Upcoming Colloquium: 4 September with Arman Khalatyan "Research Automation with Agentic LLMs"
Join us for our next Colloquium - this time we move to the area of physics and astronomy! Our special guest will be Arman Khalatyan, Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam (AIP) / PUNCH4NFDI. Arman will present an AI platform at AIP and the way it supports research workflows with agentic LLMs. Arman will also discuss future perspectives of AI-assisted science in institutional research environments. Let's meet in person at FIZ Karlsruhe and online on Zoom! The speaker will join online. Please register here.
DiTraRe Symposium on Digitalisation of Research 2025: registration and poster submission now open!
Mark your calendars for December 2 and 3, 2025, when the DiTraRe Symposium on Digitalisation of Research will take place at the Centre for Art and Media (ZKM) in Karlsruhe. The Symposium is now open for registrations - register now! Check out interdisciplinary sessions and invited speakers in the programme on the Symposium website.
Through a keynote presentation, panel discussions, and interactive sessions, participants will explore the fast-evolving landscape of digital research - from AI-driven data analysis and curation, open science practices to groundbreaking technological advancements that have shaped how we conduct and share knowledge. Come exchange ideas with leading experts, engage in lively debates, and help chart the future of research in an increasingly digital world.
The Symposium will feature a dedicated poster slam and a poster session. Make sure to showcase your research in the form of a poster! We accept poster papers, describing the contents of your poster, which will be later included in the Symposium proceedings. Find more information on the Call for Posters in the EasyChair portal.
Recent Colloquium: 7 August with Till Keller "Transformation of Medical Care and Research Based on Digitalisation - Health 4.0"
On 7 August our special Colloquium guest was Till Keller (Department of Cardiology and Angiology, University Heart Center Freiburg - Bad Krozingen, Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg, Freiburg + Department of Cardiology, Justus Liebig University Giessen, Giessen). Till gave a talk on "Transformation of Medical Care and Research Based on Digitalisation - Health 4.0". Find video recording of the presentation session on the DiTraRe YouTube channel and presentation slides on Zenodo. Don't forget to join our discussion forum to talk about past and upcoming events and other DiTraRe related activities!
Workshop: Research Data: Incentive Structures in the Science System and the Use of Generative AI
The ITAS team responsible for the “Reflection and Resonance” dimension within the science campus Digital Transformation of Research (DiTraRe), organized an expert workshop on “Research Data: Incentive Structures in the Science System and the Use of Generative AI” on June 27, 2025 in Karlsruhe with researchers and practitioners dealing with research data from KIT and FIZ , Karlsruhe.
Background: Within the framework of the project Leibniz ScienceCampus – Digital Transformation of Research (DiTraRe), ITAS is responsible in the “Reflection and Resonance” dimension for providing a reflexive perspective on research data in times of digital transformation of research.
The workshop aimed to discuss the potential and barriers of research data within the science system, as well as identifying current challenges in the field of generative AI. To this end, after an introductory presentation on the benefits, barriers, and potential of research data, drawing on both literature and insights from interviews with DiTraRe use-case partners on the topic of “Research Data in the Context of Open Science and Open Data”, two discussion rounds were held with the participants. The first discussion round focused on incentive structures in the science system, based on completing a profile sheet. The second discussion round was organized as three silent table discussions addressing the following topics: increasing the visibility of datasets, improving metadata information, and enhancing potential measures for data sharing.
Lively and intense discussions during the workshop showed that across disciplines cultural shift in science towards open science and open data is still necessary to fully exploit the potentials of research data. This included the publication of data, motivations, benefits, and implementation of data management. The debate on generative AI in its use for research data is only about to start, identifying potentials and barriers was thus a fruitful exercise and also centered on ways in which generative AI could facilitate the transition named above. The debates will be continued in the upcoming events of the science campus, e.g. in the Symposium as well as in the planned citizen dialogue for 2026.
Further reading:
- Report from the KIT-Bib: KIT-Bibliothek. 2025. Guideline zum Publizieren von Forschungsdaten für Forschende am KIT.
- EU with benefits of research data: European Commission. 2025. Facts and Figures for open data.
- Report about genAI: Chafetz, Hannah,Sampriti Saxena, and Stefaan G. Verhulst. 2024. A Fourth Wave of Open Data? Exploring the Spectrum of Scenarios for Open Data and Generative AI.
Use Case "AI in Biomedical Engineering" goes Brazil: Meet us at Computing in Cardiology 2025!
Our use case “AI in Biomedical Engineering” will be represented at this year’s Computing in Cardiology (CinC) 2025 in São Paulo. Axel Loewe and Silvia Becker will both contribute to the scientific program with session chairing and presentations.
Program highlights on 17 September:
- 08:30 – 10:00 | Gran Auditorium Amazônia
- Session chaired by Axel Loewe:
- Innovative Approaches to Understanding and Treating Atrial Fibrillation: Bridging Clinical Practice, Computational Modeling, and Advanced Imaging
- 11:45 – 12:00 | Turquesa 5 Room Caatinga
- Presentation by Silvia Becker:
- Deep Learning for Amplified P-Wave Duration Annotation
- 12:30 – 14:00 | Turquesa Room Pantanal
- Presentation by Axel Loewe:
- Accelerating Cardiac Myocyte Simulations with Physics-Informed Neural Networks for Sodium Channel Gating
Meet DiTraRe team at the Open Science Fair in Geneva, 15-17 September!
If you're attending the Open Science Fair, you may check out the DiTraRe poster and talk to Felix Bach and Christian Bonatto Minella who will be representing DiTraRe during the conference. They will present DiTraRe’s architecture, pilot cases, and development roadmap, demonstrating practical approaches to institutionalizing trust in scientific workflows. More info on the poster: here.
DiTraRe @ Open Science Conference 2025: discussion session
Meet DiTraRe at the Open Science Conference in Hamburg, 8-9 October 2025! We will be hosting a discussion session on Streamlining Data Publication: Automatic Metadata and Large Datasets in the Age of AI.
This discussion session will provide insights into the approaches, technologies, and lessons learned from the Leibniz Science Campus “Digital Transformation of Research” (DiTraRe) work on RADAR and implementation of AI methods in the topic of metadata standardisation. The session is especially relevant for everyone interested in the practical implementation of advanced research data management features that promote reproducibility, efficiency and FAIR principles.