News from the Lamarr Institute

AALearning
02. February 2026

AALearning project launches to advance safe and reliable AI in fundamental physics

The research project AALearning (Adversarial and Uncertainty-Aware Learning) has officially started with its kick-off collaboration meeting this week. Funded by the German Federal Ministry of…
Prof. Dr. Jürgen Bajorath with Prof. Dr. Kazuhiro Shiozaki, President of NAIST, and Prof. Dr. Kimito Funatsu, Director of the NAIST Data Science Center, at the signing of the research cooperation agreement between the Lamarr Institute and NAIST in Japan.
28. January 2026

New cooperation strengthens international AI research at Lamarr

The Lamarr Institute, the University of Bonn, and the Nara Institute of Science and Technology (NAIST) have launched a long-term research collaboration in artificial intelligence, life sciences, and…
Abstract visualization of a vision-language model illustrating multilingual generalization and scaling effects in artificial intelligence
26. January 2026

Scaling laws of emergent multilingualism in vision-language models

New research identifies scaling laws that explain how vision-language models develop emergent multilingual image captioning abilities through generalization from translation data, even without…
Photo. Portrait of Julia Tjus.
22. January 2026

Prof. Dr. Julia Tjus elected to the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences

Prof. Dr. Julia Tjus has been appointed as an international member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. Her work at the interface of theoretical physics and artificial intelligence strengthens…
Dr. Tim Ruhe, Principal Investigator at the Lamarr Institute, representing the Physics-LLM project on AI-based research data management in physics
20. January 2026

Physics-LLM: New research project within the ErUM-Data funding initiative

Funded by the German Federal Ministry of Research, Technology and Space (BMFTR), Physics-LLM is an ErUM-Data research project developing AI-based tools using large language models to improve research…
Portrait of Petra Wiederkehr, Principal Investigator at the Lamarr Institute for Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence
22. December 2025

Lamarr researcher Prof. Dr. Petra Wiederkehr elected to the German Academy of Science and Engineering (acatech)

Lamarr Principal Investigator Petra Wiederkehr has been elected to Germany’s National Academy of Science and Engineering (acatech)….