Saarland Informatics Campus

We are hiring a ELLIS PhD student at @saarland-informatics-campus.de on #Causal Representation Learning for #Robotics, co-supervised with @egavves.bsky.social at the University of Amsterdam Apply directly through the ELLIS centralized application portal: ellis.eu/news/ellis-p... Deadline: 31 Oct

Starting your degree in the CS department means a whole new world of people, places, and procedures to figure out. Your Peer Mentor is a fellow student who's already been through it, ready to help with anything. ☕Regular office hours. Book a slot online or in-Person: sic.link/peer

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐌𝐚𝐱 𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐤 𝐒𝐨𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐭𝐲 𝐡𝐚𝐬 𝐝𝐞𝐜𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐝: the new 𝐌𝐚𝐱 𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐤 𝐂𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐕𝐢𝐬𝐮𝐚𝐥 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐌𝐮𝐥𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐨𝐝𝐚𝐥 𝐀𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 (MPC-VMI), a partnership between the @mpi-inf.mpg.de and 𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐝 𝐔𝐧𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐒𝐜𝐡𝐨𝐨𝐥 𝐨𝐟 𝐄𝐧𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠, will be located on the Saarland Informatics Campus! 🔗 Read more: sic.link/mpistanford

🍁 Our favorite time of the year? Fall, when our new students join us — welcome to the #SaarlandInformaticsCampus! Take a look at our welcome events to make your first weeks on campus easier. 🔗 More information: sic.link/semesterinfo

And that's a wrap on the #GermanConferenceonBioinformatics 2026! We were happy to gather the international bioinformatics community at SIC on the 40th anniversary of GCB and the 25th anniversary of the Center for Bioinformatics at @uni-saarland.de. See you next year at @unituebingen.bsky.social! 👋

Welcome aboard, Professor Mosbach! 👋

Congrats to #MaxPlanckInstituteforSoftwareSystems students Toghrul Karimov and Simon Spies on receiving Otto Hahn Medals! It’s the 𝐬𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐬𝐢𝐱 𝐲𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐬 that two MPI-SWS students received the medal together—a notable achievement for the institute and its partners at Saarland Informatics Campus! 👏

Congrats to #ResearchersAtSIC, Michael Hahn, Yiting Xia, and Thomas Leimkühler, for receiving 3 ERC Starting Grants in Computer Science— out of 5 in Germany! 🏆 This brings the total amount of #ERCGrants at the #SaarlandInformaticsCampus to 54.

Congrats to @uni-saarland.de professors Sven Apel and Andreas Zeller for joining the ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Academy! 👏 The Academy honors researchers with lasting contributions to software engineering. Saarland University was one of the few institutions with multiple researchers named.

In the Audio Devices: Synthesis, Control, & Performance seminar taught by Paul Strohmeier, senior researcher at @mpi-inf.mpg.de, #SIC students built their own electronic instruments. They presented them at The Commune, and art met technology. Congrats to Strohmeier and the students on a great show!

Master’s, PhD, postdoc? Most postdocs would say it's a lot of hard work and discipline. According to Anna, it’s those, plus a bunch of happy accidents. We interviewed Otto Hahn Medal winner & former @mpi-inf.mpg.de postdoc Anna Kukleva on her journey and research. 🔗 Read more: sic.link/kukleva

After #OpenAI’s new model hacked into HuggingFace’s systems, AI safety concerns have skyrocketed. To address the concerns, #SaarlandUniversity professor and German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence CEO Philipp Slusallek spoke to the Saarländischer Rundfunk. 🔗Read more: sic.link/interview

🧠 How does the brain respond to confusing code? @uni-saarland.de computer scientists Sven Apel and Vera Demberg worked with psychologist Axel Mecklinger to see. Surprisingly, the brain activities were similar to that of people reading sentences with plot twists. 🔗 Read more: sic.link/softwareeeg

Shape the future of quantum computing. The new Master program "Quantum Information Theory" at #SaarlandInformaticsCampus combines mathematics, physics and computer science with a focus on quantum computing. No prior background in quantum physics is required. Apply by August 31, 2026: sic.link/qit

Good news: Registrations for #ADFOCS2026 are still open! Register until July 26. 🔗 More info and registration: sic.link/adfocs

🧬🖥️ Call for Posters! Join us in celebrating 40 years of the German Conference on #Bioinformatics (#GCB2026) 🎉 📍 Saarbrücken | 🗓 22–25 Sep 2026 Submit your research & shape the future of Bioinformatics! Deadline Poster: 6 Aug 2026 👉 gcb2026.de

