Paderborn University is once again represented in the subject rankings of the World University Rankings of the British higher education magazine "Times Higher Education" (THE) and has once again achieved very good results in several disciplines in the 2026 edition.
Caption: Head of the Department of Computer Science Prof. Dr Axel Ngonga, Prof. Dr Marcel Campen and Prof. Dr Martin Ulirsch, Dean Prof. Dr Jürgen Klüners, Head of the Department of Mathematics Prof. Dr Balázs Kovacs and Managing Director Dr Markus Holt.
On 20 January 2026, the Faculty of Computer Science, Electrical Engineering and Mathematics hosted the inaugural lectures of Prof. Dr Marcel Campen and Prof. Dr Martin Ulirsch in lecture hall O2.
Photo (Paderborn University, Thorsten Hennig): The ‘Otus’ supercomputer impresses with both its performance and its sustainability.
10.11.2025
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A computer that can calculate hundreds of scientific tasks simultaneously and thus helps provide a solution to key social challenges: this is the new IT heart of Paderborn University.
Prof. Dr. Jens Förstner, Prof. Dr. Marco Platzner and Prof. Dr. Juraj Somorovsky explain everything about the study programmes to the new students at the Welcome Days.
In the winter semester 2025/2026, 125 international students started their Master's degree programme at the Faculty of Computer Science, Electrical Engineering and Mathematics. To welcome them to Paderborn University, the Welcome Days were held from 8-9 October.
The Institute of Computer Science at Paderborn University is presenting six new films that provide specific information about teaching at the institute. The first films are "Designing Code Analyses for Large-Scale Software Systems" by Prof. Dr. Eric Bodden, "Introduction to Human-Centered Machine Learning" and "Machine Learning for Biometrics" by Dr.-Ing. Philipp Terhörst and "Quantum Networks" by Dr. Zahra Raissi.
From October 1, 2025, Prof. Dr. Axel-Cyrille Ngonga Ngomo will take over the office of Vice Dean for Computer Science. He succeeds Prof. Dr. Eric Bodden, whom the Faculty would like to thank for his commitment. Also on October 1, Prof. Dr. Balázs Kovács will succeed Prof. Dr. Tobias Weich as Vice Dean for Mathematics. We would also like to thank Prof. Weich for his dedicated work in the Dean's Office.
The MALEO (Machine Learning and Optimisation) group had a fantastic time at GECCO 2025 in Malaga, where we were honoured to receive the Best Paper Award for:
"Deep Reinforcement Learning for Instance-Specific Algorithm Configuration" (in collaboration with Elias Schede and Kevin Tierney, Bielefeld University).
We also presented:
RandOptGen: A Unified Random Problem Generator for Single- and Multi-Objective Optimisation Problems with…
On Friday, 4 July 2025, more than 200 graduates of the Faculty of Computer Science, Electrical Engineering and Mathematics (EIM) were given a ceremonial send-off in lecture hall L1 at Paderborn University.
Professor Jérôme Euzenat visits Paderborn University and the Heinz Nixdorf Institute to talk about “Cultural knowledge evolution in artificial agent societies”
142,656 processor cores, 108 GPUs, AMD processors of the latest "Turin" generation and an IBM Spectrum Scale file system with five petabytes of storage capacity: these are the outstanding inner values of "Otus", the new supercomputer at Paderborn University.
(Photo: Besim Mazhiqi, Paderborn University) With a volumetric flask and VR headset - where two seemingly completely different worlds collide in this photomontage, the VirtuChemLab unites them in an interdisciplinary research project.
Pictured: André Graute
With the new "VRLabTutor" project, Paderborn University is adding an AI-based assistance function to its successful virtual reality chemistry laboratory "VirtuChemLab" on 1 April 2025.
Photo (Paderborn University): Emiram Kablo (left) and Prof. Dr. Patricia Arias Cabarcos (right) at the award ceremony for the "Emilio Aced" research prize of the Spanish data protection authority AEPD on 8 April 2025 in Madrid.
Neurotechnology is no longer limited to the medical field, but is increasingly being used in areas such as entertainment, wellness and marketing. But what data protection concerns arise from the use of brain data?
What does the path after graduation actually look like? Thim Strothmann, a graduate of Paderborn University, studied computer science, then did his doctorate and now works as Project & Competence Centre Manager at Adesso Mobile Solutions in Paderborn.
