University of Paderborn

Paderborn University (German: Universität Paderborn) is a public research university in Paderborn, North Rhine-Westphalia, founded in 1972 and built around five faculties, with more than 18,000 students, about 2,400 staff and some 250 professors.帕德博恩大学（德文：Universität Paderborn）是位于北莱茵-威斯特法伦州帕德博恩市的一所公立研究型大学，1972 年建校，现设五个学院，拥有 1.8 万余名学生、约 2400 名教职工与约 250 名教授。

Its campus on Warburger Straße lies just north of the old town, and a second site at Fürstenallee, five kilometres away, houses computer science and systems engineering beside the Heinz Nixdorf MuseumsForum.该校位于 Warburger Straße 的主校区紧邻老城北侧，五公里外的 Fürstenallee 校区则与海因茨·尼克斯多夫计算机博物馆相邻，集中了计算机科学与系统工程等学科。

Paderborn is known for computer science, mathematics, electrical engineering and business informatics, and in the QS World University Rankings 2027 it is placed in the 1201-1400 band.帕德博恩大学以计算机科学、数学、电气工程与商业信息学见长，2027 年 QS 世界大学排名将其列于 1201-1400 区间。

History

• The university traces its intellectual ancestry to the Carolingian cathedral school of the eighth century, one of the earliest centres of learning in Westphalia, from which the later theological college drew its tradition.该校的学术谱系可追溯至八世纪的加洛林大教堂学校，这是威斯特法伦最早的教育中心之一，后来的神学院即承袭这一传统。
• In 1614 Prince-Bishop Dietrich von Fürstenberg founded a Jesuit university in Paderborn, often called the Universitas Theodoriana, to train clergy and officials for the prince-bishopric.1614 年，主教迪特里希·冯·菲尔斯滕贝格在帕德博恩创办了一所耶稣会大学，常称「特奥多里安纳大学」，为主教辖区培养神职人员与官员。
• In 1615 the new foundation received imperial privileges allowing it to confer doctorates, making Paderborn one of the few university towns of early modern Westphalia.1615 年，这所新学校获得授予博士学位的帝国特许，使帕德博恩成为近代早期威斯特法伦少数拥有大学的城市之一。
• The old university was dissolved in 1802 during the secularisation that followed the Prussian occupation, although its theological faculty continued as a separate institution and still operates today.1802 年，在普鲁士占领后的世俗化进程中，这所旧大学被解散，但其神学院作为独立机构延续下来并运营至今。
• In 1965 the Paderborn department of the Westphalia-Lippe College of Education was established, creating a teacher-training institution that later became one of the founding units of the new university.1965 年，威斯特法伦-利珀教育学院帕德博恩分院成立，这一师范教育机构后来成为新大学的组建单位之一。
• In 1971 the state government of North Rhine-Westphalia approved plans for a comprehensive university in Paderborn, part of a wave of new universities created across the state during the reform era.1971 年，北莱茵-威斯特法伦州政府批准在帕德博恩建立综合大学的计划，这是改革年代全州新建高校浪潮的一部分。
• The Gesamthochschule Paderborn opened in 1972 with about 4,000 students, uniting the teacher-training college, the engineering school and other local institutions under one roof.帕德博恩综合大学于 1972 年开学，首届约有 4000 名学生，把师范学院、工程学院及当地其他机构合并到同一所大学之中。
• Heinz Nixdorf, the Paderborn-born computer pioneer who founded Nixdorf Computer, pressed for computer science to become a founding discipline and helped equip the young university with machines and industry contacts.帕德博恩出生的计算机先驱、Nixdorf Computer 创始人海因茨·尼克斯多夫推动计算机科学成为建校学科，并帮助这所年轻大学获得设备与产业联系。