📣🚨 Reminder: Applications for the English Computer Science and Cybersecurity B.Sc. programs close on July 15! Already applied? Take a look at our Honors Program, where you'll find an environment to thrive. *The Honors Program is an addition to your B.Sc. courses. 🔗More information: sic.link/udshp

This week, the Saarland Minister of Finance and Science, Jakob von Weizsäcker, attended the Future Minds Café to kick off the DAAD Future Minds Programme in Quantum Technologies & Artificial Intelligence! With this program, we aim to help global talents thrive in Germany. 🔗 Read more: sic.link/daad

Congrats to Danupon Nanongkai, Scientific Director at @mpi-inf.mpg.de, for receiving the Edsger W. Dijkstra Prize in Distributed Computing! 👏 He was part of the team that wrote the winning paper, "Distributed Verification and Hardness of Distributed Approximation." 🔗 Read more: sic.link/danupon

Whether you're writing your first paper, preparing a publication, or exploring a new research topic, infomath.discovery helps you find literature faster. Search books, e-books, journals, arXiv, JSTOR & more. Less searching. More discovering. 🔎 infomath-bib.disco.mpg.de #SIC #Research

Congrats to Martina Maggio and Rupak Majumdar, Scientific Director at the Max Planck Institute for Software Systems, for receiving ERC Advanced Grants - bringing the total number of #ERC Grants at #SIC to 51! 🔗 Read more: sic.link/ercadvanced #computerscience #SaarlandUniversity #ERCAdvancedGrant

Congratulations to Dr.-Ing. Martin Feick on receiving the prestigious 2026 ACM SIGCHI Outstanding Dissertation Award. His research explores how hand-based illusions, proxy technology and personalisation can make virtual reality feel more natural and accessible. Congrats, Dr. Feick!👏 @uni-saarland.de

@uni-saarland.de Professor Andreas Keller and his team receive $9 million in funding to uncover age, sex, and environment related patterns affecting Parkinson's disease progression. They aim to find patterns allowing better individual therapies for patients. 👏 🔗 Read more: sic.link/aiparkinson

Wie verändert KI unseren Alltag und unsere Zukunft? 🎤Erlebe beim Offenen Campus eine spannende Live-Debatte über Chancen,Herausforderungen und die Zukunft von KI. Bring deine Fragen mit und diskutiere mit! KI-Studium? Schau um 15:30 Uhr bei der DSAI-Vorstellung vorbei oder besuche unseren SIC-Stand!

Congratulations to Daniel Höller for receiving a €1.8 Million Emmy Noether grant from @dfg.de for his research project, '#NeuroSymbolic Methods in Sequential Decision Making'!👏 His group will use neural and symbolic methods to improve #machinelearning reliability. 🔗Read more: sic.link/neurosymbolic

New partnership: @mpi-inf.mpg.de and the Max Planck Institute for Software Systems joined the new Max Planck School for Biomedical Artificial Intelligence!👏 The Saarbrücken fellows are: ➡️Bernt Schiele (MPI-INF) ➡️Krishna Gummadi (MPI-SWS) ➡️Christian Theobalt (MPI-INF) 🔗 Read more: sic.link/bioai

Congrats to @uni-saarland.de Professor and MPI-SWS Scientific Director Joël Ouaknine for being named a Fellow of the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science (EATCS)!🏆 In his research, he sheds light on how complex systems behave using mathematical methods. 🔗 Read more: sic.link/eatcs

Saarland Informatics Campus is at #CHI2026 this week, as the second largest contributor among in German universities! With 22 contributions from 24 researchers, out researchers brought the following awards home: 🏆x2 Best Paper 🏆X1 SIGCHI Outstanding Dissertation 🔗 Read more: sic.link/chi2026

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The Societal Observatory Using Novel Data Sources(SOUNDS) initiative is hiring a Postdoc for Computational Social Science. Apply by 24.04.2026 Link: www.uni-saarland.de/fileadmin/up... SOUNDS: www.sounds-observatory.org @ingmarweber.de @politicsunisaar.bsky.social @saarland-informatics-campus.de

@uni-saarland.de physicist Prof. Dr. Peter P. Orth and computer scientist Prof. Dr. Markus Bläser collaborate on QIAPO — funded with €2.3M by the German Federal Ministry of Research, Technology and Space. Aim? Better optimization via quantum–classical computing. 🔗 Read more: sic.link/quantum

📹Can 3D scenes be encoded into and rendered from a set of compressed tokens? New work "SceneTok" from the Geometric Representation Learning group shows that they can, and that this approach pairs naturally with generative rendering to handle uncertainty in observations. ↪️More: mpi-inf.link/scenetok

