Leopoldina’s Annual Assembly

This year’s Annual Assembly of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina took place from 19-21 September in Rostock, Germany. Ursula Staudinger, Vice-President of Leopoldina, spoke at the opening. The theme of the conference was „Perception and Control – Sensory Systems in Biology and Engineering”. An interdisciplinary group of approximately 300 participants examined sensory organs and their engineering counterparts, i.e. sensors.

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Ursula Staudinger at the opening and the Leopoldina Presidium in September 2014
(Fotos by Markus Scholz for Leopoldina)