• In 1980 the institution was renamed Universität-Gesamthochschule Paderborn and was admitted to the German Research Foundation, a sign that its research profile had begun to mature.1980 年，该校更名为帕德博恩综合大学，并获准加入德国研究联合会，标志着其科研布局开始走向成熟。
• After Nixdorf's death in 1986, the Heinz Nixdorf Institute was founded in 1987 as a research centre for computer science, electrical engineering and mathematics, funded by the Nixdorf foundation.尼克斯多夫于 1986 年去世后，海因茨·尼克斯多夫研究所于 1987 年成立，作为计算机科学、电气工程与数学的研究中心，由尼克斯多夫基金会资助。
• The Heinz Nixdorf MuseumsForum opened in 1996 next to the Fürstenallee campus and is billed as the world's largest computer museum, tracing the history of calculation from ancient times to the digital present.海因茨·尼克斯多夫计算机博物馆于 1996 年在 Fürstenallee 校区旁开放，号称全球最大的计算机博物馆，展示从古代计算到数字时代的历史。
• In 2002 the Romanian mathematician Preda Mihăilescu, then working at Paderborn, proved the Catalan conjecture, a number-theory problem that had remained open for 158 years.2002 年，当时在帕德博恩工作的罗马尼亚数学家 Preda Mihăilescu 证明了卡塔兰猜想，这一数论难题已悬置 158 年。
• In 2003 the university dropped the Gesamthochschule label and adopted the name Paderborn University, in line with the statewide reform of North Rhine-Westphalian higher education.2003 年，该校去掉「综合大学」称谓，改用帕德博恩大学之名，与北莱茵-威斯特法伦州的高教改革保持一致。
• In 2005 the CHE university ranking placed Paderborn's English and American literature department at the top of its German field, one of several subject-level successes of the decade.2005 年，CHE 大学排名把帕德博恩大学的英美文学系列为德国同类学科第一，这是该校那十年间多项学科成绩之一。
• In 2006 the computer science programme was ranked among the top three in Germany by CHE and Die Zeit, and the university was among the leaders in DFG funding for electrical engineering and systems engineering.2006 年，该校计算机科学项目被 CHE 与《时代》周报评为德国前三，大学在电气工程与系统工程领域的德国研究联合会经费中也位居前列。
• In 2011 the quantum optics professor Christine Silberhorn received the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize for her work on engineered photonic quantum systems and secure optical communication.2011 年，量子光学教授 Christine Silberhorn 因其在光子量子系统与安全光通信方面的研究获得戈特弗里德·威廉·莱布尼茨奖。
• In 2018 researchers at the Heinz Nixdorf Institute set a world record for optical data transmission at 128 gigabits per second, work carried out with partners in industry and academia.2018 年，海因茨·尼克斯多夫研究所的研究人员实现了每秒 128 吉比特的光数据传输世界纪录，这项工作是产学研合作的成果。
• In 2019 Paderborn was one of six North Rhine-Westphalian universities selected for the state's Excellence Start-up Center programme, which supports academic spin-offs with advice, space and seed funding.2019 年，帕德博恩大学成为北莱茵-威斯特法伦州「精英创业中心」计划选中的六所高校之一，该计划为学术衍生企业提供咨询、场地与种子资金。
• In 2022 the university marked its fiftieth anniversary with a public programme on the campus and a retrospective on the comprehensive-university reform that had created it.2022 年，该校在校园举办公共活动纪念建校 50 周年，并回顾了造就这所大学的综合大学改革。
• By 2026 Paderborn had more than 18,000 students, roughly 15 per cent of them international, and continued to describe itself as a young, research-intensive campus university in eastern Westphalia.到 2026 年，帕德博恩大学拥有 1.8 万余名学生，其中约 15% 为国际学生，并继续以位于东威斯特法伦的年轻研究型校园大学自居。

