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We deeply saddened to learn of the passing of Bernhard Korte, who died last Saturday, April 26, aged 86.

Jan Hasenauer and Ana Ivonne Vazquez-Armendariz win transdisciplinary research prize

The Transdisciplinary Research Areas (TRAs) Modelling and Life and Health at the University of Bonn have presented their €100,000 research prize, entitled “Modelling for Life and Health,” for the second time. The winners—Ana Ivonne Vazquez-Armendariz and Jan Hasenauer—will be using their prize money to study the functions of “scavenger cells” in the lungs at the interface between mathematics and medicine. Jan Hasenauer ist a member of the Hausdorff Center for Mathematics (HCM) and one of the leaders of its Interdisciplinary Research Unit (IRU) "Mathematical life sciences".

Heisenberg funding for Asgar Jamneshan

The German Research Foundation (DFG) has accepted Asgar Jamneshan into the Heisenberg program. Asgar Jamneshan is carrying out research into the foundations of higher-order Fourier analysis. The mathematician, who is an associate member of the Hausdorff Center for Mathematics (HCM), will receive funding of up to 570,000 Euro.

Former Bonn PhD student Richard Höfer receives the Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Prize 2025

Richard Höfer, professor at the University of Regensburg and former PhD student in Bonn, has been awarded the Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Prize 2025. The prize is considered the most important award in Germany for researchers in the early stages of their careers. The award ceremony will take place on June 3 in Berlin.