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Portrait of AI and logistics researcher Prof. Dr.-Ing. Alice Kirchheim, Director of Fraunhofer IML and member of the Lamarr Institute’s Board of Directors.
17. September 2026

Alice Kirchheim Appointed to the Board of Directors of the Lamarr Institute

AI and intralogistics: Alice Kirchheim joins the Lamarr Institute’s Board of Directors, contributing her expertise in AI-assisted planning, autonomous systems and logistics…

25 million euros for AI cancer research in Bonn: (from left) Prof. Dr. Bernd Weber, Prof. Dr. Michael, Prof. Dr., and Prof. Dr. Uwe Reuter, at the launch of AI4CancerCure.NRW at the State Chancellery of North Rhine-Westphalia
04. September 2026

€25 Million for AI Cancer Research in Bonn

AI cancer research in Bonn receives €25 million from the State of North Rhine-Westphalia. UKB, the University of Bonn and the Lamarr Institute are establishing a joint infrastructure for…

Hendrik Wüst, Minister President of North Rhine-Westphalia, discusses AI and innovation in a video interview with the Lamarr Institute at AI26 in Bonn.
28. August 2026

North Rhine-Westphalia Celebrates 80 Years of Shaping the Future

North Rhine-Westphalia Day and the state’s 80th anniversary put innovation in focus: Minister President Hendrik Wüst discusses artificial intelligence as a driver of prosperity and how AI research…

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14. August 2026

DFG Funding: Giant Magnet to Search for Axion that could Transform Our Understanding of Matter

A ten-meter-long magnet is designed to track the Sun in search of a particle that has never been directly detected. A total of six million euros have been allocated to build the BabyIAXO magnet…

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03. August 2026

Lamarr Researchers Shape ELLIS AutoML Summer School in Dortmund

Automated machine learning is evolving from the optimization of individual model parameters towards the coordination of entire experimentation processes. How AI agents can select tools, plan…

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24. July 2026

Laborjournal: Jürgen Bajorath Discusses the Evolving Role of Artificial Intelligence in Drug Discovery

Artificial intelligence in drug discovery: In a recent Laborjournal essay, Jürgen Bajorath explains why explainable AI is essential for integrating computational and experimental research and why…

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