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Prof. Marcello Ienca was featured in an article on the use of brain recordings in forensic technology.
The publication builds on the approach of embedded ethics and develops it further to enable future projects to effectively deploy it.
The new article by Eric A. Hanushek, Lavinia Kinne, Frauke Witthöft, and Ludger Woessmann, published in Science Advances, discusses longitudinal evidence for age and cognitive skills.
Prof. Stefan Minner will be holding a keynote on the International Conference for Production Research Asia Pacific Region 2025 (ICPR-APR 2025)
A new study by MCube Consulting, commissioned by Zukunft Nahverkehr (ZNV), shows: Public transport generates three times as much economic value for the German economy as it costs.
The article by Stefania Sardo and Sebastian Pfotenhauer studies how competing imaginaries of sustainability have shaped the socio-technical system of diesel cars in Europe, and proposes new policy approaches for systemic phase-out processes.
In his public lecture, Dr. Johannes-Geert Hagmann (Deutsches Museum) sheds light on the groundbreaking developments in laser physics and quantum optics since the 1950s – from the theoretical beginnings to today’s cutting-edge research. The talk is held in German.
In their new study, Shruti Shukla, Ines Böhret, Manzura Jumaniyazova, and Prof. Dr. Janina Isabel Steinert examine how gender transformative interventions (GTIs) reduce adolescent pregnancy in low- and middle-income countries through a realist synthesis approach.
Prof. Marcello Ienca joined a discussion in the TV show „scobel“ (3Sat) to discuss ethical questions around emerging neuroscience and neurotechnology.
We were delighted to welcome Prof. Dr. Gesa Ziemer (Head of City Science Lab, HafenCity University Hamburg / Academic Director of the United Nations Innovation and Technology Lab UNITAC) and Markus Mohl (Head of Geospatial Services and Digital Twin Munich, Landeshauptstadt München) who shared insights from their research and practical experience at the intersection of public sector digital transformation, urban digital twins, and collaborative city-making.
Stefan Minner has been welcomed as Editorial Board Member with Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review. This complements his position as Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Production Economics and his Editorial Board memberships with Operations Research, European Journal of Operational Research, International Journal of Production Research, and Review of Managerial Science.
What does it mean to develop, regulate, and apply artificial intelligence responsibly? With this central question in mind, the Center for Responsible AI Technologies (CReAITech), together with the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities (BAdW), hosted the first international symposium “Responsible AI: Promises, Pitfalls, and Practices” from April 8 to 10, 2025 at the Carl Friedrich von Siemens Foundation in Munich.
Innovations for climate protection often come from „green“ start-ups. If the necessary capital comes from both public funding bodies and companies, this increases the chances of a successful market launch. This is shown by a new study by an international research group with the participation of Claudia Doblinger’s professorship at the TUM Campus Straubing.
The article by Ludger Wößmann, published in the Annual Review of Economics, examines the returns to cognitive, personality, and social skills, which are three important dimensions of basic skills.
For crowdsourcing to be effective, participants need guidance matched to the type of problem they’re trying to solve. The publication by Michael Zaggl, Arvind Malhotra, Oliver Alexy, and Ann Majchrzak explores this topic.
