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VacanciesPre-announcement: Are you a student at the University of Innsbruck who is interested in digitalization topics and enjoys engaging in public relations, science communication, and event organization? Then this planned student assistant position might be for you. Be on the lookout for the job ad in the university's career portal from 21 December!
18.12.2024
Year Review 20242024 is drawing to a close and artificial intelligence (AI) has continued to be a hot topic in our line of work. So what could be more fitting than having out Christmas greetings accompanied by an AI-generated image of a polar bear? :) With this, the team at the Digital Science Center would like to thank you for your interest in our various events and for the good cooperation! We invite you to take a look at our photo review to learn what has been going on this year - we hope you enjoy browsing through our collection and wish you a good start to 2025!
16.12.2024
The Digital Science Center at the Informatik2024This year's Informatik2024 Festival whose motto was “Lock-in or log out?” took place in Wiesbaden, Germany. Joanna Chimiak-Opoka and Carina König from the Digital Science Center (DiSC) at the University of Innsbruck participated in the conference, which focused on the question of how to achieve digital sovereignty.
07.10.2024
Call for DiSC Award 2024The 2024 call for the DiSC Award is now open. We accept your applications until 3 April 2024.
09.02.2024
Year Review 2023The team of the Digital Science Center would like to thank you for your cooperation and wish you all the best for 2024! With this photo review, we look back on an eventful year - we hope you'll enjoy browsing through our selection!
14.12.2023
Revision of EDD Online LaunchedA thorough revision of EDD Online was launched by Manfred Markus from the Department of English. It is technically supervised by, among others, Joseph Wang-Kathrein (DiSC).
21.08.2023
Call for DiSC Award 2023The 2023 call for the DiSC Award is open. We accept your applications until 3 April 2023.
21.02.2023- FWF Research Group
The FWF Research Group "BCL2 Network Adaptations in B Cell Transformation", which Francesca Finotello from DiSC and the Departmet of Molecular Biology is a part of, has been selected for funding.
01.12.2022
From the Newsroom
New multimodal signature could predict immunotherapy success
An international team of researchers led by Francesca Finotello from the Digital Science Center (DiSC) and Department of Molecular Biology has derived a molecular signature from tumour transcriptomics data that quantifies the main sources of heterogeneity in the tumour microenvironment. This innovative signature, which the researchers call iHet, offers deeper insights into patients’ responses to immunotherapy and could improve cancer treatments.
Innsbrucker Digitalexperte in Weltethikkommission berufen
Welche Regeln braucht das Quantenzeitalter – und wie sichern wir Fortschritt für alle? Die Generalsekretärin der UNO-Bildungs- und Wissenschaftsorganisation UNESCO hat Prof. Matthias C. Kettemann vom Institut für Theorie und Zukunft des Rechts als einen von 18 Expert:innen der Weltkommission für Wissenschafts- und Technologieethik berufen.
New biomarker predicts success of immunotherapy in kidney cancer
Immunotherapy increases survival rates in kidney cancer, but does not work for everyone. A Leuven research team developed a new method to predict which patients will benefit from it. The team of Francesca Finotello (Computational Biomedicine Group) from the University of Innsbruck also contributed. Their study, published in the journal Nature Medicine, also opens new avenues to even more effective treatments.
New Course: A Multidisciplinary Journey into Generative AI
Generative artificial intelligence (AI) is on everyone's lips. In response to this hot topic, the Digital Science Center (DiSC) has designed an interdisciplinary course specifically aimed at giving students a basic understanding of the underlying principles of this technology and its far-reaching impact on various fields. It will start in the coming winter semester.
Best Paper Award for Adam Jatowt
Computer scientist Adam Jatowt was awarded the Best Paper Award at the European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR) this year in Dublin for the article "Temporal Natural Language Inference: Evidence-Based Evaluation of Temporal Text Validity".
Leveraging Ethics to Make Quantum Research Sustainable
Innsbruck is a leading center in the development of new quantum technologies. In order to understand the processes of societal change triggered by these technologies and to be able to develop corresponding ethics frameworks, the University of Innsbruck is founding today the Innsbruck Quantum Ethics Lab (IQEL), in which experts from various disciplines will work together.