Re­search News

"JUMP2": New fund­ing pro­gramme for sci­ent­ists on their way to a pro­fess­or­ship

Paderborn University launches unique programme in Germany with partner universities

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A new episode of "Blickfang", the student format of the TV teaching editorial team for the educational channel nrwision, is online. In the news, presenters Hannah Schlomm and Felix Handstein once again lead us through a varied programme.

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Wel­come to Pader­born Uni­ver­sity: 52 new em­ploy­ees wel­comed

On Monday, 1 December, Prof. Dr. Matthias Bauer, President of Paderborn University, and Simone Probst, Vice President for Business and Personnel Administration, welcomed numerous new employees to Paderborn University at a welcome event.

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From fairy tales to mod­ern dance: cul­tur­al her­it­age lives on in the classroom

Paderborn research project realises concrete teaching series and materials

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Pader­born Uni­ver­sity once again achieves very good res­ults in the Shang­hai sub­ject rank­ing

In this year's edition of the renowned "Global Ranking of Academic Subjects" (GRAS), also known as the "Shanghai Subject Ranking", Paderborn University once again achieves very good rankings.

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Nature pub­lic­a­tion: Pro­gress to­wards the quantum in­ter­net

First successful proof of quantum teleportation between two different quantum dots

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Ma­jor suc­cess for Pader­born and Biele­feld re­search in­to so­cial ar­ti­fi­cial in­tel­li­gence

German Research Foundation extends Transregional Collaborative Research Centre 318 ‘Constructing Explainability’

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Ex­cel­lent ha­bil­it­a­tion hon­oured: Dr Hendrik Schlieper re­ceives Elise Richter Prize

The "Deutsche Romanistikverband" (DRV / German Romance Studies Association) awards the Elise Richter Prize for outstanding doctorates and habilitations. This year, Dr. Hendrik Schlieper from the Institute for German Language and Comparative Literature received the prestigious award for his habilitation thesis.

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Pader­born Uni­ver­sity re­search­ers im­press in Leiden rank­ing

Once again this year, the Centre for Science and Technology Studies (CWTS) at Leiden University in the Netherlands has recognised the publication achievements of researchers at Paderborn University. The subject areas of mathematics and computer science at Paderborn University once again performed particularly well.

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High-per­form­ance com­put­ing in Pader­born: new ‘Otus’ su­per­com­puter put in­to op­er­a­tion

A computer that can calculate hundreds of scientific tasks simultaneously and thus helps provide a solution to key social challenges: this is the new IT heart of Paderborn University.

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Di­git­al ID cards for em­ploy­ees in the UPB app

In addition to student ID cards, Paderborn University is now also making ID cards for staff available in digital form via the UPB app.

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Fund­ing for mu­si­co­lo­gic­al pro­jects: Call for pro­pos­als for the "NF­DI4­Cul­ture Mu­sic Awards 2025"

We are looking for projects and academic works that deal with musicological topics or the cultural subject of music.

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New ways for clear know­ledge struc­tures in busi­ness in­form­at­ics

DFG sponsors joint research project between Paderborn University and Augsburg University

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In­creas­ing tax com­plex­ity: grow­ing bur­den for com­pan­ies world­wide

Paderborn "tax complexity results" discussed in US magazine "Forbes"

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From idea to game: Pader­born Uni­ver­sity opens in­ter­dis­cip­lin­ary games and VR lab for re­search and teach­ing

Gambling in the name of science? Paderborn University's answer to this is a resounding "yes". On Wednesday, 8 October, it celebrated the reopening of the GamesLab and the institution of the VR Lab - an experimental playground for virtual reality (VR).

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