HEIBRiDS (Helmholtz International Berlin Research School in Data Science) is an interdisciplinary doctoral program combining Data Science and other scientific disciplines! The goal is to educate a generation of data scientists, who understand the demands and challenges of disciplines in which Data Science is a necessity. HEIBRiDS is established jointly between the Helmholtz Association and BIFOLD (Berlin Institute for the Foundations of Learning and Data).
HEIBRiDS brings together five Helmholtz centers and partners of BIFOLD, all working at the intersection of databases and data mining, machine learning, network science, statistics and statistical physics, information retrieval, applied mathematics, and analyses of complex networks. The interdisciplinary nature of the program requires two supervisors: one from a Helmholtz center and one from a university partner.
Collaborating Helmholtz centers include AWI, DESY, GFZ, HZB, and MDC. BIFOLD is based at Technische Universität Berlin (TU), Berlin, and institutional partner is the Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin.
As an interdisciplinary program, HEIBRiDS trains young scientists in Data Science applications within a broad range of natural science domains, spanning from Earth & Environment, to Geosciences, Materials & Energy and Molecular Medicine. The mission of HEIBRiDS is to educate new generations of researchers, who, as skilled data scientists, understand the demands and the challenges of the disciplines in which data science has become indispensable.
I really appreciate the large network of involved (data) scientists that are always willing to support the doctoral researchers.
Tabea Rettelbach, Doctoral Researcher @ HEIBRiDS
HEIBRiDS offers fully-funded PhD projects at the intersection of Data Management, Machine/Deep Learning, Imaging, Mathematical Modelling and High-throughput Data Analytics.The training program applies the cotutelle training principle that involves one supervisor from a Helmholtz partner and one from an ECDF partner. Annual meetings with the Thesis Advisory Committee (TAC) and a combination of a core research program and individual training sessions are the foundation of the HEIBRiDS training program. As part of the Helmholtz Information & Data Science Academy (HIDA), attractive data science events, symposia and courses are made available to HEIBRiDS doctoral researchers, and research stays within Germany or abroad are facilitated.
7Helmholtz Centers and University partners
With interdisciplinary data science projects within Earth & Environment, to Geosciences, Materials & Energy and Molecular Medicine.
Collaborating Helmholtz Centers include the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research (AWI), the Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY), the German Aerospace Center (DLR), the German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ), the Helmholtz Zentrum Berlin for Materials and Energy (HZB), and the Max-Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine (MDC). ECDF partners in the program include Technische Universität Berlin (TU) as well as Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin.
HEIBRiDS is one of the six Helmholtz Information and Data Science Schools (HIDSS) under the roof of the Helmholtz Information & Data Science Academy (HIDA).
44HEIBRiDS Doctoral Researchers
- 11 Alumni
- 24 HEIBRiDS-funded
- 9 Associated
