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The Great Barrier Reef.

Climate Witnesses on the Seabed – Dr. Manfred Mudelsee develops statistical methods to evaluate data from climate archives

Natural climate archives provide a glimpse into bygone times. Researchers extract data from these archives that go back thousands, hundreds of …
Illustrations cognitive sciences

“Now is the right time and this is the right place“ – In Potsdam’s cognitive sciences, researchers from different disciplines have been working together successfully for many years

The cognitive sciences deal with the information processing and structures of an intelligent system – be it humans or machines. In Potsdam, cognitive …
Elephants in the african savannah

A lot on the road – Wild mammals moved farther during COVID-19 lockdowns

Worldwide COVID-19 lockdowns provided a unique opportunity to study the effects of an abrupt change in human presence on wildlife. A study published …
Delegationen der tschechischen Masaryk University (MU) sowie der Vasyl Stefanyk Precarpathian National University (PNU) aus dem ukrainischen Ivano Frankivsk bei ihrem Besuch an der Universität Potsdam mit dem Präsidenten der UP, Prof. Oliver Günther, Ph.D. (5.v.r.), und dem Vizepräsidenten für Internationales und Fundraising Beauftragter für die EDUC, Prof. Dr. Florian J. Schweigert (l.).

Moving Closer Together - EDUC partners from the Czech Republic and Ukraine visit Potsdam

Representatives of the Czech Masaryk University (MU) and the Vasyl Stefanyk Precarpathian National University (PNU) from the Ukrainian Ivano Frankivsk …

Developing Excellence: University of Potsdam enters the Excellence Strategy competition with three applications

In the new round of the "Excellence Strategy of the Federal Government and the German States," which has just been launched, the University of Potsdam …
Illustration ökologischer Prozesse

“We need a more complex picture of ecological processes.” – Why a paradigm shift towards an individual-based ecology is necessary

The world is in crisis. But not only climate change is alarming researchers; the biodiversity crisis has also assumed threatening proportions. There …
Prof. Sönke Neitze and Dr. Alex Kay (background).

Cultures of Violence – Insights from work towards a systematic approach to military violence

Deportation, torture, and killing: How has the use of violence changed or even become radicalized in the armies of the great European powers? What has …
Prof. Dr. Katharina Scheiter

33 Questions to Prof. Dr. Katharina Scheiter, Professor of Digital Education at the Department of Education

Digital media are increasingly finding their way into schools. On the one hand, their use in schools is intended to prepare children and adolescents …
Participants in a postgraduate MBA program on the Griebnitzsee university campus

From Biotechnology to IT Management: Continuing Education for Specialists and Managers

Absorbing new knowledge, training skills, expanding competencies: Lifelong learning is considered a guarantee of success in a rapidly changing world, …
Der botsuanische Bodenwissenschaftler Prof. Peter Eze sitzt am Schreibtisch an seinem Laptop.

“Soils build the basis for existence of lives on our planet” – Georg Forster Research Fellowship for Batswana soil scientist Peter Eze

Peter N. Eze is a soil scientist and professor at the Botswana International University of Science & Technology. His research centers on pure and …