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Christian Becker has been Professor of Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure Law, Business Crime Law, and Legal Theory since the 2025 summer semester.

The Faculty of Physics/Electrical Engineering’s branch library is moving back to its old location. It had been relocated to the SuUB headquarters for several years as the rooms were needed for the Juridicum law library. The SuUB would like to thank the faculty for making the space available.

The Institute for Labour and Economy (iaw) has a new director. Dr. Timur Ergen will assume his position on October 1, replacing Prof. Dr. Irene Dingeldey, who has led the institute since 2020.

The University of Bremen hosted this year's annual networking event for the HRK's International University Rankings service project from September 24 to 25. Representatives from all German universities were invited.

Teaching staff members at the University of Bremen can once again nominate master's theses and doctoral dissertations that address the topic of sustainability for this year's CAMPUS AWARD. It is celebrating its 10th anniversary this year.

Have you always wanted to learn Dutch? Or are you looking to prepare for a stay abroad? The extensive program offered by the Language Center of the Universities in the State of Bremen (SZHB) includes courses in over 20 languages. Some courses are also open to external participants.

History students have catalogued the estate of Hanna Hübner-Kunath at the State and University Library Bremen (SuUB). Born in 1909, she was Bremen's first female pilot and flight instructor. Letters, photos, and reports provide important insights into Bremen's history.

On October 1 and 2, the “Zukunftsmesse Nord” fair will take place at the University of Bremen. It is aimed at pupils from grade 9 upwards, vocational school students, university students, and anyone interested in the German-French education and job market.

How is religious agency changing in the age of digitalization and artificial intelligence? Researchers at the universities of Bremen and Würzburg are addressing this question in the new DFG research network CARD. The interdisciplinary project is scheduled to run for three years.

As part of an international team of five researchers, Tanja Schultz, Professor of Cognitive Systems within the Faculty of Mathematics / Computer Science, has published an article in The Lancet Infectious Diseases – the world’s leading journal on research into infectious diseases.

The University of Bremen, together with other universities in the state of Bremen, is looking for rooms for students and doctoral candidates, especially those from abroad. Anyone who can offer accommodation in Bremen or Bremerhaven simply needs to fill out an online form.

Since August 2025, Gabriel Wollner has been Professor of Practical Philosophy within the Faculty of Cultural Studies.

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