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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.