News — University of Bonn

Twelve million US dollars for Code Intelligence¹

Code Intelligence, which grew out of a startup at the University of Bonn, is receiving $12 million in funding led by Tola Capital. Code Intelligence helps developers by providing a platform to find and fix security vulnerabilities before the product is finished.

University of Bonn helps to propagate rare apple type²

"An apple a day keeps the doctor away" is an old English saying that means apples are healthy, so you should eat one every day. A very special specimen is the type "Adams Parmäne", which is currently on the red list of endangered native crops in Germany. The Wiesengut Teaching and Research Station at the University of Bonn is working with pomologist Barbara Bouillon from the "Biologische Station im Rhein-Sieg-Kreis" to preserve this special apple variety. She shows how this can work and why it is so important right now.

International award for mathematician³

Mathematician Prof. Dr. Georg Oberdieck from the Hausdorff Center for Mathematics (HCM) at the University of Bonn has received this year's Dubrovin Medal from the renowned research institute SISSA in Italy. The medal is a special prize that recognizes exceptionally promising young researchers who have made outstanding contributions to the fields of Mathematical physics and Geometry.

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Motivated by gratitude and a love of knowledge⁴

Dr. Holger Aulepp, former Head Physician at Borkum Riff Rehabilitation Clinic on the North Sea island of Borkum, has formed an eponymous foundation under the umbrella of the University of Bonn Foundation. The purpose of the foundation is to provide doctoral and other students active in the field of Protestant theology funding for excavation excursions and stays in Israel. Dr. Aulepp had provided generous support for two excavation excursions before forming of the foundation.

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Early urbanism found in the Amazon⁵

Several hundred settlements from the time between 500 and 1400 AD lie in the Bolivian Llanos de Mojos savannah and have fascinated archaeologists for years. Researchers from the German Archaeological Institute, the University of Bonn and the University of Exeter have now visualized the dimensions of the largest known settlement of the so-called Casarabe culture. Mapping with the laser technology LIDAR indicates that it is an early urbanism with a low population density - the only known case so far from the Amazon lowlands. The results shed new light on how globally widespread and diverse early urban life was and how earlier societies lived in the Amazon. The study appeared in the journal Nature.

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University of Bonn hosts leaders from St Andrews⁶

The senior leadership team from the University of St Andrews is visiting the University of Bonn. Prof. Sally Mapstone, who heads the renowned Scottish university, has traveled to Bonn with a top-ranking delegation in order to discuss the strategic development of the two excellent universities and their diverse partnership activities.

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Aimee van Wynsberghe awarded in Berlin⁷

Twenty-one top researchers were the focus of an award ceremony held on Thursday evening in Berlin, where they were presented Germany’s most valuable research award, the Alexander von Humboldt Professorship. Among them was AI ethicist Prof. Dr. Aimee van Wynsberghe, who has been conducting research at the University of Bonn for the past year and a half. During the festive event, Federal Minister of Education and Research Bettina Stark-Watzinger and Hans-Christian Pape, President of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, presented the awards which come with up to €5 million in funding.

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Why students later pursue careers in STEM subjects⁸

An international team including Prof. Dr. Thomas Dohmen, spokesperson of the ECONtribute Cluster of Excellence at the Universities of Bonn and Cologne, has received a grant of up to $2.5 million from the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF). In the funded study, the researchers will determine the extent to which students' personality traits, executive function skills, and preferences predict their later academic achievement and careers in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM). The project will run for five years.

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