Detlef Weigel receives Otto Bayer Award 2010

Detlef Weigel will receive the Otto Bayer Award 2010 of the Bayer Science and Education Foundation.

The award, one of the most important scientific prizes  in the German speaking countries, will be presented by the CEO of Bayer, Werner Wenning, … Read the rest

Nino Shervashidze wins NIPS 2009 Award

Nino Shervashidze, PhD student in Karsten Borgwardt’s group, has won the Outstanding Student Paper Award.

Her work was selected from 1105 articles submitted at NIPS, the premier conference in Machine Learning. In her paper, Nino presents a novel algorithm for … Read the rest

Weigel leads citation ranking in plant and developmental biology

The trade magazine Laborjournal regularly publishes rankings comparing the citation records of scientists from the German speaking countries (Austria, Germany, Switzerland).

Across publications that appeared from 2003 to 2006, Detlef Weigel ranked first, by a considerable margin, among both plant … Read the rest