Academics

• Paderborn University is organised into five faculties, namely Arts and Humanities, Business Administration and Economics, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science and Mathematics, and Science.帕德博恩大学设五个学院，分别是人文与文化学院、工商管理与经济学院、机械工程学院、电气工程与计算机科学及数学学院、自然科学院。
• More than 18,000 students are enrolled in over 100 degree programmes, supported by about 2,400 academic and administrative staff, including some 250 professors.该校 1.8 万余名学生分布在 100 多个学位项目中，约 2400 名学术与行政人员提供支持，其中教授约 250 人。
• In the winter semester 2016/17 the university counted 20,308 students in 62 degree programmes, a peak that reflects the expansion of the preceding decade.2016/17 学年冬季学期，该校在 62 个学位项目中注册了 20,308 名学生，这一峰值反映了此前十年的扩张。
• About 15 per cent of students come from abroad, representing more than 100 countries, and the International Office maintains links with over 140 partner universities worldwide.约 15% 的学生来自海外，覆盖 100 多个国家，该校国际处与全球 140 多所伙伴大学保持联系。
• Computer science is the university's signature field, with research spanning algorithms, distributed systems, software engineering, quantum photonics and human-computer interaction.计算机科学是该校的标志性学科，研究覆盖算法、分布式系统、软件工程、量子光子学与人机交互。
• The Heinz Nixdorf Institute, the Paderborn Center for Parallel Computing, the Cooperative Computing and Communication Laboratory and the Software Quality Lab form a dense cluster of computing research facilities.海因茨·尼克斯多夫研究所、帕德博恩并行计算中心、协同计算与通信实验室以及软件质量实验室构成了密集的计算研究设施群。
• Paderborn's mathematics group was placed in the 50-75 band worldwide by the Academic Ranking of World Universities in 2018, its strongest subject-level result in that table.2018 年，软科世界大学学术排名将帕德博恩大学的数学学科列入全球 50-75 区间，这是该校在该榜单上最强的学科成绩。
• Preda Mihăilescu's proof of the Catalan conjecture in 2002, completed during his time at Paderborn, remains the university's best-known single research result in pure mathematics.Preda Mihăilescu 于 2002 年在帕德博恩任职期间完成卡塔兰猜想的证明，这仍是该校在纯数学领域最著名的单项研究成果。
• The 2018 record of 128 gigabits per second in optical transmission was achieved by the Heinz Nixdorf Institute together with partners, and it built on earlier work in optoelectronics and photonics.2018 年每秒 128 吉比特的光传输纪录由海因茨·尼克斯多夫研究所与合作伙伴共同实现，建立在此前光电子学与光子学研究的基础之上。
• Quantum optics under Christine Silberhorn develops integrated photonic sources and detectors for secure communication and quantum information processing, supported by Leibniz Prize and ERC funding.Christine Silberhorn 领导的量子光学团队研制用于安全通信与量子信息处理的集成光子源与探测器，并获得莱布尼茨奖与欧洲研究理事会资助。
• The Fraunhofer Institute for Mechatronic Systems Design, based in Paderborn, cooperates closely with the university on systems engineering, control and industrial digitalisation.设在帕德博恩的弗劳恩霍夫机电系统设计研究所与该校在系统工程、控制与工业数字化方面密切合作。
• The PLAZ centre coordinates teacher education across the faculties and links university courses with schools in the Paderborn region, sustaining the city's long tradition of teacher training.PLAZ 中心协调各学院的教师教育，把大学课程与帕德博恩地区的学校联系起来，延续了该市悠久的师范教育传统。
• The central library on the Warburger Straße campus holds the university's main collection, while department libraries serve computer science, engineering, economics and the humanities.位于 Warburger Straße 主校区的中央图书馆收藏该校主体文献，计算机科学、工程、经济与人文等学科则设有系图书馆。
• The RailCab research project, run from Paderborn, studied linear-motor propulsion for autonomous rail vehicles, an example of the university's applied work in mechatronics and transport systems.帕德博恩开展的 RailCab 研究项目探索用于自主轨道车辆的直线电机驱动，是该校在机电一体化与交通系统领域应用研究的例证。
• The Software Innovation Campus Paderborn brings together university researchers and regional software firms to work on industrial digitalisation, product engineering and data-intensive services.帕德博恩软件创新园区汇集大学研究人员与区域软件企业，共同攻关工业数字化、产品工程与数据密集型服务。
• Business administration and economics at Paderborn emphasise business informatics, taxation and small and medium-sized enterprise management, reflecting the Mittelstand economy of eastern Westphalia.帕德博恩的工商管理与经济学强调商业信息学、税务与中小企业管理，呼应东威斯特法伦的中小企业经济结构。
• The Faculty of Mechanical Engineering works on forming technology, lightweight construction, plastics processing and production engineering, fields closely tied to the region's machine-building industry.机械工程学院研究成形技术、轻量化结构、塑料加工与生产工程，这些领域与当地机械制造产业紧密相连。
• Paderborn offers doctoral training through structured programmes and research training groups, and its doctoral candidates are enrolled in the faculties rather than in a separate graduate school.帕德博恩大学通过结构化项目与研究训练组开展博士培养，博士生注册于各学院而非独立的研究生院。

