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InterSpaces

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by ZiF Bielefeld

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Zwischenräume, Schnittstellen, Interdisziplinarität – das ist der Themenbereich, der mit dem Titel dieses Podcasts, InterSpaces, angedeutet werden soll. InterSpaces ist ein Wissenschaftspodcast, der sich mit disziplinübergreifender Forschung auseinandersetzt und im Zentrum für interdisziplinäre Forschung (ZiF) der Universität Bielefeld entsteht. Im ZiF wird interdisziplinäre Forschung in Gruppen gefördert. Diese Perspektivenvielfalt soll auch im Podcast hörbar werden, weswegen in den meisten Folgen mehrere Wissenschaftler*innen aus unterschiedlichen Fächern über ihre gemeinsamen Forschungsthemen sprechen werden. Da am ZiF viele Forschungsgruppen international zusammengesetzt sind, es aber auch deutschsprachige Kontexte gibt, ist dies ein zweisprachiger Podcast. *** Research interfaces and interdisciplinarity - that is the subject area that the title of this podcast, InterSpaces, is referring to. InterSpaces is a science podcast that deals with research across disciplines and is produced at the Center for Interdisciplinary Research (ZiF) at Bielefeld University. ZiF is funding different interdisciplinary research groups and this diversity of perspectives should also be audible in the podcast, which is why most episodes will feature several academics from different disciplines talking about their joint research topics. As many research groups at ZiF are international, but there are also German-speaking contexts, this is a bilingual podcast.

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June 11, 2026

Episode #27: Volcano Voices

<div>Volcanic eruptions can affect the Earth’s climate system, and climate variability occupies an uncomfortable place in historical enquiry. Even though human demography and history are closely connected with environmental conditions and change, most historians and archaeologists have been reluctant to consider climate for understanding political, economic, social and cultural transformations. Much of the scholarship addressing these complex relationships continues to be constrained by the disciplinary limits of individuals and institutions.<br>From November 2021 to January 2024 volcanologist Clive Oppenheimer and Ulf Büntgen, professor of Environmental Systems Analysis, were part of the ZiF long-term research group <a href="https://www.uni-bielefeld.de/einrichtungen/zif/groups/previous/volcanoes/index.xml">“Volcanoes, Climate and History”</a>. The research group engaged with the interface of climate and history in a new way, beginning with the premise that exchange and dialogue across disciplinary and epistemological divides should be habitual practice. The research process was not only documented in scientific publications, but also in a film, entitled “Volcano Voices. From Ashes to Archives and Art”. In this Film Clive Oppenheimer leads a journey through time and ideas, where scientists and artists come together - united by curiosity and the joy of collaboration - to explore how volcanic eruptions changed climate and history.</div><div>In this episode, Clive Oppenheimer and Ulf Büntgen talk about film as a means of science communication and the challenges of making complex research accessible for a wider audience.</div><div> </div><div><strong>Links</strong><br><a href="https://www.geog.cam.ac.uk/people/buentgen/">Ulf Büntgen </a><br><a href="https://www.geog.cam.ac.uk/people/oppenheimer/">Clive Oppenheimer</a><br>The research group <a href="https://www.uni-bielefeld.de/einrichtungen/zif/groups/previous/volcanoes/index.xml">“Volcanoes, Climate and History”</a><br> <a href="https://www.uni-bielefeld.de/einrichtungen/zif/events/#/event/8633">The film screening at ZiF </a></div><div> </div><div> </div><div><strong>Further reading</strong><br> Büntgen U, Cosmo N, Esper J, Frachetti M, Khalidi L, Mauelshagen F, Rohland E, Oppenheimer C (2026) <a href="https://www.annualreviews.org/content/journals/10.1146/annurev-earth-032524-013254">Volcanoes, Climate, and Society</a>. Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences.<br>Clive Oppenheimer: Mountains of Fire The Secret Lives of Volcanoes. London, Hodder & Stoughton, 2023</div>

