RSE Day 2025

Session

Poster Session

16 Jul 2025, 10:35

AER Atrium (Science City Bahrenfeld)

Conveners

Poster Session

• Katrin Schöning-Stierand (Hub of Computing and Data Science (HCDS))

11. 3-D weather forecast visualizations generated with open-source research software and based on open data

Christoph Fischer (Universität Hamburg), Marc Rautenhaus (Universität Hamburg)

Poster

Recent developments in open data policies of meteorological agencies have much expanded the set of up-to-date weather observation and forecast data that is publicly available to meteorological research and education. To improve use of this open data, we have developed 3-D visualization products that extract and display meteorological information in novel ways. In this demo, we present...

32. A vector-based transcription system for vowel dots in early Qur’anic manuscripts.

Alba Fedeli (Universität Hamburg), Carolin Kinne-Wall (Universität Hamburg)

Poster

The poster presents findings from the DFG project InterSaME (2020–2023) focused on vowel-dots in early Qur’anic manuscripts. It highlights a vector-based transcription system as there is no current encoding or transcription tool for vowel-dots. Using a customised Archetype software instance, the team developed a pointer-based encoding method that describes each dot's position relative to...

12. Analysing research data in manuscript studies

Hussein Mohammed (Universität Hamburg / The Cluster of Excellence: UWA)

Poster

The multidisciplinary nature of manuscript study at the CSMC results in an ever-increasing volume of digital data in various modalities, ranging from raw images of artefacts to automatically generated data from advanced acquisition techniques. The manual analysis of this data is typically time-consuming and susceptible to human error and bias. Therefore, a set of Pattern Analysis Software...

37. bAIome Center for biomedical AI at University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf (UKE)

Dr Anna Reinicke-Vogt (Universitätsklinikum Hamburg-Eppendorf)

Poster

bAIome is the center for biomedical AI at University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf (UKE). The center consists of faculty and staff from various institutes within the UKE who are engaged in research and education in broad areas of biomedical AI. bAIome serves as a competence center bundling knowledge, expertise, & resources to provide a portfolio of services to help students, researchers and...

35. Benchmarking Robustness of Pathology Vision Foundation Models for Prostate Cancer Relapse Prediction

Anja Witte (Institute of Medical Systems Bioinformatics, Center for Biomedical AI (bAIome), Center for Molecular Neurobiology Hamburg (ZMNH), University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany)

Poster

Prostate cancer relapse prediction is a challenging task within computational pathology as tissue preparation and digitization are not standardized. The different protocols lead to domain shifts, against which a deep learning model must be robust and focus on biological information rather than variations in appearance. We address this challenge through the usage of vision foundation models...

19. Constellation - a Flexible Control and Data Acquisition Framework

Stephan Lachnit (DESY)

Poster

The qualification of new detectors presents a challenging setting that requires stable operation of diverse devices, often employing multiple data acquisition (DAQ) systems running on several machines in a local network. Changes to these setups are frequent, such as using different reference detectors depending on the facility. Managing this complexity necessitates a system capable of...

34. DATS: An Expandable AI Platform for Multi-modal Data Analysis

Tim Fischer (Universität Hamburg)

Poster

The Discourse Analysis Tool Suite (DATS) is a collaborative web-based platform enabling researchers to manage and analyze multi-modal data with AI. The core features aim to support and enhance rigoros research. I.e. data management, search & filtering, classification, and quantitative analyses. To further expand the DATS, we are keen on learning from your research projects to expand...

48. EMOCONV-DIFF: Diffusion-based Speech Emotion Conversion for Non-parallel and In-the-wild Data

Navin Raj Prabhu (Signal Processing)

Poster

Speech emotion conversion is the task of converting the expressed emotion of a spoken utterance to a target emotion while preserving the lexical content and speaker identity. While most existing works in speech emotion conversion rely on acted-out datasets and parallel data samples, in this work we specifically focus on more challenging in-the-wild scenarios and do not rely on parallel data....

29. Enhancing Developer Experience in Near Real-Time Scientific Data Processing: The AsapoWorker Library

Diana Rueda (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY)

Poster

High-throughput scientific experiments generate massive data streams requiring near real-time processing for time-critical decision making. However, developing robust streaming workflows presents significant challenges in distributed computing environments.
We present AsapoWorker [1], a Python library that simplifies the development of processing workers on top of the Asapo [2] streaming...

15. Exploiting protein structure predictions and structural homology to identify viral immune evasion strategies.

Pasquale Lamagna (LIV / CSSB / UHH)

Poster

Viruses are infamously efficient at employing homology as a mechanism of immune evasion by imitating host proteins to escape immune response. This might be exploited to identify new virus-host interactions. We have implemented a computational workflow, tested on the Human Cytomegalovirus (HCMV), which conducts structural homology search to list viral proteins and their homologs in humans....

24. Exploration of Scientific Collections with Multimodal Agentic RAG Systems

Dr Martin Semmann (House of Computing and Data Science, Universität Hamburg)

Poster

In this paper, we explore using multi-modal agents based on Large-Vision-Language-Models (LVLMs) what a scholarly collections portal can be beyond a digital showcase of the university’s collections . We focus on the interactive exploration of scientific collections. Collection data is valued differently from different perspectives. For the university administrators, it is an item to be...

39. Framework for Distributed Near Real-Time Data Processing Pipelines

Marc-Olivier Andrez (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY))

Poster

Processing large amount of data in near real-time during experiments at synchrotrons is enabling scientists to make the best use of limited beamtime [1]. However, building systems capable of handling data rates of several gigabytes per second over long periods of time requires specialized expertise in distributed computing [2], which limits the broader adoption of such systems at...

