Research Profile

AI*IM aims to improve the health and participation of people with cognitive impairments through inclusive assistance technology and AI. The vision: assistive technologies should compensate for individual functional impairments. More

ANBauEn investigates how complex systems with emergent properties arise from fundamental building blocks and how complex systems follow fundamental structures and principles. More

CoIn analyses the complex mechanisms and moderators that link social inequalities and conflicts. To this end, an empirical, data-innovative approach is applied with the integration of social, health and data science perspectives. The research aims to produce socially relevant and transferable findings. More

ConGeD focuses on the current socio-political situation in which semantics of gender equality, democracy and plurality are no longer shared as a matter of course, but are contested. More

ESyMath works to identify innovative synergies between mathematical disciplines and neighbouring fields, in particular data science, economics and physics, to identify mathematical structures in these fields and to transfer methods to the mathematical core. More

FAITH analyses possibilities, limits and design of hybrid teams in which humans and AI systems use their skills in a targeted, situation-specific and coordinated manner. This interdisciplinary approach combines computer science, linguistic, sociological and psychological expertise. More

InChangE brings together findings on the process of individualisation and investigates the causes and consequences of individualisation in animals and humans. The research combines findings from ten different disciplines to develop a new science of individualisation. More

MDDW builds on the strengths of biotechnology and bioinformatics in the era of synthetic biology and machine learning to study and enhance complex microbial communities and their interactions. More

PINC analyses, models and compares processes of individual, interactive and collective creative action as well as dynamics of innovation at the level of society in different domains. The aim is to develop an interdisciplinary theory of creative and socially innovative processes. More

QUAMU develops new methods in economics, data science, mathematics and statistics to quantify and manage persistent societal uncertainty. Key areas of application are financial markets, climate change and social and healthcare systems. More

SHIFT continues the approach developed at the Center for InterAmerican Studies in the Bielefeld social sciences and humanities by theoretically redefining and interdisciplinarily expanding perspectives on the interdependence of the Americas. More

UNIVERSAL explores, from a historically deep and regionally broad perspective, the dynamics and processes by which arbitrary conceptions of the world become established as objective and universal and are challenged by claims to universality. More