As members of the National Research Data Infrastructure (NFDI for short), Prof. Dr Astrid Nieße, Professor of Digitalised Energy Systems at the University of Oldenburg, and Prof. Dr Frank Oliver Glöckner, Professor of Earth System Data Science at the University of Bremen, are working towards a common goal: to establish sound structures for collaborative data management.

Germany needs more computer science teachers – and, to train them, more computer science educators with academic expertise. This is where the new, supra-regional doctoral programme CZS KID comes in; it launched this week. Ira Diethelm, a Computing Science education specialist from Oldenburg and one of six lead researchers, talks in an interview about reservations about technology, Computing Science as the key to social participation, and Oldenburg connections within the programme.

Greater resilience for electricity and heating networks: The University of Oldenburg is involved in two of the five newly funded projects run by the Lower Saxony Energy Research Centre (efzn). The University of Bremen is participating as an associated partner in one of the projects.

Whether extreme weather, accidents, terrorist attacks or even acts of war: energy supply systems are exposed to a wide range of threats. To better prepare electricity and heating networks in Lower Saxony for crises,…

Prof Dr Jorge Marx Gómez was awarded an honorary professorship by Nelson Mandela University (Faculty of Science, Department of Computing Science) in November 2025. The inaugural lecture entitled "Artificial Intelligence for Sustainable Development" took place on 27 May 2026 at Nelson Mandela University.

From the 20^th to the 24^th of April 2026, the 2nd edition of Set4MOST ("Modelling, Estimation, and Control using Set-Based Methods: Theory and Applications") was held successfully at the Department of Computer Science of the Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg.

On March 29, 2026, Dr.-Ing. Friederike Bruns was honored with the Helene-Lange Prize 2026 by the EWE Foundation. Awarded every two years and endowed with €15,000, this prize recognizes outstanding scientific achievements by women in the early stages of their academic careers who make a significant contribution to everyday life through innovative approaches in digitalization, with relevance to science, business, and society.

Both initially studied biology, later switched to Computing Science and now work on digital knowledge repositories for research: Oldenburg energy expert Astrid Nieße and Bremen bioinformatician Frank Oliver Glöckner in an interview.

As part of the National Research Data Infrastructure NFDI, they are responsible for digital knowledge repositories - on the one hand for energy system research and on the other for biodiversity research. What difference does data make to research?

The "Scientific Centre for Methods of Artificial Intelligence and Data Science" (WiZARD) was founded by three Schools. The aim is to develop methods in a systematic and interdisciplinary manner in order to build an efficient bridge between theoretical basic research in data science and practical utilisation in data-intensive scientific disciplines.

It is a growing field: analysing large amounts of data has become an essential part of research in almost all scientific disciplines. But which…

The 12th International Conference on Mechatronics and Robotics Engineering (ICMRE) was organized by Andreas Rauh (head of the research group Distributed Control in Interconnected Systems (DCIS)) at the Department of Computer Science of the Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg. 

Established as a distinguished international academic platform, ICMRE has been bringing together researchers, engineers, academicians, and industry professionals since its inauguration in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, in…

Intelligent and comprehensible AI systems could control energy grids in the future. A junior research group led by Eric Veith and funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research is developing smart agents that have undergone sophisticated training - and react correctly even in critical situations.

Many people in Spain and Portugal will probably remember 28 April 2025 for a long time to come: At 12.33 p.m. on that Monday, the electricity on the Iberian peninsula failed completely…

Friday, 20 March 2026
at 17:00 (admission from 16:30)
Campus Haarentor, Building A14, Large Lecture Hall

The Future Lab Water of the Centre for Digital Innovation Lower Saxony (ZDIN) held a two-day networking meeting with representatives from research and practice on 7 and 8 May 2025.
The event provided space for intensive discussions, new impetus and the strategic further development of joint research activities.

