Saarland Informatics Campus

A big round of applause from the SIC to Doctor Kalinina's Drug Bioinformatics group for a successful week at the #ISMBECCB2025 conference! 👏

A woman standing next to a poster that is titled "Open Science Poster Series" in the Informatics & Mathematics campus library.

📢 Visit the Campus Library of Computer Science and Mathematics to see their poster series on Open Science publishing, covering:

🔍 What is Open Science?
🧚 FAIR Data (not just for fairies)
⚠️ Predatory Publishing
And more!

Drop by, take a look, and tell us what you think!

📍 Library, Building E2.3

Innovation Prize winner. Ceo of the DFKI who contributed to AI and CS.

🎉 Prof. Wolfgang Wahlster wins the 2025 Rudolf Diesel Medal! From coining ‘Industry 4.0’ to digital assistants, and 100+ spin‑offs at @dfki.bsky.social , he’s put @uni-saarland.de & SIC on the global AI map since 1982—a proud moment for European AI 👏

📸 © Dominik Wagner / Eichmeister Kreativagentur

If you're @ic2s2.bsky.social #IC2S2 and are looking for a faculty position, get in touch. @uni-saarland.de is hiring.
Right now, there's an open call in Computer Science @saarland-informatics-campus.de: www.uni-saarland.de/fileadmin/up...
Soon, there'll be open calls in the Social Sciences.

Two women studying on the grass, near the campus center.

📝 Exam season is here, and it’s time to lock in again at the #SIC! Whether you’re studying, writing your thesis, or both, don’t forget to take care of yourself.

Struggling with problems like stress or anxiety? The #PPB is here to help.

🌴 We wish you good luck and a nice break afterwards!

🚨Job Alert
W2 (TT W3) Professorship in Computer Science "AI for People & Society"
@saarland-informatics-campus.de/@uni-saarland.de is looking to appoint an outstanding individual in the field of AI for people and society who has made significant contributions in one or more of the following areas:

CISPA Faculty member Prof. Dr. Andreas Zeller. In front of him, there's a banner that says "Andreas Zeller awarded an ERC Proof of Concept Grant by the European Research Council." Photo by: CISPA

🏅This week, SIC celebrates its 46th #ERC Grant!

Congrats to @cispa.de researcher Prof. Dr. @andreaszeller.bsky.social on receiving an ERC Proof of Concept Grant of €150,000 from @erc.europa.eu!

💶 Find out more on how his group aims to improve software productivity here: sic.link/ercproofofconcept

🎓 How time flies - it's been two months since Prof. Holger Hermanns became Scientific Director at Schloss Dagstuhl!

Thanks to Prof. Seidel for shaping the center for 11 impactful years, and congrats to Prof. Hermanns for leading a new chapter with his expertise.

Read more: sic.link/schlossdagstuhl

👏 Congratulations to Anna Kukleva, postdoctoral researcher at Max Planck Institute for Informatics, for receiving the Otto Hahn Medal for her research in reducing manual data labeling in image and video recognition!

#AI #artificialintelligence #machinelearning #computervision #womeninstem

A woman reading a newspaper in the campus library.

Journals on a shelf.

Fresh headlines, new insights 🗞️💭

The Campus-Bibliothek stocks more than books. In addition to Saarbrücken local newspaper you can find Journals; Künstliche Intelligenz, Datenbank Spektrum, The Science of Nature… and many more!

Drop by, pick up something that interests you, and enjoy your read 📚

Photo: Prof. Dr. Tomohiro Nagashima

👏 Congrats to Prof. Dr. @tomonag.bsky.social for being appointed a Henriette Herz Scout by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation!

He can now nominate three international researchers for the Humboldt Fellowship to join his research group. Maybe it's your turn? 👀

Apply here: sic.link/humboldtfellow

A photo of Professor Isabel Valera. The banner below the photo says, "Isabel Valera involved in the Cluster of Excellence 'Reasonable Artificial Intelligence' at TU Darmstadt."

🎓 The #ReasonableAI project at @‌tuda.bsky.social has earned a #ClusterofExcellence, with Saarland #ML prof Isabel Valera on the team!

At #SIC, we believe in collaboration — this time with TU Darmstadt! We're proud to see Prof. Valera in RAI.

Congrats to the team!