40. From Metadata to Models: Graph-Based Representation of Data Reduction Workflows at the European XFEL

Michael Schuh (European XFEL)

Poster

The European XFEL has updated its scientific data policy to require detailed data management plans (DMPs) and mandatory data reduction. We explore how DMPs, together with metadata and empirical traces from data management and storage systems, can be integrated into a scientific knowledge graph (SKG). This heterogeneous information network serves as a foundation for applying Heterogeneous Graph...

51. HoloPipe: Streamlining Phase Retrieval and Tomographic Reconstruction for X-ray Near-Field Holography Experiments at P05

Andre Lopes Marinho

Poster

X-ray near-field holography (NFH) is an advanced imaging technique that reveals the nanoscale internal structures of materials, making it particularly useful for studying a plethora of materials. Moreover, the specimens can be imaged using a single exposure, in a scalable field of view. However, the analysis of NFH data is complex, requiring sophisticated phase retrieval and tomographic...

21. Integration of Data Applications in a RDM Infrastructure by Interface Design

Mr Hagen Peukert (Universität Hamburg)

Poster

The poster to be presented addresses the problem of incorporating a steadily growing number of research software applications into an existing RDM infrastructure as well as transferring their diverse outputs to the existing storage systems using interface definitions. A subprocess in the general RDM infrastructure is proposed integrating a new software component, the data transfer facilitator...

43. KI4Demo: Research Software to promote AI for Demokratie and fight Disinformation

Dr Martin Semmann (Hub of Computing and Data Science, Universität Hamburg), Rudy Alexandro Garrido Veliz (Universität Hamburg), Seid Muhie Yimam (House of Computing and Data Sceince)

Poster

Social media increasingly fuel extremism and disinformation, especially in the right-wing agenda, and enable the rapid spread of antidemocratic narratives. Although there is plenty of research being done in the socio/political fields against these phenomena, there is a considerable gap between it and putting policy into practice. Our conjoined software engineer project called KI4Demo supports...

17. Language Models in Humanities

Thomas Asselborn (Universität Hamburg), Florian Marwitz (Universität Hamburg), Sylvia Melzer (Universität Hamburg)

Poster

Research groups in the humanities generate a substantial number of publications, contributing to an ever-expanding body of scholarly work. When a scholar is interested in the topics covered or has specific questions about (subsets of) publications, they must overcome the big number of publications to read. We demonstrate the use of language models in the humanities by showcasing two...

25. LLM-Powered Software Engineering

Tim Puhlfürß (University of Hamburg)

Poster

Large language models (LLMs) bear great potential for automating tedious development tasks, like creating and maintaining source code documentation. We assist software developers of European XFEL (EuXFEL) with LLM-powered tools that facilitate knowledge and documentation management. We present findings from two controlled experiments conducted with EuXFEL’s Data department, focusing on...

16. Managing Datasets in the Digital Age

Thomas Asselborn (Universität Hamburg), Florian Marwitz (Universität Hamburg), Sylvia Melzer (Universität Hamburg)

Poster

Scholars in the humanities working with datasets face two challenges: Discovering relevant datasets and publishing their own dataset after their research is completed. We propose a new filetype, namely CSMC (Computer Science Metadata Container), to bundle the raw research data alongside a visualization of the data. Scholars can view the visualization of a dataset before downloading the whole...

30. Project "Conseydo" - GDPR-compliant, digital consent management for research

Michael Wuppermann (Universität Hamburg)

Poster

The consent management platform, Conseydo, developed in the Flutter framework and funded by the funding program Calls4Transfer, uses a privacy by design approach to enable the GDPR-compliant digital creation, documentation, management and tracking of consent for research, for example within the stakeholder triad of teachers, parents and researchers. The plattform solves organizational...

45. Protokolibri – a convenient tool to track browsing behaviour

Felix Zielke (University of Hamburg)

Poster

Our poster presents Protokolibri, a distributed application for logging the browsing behavior of large groups of students on iPads. The developed browser plugin records tab events via Javascript and sends them asynchronously to the Protokolibri node.js server, which stores the data sorted by device name and timestamp.

The focus of the tool is on simplifying data collection. Previously,...

38. RAG for Fact-Checking with Real-World Claims

Ms Özge Sevgili (Hub of Computing and Data Science, University of Hamburg)

Poster

This paper presents UHH’s approach developed for the AVeriTeC shared task. The goal of the challenge is to verify given real-world claims with evidences from the Web. In this shared task, we investigate a Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) model, which mainly contains retrieval, generation, and augmentation components. We start with the selection of the top 10k evidences via BM25 scores, and...

33. Signatures of Friendship. Exploring the Jerusalem Guestbook of Miryam and Moshe Ya'akov Ben-Gavriêl

Sebastian Schirrmeister (Universität Hamburg)

Poster

This project presents a browsable digital exploration environment for a multilingual private guestbook from 20th-century Jerusalem. The goal is to investigate curiosity-driven browsing strategies in archival contexts, going beyond systematic searches. By providing intuitive, user-friendly visualization solutions, the project aims to facilitate an exploratory approach and increase serendipitous...

46. STAC for federated data access to high-volume ESM datasets in preparation for Exascale

Kameswar Rao Modali (Deutsches Klimarechenzentrum(DKRZ))

Poster

Contemporary earth system models (ESM) perform simulations at kilometer scale resolution at various HPC centers. The data from these simulations aid in research and policy making. Hence the design of the data access system for a federated setup should consider the data, analysis tools and computing resources at each center. Also for efficient discoverability, the data management at each center...