NEWS
Photo recap: LNDW 2026
On June 6, 2026, four members of the Berlin AI Square (BIFOLD, PTB, DFKI, and Fraunhofer HHI) joined forces at the Lange Nacht der Wissenschaften to showcase what the network achieves: an interactive LLM workshop and a well-attended Science Slam.
Photo recap: AI to accelerate scientific understanding
From May 26–29, 2026, ELLIS Unit Berlin and BIFOLD hosted the workshop "AI to accelerate Scientific Understanding" at the Forum Digital Technologies in Berlin, exploring how explaining and interpreting AI models can advance discovery across molecular science, medicine, geoscience, and beyond.
EVENTS
Ceremonial Event to celebrate Prof. Dr. Manfred Opper
On the occasion of the 70th birthday of Prof. Dr. Manfred Opper, Professor Emeritus at TU Berlin, SFB 1294 at the University of Potsdam and BIFOLD cordially invite you to a joint celebratory event.
HIDA Lecture: Agentic AI - Safe Autonomous Agents
Toward the end of 2025, autonomous AI agents made significant leaps in capability. Smarter coding agents, a growing ecosystem of integrations exposed as skills and Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers, and projects like OpenClaw have demonstrated how these components can be combined into self-evolving AI systems.
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OPPORTUNITIES
BIFOLD welcomes job applications from interested parties year-round.
PUBLICATIONS
Gereon Dusella, Haralampos Gavriilidis, Volker Markl, Eleni Tzirita Zacharatou
Benchmarking Spatial Operations over Heterogeneous Data: The Case of Zonal Statistics
Yanqing Luo, Julius Hense, Niklas Prenißl, Andreas Mock, Klaus-Robert Müller, Thomas Schnake, Mina Jamshidi Idaji
Symb-xMIL: Symbolic Explanations for Multiple Instance Learning in Digital Pathology
Marco Morik, Xiao Ruiting, Shinichi Nakajima, Stefan Haufe, Ismail Huseynov
Structure-Preserving Correction Learning for Sparse Bayesian Inference in Brain Source Imaging
GRADUATE SCHOOL
Based on a highly competitive application process, the BIFOLD Graduate School offers an innovative fast-track PhD Program for students holding a bachelor’s degree, as well as a PhD Program for students with a master’s degree.
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