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Clear the stage for the „Frankfurt Alliance“

On Saturday, September 28, the first Science Festival Frankfurt will take place at Roßmarkt in Frankfurt. Science will come alive for young and old alike: on stage at science slams, debates, interactive shows, and short lectures, as well as in the science tents of the individual regional institutions. In the ATHENE tent, you can learn how to recognize and expose deep fakes. Children can try their hand at programming Sphero robots.

Below you will find the press release for the Frankfurt Science Festival on September 28, 2024:

At the Roßmarkt, the new science network invites you to marvel, ask questions, discuss, and participate in a science festival

FRANKFURT AM MAIN. In January 2024, 16 Frankfurt research institutions joined forces to form the “Frankfurt Alliance.” To highlight the strength and diversity of research in the science city of Frankfurt am Main and the Rhine-Main region and its importance for society in the heart of the Main metropolis, the alliance of non-university research institutes and Goethe University is hosting a major Science Festival, which will take place on Saturday, September 28, from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. at the Roßmarkt in downtown Frankfurt.

Finalists ATHENE UP24@it-sa: Interview with AlpenShield

The startup AlpenShield is one of the five finalists in the running for this year's ATHENE Startup Award UP24@it-sa. We met with the startup, which offers an app for IT security operations with Microsoft Sentinel, for an interview.

Five finalists in the finale of the ATHENE UP24@it-sa Awards

These five newcomers will compete in the pitch on October 23 at the it-sa Expo@Congress for the award as the best cybersecurity start-up in the DACH region: Alpenshield, CyberDesk, Locate Risk, Mitigant, and RedMimicry.

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Neu bei ATHENE: Prof. Jan Gugenheimer von der TU Darmstadt

Jan Gugenheimer ist seit 1. Juni 2022 Professor für Mensch-Computer-Interaktion am Fachbereich Informatik der TU Darmstadt. Seit dem 1. Juli dieses Jahres leitet er im ATHENE-Forschungsbereich „User-centered Security and Privacy (UCSP)“ das Projekt XRGuard - A Security Mechanism to Detect and MitigatePerceptual Manipulations in Extended Reality”.

Im Interview stellen wir ihn kurz vor:

ATHENE researcher defends her doctoral thesis

In the team of ATHENE Prof. Christian Reuter at the TU Darmstadt, Katrin Hartwig successfully completed her doctorate. Her’s thesis Navigating Misinformation: User-Centered Design and Evaluation of Indicator-Based Digital Interventions focuses on user-centred digital misinformation interventions, such as smartphone apps and browser plug-ins, to help users manage misinformation in various forms.