News & Events

Interview

Science as Part of a Negotiation Process

Thomas Stieglitz on academic freedom, responsibility, and the necessity of social negotiation in neurotechnology

Outreach

Spotlight: AI – a curse, a blessing, or both?

Oliver Müller discussed socio-philosophical questions regarding AI with an enthusiastic and public audience

Start-up sucess story

From a Nature paper to a billion-dollar investment by SAP

AI ecosystem in Freiburg grows

Advanced Science

New Paper Published

How to design well-tolerated cerebral implant devices

Shaping the future of Artificial Intelligence

Successful Extension of the ELLIS Unit Freiburg

Congratulations to our ELLIS Team that passes a highly competitive and demanding assessment!

A day full of curiosity and great experiences

No Fear of Tech — Just Fun

As in the past members of the center presented their research to female pupils at the Girls`Day 2026

𝗛𝗶𝗴𝗵𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁𝘀 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝗡𝗲𝘁𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗘𝘃𝗲𝗻𝘁

From Code to Cure: Post-/doctoral Sparks in Data Science and Biomedicine

initiated by the Collaborative Research Center 1597 Small Data

Call for applications

Launch your AI research journey with an ELIZA Master’s Scholarship

Research-Oriented Master’s Scholarships and Master’s in AI Scholarships for Students from Underrepresented Groups.

The Lancet  Neurology

Comment published

The restoration of perception remains one of the central challenges of neurotechnology.

A Week of Exchange and New Connections

Rising Stars CONFERENCE

Freiburg Rising Stars Academy at IMBIT during the Rising Stars CONFERENCE Week.

KIDELIR Hybrid AI System for Delirium Risk Prediction

Recognized at the “Ideas for Impact” Health Prize

The Prize honours innovative healthcare concepts in Germany that have the potential to sustainably improve the healthcare system.

Top scientific honor awarded

New member for the Young Academy | Mainz

Our member Simon Binder has been accepted into the Young Academy of the Academy of Sciences and Literature | Mainz.

BrainLinks-BrainTools and bees?

The center welcomes a new member Prof. Andrew Straw

Prof. Andrew Straw is adding expertise and a new spcies in the research frield neurscience. We are thrilled and looking forward to inspiring collaborations.

Wieso Weshalb Warum

Wie erklären interne Weltmodelle
unsere Sicht der Dinge?

Prof. Ilka Diester, Prof. Thomas Brox und Prof. Monika Schönauer wurden zu einem Gastbeitrag im Wirtschaftsjournal “Netzwerk Südbaden – Schwerpunkt Wissen” eingeladen.

Neurotech in Germany

Prof. Thomas Stieglitz participates in the VDI campagne “Neurotech 2050”

Recognizing the potential of AI and neurotechnology in the healthcare sector and identifying possible developments, challenges, and areas where action is needed.

New Serious Game Brings Robotics to Life

Abenteuer auf Servo Bay

We are thrilled to announce that our innovative serious game Abenteuer auf Servo Bay has received funding approval from the Carl Zeiss Foundation.

Intelligent Machine-Brain Interfacing technology

“The center’s mission is as relevant as ever.”

The annual workshop of BrainLinks-BrainTools set a spotlight on rising topics in Neuroscience, Neurotechnology, Robotics, and AI.

New research project “Sequence Computations in Humans, Models and Machines” approved

CompSeq

The newly approved research project CompSeq investigates how humans, biological brains, and AI systems process sequences—and how these insights can be used to develop more efficient AI models.

Awarded with the prestigious ERC Synergy Grant

Ass.-Prof. Dr. Çağlar Ataman

The outstanding research of our BrainLinks-BrainTools member was able to prevail in a very tough competition – 66 out of 712 submitted proposals were selected for funding.

Success in the DFG’s Reinhart Koselleck Program

Congratulations to Prof. Dr. Marlene Bartos

It is a great honor to announce that our BrainLinks-BrainTools member has received one of the DFG’s most distinguished research grants.

Freiburg’s Pre-NeurIPS

Poster Session at IMBIT

On November 26th ELIZA featured the event at the NEXUS Lab of IMBIT.

Flying to new hights with kite-mentoring

Annual network meeting boosts female careers

On October 17th the annual network meeting of kite-mentoring took place at IMBIT. An evening full of engaging talks, lively conversations, and uplifting live music.

A very warm welcome to our latest new member

Jun.-Prof. Dr. Maria Kalweit

She started her career as PhD Researcher in BrainLinks-BrainTools. Now Maria Kalweit receives the CRIION Professorship for Bioinformatics: AI for Oncology Research.

Minister of Science Petra Olschowski visits University of Freiburg

During her tour of strategically relevant topics for the future, she also stopped by our robotic arm and had the opportunity to train it herself.

We have joined ELSA – European Network on Secure and Safe AI!

We join a network of twenty academic and six industrial partners spanning across eight countries

GCPR 2025@Freiburg

Prof. Thomas Brox and Prof. Abhinav Valada welcome the community as general chair of the conference

Dr.-Ing Simon Binder selected for the 74th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting

The 74th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting

ELLIS PhD program 2025 – Next call for applications will open in October

Apply by October 31, 2025, to join the ELLIS PhD Program in 2026

More Cooperation Options within BrainLinks-BrainTools

Dr. Joana Pereira is exploring cortical footprints of DBS in neuropsychiatric disorders

GenAI & Me: Creative Computing and Emancipatory AI

Human Rights Research Consortium (HRRC)

ELLIS Pre-ICML Fest 2025: We celebrate Freiburg`s AI Science

ELLIS Unit Freiburg paticipated in the Pre-ICML Fest

Käpsele Innovation Festival

Experience top speaker, innovative network formats, action, and lots of inspiring talks!

Nature Reviews Methods Primer

Prof. Dr. Thomas Stieglitz co-authors neural probe review in Nature Reviews Methods Primers.