Helmholtz Zentrum München, the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics (IPP) and the German Aerospace Center (DLR) as well as the Technical University of Munich (TUM) and the Ludwig Maximilian Universität München (LMU) have founded the new graduate school for Data Science in Munich. Over the next six years, the new graduate school will receive a total of twelve million euros in funding. With the Leibniz Supercomputing Center (LRZ) and the Max Planck Computing & Data Facility (MPCDF), two major computing and data centers in the Munich region are also involved.
In the various areas of digital research, huge amounts of data are produced every day - with enormous potential. In order to exploit this potential, however, it is necessary to manage and interpret the generated data. But how does one learn to deal with all the mountains of data from digitized research? The scientists of tomorrow will be trained at the Graduate School for Data Science in Munich.
“Big challenges call for big solutions. We are delighted that we have managed to bring together these key players of the Munich metropolitan region for this project,” explains Prof. Dr. Dr. Fabian Theis, who will be the responsible coordinator of MuDS. As director of the Institute of Computational Biology at the Helmholtz Zentrum München and chair of Mathematical Modeling of Biological Systems at TUM, he is working in interdisciplinary fashion across organizational boundaries on a daily basis.
The project aims to combine methodological training with application-specific training in areas such as biomedicine, plasma physics, robotics and earth observation. Thus, the Munich School of Data Science addresses one of the core challenges of today's science. Prof. Dr. med. Dr. h.c. Matthias Tschöp, CEO of Helmholtz Zentrum München also explains: „With our approach, we aim to train them to become experts in artificial intelligence and machine learning, qualified to look beyond their own specialist discipline. By integrating the Munich Helmholtz Centers and both universities, we have succeeded in building a unique consortium, which in the long term will produce plentiful supply of top talents.”
The Munich School of Data Science will offer joint projects for PhD students, each designed by two partners - a domain-specific application partner and a methodological partner. In addition, participants will have the option of taking a course tailored to their needs, with a detailed onboarding phase followed up by advanced-level training. The training programme will be integrated into the existing courses of the universities and associated partners (LRZ and MPCDF).
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Press release: Tackling Big Data – new graduate school for Data Science in Munich