News — University of Bonn

Heisenberg funding for Asgar Jamneshan¹

The German Research Foundation (DFG) has accepted the mathematician Dr. Asgar Jamneshan from the University of Bonn into the Heisenberg program. The program offers researchers five years of funding so that they can carry out high-quality research within their projects and continue to enhance their academic reputation. Jamneshan is carrying out research into the foundations of higher-order Fourier analysis. The mathematician, who is an associate member of the “Hausdorff Center for Mathematics” Cluster of Excellence, will receive funding of up to 570,000 Euro.

Mathematician and Biochemist Win Transdisciplinary Research Prize²

The Transdisciplinary Research Areas (TRAs) Modelling and Life and Health at the University of Bonn have presented their €100,000 research prize, entitled “Modelling for Life and Health,” for the second time. The winners—Argelander Professor Ana Ivonne Vazquez-Armendariz and Schlegel Professor Jan Hasenauer—will be using their prize money to study the functions of “scavenger cells” in the lungs at the interface between mathematics and medicine.

How disturbed signaling pathways could promote epileptic seizures³

Focal cortical dysplasia (FCD) type 2 is a congenital malformation of the cerebral cortex that is often associated with difficult-to-treat epilepsy. In the affected areas, nerve cells and their layer structures are arranged in an atypical manner, which often makes drug therapy more difficult. A research team from the University Hospital Bonn (UKB) and the University of Bonn, in collaboration with the German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE), has now found evidence of profound changes in the dopamine system in FCD type 2. The results have now been published in the medical journal “Brain”.

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Podcast: “Deep Down, I’m an Idealist”⁴

Professor Ilona Grunwald Kadow was appointed Vice Rector for Research and Career Development on August 1, 2024. In an interview, the neuroscientist talks about her experience of moving to within University management and what priorities she is keen to set during her term of office.

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University of Bonn Particle Physicists among Winners of Breakthrough Prize in Physics⁵

The ATLAS, ALICE, CMS and LHCb experiments at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) were recently awarded the Breakthrough Prize for Fundamental Physics. The $3 million dollar prize honors the efforts of physicists who are working closely with colleagues from other countries to uncover new findings from the world of the very tiniest particles. The University of Bonn can boast significant involvement in three out of the four experiments.

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Dennis Gaitsgoy awarded 2025 Breakthrough Prize⁶

Dennis Gaitsgory, director at the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics (MPIM) and member of the Hausdorff Center for Mathematics (HCM) of the University of Bonn, receives the 2025 Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics, endowed with 3 million US dollars.

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Top-class award for mathematician⁷

The mathematician Dr. Rajula Srivastava from the Cluster of Excellence Hausdorff Center for Mathematics at the University of Bonn has received a Maryam Mirzakhani New Frontiers Prize from the Breakthrough Prize Foundation for her outstanding research achievements. The award is endowed with 50,000 dollars. The ceremony took place in Los Angeles.

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How can science benefit from AI?⁸

Researchers from chemistry, biology, and medicine are increasingly turning to AI models to develop new hypotheses. However, it is often unclear on which basis the algorithms come to their conclusions and to what extent they can be generalized. A publication by the University of Bonn now warns of misunderstandings in handling artificial intelligence. At the same time, it highlights the conditions under which researchers can most likely have confidence in the models. The study has now been published in the journal Cell Reports Physical Science.

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