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On November 28, 2025, the Münster Replication Games took place for the first time, a one-day event organized jointly by the Institute for Replication (I4R), the Münster Center for Open Science (MüCOS), the Institute of Political Science, and the CDSC.

A total of 66 participants  (both in person and online) worked in 15 teams to reproduce or replicate findings from papers published in top-tier journals. The teams consisted of students and researchers from a variety of disciplines, ranging from political and economic sciences to psychology, sports science, and physics. The goal of the Replication Games is to test the robustness of scientific findings while simultaneously promoting research integrity.

After the event, participants have the opportunity to publish their results on the I4R website and to contribute as co-authors to a meta-paper compiling multiple replications.

We warmly thank our co-organizers Lenka Fiala, Lukas Röseler, Bernd Schlipphak, and Paul Decker, as well as all participants, for their great commitment and for making the premiere of the Münster Replication Games a success!

The building sector in Germany consumes around 25% of the nation’s energy and is responsible for roughly 16% of CO₂ emissions—representing significant potential for progress toward greater sustainability.

Against this backdrop, a new project on building energy management has recently been launched. As part of a master’s thesis by George Nana Harris, the project will explore how machine learning methods can be used to analyze and optimize energy consumption. The project was initiated by Oliver Kamps, Benjamin Risse, and Katrin Schmietendorf (all CDSC members), in close collaboration with Department 4.3 – Technical Building Services, represented by Julia Strietholt, Heiko Maschke, and Ralf Dressler.

Many thanks to the organizers for the opportunity to present this project as part of  CAMPUS EARTH Sustainability Day 2025!

At the  Tag der Lehre 2025, the CDSD was on display with two posters presenting the latest progress of ongoing projects funded through central QV resources.

These included the MoDaNa practical course (“Model- and Data-Based Methods in the Natural Sciences”), supervised by Svetlana Gurevich, Andreas Heuer, Christian Engwer, and Mario Ohlberger, as well as the development of the course “Interdisciplinary Introduction to Complex Networks” by Katrin Schmietendorf and Oliver Kamps, which will be part of the CDSC teaching program starting in the summer semester 2026.

We are delighted to have had the opportunity to showcase our work  and would like to thank the organizers for the invitation to showcase our posters. A big thanks also goes to the SHB staff, PhDs and Postdocs involved in the projects: Gunnar Birke, Christoph Dumstorf, Lennart Halstenberg, Lukas Haroska, Elias Koch, Annemarie Quas und Dr. Julia Schleuß.

We are continuing our activities in the field of science communication in the winter semester 2025/26 – once again in cooperation with the Center for Philosophy of Science (ZfW).

Katrin Schmietendorf and Oliver Kamps have put together the program for this semester’s ZfW lecture series
"Hach, alles ist komplex! Zur Vielgestaltigkeit von Komplexität in Wissenschaft, Gesellschaft und Kultur". The event is open to the public and takes place on Thursdays from 6:15 to 7:45 p.m. in lecture hall F2 at the Fürstenberghaus. Alternatively, the lectures can also be attended via Zoom.

The full program and further information are available here.

We would like to sincerely thank our colleagues at the ZfW for the opportunity to shape this series and for the excellent collaboration!

The CDSC is pleased to host the first Münster Replication Games together with Lukas Röseler from the Münster Center for Open Science (MüCOS), Bernd Schlipphak and Paul Drecker (Institute of Political Science), and Lenka Fiala from the Institute for Replication (I4R). During the one-day event, teams of three to five participants will work to replicate the findings of a scientific article. Participants will have the opportunity to publish their replications on the I4R website and contribute as co-authors to a combined meta-paper. You can find further information and register here.

Many thanks to all co-organizers for their great commitment and collaboration!

Tobias Wand was awarded the CV Academy Science Prize for his doctoral thesis titled “Understanding Complexity in Socio-Economic Systems at Various Time Scales: Data-Driven and Modeling Approaches”. The prize is awarded by Germany's largest Catholic academic association, the Cartellverband.

For his doctoral studies, Tobias conducted research as part of the InterKI project under the supervision of Prof. Uwe Thiele and Dr. Oliver Kamps. His work focuses on applying mathematical methods from physics to financial time series and socio-economic data related to the development of historical societies. The prize, which is endowed with 3,000 euros, is awarded annually for outstanding scientific work and is sponsored by the Felix-Porsch-Johannes-Denk-Stiftung.

Künstliche Intelligenz in der Welt von heute und Morgen - Cartellverband (CV)

On 20 May 2025, Dr Lukas Röseler, postdoctoral researcher in the lab of Prof. Mitja Back and managing director of the Münster Center for Open Science (MüCOS), was guest at the CeNoS Colloquium. In his talk, he provided fascinating insights into the principles and current developments surrounding Open Science, as well as the various activities of the MüCOS.

During the following "Caffeine & Connect" event, attendees had the opportunity to discuss the topic in more depth and to share their experiences and perspectives.

Many thanks to Lukas for his informative presentation on a topic of central importance to the future of science!

The University of Münster's central quality improvement committee has selected ten outstanding projects that promote innovation and creativity in university teaching. Two of these are associated with the CeNoS.

The first project, submitted by Katrin Schmietendorf and Oliver Kamps, aims to develop an application-oriented introductory lecture on complex networks — an exceptionally diverse and highly interdisciplinary field of research.  The lecture will be offered for the first time in the summer term 2026 and then be permanently included in the CeNoS teaching program. It is also intended to foster interdisciplinary exchange and cooperation at the University of Münster.

The second project is the practical course "Model- and Data-Based Methods in the Natural Sciences" (MoDaNa). Here, STEM students work on practical research topics using numerical modelling, machine learning and Python. The project involves Svetlana Gurevich, Andreas Heuer, Christian Engwer and Mario Ohlberger.

We would like to thank the university and the  QV Commission for the funding, as well as the student representations of Physics, Mathematics & Computer Science, Psychology, Biology and Chemistry for supporting our application for the network project!

From May 5 to 8 2025, the workshop “Conservations laws and non-reciprocity” took place in Münster. Experts from physics and mathematics discussed challenges and recent progress in the analysis of non-equilibrium systems, with a focus on non-reciprocity and conserved quantities.

The conference was supported by the Cluster of Excellence Mathematics Münster and the CDSC and organized by Markus Bär (PTB Berlin & TU Berlin), André Schlichting (University of Ulm), and our CDSC members Angela Stevens (University of Münster) and Uwe Thiele (University of Münster).

Further information and the Book of Abstracts can be found here.

At the beginning of the year, the Center for Emerging Researchers (CERes) launched the first 'GenAI Labs' workshop series, in which PhD students and postdocs can learn how to make their research activities more efficient, effective and innovative with the help of GenAI tools. Several members of CeNoS and the InterKI project were involved in organising and coaching the workshops: Dr Stefan Roski (formerly ZfW), Friedrich Bach and Jonathan Wandscheer (both REACH), Dr Martin Korth (CIT NWZ and CMTC) as well as Dr Oliver Kamps and Dr Katrin Schmietendorf.

We would like to thank Iva Ognjanovic and the CERes team for the great organisation and the opportunity to participate in this event!