May 13, 2026

Episode #26: The Lush World of Random Matrices

<div>Random Matrix Theory (RMT) stands out as a unifying framework at the core of seemingly unrelated fields ranging from signal processing, theoretical ecology, economics and finance, to the theory of learning and the statistical physics of disordered classical and quantum systems. Far from being a mere set of computational tools, RMT provides deep theoretical insights and a foundational understanding of various complex systems. It is key to understand the stability or fragility of complex systems with numerous interacting agents, providing a theoretical framework to capture their responses to perturbations, that may lead to significant changes in the system’s configuration with substantial rearrangements in the state of the individual components (thus describing scenarios of crises or extinctions).</div><div>In this episode physicist and capital fund manager Jean-Philippe Bouchaud Paris), quantum physicist Valentina Ros and Tobias Galla from the Institute for Cross-disciplinary Physics and Complex Systems (IFISC) at Palma de Mallorca talk about their research group at ZiF and discuss the potential of Random Matrix Theory and the challenges of interdisciplinary collaboration. </div><div> </div><div><strong>Links</strong><br> <a href="https://www.cfm.com/cfm-our-board/">Jean-Philippe Bouchaud </a></div><div><a href="https://vale1925.wixsite.com/vros">Valentina Ros</a></div><div><a href="https://sites.google.com/view/tobiasgalla/">Tobias Galla</a><br><a href="https://www.uni-bielefeld.de/einrichtungen/zif/groups/previous/matrices/">Homepage of the research group at ZiF </a></div><div><br></div>

April 15, 2026

Episode #25: Robust Decision Heuristics for Natural and Artificial Intelligence

<div>Since September 2025 the long-term research group “Robust Decision Heuristics for Natural and Artificial Intelligence” is working at ZiF. The group seeks to bridge the study of decision-making under uncertainty in natural systems and the design of robust AI systems. Here, "natural systems" is primarily a reference to humans but we will also consider insects because they have simpler decision processes. The goal of the researchers more specifically is to explore the design of algorithms for robust and transparent AI systems by drawing on models of decision processes under uncertainty in natural systems; and to explore the design of AI systems driven by decision heuristics to gain new understanding about decision-making in natural systems.</div><div>In this episode the conveners of the group, Mohan Sridharan (Chair in Robot Systems, Edinburgh), Özgür Şimşek (Professor of Computer Science, Bath) and psychologist Gerd Gigerenzer (Berlin) talk about the many facets of their research, covering human decision making as well as robot soccer. They also discuss the necessity and the challenges of interdisciplinary collaboration. </div><div> </div><div><strong>Links</strong><br><a href="https://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/msridhar/">Mohan Sridharan </a></div><div><a href="https://researchportal.bath.ac.uk/en/persons/%C3%B6zg%C3%BCr-%C5%9Fim%C5%9Fek/">Özgür Şimşek</a> </div><div><a href="https://www.mpib-berlin.mpg.de/mitarbeiter/gerd-gigerenzer">Gerd Gigerenzer</a> <br><a href="https://www.uni-bielefeld.de/einrichtungen/zif/groups/ongoing/robust-decision-heuristic/index.xml">ZiF research group “Robust Decision Heuristics for Natural and Artificial Intelligence” </a></div>

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What is InterSpaces?: Zwischenräume, Schnittstellen, Interdisziplinarität – das ist der Themenbereich, der mit dem Titel dieses Podcasts, InterSpaces, angedeutet werden soll. InterSpaces ist ein Wissenschaftspodcast, der sich mit disziplinübergreifender Forschung auseinandersetzt und im Zentrum für interdisziplinäre Forschung (ZiF) der Universität Bielefeld entsteht.

Im ZiF wird interdisziplinäre Forschung in Gruppen gefördert. Diese Perspektivenvielfalt soll auch im Podcast hörbar werden, weswegen in den meisten Folgen mehrere Wissenschaftler*innen aus unterschiedlichen Fächern über ihre gemeinsamen Forschungsthemen sprechen werden.

Da am ZiF viele Forschungsgruppen international zusammengesetzt sind, es aber auch deutschsprachige Kontexte gibt, ist dies ein zweisprachiger Podcast. ***

Research interfaces and interdisciplinarity - that is the subject area that the title of this podcast, InterSpaces, is referring to. InterSpaces is a science podcast that deals with research across disciplines and is produced at the Center for Interdisciplinary Research (ZiF) at Bielefeld University.

ZiF is funding different interdisciplinary research groups and this diversity of perspectives should also be audible in the podcast, which is why most episodes will feature several academics from different disciplines talking about their joint research topics.

As many research groups at ZiF are international, but there are also German-speaking contexts, this is a bilingual podcast.
How often does this podcast release new episodes?: This podcast updates bi-weekly.
Where can I listen to this podcast?: This podcast is available on 8 platforms including Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and more. You can also use the RSS feed directly.
Does this podcast accept guests?: No, this podcast does not typically feature guests.

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