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Chemist Jens Beckmann from the University of Bremen has been awarded the Wolfgang Günther Award for Scientific Excellence in Selenium and Tellurium Chemistry. The award recognizes his research on chemical elements such as selenium and tellurium.

How can intelligent and teachable robots be evaluated? How do we know whether robots are good at what they’re doing? CAVECORE, a new Marie Sk?odowska Curie Doctoral Network that is coordinated at the University of Bremen, is seeking to answer these questions.

Dr. Tanja Stratmann has been awarded the prestigious Starting Grant by the European Research Council (ERC). Starting in 2026, she will spend five years researching the nitrogen cycle of living and fossil sponges at MARUM – Center for Marine Environmental Sciences at the University of Bremen.

WissensWert (WWUB) is a new information platform now available to teaching staff members at the University of Bremen. It offers assistance, informative materials, and insights from other teaching staff members on effective teaching practices.

Frieder Nake, a professor emeritus in computer graphics and interactive systems, has been recognized by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) for his life’s work. He received the 2025 ACM SIGGRAPH Distinguished Artist Award for Lifetime Achievement in Digital Art.

Researchers at the University of Bremen have shown for the first time that the exact moment at which a signal hits receptive nerve cells determines how it is processed – and that attention uses this timing specifically for processing relevant information.

How can oxygen be produced efficiently and reliably in space? In a study published in Nature Chemistry, an international research team involving researchers from ZARM presents a solution.

The Bremen Ministry for Finance received an up-close look at cutting-edge research at the Drop Tower. State Councilors Wiebke Stuhrberg and Martin Hagen accompanied State Secretary Rolf B?singer of the Federal Ministry of Finance on a visit to the Center of Applied Space Technology and Microgravity

Going forward, the Wuppertal Institute and the University of Bremen will work even more closely together to advance the sustainability transformation with their research and to train urgently needed specialists. This was certified in a collaboration agreement signed on August 22.

The Bremen Music Festival opened on August 16 under the theme “A Grand Night of Music.” One of the nine venues located around Bremen’s market square was Forum at Domshof, part of the University of Bremen.

A team of European researchers has outlined an innovative mission concept in the prestigious Science Robotics journal. It features three robots that operate together autonomously to efficiently explore and map extreme environments.

Researchers from the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) and the University of Bremen have now developed a modular construction kit that allows robotic systems to be flexibly adapted to different mission scenarios. The system represents a paradigm shift in space robotics.

The Journal of Chemical Education dedicated a Festschrift tribute to Professor Ingo Eilks’ influence in chemistry education.

The German Research Foundation (DFG) has approved further funding for the Specialized Information Service for Political Science (POLLUX), located at the State and University Library Bremen (SuUB). The service will receive 1.9 million euros in its fourth funding phase from 2025 to 2028.

There is a change in leadership at the Center for Computing Technologies (TZI) at the University of Bremen: Professor Gabriel Zachmann has been elected as the new director by the members.

Philipp Wagner has been a professor of organic chemistry at the University of Bremen since the 2025 summer semester.

Tim Neudecker has held a tenure-track professorship in theoretical chemistry at the University of Bremen since 2019. He has now been appointed a regular professorship.

With the help of divers, the BlueDOT project is collecting temperature data from the ocean. The aim is to better track changes in ocean temperature and monitor marine heat waves. The BlueDOT citizen science project is being coordinated by MARUM.

Since the 2025 summer semester, Marilena Oltmanns has been a professor of ocean and climate dynamics in high latitudes within the Faculty of Physics/Electrical Engineering.

For most universities, rankings are an integral part of the game. But rankings alone do not reflect a university’s quality. The University of Bremen, together with the University of Oldenburg, has joined the international “More than our Rank” initiative to raise awareness to this fact.