Neuer Experte will innovative Forschungs-Software entwickeln

Peter Zaspel ist neuer Professor für Software für datenintensive Anwendungen an der Bergischen Universität Wuppertal.

Forschende in Wissenschaft und Technik arbeiten mit großen Datenmengen. Diese beinhalten Messungen, Simulationen und Kombinationen hiervon, wofür eine umfangreiche IT-Infrastruktur nötig ist. Die Entwicklung von effizienter und erweiterbarer Software sowie von Methoden für datenintensive Anwendungen in den Naturwissenschaften, der Technik und darüber hinaus ist das Ziel der Forschungsarbeit von Peter Zaspel. Anwendungsfelder solcher Programme können zum Beispiel Quantenchemie, Klimarekonstruktion und Medikamentenforschung sein.

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Research Project on Machine Learning for Molecular Systems

Priority Programs of the German Research Foundation (DFG) are intended to provide tangible impetus for the further development of science in important topics. Two researchers from Jacobs University Bremen are involved in a newly launched program on machine learning for molecular systems in physics and chemistry: Peter Zaspel, Professor of Computer Science, and Ulrich Kleinekathöfer, Professor of Theoretical Physics. This also gives them access to a nationwide network of experts for topical exchange.

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Computer Science and Software Engineering: Jacobs University and SIT Introduce Joint Master Program

Computer Science and Software Engineering is the career-oriented Master program that Jacobs University Bremen and its cooperation partner, the Swiss Schaffhausen Institute of Technology (SIT), will jointly offer in a hybrid format starting in the fall semester of 2022/23. The two-year Master of Science will cover knowledge from the fields of Computer Science and Software Engineering, as well as Business and Project Management. The application deadline for international applicants with a good knowledge of Computer Science is June 1, 2022.

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Women in the Digital Industry: The Long Road of Drishti Maharjan

It was a very emotional moment for her. After all, it was not only geographically a long way from Nepal to the stage in Dresden Drishti Maharjan stood on. In her school, she had often been the only girl to attend inclination courses in natural sciences. And now she accepted the prize for the 3rd place in the Zeiss Women Award 2021. A competition that honors outstanding female students in subjects such as computer science or computer engineering.

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New professors and lecturers at Jacobs University

They teach and do research in different subject areas and come from different countries. All of them share a very similar motivation however: they want to teach and do research at an international, English-medium university, with students from over 100 nations and small learning groups. The team at Jacobs University Bremen is strengthened by a whole series of professors and university lecturers.

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