Daimler und Benz Stiftung - Dialog in the Museum

The Dialog in the Museum series of lectures is conducted in cooperation with the Daimler Truck AG, the Mercedes-Benz Group AG and the Mercedes-Benz Museum. The Foundation invites renowned researchers and academics several times each year to speak in Stuttgart’s Mercedes-Benz Museum on the current status of their research and to enter into discussion with the participants. The lectures deal with up-to-date topics, with a particular focus on economic and social implications.

Follow your nose – How scents dictate our lives

Prof. Dr. Hanns Hatt, November 24, 2022
Prof. Dr. Hanns Hatt is a member of the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences, the Leopoldina and the New York Academy of Sciences ...

Mortui vivos docent – How Post-Mortem Examinations Save Lives

Prof. Dr. Marcel A. Verhoff, October 6, 2022
Prof. Dr. Marcel A. Verhoff has held the Chair of Forensic Medicine at Goethe University Frankfurt since 2013; he is also Director of the Institute of Forensic Medicine at the University Hospital ...

Architects of the Universe: How black holes influence the evolution of galaxies

Dr. Dominika Wylezalek , July 21, 2022
Dr. Dominika Wylezalek heads a DFG Emmy Noether research group at the Center for Astronomy at Heidelberg University and provides an exciting insight into her current research based on real data ...

Was Immigration Responsible for the Fall of the Roman Empire? Late Antiquity as a Model Case in Migration History

Prof. Dr. Sebastian Schmidt-Hofner, February 17, 2022
Prof. Dr. Sebastian Schmidt-Hofner holds the Chair of Ancient History at the University of Tübingen and conducts research on European late antiquity in the period between about 300 and 700 AD. The word "Migration of Nations" is usually associated with ...

Excavations in Mosul after the Civil War – Archaeology as a Means of Cultural Policy

Prof. Dr. Stefan M. Maul, November 23, 2021
Prof. Dr. Stefan M. Maul holds the Chair of Assyriology at the University of Heidelberg and is currently researching the legacies of pre-Islamic cultures with a team of Assyriologists and Near Eastern archaeologists ...

For an Infrastructure that Improves Everyday Life – New Spatio-Temporal Concepts for the Design of a Sustainable Settlement Landscape

Prof. Mark Michaeli, September 23, 2021
In his lecture, Prof. Mark Michaeli dealt with the consequences of social change for the changes in the built and unbuilt environment. Using a few examples, he gave an insight into his research ...

We Are Not Alone. How Microbes in the Gut Influence Our Lives

Prof. Dr. Dirk Haller, February 4, 2020
Microorganisms populate our body surfaces, outside and inside. But it is precisely our intestines that provide living space for trillions of bacteria. This microbial ecosystem, also known as the microbiome, accompanies every human being ...

“Algorithms & Artificial Intelligence: Genuine Progress or Just Digital Alchemy?”

Prof. Dr. Vincent Heuveline, December 3, 2019
The mathematician and computer scientist Vincent Heuveline on the not entirely tension-free relationship between human and artificial intelligence (AI).

When a Guardian Angel Becomes a Tyrant: New Insights in Pain Research

Prof. Rohini Kuner, Ph.D., September 24, 2019
The pain is like Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde: He can protect our body from harm, but he can also become a ruthless tyrant. This Janus-faced nature is still a mystery today ...

Biodiversity: Preserving the Variety of Life on Earth

Prof. Johannes Vogel, Ph.D., June 6, 2019
The conservation of biodiversity represents one of the great challenges of the 21st century. Because the biological diversity, by which we mean not only the diversity of species but also the diversity of ecosystems, is increasing dramatically worldwide ...

The Awakening of the Mind – A New View on the Emergence of Humankind

PD Dr. Miriam Haidle, February 28, 2019
Until recently, it was true that our ancestors in Europe made a giant leap around 40,000 years ago. Cognitively, culturally, maybe even genetically, they became human in today's sense. They developed a complex language ...

Does the Internet Make Us Healthy or Sick – or Does It Just Make the Psychiatrists Crazy?

Dr. Jan Kalbitzer, December 11, 2018
Now it's official: Playing games on the Internet can be addictive. At least that's what the latest version of the International Statistical Classification of Diseases (ICD) says. However, the introduction of a globally defined ...

The power of viruses - enemies, companions and beneficials

Prof. Dr. Hans-Georg Kräusslich, September 27, 2018
Viruses have accompanied mankind and all other living beings since time immemorial. Some theories see them as a very early stage of evolution. As a research field, however, virology is a young discipline - only since the beginning of the 20th century ...

Fascination conspiracy - history and effects of conspiracy theories

Prof. Dr. Michael Butter, June 19, 2018
Behind the terrorist attacks of 9/11 was not Osama Bin Laden - but the USA itself. The Federal Republic is not a country, but a company and the population of Europe is being targeted in the course of a "Great Exchange" ...

Neurorobots - About artificial stupidity and natural intelligence

Dr. Florian Röhrbein, February 22, 2018
Despite some spectacular successes, today's artificial intelligence systems fall far short of expectations. Scientists are hoping for new impetus from the start of large-scale research projects ...