22.05.2025
We Made It: Our Cluster of Excellence Secures Another Funding Period
We are absolutely delighted that our Cluster of Excellence “Machine Learning: New Perspectives for Science” will continue to receive funding from the German Research Foundation (DFG) for another seven years! As announced by the DFG on Thursday, May 22, our cluster is one of a total of 70 Clusters of Excellence that will be funded as part of the Excellence Strategy of the German federal and state governments. The new funding period will start in 2026.
The Cluster of Excellence “Machine Learning: New Perspectives for Science” was launched in 2019. In the first funding period, the researchers used machine learning techniques to gain new insights into very different fields of science: for example, they expanded their knowledge of the fundamental building blocks of the brain or deepened their understanding of gravitational waves in physics.
However, machine learning methods still have weaknesses in terms of their reliability, robustness and interpretability. In the second funding period, the cluster will seek to further develop such methods and integrate automated learning processes into overall academic work processes. The researchers will demonstrate the potential of this approach in a wide range of disciplines and, for example, identify causes of disease progression or clarify the dynamics of quantum systems.
The spokespersons are Ulrike von Luxburg, Professor of Informatics, and Philipp Berens, Professor of Neuroscience and director of the Hertie Institute for AI in Brain Health. The partners in the cluster, along with the University of Tübingen, are the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, the ELLIS Institute Tübingen, the Leibniz-Institut für Wissensmedien, and the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences (AIMS).
A total of 5 further Cluster of Excellence applications from the University of Tübingen were likewise successful, see press release.
Contact
Professor Ulrike von Luxburg
University of Tübingen
Department of Informatics
ulrike.luxburg@uni-tuebingen.de
Professor Philipp Berens
Director, Hertie Institute for AI in Brain Health
University of Tübingen
philipp.berens@uni-tuebingen.de
Theresa Authaler
Cluster Press Officer
theresa.authaler@uni-tuebingen.de
+49 162 1788206