News from the Lamarr Institute

Mouse and DNA strand
22. October 2025

New Emmy Noether Group in Bonn explores Animal Behavior through AI

Dr. France Rose, a researcher at the interface of biology and computer science, has been successful in the Emmy Noether Program of the German Research Foundation (DFG). Her new research group began…
Prof. Dr. Jürgen Bajorath and doctoral student Jannik P. Roth - from Life Science Informatics at the University of Bonn.
15. October 2025

Chemical language models don’t need to understand chemistry

Language models are now also being applied in the natural sciences. In chemistry, they are used, for instance, to predict new biologically active compounds. These chemical language models (CLMs)…
Press conference with Sven Teuber, Minister of Education for the State of Rhineland-Palatinate, and Prof. Dr. Stefan Wrobel, Co-Director of the Lamarr Institute for Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence
06. October 2025

Teachers Learn and Teach AI: AI4Teachers Program Launches in Rhineland-Palatinate

Lamarr partners Fraunhofer IAIS and the Rhineland-Palatinate Ministry of Education qualify teachers for AI in the classroom – initiative teaches application, basic knowledge, and critical…
Lucie Flek
05. September 2025

ERC Starting Grant for Lamarr-Chair Lucie Flek

As one of three researchers at the University of Bonn – a partner institution of the Lamarr Institute – computer science professor Lucie Flek has been awarded an ERC Starting Grant by the…
Group of young persons posing in front of the computer science building at Unversity of Bonn.
05. August 2025

EGOI 2025: Europe’s young female IT talents are guests at Institute of Computer Science and the Lamarr Institute in Bonn

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…
Three people are standing in front of a university building. On the left is Prof. Dr. Christian Bauckhage, in the middle is Grace Hopper Award winner Antonia Körner, proudly holding her certificates in the picture. On the right is Patrick Seifner, PhD candidate at the Lamarr Institute and Antonia Körner's supervisor.
24. July 2025

Grace Hopper Award for AI-supported Time Series Processing: Antonia Körner honored for Master’s Thesis

Former Lamarr student Antonia Körner receives the Grace Hopper Award from the Department of Computer Science at the University of Bonn for her excellent master’s thesis on AI-supported…