The Zuse Institute Berlin (ZIB)

is an interdisciplinary research institute for applied mathematics and data-intensive high-performance computing. Its research focuses on modeling, simulation and optimization with scientific cooperation partners from academia and industry.

Toward Sustainable Public Transport

In the evolving landscape of public transportation, achieving efficiency, sustainability, and cost-effectiveness is paramount. With over 8 billion passengers annually…

Making Powerful AI less Opaque

Deep learning methods excel in various do-mains, yielding substantial economic benefits and practical implications. From powering self-driving cars and enabling protein…

Mathematics for the Energy Transition

In the face of one of the most pressing challenges of our time — the transition to sustainable, fossil-free energy systems — Germany continues to emit greenhouse gases…

Better Drugs for Severe Diseases

Pain therapy is one of the most important areas of health care with 12–15 million patients with chronic pain, including 5 million with severe pain, in Germany alone…

40 Years of Excellence in High-Performance Computing

What do such diverse fields as climate modeling, renewable energy, artificial intelligence, and precision medicine have in common? They all rely on high-performance…

Computing how life works

Most life forms, including plants, animals, and humans, are composed of cells. The cell itself is a kind of tiny factory where millions of molecules interact continuously…

Better Health Care with Big Data

At the beginning of the 21st century, a doctor’s understanding of a patient’s health was largely limited to the data gathered from physical exams, basic lab tests, and…

Mathematics for Quantum Technology

A story about transportable quantum light sources with record-breaking photon generation rates and the development of quantum computers

World-Record Solar Cells

Our society is facing tremendous changes re-lated to climate change. In order to reduce CO2 emissions from energy production, we need to exploit sustainable sources of…

Modeling Tomorrow: Computational Lens on Social Dynamics

Modern societies face numerous significant challenges, including climate change, health pandemics, forced migration, political instability and social injustice…

Excellent Support for Digital Science

ZIB hosts Berlin's high-end data and computing center as well as its scientific high-speed data network BRAIN