Leipzig University has successfully passed the first stage of the Excellence Strategy of the German federal and state governments and has been invited to submit two full proposals. The research projects described in its “Breathing Nature” and “Leipzig Center of Metabolism” draft proposals are the…
Developmental psychologist Dr Leon Li will spend the next two years at Leipzig University researching how unethical behaviour arises in groups. The Humboldt Fellow recently joined the Faculty of Education.
Artificial intelligence using neural networks performs calculations digitally with the help of microelectronic chips. Physicists at Leipzig University have now created a type of neural network that works not with electricity but with so-called active colloidal particles. In their publication in the…
International Holocaust Remembrance Day is observed on 27 January. Anti-Semitic resentment has never really disappeared in Germany, it just often appears in a hidden form, explains Professor Gert Pickel of Leipzig University. He is the deputy spokesperson of the Competence Centre for Right-Wing…
When people develop myelodysplastic neoplasms (MDS), the healthy maturation of blood cells is impaired. Severe forms, known as higher-risk MDS, are characterised by rapid progression, severe symptoms and often a transition to acute leukaemia. Patients for whom potentially curative or intensive…
Prof. Dr. Christian Wirth from Leipzig University has been appointed by the Senate of the Max Planck Society as External Scientific Member at the request of the Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry (MPI-BGC). As a former group leader and later fellow at the MPI-BGC, Prof. Wirth initiated and…
