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Together, we are excellent
Bonn stays most successful university in the Excellence Strategy
Starting your studies
New Telescope opens Window on Universe
Together, we are excellent

Research and Study at the University of Excellence in Bonn

With eight Clusters of Excellence, we are Germany's most successful University of Excellence, producing evidence-based academic contributions that help our modern, complex and changing society address the global challenges of the 21st century. Supporting the next generation is central to our mission.

We aim to inspire and foster young talent, early-career researchers and emerging leaders who play a vital role in safeguarding our democracy and shaping a future of progress, prosperity, and sustainable transformation in a digital and globally connected world. 

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Latest News
University of Bonn Establishes Translation Hub
Since the beginning of February 2026, the University of Bonn has been home to the new North Rhine-Westphalian Coordination Office for Translation Matters in Higher Education (‘Landeskoordinationsstelle für Übersetzungsangelegenheiten im Hochschulwesen des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen’). It is developing an online platform offering sample translations, translation resources and training sessions, while serving as a central contact point for translation-related questions. The platform is scheduled to launch in late April 2026.
Digital Conservation
Research on ancient DNA is surging, but how can it be ensured that human remains of irreplaceable significance are preserved? This is the question investigated by an international research team led by the University of Bonn. Their findings have now been published in the journal “PLOS ONE.”
AI with Locality Awareness
The University of Bonn is hosting a new Emmy Noether Group devoted to AI methods. Junior Professor Marc Rußwurm is developing AI methods for fusing different types of geodata to arrive at a uniform geospatial representation. The German Research Foundation (DFG) will be providing up to 1.4 million euros in funding for the research group over the next six years. The Emmy Noether Program is a framework designed to enable selected postdocs and assistant professors on fixed-term contracts to obtain the qualifications necessary to hold a university professorship.
Neues Teleskop auf chilenischem Berg öffnet Fenster zum Universum
Thirty-four years after scientists at the Cornell University first conceived it, the Fred Young Submillimeter Telescope (FYST) now rises above the Atacama Desert, near the summit of Cerro Chajnantor in Chile’s Parque Astronómico Atacama. FYST will help answer some of the most important questions in astronomy, including how the universe works, the nature of dark energy and dark matter, how galaxies form and evolve and what happened in those mysterious first moments after the Big Bang.

We are Uni Bonn!

Together we are the "we": The roots of the success of the University of Excellence Bonn lie in its people. In the #WeAreUniBonn campaign, we present employees, students, and alumni who, with their remarkable achievements, contribute to the success of our university. 

Events
Argelander Career Talk
Zoom
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Die "Argelander Career Talks" sind eine Online-Vortragsreihe, deren Ziel es ist, internationale akademische Karrieren ebenso wie die Wissenschaftssysteme ...
Game Design Studio Session - Part 12
Brühler Str. 7, 53119 ...
03:00 PM - 06:00 PM
Spieleentwickler*innen und Spieletester*innen treffen sich einmal im Monat in den Räumlichkeiten des Transfer Center enaCom in der Brühler Straße 7 , um ...
Europas Platz im All – Warum Raumfahrt eine Schlüsselfrage ist
Campus Poppelsdorf
06:00 PM - 08:00 PM
Die Raumfahrt erlebt eine Renaissance – technologisch, ökonomisch und geopolitisch. Längst geht es nicht mehr nur um Wissenschaft und Prestige, sondern um ...
Spreading depolarizations in cortical networks
Universitätsklinikum ...
04:00 PM - 05:30 PM
Lecture by Prof. Roustem Khazipov, Research Director, Institut de Neurobiologie de la Méditerranée INMED UMR1249, Marseille, France, as part of the Bonn ...

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