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Dr.-Ing. Mats Vernholz (Paderborn University)

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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BU: Dr Tomohiro Nakatani, Picture rights: Dr. Tomohiro Nakatani

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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Symbolic image (Paderborn University, Besim Mazhiqi)

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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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.

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Ul­tra­sound con­gress brings in­ter­na­tion­al re­search to Pader­born

From 21 to 25 September 2025, Paderborn hosted the 9th International Congress on Ultrasonics (ICU),(https://2025icu.org/ ). Around 350 scientists from all over the world came together at Paderborn University to present and discuss the latest developments in the field of ultrasound technology. The aim of the congress is to bring together experts from science, technology and industry to discuss current issues and future applications of ultrasound…

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In the sixteenth episode of the Electrical Engineering Podcast "Current Affairs", Jaqueline Hinz talks to our host, Olga Friesen, about the organisation Arbeiterkind.de.

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/Foto: Nadija Carter) Geschäftsführer Dr. Markus Holt, Prof. Dr. Balázs Kovács, Prof. Dr. Axel-Cyrille Ngonga, Dekan Prof. Dr. Jürgen Klüners

New Vice Deans for Com­puter Sci­ence and Math­em­at­ics elec­ted

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.

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In the fifteenth episode of the Electrical Engineering podcast "Current Affairs", Anastacia Ebers talks to our host, Tim Hetkämper, about the dual study programme.

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