Uni-Tübingen

UNC-Chapel Hill

UNC-Chapel Hill is Tübingen's closest partner in the United States, with a high number of research collaborations across many research fields as well as some student exchange programs.

Faculty and students in biology, Germanic languages and literature, and American studies have long been engaged in collaborations. In recent years, the research cooperation has expanded to numerous other departments, which cannot all be listed here due to their large number. Particularly intensive exchange takes place in the fields of Data Science/Computer Science/AI, Ethics, Plant Biology, Communication and Media Studies, Educational Research, Law, and Philosophy.

UNC-Chapel Hill and the University of Tübingen are committed to supporting joint research projects. Since 2022, there have been several succesfull seed fund rounds. The Reinhard Frank Foundation has been supporting collaborative projects in the natural sciences for many years.

Funding opportunities

Seed Fund Projects

1st call (2023)

The Weaponization of Knowledge

  • UT: Guido Zurstiege (Institute of Media Studies)
  • UNC: Francesca Tripodi (School of Data Science and Society), Priscilla Layne (Department of Germanic & Slavic Languages & Literature), Victoria Ekstrand (Hussman School of Journalism and Media)

 

2nd call (2023)

Developing Graph Convolutional Networks for Population Genetics

  • UT: Franz Baumdicker (Mathematical and Computational Population Genetics)
  • UNC: Dan Schrider (Department of Genetics)

 

3rd call (2024)

Data Science in Sport: The Present & the Future

  • UT: Tim Pawlowski (Institute of Sports Science)
  • UNC: Adam Kiefer (Department of Exercise & Sport Science)

Leveraging Learning Analytics to Identify and Deliver Targeted Self-Regulated Learning Interventions to Students in the Hector Children’s Academy Program

  • UT: Ulrich Trautwein, Jessika Golle (Hector Research Institute of Education Sciences and Psychology)
  • UNC: Jeff Greene, Matthew Bernacki (School of Education)

Democratizing Medicine: Illness Narratives as Data

  • UT: Astrid Franke (Englisch Department), Katrin Giel (Department for Psychosomatic Medicine & Psychotherapy)
  • UNC: Courtney Rivard, Jordynn Jack, Kym Weed (English & Comparative Literature)

Hacking Accountability: The Regulation of Artificial Intelligence in American and European Perspectives

  • UT: Tanja Thomas (Institute of Media Studies), Bernd Heinrich, Michèle Finck (Law), Jessica Heesen, Jana Hecktor, Lisa Koeritz (International Center for Ethics in the Sciences and Humanities)
  • UNC: Victoria Ekstrand (Hussman School of Media and Journalism), Amanda Reid (Center for Information, Technology and Public Life)

Privacy-preserving machine learning model for pediatric epilepsy

  • UT: Mete Akgün (Department of Computer Science)
  • UNC: Harlin Lee (School of Data Science and Society)

Sociotechnical Consequences of AI: An Interdisciplinary Exploration of Ethical, Organizational, Social, and Computational Dimensions

  • UT: Regina Ammicht Quinn, Jessica Heesen, Jana Hecktor, Lisa Koeritz (International Center for Ethics in the Sciences and Humanities)
  • UNC: Mohammad Jarrahi (School of Information and Library Science)

 

4th call (2025)

AI-Enhanced Feedback System for Observing and Interpreting Classroom Practices in Teacher Education

  • UT: Tim Fütterer (Hector Research Institute of Education Sciences and Psychology)
  • UNC: Ha Nguyen (School of Education)

Integrative Precision Medicine Approaches in Neurodegenerative Disorders: Combining Transcriptomics, Proteomics, and Imaging in Cerebellar Models

  • UT: Ludger Schöls, Stefan Hauser (Hertie Institute for Clinical Brain Research / Department for Neurodegenerative Diseases)
  • UNC: Jonathan Schisler (School of Medicine)

Explainable Clinical Decision Support Systems

  • UT: Carsten Eickhoff (E-Health and Medical Data Science)
  • UNC: Anita Crescenzi (School of Data Science and Society)

Aligning AI with Society - Challenges of Interdisciplinary Conversation

  • UT: Jessica Heessen, Mone Spindler, Lisa Koeritz, Jana Hecktor (International Center for Ethics in the Sciences and Humanities)
  • UNC: Snigdha Chaturvedi, Danielle Szafir, Anneliese Brei (Department of Computer Science)

Physics-Guided Machine Learning for Enhanced Ice Sheet Characterization & Climate Resilience

  • UT: Reinhard Drews (Department of Geosciences)
  • UNC: Youzuo Lin (School of Data Science and Society)

Uncertainty-Aware Responsible Multimodal Large Language Model for Medical Diagnosis

  • UT: Seong Joon Oh (Department of Computer Science)
  • UNC: Huaxiu Yao (Computer Science & School of Data Science and Society)

Accessing Biomedical Information Using Knowledge Graphs & Large Language Models

  • UT: Sven Nahnsen (Quantitative Biology Center)
  • UNC: Ashok Krishnamurthy (Renaissance Computing Institute)

Highlighted Projects

Tübingen Chapel Hill Law Program
With the Tübingen Chapel Hill Law Program, the University of Tübingen Law Faculty and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Law have established an innovative exchange program. Once a year, Tübingen students and teaching staff will travel to the United States for two weeks - and once a year teachers and students from Chapel Hill will come here to Tübingen!

Scientific Cooperation and Partnership IZEW - UNC
The aim of the networking and partnership is to foster transatlantic dialogue on the ethics of Data Sciences, Artificial Intelligence and Digitalization between the two research and development hubs.

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