At this year’s SaxFDM Open Data Award, three publications with ScaDS.AI Dresden/Leipzig involvement were awarded for exemplary approaches in the field of open research data. For this well-deserved success, we congratulate:

• our principal investigator Prof. Miguel Mahecha (Leipzig University),
• our junior research group leader Dr. Patrick Ebel (Leipzig University),
• our research associate Dr. Markus Wolfien (TU Dresden), and
• our research associate Waldemar Hahn (TU Dresden).

Awards for ScaDS.AI Dresden/Leipzig

Second Place

Project: DeepExtremes.
Authors: Chaonan Ji, Vitus Benson, Gustau Camps-Valls, Miguel-Ángel Fernández-Torres, Tonio Fincke, Fabian Gans, Guido Kraemer, Miguel Mahecha, Francesco Martinuzzi, Mélanie Meynants, David Montero, Karin Mora, Oscar Pellicer-Valero, Clarie Robin, Maximilian Söchting.
Further information is available here.

Special Awards by the jury

• Project: Erste internationale AML-Daten im globalen Standardformat – Made in Sachsen.
  Authors: Markus Wolfien, Waldemar Hahn, Jan-Niklas Eckardt, Jan Moritz Middeke.
  Learn more about the project here.
• Project: Open Science in Automotive User Research.
  Authors: Patrick Ebel, Pavlo Bazilinskyy, Mark Colley, Courtney Goodrigde, Philipp Hock, Christian P. Janssen, Hauke Sandhaus, Aravinda Ramakrishnan Srinivasan, Philipp Wintersberger.
  Find information about the project here.

SaxFDM Open Data Award

With the SaxFDM Open Data Award, the proper handling of research data is promoted. In 2025, the state initiative presented awards for exemplary approaches in the field of open research data for the third time. Submissions were accepted from research or cultural institutions in Saxony. All submissions had to be freely accessible at the time of participation and no more than five years old. A jury formed by SaxFDM evaluated the submitted data sets, taking into account the FAIR principles and the relevant criteria for open data. Learn more about the award here.