From talented performers on stage, lively international exchange and hidden talents among young researchers: highlights from the field of research in this video.
‘Cybersecurity as a shared responsibility’ – this was the topic of the keynote speech at the Dies Academicus at the University of Passau on Friday, 14 November. The speech was given by Friederike Dahns, Head of the Cyber and Information Security Department at the Federal Ministry of the Interior (BMI).
The University of Passau celebrates its anniversary with this academic holiday. Cybersecurity is also one of the topics that researchers at the University of Passau are working on. Scientists provide a brief insight into these and other research activities in the video overview that was shown at the Dies academicus. Below are the show notes on the topics covered in the video.
The video begins with professors whose chairs were created as part of the Free State of Bavaria's high-tech agenda. Marc Goerigk, Professor of Business Decisions and Data Science, researches how to find the best decision among many possible alternatives when uncertainties still exist. Wirtschaftswoche magazine named him the most research-intensive business administration professor under the age of 40. Johann-Mattis List, Professor of Multilingual Computational Linguistics, investigates how languages change. But he has another passion, which he impressed the audience with at the Science Slam. Steffen Herbold, Professor of AI Engineering, investigates the quality of AI models. He gave an insight into his findings in a quiz show in which he had five professors compete against AI.
At the beginning of April, Ilse Aigner, President of the Bavarian State Parliament, visited the University of Passau to learn about the Lower Bavaria Medical Campus (press release). In October, the Laboratory for Democracy Education opened. Minister of State Dr Florian Herrmann was also present. The Bavarian research network ForDaySec is investigating how everyday digital life can be made secure. It uses networking events such as TRIOKON to network throughout Bavaria.
Policy advice at national level: Professor Hans-Georg Dederer, holder of the Chair of Constitutional and Administrative Law, Public International Law, European and International Economic Law at the University of Passau, is a member of the German Ethics Council. Professor Carolin Häussler, holder of the Chair of Organisation, Technology Management and Entrepreneurship, is Deputy Chairperson of the Expert Commission for Research and Innovation (EFI).
The Passau Data Science Summit took place in April, bringing together decision-makers from science and industry every year. This year's topic was how data products can be used with artificial intelligence to scale companies sustainably and transform entire industries. International networking is also the focus of the Passau International Centre for Advanced Interdisciplinary Studies (PICAIS): it promotes events such as the ‘International Symposium on Multiculturalism’, which attracts researchers from all over the world to Passau. It also enables longer stays for visiting scholars. This year's guests included emotion psychologist Professor Hedwig Eisenbarth from Te Herenga Waka - Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand.
Sally Boyani Mokaya is a doctoral candidate at the DFG Research Training Group ‘Digital Platform Ecosystems’ (DPE), an interdisciplinary and international group of young researchers. Mokaya moved from Nairobi, Kenya, to Passau to conduct research on the political discourse surrounding the regulation of digital platforms. The DFG Research Training Group is the world's largest research unit on the topic of digital platforms. However, it is not only for academic reasons that she finds the city of Passau fascinating.
This text was machine-translated from German.
