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Communicator-Prizewinner 2026: Professor Dr. Ute Schmid — Professor Dr. Ute Schmid

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Her communication activities are distinguished by their wide range of formats and their consistency. The head of the chair for Cognitive Systems at the University of Bamberg receives the Communicator Award, presented by the DFG and Stifterverband, for her long-standing and wide-ranging commitment to communicating and explaining artificial intelligence since the 1990s.

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Four of the awards are being made in connection with the DFG’s participation in the federal government’s Global Minds Initiative Germany. These enable researchers who were previously active in France, the United Kingdom, Sweden and the Netherlands to establish independent AI research groups in Germany.

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According to the DFG, research data and its associated infrastructures must be far better protected against a growing range of threats. In its first statement, the Senate working group “Resilience in academia” has now presented recommendations, which are directed at policymakers as well as at funding organisations, scholarly societes and researchers.

This year, three female and seven male researchers are to receive the Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Prize – Germany’s most prestigious award for researchers in the early stages of their academic career. The decision was announced by the DFG’s Joint Committee at the recommendation of a selection committee appointed by it.

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