Read more: sic.link/reasonableai

The leadership team of the new Center for Quantum Technologies, representing the fields of physics, mathematics, and computer science (from left to right): Peter P. Orth, Markus Bläser, Giovanna Morigi, Frank Wilhelm-Mauch, Moritz Weber, Jürgen Eschner, and Christoph Becher. Not pictured: Jonas Haferkamp, who is also part of the leadership team.

⚛️ Quantum software meets Saarbrücken science: new €53M+ research center launched at @uni-saarland.de.

With #informatics, #physics, #math & #engineering on board – and @dfki.bsky.social , @mpi-inf.mpg.de & ‪@fz-juelich.de in the mix.

🔗 Read more about the #QuTe initiative here: sic.link/qute

This is an event flyer for the Advanced Course on the Foundations of Computer Science. It contains pictures of the speakers and information on the event.

Interested in recent advances in graph decomposition techniques and their use in designing efficient algorithms? Then save the date for ADFOCS 2025. More information on registration and available grants: ↪️https://sic.link/adfocs25

See you in Saarbrücken! 🎓

@saarland-informatics-campus.de

From Photos to 3D Model: Saarbrücken Computer Scientist Receives International Recognition for PhD-Thesis Mojtaba Bemana receives Eurographics dissertation award.

Congratulations to Mojtaba Bemana for receiving one of the Eurographics 2025 Dissertation Awards! His thesis was about Image-Based Rendering, an emerging subfield of Computer Graphics. 🎉 More about his work and a link to the thesis: sic.link/egaward
@uni-saarland.de @saarland-informatics-campus.de

Universität des Saarlandes: Damit wir in KI-Zeiten „Herr im Haus“ bleiben Der Saarbrücker Informatiker Dr. Martin Schmitz erhält diese Woche in Berlin einen der renommiertesten deutschen Forschungspreise, dotiert mit 200 000 Euro. Er forscht zur Mensch-Maschine-Interaktion....

🏅 Congrats to Dr. Martin Schmitz for receiving one of Germany’s top research awards!

💭 At SIC, it’s not just machines that connect, it’s people and ideas: his work explores how AI can go beyond text, picking up on gestures and emotions.

Read more here: sic.link/drmartinschmitz

#AI #GenerativeAI

YouTube video by Max Planck Institute for Informatics The Max Planck Institute for Informatics in Saarbrücken

Curious about our research or what it’s like to work and collaborate at our institute?🤔 In this short film, some of our researchers share what drives their work and what makes MPI for Informatics a unique place for computer science. 📹 Watch the video on YouTube: youtu.be/MbZ49mx6tf0
@maxplanck.de

From neighbors to mutuals... Happy to share more than just a ZIP code with you, @mpi-inf.mpg.de ! Welcome to Bluesky! 🦋

TEDx Saarbrigge Demokratie im Digitalen Zeitalter: Ideen, die unsere Zukunft gestalten 14.06.2025 13 - 18 Uhr Cohub

➡️ Big news from #SIC: Prof. Ingmar Weber (I2SC) is organizing a TEDx event, Democracy in the Digital Age: Ideas that shape our future, right here in Saarbrücken!

📱With digital platforms influencing how we think and vote—what’s next for democracy?

🔗 Curious? Register now: sic.link/tedxsaarbridge

Alakshendra Singh, a CS student at SIC and co-founder of Velasp, standing next to a computer.

💻 Tired of paper sign-ups, Alakshendra, a CS student at SIC, built VELASP—a digital laundry booking app. With support from FITT GmbH and Triathlon, it’s now on the path to becoming a startup.

🧺 Want to bring it to your housing? Visit their website: sic.link/velasp

🏅As we settle into the semester, we look back on the achievements from the last: Congrats to the Saarland University Computer Science researchers who won the Eduard Martin Prize last fall for their PhD theses!

We’re proud to see these researchers thrive at #SIC and wish them success going forward!

🏆 Congratulations to professor and @cispa.de researcher @andreaszeller.bsky.social for receiving the ACM SIGSOFT Influential Educator award for “significant contributions and important innovations in automated software engineering education”!

Read more here: sic.link/andreaszeller

Lisa Marie Rolli, Hotz Medalist and Bioinformatics PhD student, posing next to a staircase.

🏅 Congratulations to PhD student Lisa Marie Rolli for receiving the Günter Hotz Medal this year for her master’s thesis, “Increasing Trust in Machine Learning-based Drug Sensitivity Prediction”!

Curious about her research journey from Bachelor’s to PhD? Read more here: sic.link/lisamarierolli