IU Research Incubator

Exploring practical text-to-speech solutions for learning with mathematical content in higher education.

• Professors involved: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Paul Libbrecht, Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Robert Graf, Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Nazli Basbug, Prof. Dr. Tim Schlippe

• Duration: April 2026 – March 2028

How artificial intelligence is changing fraudulent communication

• Professors involved: Prof. Dr. habil Christian Thiel

• Duration: 01.10.2026 – 30.09.2028

How artificial intelligence is changing fraudulent communication

• Professors involved: Prof. Dr. habil Christian Thiel

• Duration: 01.10.2026 – 30.09.2028

Sozialarbeiterische und Pädagogische Praxis im Umgang mit Psychopharmaka

• Beteiligte Professoren: Prof. Dr. Boris Friele, Prof. Dr. Aljoscha Jegodtka, Jochen Hotstegs

• Dauer: 2 Jahre

Virtueller Campus als hybrider Lern-, Erfahrungs- und Partizipationsraum im Fernstudium

• Beteiligte Professoren: Prof. Nadine Trautzsch, Prof. Jörg Burbach, Stefan Simond

• Dauer: 18-24 Monate (01.10.2026 - 31.03.2028)

Positive Psychology-informed Communication in Healthcare

• Beteiligte Professoren: Prof. Dr. Cornelia Schlick, Dr. Nicole Röttele

• Dauer: 21 Monate (01.10.26 – 30.06.28)

Marketing konzeptionell empirisch misst und longitudinal analysiert

• Beteiligte Profesorinnen: Prof. Dr. Gabriele Schuster, Caterina Fox

• Dauer: 2 Jahre (01.10.2026 - 30.09.2028)

Entwicklung einer Skala zur Messung von Intra-Team Coopetition

• Beteiligte Professoren: Tim Hampel

• Dauer: 2 Jahre (01.10.2026 - 31.03.2028)

Gestationsdiabetes und das Risiko für späteren Typ-2-Diabetes

• Beteiligte Professor:innen: Prof. Dr. Claudia Miersch, Prof. Dr. Dagmar Ittner, Prof. Dr. Simone Jacobs, Prof. Dr. Brit Schneider,

• Dauer: 01.08.2025 – 30.07.2027

Cloud Security Assessment, Monitoring and Enforcement

• Beteiligte Professor:innen: Prof. Dr. Ahmed Taha, Prof. Dr. Jörn-Marc Schmidt

• Dauer: 01.08.2025 – 30.07.2027

Exploring practical text-to-speech solutions for learning with mathematical content in higher education.

• Beteiligte Professor:innen:Prof. Dr.-Ing. Paul Libbrecht, Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Robert Graf, Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Nazli Andjic, Prof. Dr. Tim Schlippe

• Dauer: 04/2026 – 03/2028

Wahrnehmung rechtsextremer Narrative und Anschlusshandeln: Entwicklung einer innovativen qualitativen Erhebungsmethodik

• Beteiligte Professor:innen: Dennis Walkenhorst, Jens Ostwaldt

• Dauer: 01.04.2026 - 31.03.2027

Development of a Cost-effective Edible Vaccine Candidate Against Human Papillomavirus (HPV) Infection and Cervical Cancer

• Beteiligte Professor:innen:
  Dr. Andreas Lössl
  Prof. Dr. Mohammad Tahir Waheed

• Dauer: 01.04.2026 - 30.09.2027

Tailored Automated Pain Assessment Systems

• Beteiligte Professor:innen:
  Prof. Dr. Heinke Hihn

• Dauer: 01.04.2026 bis 31.05.2027

Interprofessionelle Lehre neu gedacht – Partizipative Analyse und Weiterentwicklung KI-gestützter Bot-Lösungen im Hochschulsetting

• Beteiligte Professor:innen:
  Prof. Dr. Marion Roddewig
  Prof. Dr. Sandra Pahr-Hosbach
  Prof. Dr. Marian Benner-Wickner