Digitalisation for the water sector

In the Future Lab Water, scientists from the University of Oldenburg are working together with practice partners, including regional water suppliers,…

The 20th edition of the International Symposium on Scientific Computing, Computer Arithmetic, and Verified Numerical Computations (SCAN) was organised from 22 to 26 September 2025 by Andreas Rauh and Marit Lahme (both from the Department of Computing Science at the University of Oldenburg) and Ekaterina Auer (Wismar University of Applied Sciences).

Around 50 international participants from the Czech Republic, France, Germany, Hungary, Japan, Poland, Switzerland and the United States travelled…

Converting residential neighbourhoods to renewable energies is an important component of the energy transition. Researchers led by Astrid Nieße investigated how this can be achieved in the "Future Energy Lab".

Ms Nieße, the "Future Energy Lab" project that you led recently came to an end. It focussed on the future energy supply of residential districts, in particular the shared use of energy. What could such an "energy sharing community" look like?

Ideally, in a future neighbourhood, not only…

24 June 2025, 8.30 am – 1.30 pm, A14 lecture centre

Computer Science Day: ‘The Future is Now’

Computer Science Day 2025: Practical insights for your pupils

On 28 February 2025, the top-class colloquium "Design and Verification of Cyber-Physical Systems: From Theory to Applications" took place with many national and international guests. This was organised on the occasion of Prof. Dr Martin Fränzle 's 60th birthday and reflects his diverse contributions in the field of development, verification and implementation of cyber-physical systems. The contributions are summarised on the following website: Link

Students at the University of Oldenburg have developed a low-cost measuring station designed to detect floods at an early stage. The advantage: firefighters should be able to set it up quickly and easily themselves.

As part of the Energy Campus, organised by the Energy & Climate Protection Foundation as an ideas competition for early-career researchers, the doctoral research project currently being undertaken by Ms Marit Lahme (M.Sc.) (Department of Distributed Control in Networked Systems) was awarded third place.

As part of her research, Ms Lahme is working on the interval-based identification of the open-circuit voltage characteristic curve of battery cells, with the aim of detecting ageing. Batteries…

Business information scientist Philipp Staudt receives an "Impulse Professorship". His aim is to enable people to assess their own energy requirements - and to act accordingly.

What do you think you need more electricity for: watching a Star Wars film in the evening or making yourself a coffee the next morning?" When Prof Dr Philipp Staudt asks such questions, many people are at a loss for answers. Who has ever analysed the electricity consumption of their own household in such detail?

This…

An assistance system for cars and lorries that recognises cyclists and measures the distance to them could make cycling safer in the future. The BikeDetect research project at the University of Oldenburg, led by business informatics specialist Prof Dr Jorge Marx Gómez, aims to lay the foundation for this. iotec GmbH from Osnabrück is involved in the project, with the city of Osnabrück and ADFC Osnabrück as associated partners. The project is being funded for 18 months by the Federal Ministry of…

Oldenburg's energy research receives millions in funding: the university is involved in four sub-projects in the EFZN programme "Transformation of Lower Saxony's Energy System".

The aim of the programme is to strategically develop Lower Saxony's energy research by 2030. In a team of 180 researchers at 15 universities, universities of applied sciences and other partners in Lower Saxony, Oldenburg scientists will be researching solutions for a climate-neutral future over the next five years. The…

Developing new technologies to research biodiversity - that was the aim of XPRIZE Rainforest, a global competition involving more than 300 teams. Three doctoral students from the university also took part in the final.

The task that the "Brazilian Team" had to solve from 17 to 22 July was challenging: the group of more than one hundred researchers from eight countries had exactly 24 hours to explore the diversity of animals and plants in a remote, hundred-hectare section of the Amazon…

Researchers from DFKI Niedersachsen, together with doctoral candidates from the Applied Artificial Intelligence (AAI) chair at the University of Oldenburg, are in the final of XPRIZE Rainforest, a global competition that promotes new technologies for researching, assessing and conserving biodiversity in tropical rainforests. In Team Brazil, they are developing an AI system that filters out the acoustic signals that ecologists need to determine species diversity from a large number of audio files…