Winter 2025/2026 Lecture Series

Starting October 28th, FONDA will organize a series of scientific talks from researchers in remote sensing, computational material science, human-computer interaction, along with several other topics relevant to the scientific use of workflows. The location of the talks will alternate between the main campus of Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin in Berlin Mitte, the Natural Sciences Campus in Adlershof, and fully online.

If you are interested, feel free to join us!

Remote participation for all sessions is available via Zoom at the following link: FONDA Winter Lectures

Date/TimeLocationSpeakerTitle
28. Oct. 15:00-16:30HU Main Campus Unter den Linden 6 10117, Berlin Room 1066e (hybrid)Nikos Tsakiridis – University of ThessalonikiFrom Petabytes to Pedons: Cloud-Native Earth Analytics for Soil Mapping
Matthes Rieke – 52 Degrees NorthBiodiversity monitoring with openEO – a look at scalability and reproducibility
11. Nov. 15:00-17:00OnlineMilica Todorovic – University of TurkuComputational materials engineering with active learning
Darren Moore – STFC Scientific ComputingTier-1 and Done: Surviving the LHC Data Avalanche
Sam Grayson – University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignProvenance in DAWs for reproducibility, parallelism, and comprehensibility
18. Nov. 15:00-17:00HU Adlershof Campus Rudower Chaussee 25 12489, Berlin Humboldt-Kabinett (hybrid)Cem Okulmus – University of PaderbornOntology-Mediated Query Answering for Navigational Queries in Property Graphs
Patrick Griffiths – European Space AgencyNavigating the EO platform jungle – interoperable workflows & federations enabling an ecosystem approach for cloud-based Earth Observation data exploitation
25 Nov. 14:00-18:00HU Adlershof Campus Rudower Chaussee 25 12489, Berlin Humboldt-Kabinett (hybrid)See our Workshop on Reducing Carbon Emissions! 
09. Dec. 15:00-16:30HU Main Campus Unter den Linden 6 10117, Berlin Room 2070A  Sebastian Feger – Technische Hochschule RosenheimThe Design of Motivating and Rewarding Data Management Infrastructure: From CERN to Agriculture
Hanna Hauptmann – Utrecht UniversityDealing with Uncertainty: Where Explanations support or Harm Human–AI Decision Making
Winter Break   
20. Jan. 15:00-16:30  HU Main Campus Unter den Linden 6 10117, Berlin Room 2249ALaura Koesten – University of Vienna 
Karsten Peters-von Gehlen – Deutsches Klimarechenzentrum     
03. Feb 15:00-16:30    TBDEvropi Stefanidi – Technische Universität Wien   
Adrien Doerig – Freie Universität Berlin 
17. Feb 15:00-16:30TBDEleni Tzirita Zacharatou – Hasso-Plattner-Institut