• Dauer: 01.04.2026 - 31.03.2028

XQML in biomedical research: Advancing molecular-phenotypic association studies through the integration of explainable quantum machine learning

• Professors involved:
  Prof. Dr.rer.nat. Elena Jolkver

• Duration: 2 years

Studies on the impact of GenAI on the self-perception and consumer behaviour of Generation Z

• Professors involved:
  Prof. Dr. Henrik Vogel
  Prof. Dr. Susanne O‘Gorman
  Gabriele Leppelmann

• Duration: 01.04.2026 – 30.03.2028

Personality-based adaptive learning

• Professors involved:
  Prof. Dr.-Ing. Kristina Schaaff
  Prof. Dr. Marc-André Heidelmann

• Duration: 01.07.2025 – 30.06.2027

Measuring & Strengthening Students’ Self-Concept of AI

• Beteiligte Professor:innen:
  Prof. Dr. Claudia Heß
  Prof. Dr. Cornelia Heinisch
  Prof. Dr. Sibylle Kunz
  Prof. Dr. Adrienne Steffen

• Dauer: 01.10.2025 – 30.09.2027

Empirical basis for academic research on expectation formation in the crypto sector

• Professors involved:
  Prof. Dr. David Florysiak

  Prof. Dr. Andrey Afanasiev

  Sven Wagenknecht (Industry Partner)

• Duration: 01.02.2025 – 31.01.2027

A New AI System for Large-Scale Analysis of Attitudes, Sentiments and Consumption Trends in the Sports Sector

• Professors involved:
  Bertram Taetz
  Gabriele-Bleser Taetz
  Janki Dodiya
  Armin Grasnick

• Duration: 10/2025 –09/2027

A New AI System for Large-Scale Analysis of Attitudes, Sentiments and Consumption Trends in the Sports Sector

• Professors involved:
  Prof. Dr. Francisco Tigre Moura
  Prof. Dr. Visieu Lac

• Duration: 2 years

Study on everyday musical behaviour in child day care centres

• Professors involved:
  Prof. Dr phil. Rebecca Voss
  Prof. Dr Immanuel Ulrich

• Duration: 01.07.2025 - 30.06.2027

Measures for Energy Transition with Artificial Societies

• Professors involved:
  Prof. Dr. Maik Günther
  Prof. Dr. Guido Bayard

• Duration: 2025 – 2027

Financial education of senior citizens

• Professors involved:
  Prof. Dr Johannes Treu
  Prof. Dr Stephan Otto
  Prof. Dr Okka Zimmermann

• Duration: 10/2025 – 09/2027

Boost your ultrasound-skills using Virtual Reality

• Professors involved:
  Prof. Dr.-Ing. Armin Grasnick
  Prof. Dr. Christian Erker
  Dr. Sheikh Radiah Rahim Rivu
  Dr.-Ing. Ali Mehmood Khan

• Duration: 10/2025 – 10/2027

Creation of a database for the integration of international economic and economic-psychological factors

• Professors involved:
  Prof. Dr Julia Pitters
  Prof. Dr Max Pumperla
  Prof. Dr Franz Seitz

• Duration: 2 years

Pulse survey on digitalisation (in) social work from the perspective of practice

• Professors involved:

  Prof. Dr Jakob Tetens

  Prof. Dr Juliane Wahren

  Prof.in Dr Annemarie Matthies

  Prof. Dr Jan Sailer

• Duration: 04/2025 - 03/2027

Determining the needs and requirements of children and adolescents for an AI chatbot in health prevention - using the example of the Healthyfy platform

