Data Science Center

We are seeking a student assistant (m/f/d) to support us in website maintenance, event organization, and science communication.

The funded project examines how African and Afrodescendant people in Romance-speaking Europe engage with digital platforms to articulate narratives and build diasporic identities. The SQL database system will support the documentation and analysis of Afrodiasporic online presences.

As part of the DSC's DataNord subproject, Serafin Arhelger will be working as a data journalist in residence over the coming months to share practical skills in communicating data-based research and to promote exchange between researchers and data journalists.

As part of the Joint Plenary 2025 of NFDI4Biodiversity and NFDI4Earth, held from 22–25 September 2025 in Bremen, DSC-colleagues Sarah Büker and Annika Nolte conducted a hands-on workshop.

Together with the Digital Science Center of Kiel University, the DSC once again hosted the Community Workshop at the INFORMATIK Festival 2025 on September 16. The event aims to foster interdisciplinary exchange and sustainable networking among data science initiatives across Germany.

On July 2nd, the summer meeting of the DataNord project – the interdisciplinary data competence centre for the Bremen region – took place. The annual event offers all project partners the opportunity to share updates and aims to foster exchange and collaboration across institutions.

We are happy to welcome two new arrivals at the Data Science Center. As a research associate, Timo will be responsible for managing the infrastructure and IT services of the DSC. Hannes will be completing an internship at the DSC and will support our team with various tasks.

As part of the DataNord project, the members of the U Bremen Research Alliance jointly organized the “Research Data Day” (TdF) on 11 June. The Data Science Center also attended the event and participated in the organisation of the Research Data Day 2025.

Results from a study conducted by the University of Bremen have shown that students are regularly confronted with tobacco outlets on their way to school. DSC Data Scientists Annika Nolte and Susanne de Vogel contributed to the study by supporting the research team in the geospatial data analysis.

DSC research associate Dr. Sana Hassan Imam successfully defended her dissertation titled “Enhancing User Engagement in Online Collaborative Communities using Artificial Intelligence”. The work was conducted in collaboration with the Research Group Diginomics at Faculty 07 (Business Studies).