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On 25 February, the farewell ceremony for Professor Dr Sybille Hellebrand and Professor Dr Reinhold Häb-Umbach took place in the Vice Dean's Office from 14:00. Institute Director Professor Dr Jens Förstner paid tribute to both with personal words on behalf of the entire faculty.

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At the 29th Workshop "Methods and Description Languages for Modelling and Verification of Circuits and Systems" (MBMV), which took place on 17 and 18 March 2026 at the Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg, scientists from the Institute of Electrical Engineering at Paderborn University were presented with the "MBMV Best Paper Award".

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The Institute of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology at Paderborn University mourns the loss of Prof. em. Dr.-Ing. Dieter Barschdorff, who passed away on 21 March 2026 at the age of 91.

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On 9 March 2026, the coolMINT.paderborn school laboratory in Osnabrück was awarded second place in the "Mobile offers" category at the 21st annual LernortLabor conference. The prize, donated by the Dr. Hans Riegel Foundation, honours the outstanding "MINT 4.OWL" project, which was created as part of the BMBFJS's MINT Cluster funding.

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In the 23rd episode of the Electrical Engineering podcast "Current Affairs", Dr Markus Hennig talks to our host, Olga Friesen, about whether the Bachelor's thesis is the end or just the beginning of your studies.

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Paderborn University's traditional New Year's Reception took place on Sunday, 18 January 2026. At the event in the Audimax with around 400 guests, the university once again honoured outstanding achievements by academics and students.

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The 22nd episode of the Electrical Engineering podcast "Current Affairs" is the first episode in English. In it, our new podcast host Dr. Tanuj Hasija talks to Prof. Dr. Sina Saravi about his research topic: the modelling and design of photonic quantum systems. Dr Tanuj Hasija works as an academic advisor at Paderborn University and researches signal and system theories. Prof Dr Sina Saravi moved to Paderborn University about a year ago from…

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The IEEE Signal Processing Society cordially invites you to a lecture by Dr Tomohiro Nakatani, IEEE Distinguished Industry Speaker. The event will take place on 27 February 2026 at 11:00 am in lecture hall L3.204 at Paderborn University.

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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.

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In the twenty-first episode of the Electrical Engineering podcast "Current Affairs", Dariana Schneider talks to our host, Jan Beinfohr, about the Computer Engineering degree programme.

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The latest film in our YouTube series ‘There's electrical engineering in that!’ is online: ‘The speed of light – it's part of our everyday lives!’.

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In the nineteenth episode of the electrical engineering podcast “Current Affairs,” Mesut Alptekin talks to our host, Tim Hetkämper, about the virtual electrical engineering laboratory.

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The RAT group leader, Prof. Dr. Erdal Kayacan, was elected to the Administrative Committee (AdCom) of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society for the period from 1 January 2026 to 31 December 2028.

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Mourn­ing for Prof. Dr.-Ing. Jür­gen Voss

The members of the Institute of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology mourn the loss of their former colleague, Prof. Dr.-Ing. Jürgen Voss, who passed away at the age of 81.

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In the seventeenth episode of the Electrical Engineering Podcast "Current Affairs", Karsten Böddeker talks to our host, Jan Beinfohr, about his year in Antarctica.

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