• Professors involved:
  Laura-Maria Altendorfer
  Olaf Langhardt

• Duration: 01.01.2025 to 31.12.2026

Strengthening sales and service teams: AI training in times of skills shortages

• Professors involved:
  Philipp Diebold
  Cecile Kornmann

• Duration: 2 years

Universal Multimodal Actuator Sensor Chip (UMASC) for biomedical applications

• Involved Professors:
  Prof. Dr.-Ing. Moustafa Nawito
  Prof. Dr. med. Amani Mahmoud Nawito

• Duration: 01.10.2024 - 30.09.2026

Konzeption und Umsetzung einer Mehrthemenumfrage zu neuen Reiseformen an der Schnittstelle von New Work, Freizeit und Urlaub

• Beteiligte Professor:innen:
  Prof. Dr. Sven Pastowski

  Prof. Dr. Peter Neumann

  Prof. Dr. Andreas Zimmer

• Dauer: 01.01.2025 – 31.12.2026

Adaptive Radio Channel Modelling of Wireless Condition Monitoring Systems

• Involved Professors:
  Prof. Dr.-Ing. Olaf C. Haenssler, PhD
  Prof. Dr.-Ing. Kamel Haddadi

• Duration: 2 years

Representation of Law in Logic for the Automation of Legal Norms

• Involved Professors: Prof. Dr. Ralf Kneuper ralf.kneuper@iu.org Prof. Dr. Petra Beenken petra.beenken@iu.org Prof. Dr. Ulrich John ulrich.john@iu.org Prof. Dr. TianXiang Lu tianxiang.lu@iu.org

• Duration: 07/2024 – 06/2026

At home on the street: Investigating the lives and worlds of homeless young people in Germany

• Contact persons:Thomas Wilke, thomas.wilke@iu.org Rebecca Schmolke, rebecca.schmolke@iu.org, Phil C. Langer (IPU Berlin), phil.langer@ipu-berlin.de

• Duration: 01.04.2024 – 31.03.2026

Enhancing Student Engagement and Learning Outcomes in Online Education

• Contact persons: Prof. Dr. Andreas Hellmann, Prof. Dr. Jessica Hastenteufel, Dr. Lawrence Ang, Dr. Suresh Sood, Prof. Dr. Bernd Joers, Dr. Polina Khrennikova

• Duration: 2024

Childhood educators in all-day education and care - studies on the pedagogical support of children aged 6-12 in schools and after-school care centres

• Contact persons: Prof. Dr. Katharina Gerarts, Katharina.gerarts@iu.org, Prof. Dr. Margarete Jooß-Weinbach, margarete.jooss-weinbach@iu.org, Prof. Dr. Sarah Hagemann-Schmelzeisen, sarah.schmelzeisen-hagemann@iu.org

• Duration: 2024-2026

Automatic Music Orchestration with Machine Learning/AI

• Contact persons: Prof. Dr. -Ing. Gissel Velarde, gissel.velarde@iu.org, Prof. Dr. Niel Bretana, neil-arvin.bretana@iu.org

• Duration: 2024-2025

AI-supported detection of cyber attacks (especially zero-day exploits) on IT infrastructures

• Contact persons: Prof. Dr. Alexander Lawall, alexander.lawall@iu.org, Prof. Dr. Thomas Zöller, thomas.zoeller@iu.org

• Duration: 01.09.2024 – 31.08.2026

Artificial intelligence and other innovative technologies for planning laws

• Contact person: Prof. Dr. Heiko Krüger

• Duration: 01.09.2023 until 31.11.2024

Examining sustainability and ESG as drivers for business success

• Contact person: Prof. Dr. Christian Kroll

• Duration: 01.10.2023 until 30.09.2025

Virtual Interactive Simulation vw. Online and non-tech coaching

• Contact person: Prof. Dr. Ellena Werning

• Duration: 01.03.2024 -28.02.2026

DigiLearn: How students learn in distance learning programmes

• Contact persons: Prof. Dr. Immanuel Ulrich, Prof. Dr. Christina Buschle, Prof. Dr. Mario Herrmann

• Duration: 01.03.2024 - 28.02.2026