On June 20, 2025, during the 22nd Long Night of Science, the Chair of Materials Science and Nanotechnology at TU Dresden invited the public to experience how machines can smell—and even out-sniff us! Visitors of all ages engaged with five interactive digital olfaction stations that combined nanotechnology, artificial intelligence, and Read more
See the original post on “Springer Nature Research Communities” via this link. The question of what makes an odor smell the way it does has intrigued researchers in olfactory perception for decades. Significant advancements have been made in understanding this complex process. Thanks to the pioneering work of Nobel laureates Read more
I February 22, 2022, 3 p.m. I Asifa Majid completed her undergraduate degree and PhD in psychology at the University of Glasgow with an intermediate year at the University of Edinburgh where she was awarded an MSc in Cognitive Science and Natural Language. She then moved to the Netherlands in Read more
Unsere fünf Sinne ermöglichen uns, unsere Umwelt wahrzunehmen und mit ihr zu interagieren. Längst sind wir daran gewöhnt, dass auch Technik Reize aus der Umgebung interpretieren kann: Fast jeder trägt heutzutage ein Smartphone mit sich, das unser Gesicht oder unsere Katze auf Fotos erkennt, auf Berührung: Ohne Riechen schmeckt unser Read more
Materials innovations enable new technological capabilities and drive major societal advancements but typically require long and costly development cycles. Materials Genomics aims at realizing the transition to a new paradigm in materials development from a traditional “trial and error” mode to a “rationally designed experiments” mode. The key element of Read more
I November 25, 2021, 1 p.m. I Olfaction is perhaps the most fundamental among senses in the animal kingdom. It plays a crucial role in almost all relevant aspects of life such as finding food and assessing its quality, locating mating partners, avoiding predators. Olfaction works where visual and auditory Read more
by Marie-Elisabeth Lessman, Cagdas Guducu, Bergoi Ibarlucea, Thomas Hummel In many species, social communication and mate choice are influenced by olfactory cues associated with the major histocompatibility complex (MHC). It has been reported that humans also respond to olfactory signals related to the human MHC-equivalent, the Human Leucocyte Antigen (HLA)-System, Read more
The Saxon newspaper reports about different COVID-related fundings, including a short note about our international workshop, where the “sniffing out” of COVID with electronic nose technology was discussed as well. Find the whole article here.
by Antonie Louise Bierling ,Ilona Croy, Thomas Hummel, Gianaurelio Cuniberti and Alexander Croy A growing body of research aims at solving what is often referred to as the stimulus-percept problem in olfactory perception. Although computational efforts have made it possible to predict perceptual impressions from the physicochemical space of odors, studies with large psychophysical datasets from non-experts Read more
In the German online blog by Heiko Weckbrodt, a new article informs about Perceptronics’ goals and approach as well as about the international workshop. Check it out here.