Research

Research is central at the IWR: We take up challenging application questions, investigate innovative mathematical methods, and establish state-of-the-art implementations to facilitate computational science for all members of the university. The infrastructure at IWR supports more than 500 scientists in their task to provide cutting-edge solutions for interdisciplinary research questions.

Our research is best characterized by its interdisciplinarity, as it is conducted through a productive dialogue between mathematicians, computer scientists, and individuals from various fields of computational science and experimentation. Inspired by the needs and challenges of the natural sciences, engineering, technology, the humanities, and the social sciences, the IWR strives to develop new mathematical and computer science methods for scientific computing, implementing them in efficient software for high-performance computing. These efforts push the boundaries of computational science further, enabling new research and insights in both method development and the scientific area of application.

We have built up unique expertise in all aspects of scientific computing, including modeling, simulation, and optimization (MSO) and machine learning and data science (ML&DS), with a focus on application.

Since its foundation in 1987, the IWR has grown into a methodological research centre spanning the university, with over 60 members from the faculties of mathematics and computer science, physics and astronomy, chemistry and earth sciences, engineering sciences, biosciences, medicine, philosophy, and behavioural and cultural studies.