Cancer biologist Dr Lisa Becker is investigating the importance of blood vessels in tumors, particularly in melanoma. She is taking up the junior professorship in Tumour Microenvironment and Vascular Metabolism at the Faculty of Medicine at UDE.

What are neural networks, and how do they work? Prof. Dr. Sorin-Mihai Grad, new UDE-Prof of Discrete and Stochastic Optimization, aims to improve the understanding of mathematical mechanisms underlying these algorithms.

Germany may raise the statutory retirement age further from 2031 onwards. Yet many older workers already fail to reach retirement age because of health problems. A new IAQ Report examines whether disability pensions provide an adequate safety net for these individuals.