Among Nobel Laureates

For one week every summer, the density of brilliant minds in the south of Germany increases significantly. The place is Lindau (a small island town on Lake Constance), and the occasion is the Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting, where Nobel Laureates meet the next generation of young researchers.

The interdisciplinary meeting brings together around 70 Nobel Laureates and more than 600 young scientists from all over the world. For a week, they exchange ideas across generations, cultures, and disciplines, in lectures and panel discussions.
The first meeting of this kind happened in 1951, when two Lindau physicians invited Nobel Laureates to Lake Constance to help end the isolation of German science after the Second World War. The very first meeting, dedicated to medicine, gathered seven Nobel Laureates and an audience of 400 physicians and researchers. Today, the meeting has grown into the largest regular gathering of Nobel Laureates outside the Nobel Prize ceremony in Stockholm, with an alumni network of more than 35,000 researchers worldwide.

The week is also a chance to showcase the science happening in and around the region. Postdoc Lisa Schmors from the Hertie AI took the stage in front of Nobel Laureates to present the machine learning ecosystem in Tübingen and the Cluster of Excellence "Machine Learning: New Perspectives for Science." 

Lisa says: “It was a great opportunity to share the exciting research in and around Tübingen with Nobel Laureates and the next generation of scientists.”