Journal of Data and Information Quality” (JDIQ). The HPI talked to him about his work as editor-in-chief and the focus of the journal.