Successful science evening of the Hector Fellow Academy
“Brain, computer and AI - soon hard to distinguish?” - Prof. Katrin Amunts (Cécile and Oskar Vogt Institute for Brain Research/Forschungszentrum Jülich), Prof. Rainer Goebel (Maastricht University) and Prof. Thomas Lippert (Forschungszentrum Jülich/Goethe University Frankfurt) provided answers to this question at the Hector Fellow Academy Science Evening in Düsseldorf on Thursday, July 10, 2025. In their talks, Amunts, scientific organizer of the evening, and her two colleagues presented to the audience in the lecture hall of the Kunstsammlung NRW and via livestream how supercomputers generate artificial intelligence, what we still want to learn from the structure of the brain and how the question can be answered from the perspective of cognitive neuroscience.
In his welcoming address and in the panel discussion moderated by Wolfram Eilenberger, Dr. Roberto Viola, Director General of DG Connect at the European Commission, explained how the European Union intends to drive further development in this area politically and at the same time put it on a firm ethical footing. A special “eye-catcher” was the exhibition in the foyer of the lecture hall, designed by the Cécile and Oskar Vogt Institute for Brain Research, which impressively demonstrated the development of brain research, from brain maps and models from the early 20th century to the digital research platform EBRAINS.
Video recording of the science evening
Contact
Erhard Zeiss
Wissenschaftlicher Kommunikationsreferent
- Institute of Neurosciences and Medicine (INM)
- Structural and Functional Organisation of the Brain (INM-1)
Room 3033