Some children are particularly brave, others very compassionate. And then there are the temperamental ones – all with their own unique strengths. Tina Malti calls these different human potentials psychodiversity, taking her cue from biodiversity in nature. “It’s like a garden with different plants:…
Earth system scientist Dr Ana Bastos will join the Institute for Earth System Science and Remote Sensing at Leipzig University from 1 May 2024. The future Professor of Land-Atmosphere Interactions will combine atmospheric research, ecology and biogeochemistry in her research. Her work focuses on the…
As climate change threatens coffee farming, experts at Nestlé, the world’s largest food company, are exploring how advanced data science and artificial intelligence can help select and breed more climate-resilient crops. Together with researchers from scientific institutions in Brazil, France, the…
Drugs that target opioid receptors sometimes have severe side effects. Thousands of people around the world die every day from overdoses involving opioids such as fentanyl. An international team of researchers has taken a closer look at the molecular mechanisms of these active substances. The…
The Rector of Leipzig University, Professor Eva Inés Obergfell, was officially admitted to the European Academy of Sciences and Arts (EASA) at a ceremony in Salzburg on Saturday (6 April 2024). The legal scholar was elected by the Senate of the Academy in October 2023 as an ordinary member of Class…
The LeipzigLab working group “Historical Anthropospheres“ focusses on early, human-dominated landscapes that arose at different times under different circumstances and in different spaces. Historical Anthropospheres are characterised by artificial changes in the magnitudes and frequencies of…
