Press Releases

The Faculty of Catholic Theology at the University of Würzburg has awarded Josef Schuster, President of the Central Council of Jews in Germany, an honorary doctorate for his services to science and church life.

The Senate of the University of Würzburg has adopted a code of conduct entitled ‘Science – Freedom and Responsibility’. It shows how JMU defines and applies the freedom of science.

Milestone for German-language large language models: the first purely German large language model has been trained at the University of Würzburg. It was created at the Centre for Artificial Intelligence and Data Science (CAIDAS).

A recent study from the University of Würzburg unveiled a key enzyme involved in producing selenoproteins, opening new strategies for treating certain types of cancer in children.

Once again, the ‘Global Ranking of Academic Subjects’ confirms JMU's top performance in medical technology, biological sciences, and physics. Moreover, the university is above average in other fields.

1st place in Germany, 1st place in Europe, 3rd place worldwide: JMU's Virtual Reality researchers achieve these top results in the CSRankings. The university is also top in other areas.

Professors Ivo Boneca, Mark Brönstrup, and Christophe Zimmer have been awarded one of the most prestigious European research prizes, an ERC Synergy Grant worth eleven million euros.

Small satellites that find and collect space debris: Mohamed Khalil Ben-Larbi is working towards this goal. He is the new Professor of Space Informatics and Satellite Systems at the University of Würzburg.

Plants adapt their water consumption to environmental conditions by counting and calculating environmental stimuli with their guard cells. Plant researchers from Würzburg report this in ‘Current Biology’.

Can virtual agents strengthen the trust of people with a migration background in the police? A research team from the University of Würzburg has investigated this. The results surprised even those responsible.

The University Board has issued a statement on the announced protest meeting of the “Students for Palestine” in Würzburg.

In the current Times Higher Education Ranking, Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg (JMU) has climbed twelve places and now ranks 163rd worldwide. JMU performs particularly well in the areas of knowledge transfer and research quality.

Lectures for the winter semester 2024/25 start at the University of Würzburg on 14 October. At the annual press conference at the start of the semester, President Paul Pauli provided information on current topics from the university.

Light pollution is more serious than expected: Moths not only lose their orientation directly under street lamps. Their flight behaviour is also disturbed outside the cone of light.

Plants can extract even the smallest traces of the important nutrient potassium from the soil. A team led by Würzburg biophysicist Rainer Hedrich describes how they achieve this in ‘Nature Communications’.