UR’s new Faculty of Informatics and Data Science conducts research at the interface of a wide range of different disciplines, including medicine, biology, and business economics.
How can interdisciplinary and multiscalar approaches be used to better understand spatially distinct cultural systems as well as global interconnectivity? Researchers in Regensburg are leading the way in looking for answers.
SciFiMed is a multi-disciplinary project that combines fundamental immunological research with novel nanomaterial biosensor development translated into proof-of-principle diagnostics. International experts as well as biotechnology enterprises and health institutions are involved in the project.
Theological findings on apocryphal writings: Could they foster conflict resolution? Yes they could, say scholars at the Regensburg Centre for Advanced Studies Beyond Canon_.
At RCI, the Regensburg Center for Interventional Immunology, international research groups develop immunotherapies and cellular therapies in order to help treating patients suffering from tumors, chronic inflammation or autoimmunity.
Rupert Huber’s experimental work in terahertz and solid-state physics at the interface of optics and electronics is internationally renowned. His fundamental research is used in ultrafast atomic-resolution microscopes and quantum information processing.
After a long and highly competitive competition, the University of Regensburg (UR) is one of the winners of the Excellence Strategy.
The new research network, "Margins of Memory: Cultures and Politics of Non-Hegemonic Remembrance," at the Leibniz-WissenschaftsCampus Regensburg — a joint platform of the University of Regensburg and the Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast European Studies (IOS) — invited scholars to a kickoff meeting at the university's Department of Interdisciplinary and Multiscalar Area Studies (DIMAS). Over the course of two years, 12 scholars will develop new concepts and terminology to enrich Memory Studies. The scholars will focus on topics such as hegemony, agency, silence, trauma, memory activism, and memories of (dis)location and migration.
Professor Michael Zuerch from the University of California, Berkeley is awarded the Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Prize
How do we deal with the translation and adaptation of concepts of knowledge, culture and law across different languages, societies, or systems? The international conference "Navigating Epistemic, Cultural, and Legal Translations: Processes, Hierarchies, Spaces" of the Leibniz ScienceCampus (LSC) "Europe and America in the Modern World" addresses this topic at the University of Regensburg. The conference, with high-profile researchers from around the world, marks the end of the first funding phase (2019-2025) and the beginning of the second phase (2024-2028) of the LSC.
