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Portrait of Maren Schüle

When the Forest is Burning – Maren Schüle Analyses the Vegetation in Burnt Pine Forests

Forest fires do not only happen in Australia, California, or Canada. In Germany, too – especially in Brandenburg – there has been an increasing number …
Steffen Hagemann in a portrait in front of a grey concrete wall on the Griebnitzsee campus.

How Data Scientists Work – Steffen Hagemann About Algorithms, Habitus and Social Context

From business to dating, digital technologies have become part of almost all areas of life. Algorithms increasingly shape everyday practices and the …
Auditor Bernd Malzanini in a portrait in front of the colonnade at the New Palace.

Understanding More and More – What attracts Italy enthusiast and lawyer Bernd Malzanini as an auditor to the University of Potsdam

Lecture hall or colonnades? Bernd Malzanini tilts his head to one side and smiles. No doubt about it. The chairman of the Freundeskreis …
Prof. Dr. Isabelle Penning in portait

More Than a Specialist Classroom – A highly accessible teaching and learning laboratory for inclusive technical education on the Golm Campus

On the table lie a hammer and a saw, sandpaper, a stapler, screw clamps, two cordless screwdrivers – and pictures of flowers. Alister and Anuk, Luka …
Lena Sonntag training outdoors.

Looking Ahead – Lena Sonntag is studying patholinguistics and is a race-walking athlete

It’s one of those hot days in July, 5 p.m. On the beach of Lake Templin, children and adults crowd together. For Lena Sonntag, the 35 degrees Celsius …
Portrait of Oke Seliger

State Parliament Horizontally and Vertically – How Oke Seliger gives students an understanding of Brandenburg’s state politics

Do state politicians represent the interests of their voters irrespective of party lines? Was there a Brandenburg-specific approach during the Covid …
Kopfporträt eines jungen Mannes

Digital Engineering Faculty continues its growth trajectory – Prof. Dr. med. Georg Kaissis appointed to a professorship in Digital Health

The Hasso Plattner Institute (HPI) continues to grow: On November 1, Prof. Georg Kaissis took up his professorship in Digital Health: Human-Centred …
Sönke Beier

“Cool Committee Work Attracts More People” – How democratic politicization works among students

Getting politically active at the university? For Sönke Beier, this was an integral part of his physics studies. From the student council and the …
Christoph M. Abels

The Power of Encounter – How our behavior can strengthen democracy

Psychologist and political scientist Christoph M. Abels is an expert in political behavioral science and currently works on the European Research …
Interview with Prof. Dr. Stephan Lewandowsky.

“It Is a Race Against the Dark Forces” – How Social Media platforms threaten our democracy

Stephan Lewandowsky is interested in the truth – and why we are increasingly losing it. Worse still, for many people it is losing value, while it …