Press releases

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...

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)....

Prof. Maren Bennewitz and a Lamarr Institute researcher with the RePAIR bimanual robot used for AI-powered reconstruction of Pompeii’s ancient fresco fragments
03. December 2025

RePAIR brings Pompeii’s frescoes back to life

The European research project RePAIR – Reconstructing the Past combines robotics, AI, and computer vision to reconstruct ancient frescoes from Pompeii using an AI-supported method that digitally...

Authors Christian Bauckhage and Rafet Sifa next to the cover of their open-access textbook Quantum Computing from Hopfield Nets
25. November 2025

New access to quantum computing

Open-access textbook presenting an intuitive quantum computing introduction by bridging AI fundamentals, Hopfield networks, and practical Python...

Bonn’s Lamarr Institute wins JUPITER Gauss-AI selection: Prof. Gall’s HoMe project advances generative AI, robotics, and egocentric video research
21. November 2025

JUPITER selects first AI projects

Bonn’s Lamarr Institute wins JUPITER Gauss-AI selection: Prof. Gall’s HoMe project advances generative AI, robotics, and human-motion video models....

Digital network visualization over Europe at night, symbolizing trusted data spaces and the foundations for sovereign and sectoral AI
18. November 2025

Data spaces and vertical AI: Europe’s path to digital sovereignty

Vertical AI and trusted data spaces emerge as essential pillars for Europe’s digital sovereignty, highlighted by Lamarr Institute in...

Group picture: European experts at the “Pretraining and Posttraining of Sovereign Foundation Models” workshop ahead of the Summit on European Digital Sovereignty
17. November 2025

Setting the course for European AI sovereignty

European AI sovereignty takes center stage as the Foundation Model Workshop contributes research perspectives to the Summit on European Digital...