CS Master's in Germany? Ask your questions live to faculty members! Studying Computer Science in Germany 📅 26 March 2026 → M.Sc. CS + M.Sc. Visual Computing Register: sic.link/csmaster Studying Electrical Engineering in Germany 📅 23 April 2026 → M.Sc. Embedded Systems Register: sic.link/esmaster

You can PRE-ORDER #SIC T-shirts now! 👕 Meet our new T-shirts: unisex, 100% COTTON ☁️, in six sizes and two colors — #SIC blue & white! Pre-order for €20 until April 17, 2026. Pickup starts May 25, 2026. 🎟️👀 Every pre-order enters a raffle to win one FREE! 🔗 Info + order: sic.link/shirts

🚀 As we move closer to life in space, understanding how it affects our bodies is becoming increasingly important. A team led by Prof. Andreas Keller, with Stanford University colleagues, investigated how spaceflight alters the information exchange within cells. 🔗 Read more: sic.link/spaceflight

Celebrating the class of 2025 at the #SIC! 🎓 Huge congrats to all our graduates and the winners of the FdSI Bachelor-Preis & Günter-Hotz-Medaille. 👏 📸 See the photo highlights below, and catch the full group video here: sic.link/19 🎞️ @uni-saarland.de @mpi-inf.mpg.de @dfki.bsky.social #graduation

🏆 Congrats to @cispa.de researcher and @uni-saarland.de Professor @andreaszeller.bsky.social on becoming the second German to receive the most important research award in software engineering — the Harlan D. Mills Award of the IEEE Computer Society!   🔗 Read more: sic.link/zeller #computerscience

🇫🇷✨ Huge success at the Future Pioneers Hackathon in Paris! #SIC students were part of every single winning team. 🥇 Disruptive Idea: Izzettin Algan & Denis Pushchai 🎤 Best Pitch: Abhiroop Basak & Artem Ivanov 🌱 Future Pioneer: Yiting Yun @uni-saarland.de @mpi-inf.mpg.de @dfki.bsky.social @cispa.de

Next up in our series "Research at MPI for Informatics": The Computer Vision and Machine Learning department. Director Bernt Schiele talks about the department’s work on explainable AI, foundation models, and how this connects to a range of real-world applications. 🎓 www.youtube.com/shorts/KUwuL...

Science where it’s rarely present: “Heimspiel Wissenschaft” brings researchers back to their rural homes to talk about their work. @oduenkel.bsky.social spoke in Boxberg-Schwabhausen on generative AI. 86 attendees in a village of ~600 people, plus a lively Q&A.🎓 ↪️https://sic.link/heimspiel

🏆 Saarbrücken now houses 11 ACM Fellows — about 1/3 of all ACM Fellows in Germany — highest of any location nationwide. This year, only 3 new Fellows in Germany were named, and Saarland University software engineering professor Sven Apel was one! Congrats, Prof. Apel! 👏 🔗 Read more: sic.link/apel

📚 Curious about research at Max Planck Institute for Informatics? Good news — you can now check out their new series, where they put every department under spotlight! 🎥

Congrats to @cispa.de researcher and Saarland University professor @andreaszeller.bsky.social on his IEEE Fellowship for his exceptional contributions to software analysis and development! 👏 Fellow is the top membership grade, awarded to under 0.1% of members each year. 🔗 Read more: sic.link/ieee

Congrats to Prof. Dr. @ingmarweber.de on his AAAI Fellowship! The fellowship honors individuals with significant contributions to #AI. Working in societal computing, he bridges AI and the social sciences, analyzing social platform data for valuable insights on society. 👏 Read more: sic.link/weber

Time to close the books! 📚✨ Campus Library Holiday Hours: 🔒 Closed: Dec 24 – Jan 4 🔓 Reopen: Jan 5 Happy holidays & see you in 2026! ❄️ @uni-saarland.de @dfki.bsky.social @mpi-inf.mpg.de #SaarlandInformaticsCampus #CampusLibrary #SIC #UniSaarland #UdS #WinterBreak #StudyBreak #HappyHolidays

💬 Ever wonder how Alexa or Siri understands you? Prof. Alexander Koller has the answers! We’re thrilled to announce he’s been elected an ACL Fellow—the only 2025 Fellow from the EU! 🏆 Huge congrats to Prof. Koller for his contributions to NLP. 👏 @uni-saarland.de @mpi-inf.mpg.de @dfki.bsky.social