Campus

• The main campus on Warburger Straße is a compact complex north of the old town, with the central library, lecture halls, the canteen and two student residences within a few minutes' walk.位于 Warburger Straße 的主校区是老城以北的紧凑建筑群，中央图书馆、教学楼、食堂与两处学生宿舍都在步行数分钟范围内。
• The campus was laid out in the 1970s in a uniform modernist style, and similar building modules can be found at other North Rhine-Westphalian universities founded in the same reform wave.该校区于 1970 年代以统一的现代主义风格规划，相似的建筑模块也出现在同一改革浪潮中创办的其他北威州大学。
• The Fürstenallee campus lies about five kilometres from the main site and is reached by the uni-line bus, which links the two campuses throughout the teaching day.Fürstenallee 校区距主校区约五公里，由 uni-line 巴士连接，在教学日全天往返两处校园。
• Fürstenallee houses computer science and systems engineering institutes, including parts of the Heinz Nixdorf Institute, the Cooperative Computing and Communication Laboratory and the Software Quality Lab.Fürstenallee 校区设有计算机科学与系统工程研究机构，包括海因茨·尼克斯多夫研究所的部分部门、协同计算与通信实验室以及软件质量实验室。
• The Heinz Nixdorf MuseumsForum next door opened in 1996 and displays more than 5,000 objects, from abacuses and mechanical calculators to mainframes and personal computers.毗邻的计算机博物馆于 1996 年开放，展出 5000 多件藏品，从算盘、机械计算器到大型机与个人电脑。
• Paderborn is a city of about 150,000 people at the source of the Pader river, whose more than 200 springs rise beside the cathedral in the historic centre.帕德博恩是帕德河源头处一座约 15 万人口的城市，200 多处泉眼在历史中心的主教座堂旁涌出。
• The city lies on the A33 and A44 motorways and has direct rail links to Cologne, Hanover and the Ruhr, making the campus accessible for commuters and visiting researchers.该市位于 A33 与 A44 高速公路沿线，并有直达科隆、汉诺威与鲁尔区的铁路，便于通勤学生与访问学者抵达校园。
• Student housing is managed by the Studentenwerk Paderborn, whose residences sit close to the main campus and are connected to the city centre by bus and bicycle paths.学生宿舍由帕德博恩学生服务中心管理，其宿舍靠近主校区，并通过公交与自行车道与市中心相连。
• The Libori festival, held every July and October since the relics of Saint Liborius arrived in 836, fills the city centre with fairs and processions and is part of student life.自 836 年圣利博里乌斯遗物抵达以来，帕德博恩每年七月与十月举行 Libori 节，集市与游行充满市中心，也成为学生生活的一部分。
• The surrounding Paderborner Land offers cycling routes through farmland and low hills, and the university sports centre uses these routes for its cycling and running programmes.周边的帕德博恩地区拥有穿越农田与低丘的骑行路线，大学体育中心把这些路线纳入其骑行与跑步项目。

Reputation

• In the QS World University Rankings 2027 Paderborn University is placed in the 1201-1400 band, the shared bracket assigned to it in that edition.在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中，帕德博恩大学位列 1201-1400 区间，这是该版榜单赋予该校的并列区间。
• The Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2027 places Paderborn in the 601-650 band, its strongest position among the four major global tables.2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名将帕德博恩大学列入 601-650 区间，这是该校在四大全球榜单中的最好位置。
• In the U.S. News Best Global Universities ranking for 2026-2027, Paderborn is placed 1,424th in the world.在 2026-2027 年度 U.S. News 全球最佳大学排名中，帕德博恩大学位列世界第 1424 位。
• The university does not appear in the main table of the ShanghaiRanking Academic Ranking of World Universities 2026, though its mathematics department has featured in the subject ranking.帕德博恩大学未进入 2026 年软科世界大学学术排名主榜，但其数学系曾出现在该榜单的学科排名中。
• OpenAlex records 35,698 works and 1,258,271 citations for Paderborn, reflecting a research output concentrated in computer science, engineering, physics and mathematics.OpenAlex 记录帕德博恩大学有 35,698 项成果与 1,258,271 次引用，其科研产出集中于计算机科学、工程、物理与数学。
• In the 2018 Academic Ranking of World Universities subject table, Paderborn's mathematics was placed in the 50-75 band worldwide, a rare top-100 discipline result for a university of its size.在 2018 年软科世界大学学科排名中，帕德博恩大学的数学位列全球 50-75 区间，对一所这一规模的大学而言是少见的前百学科成绩。
• CHE and Die Zeit ranked Paderborn's computer science among Germany's top three in 2006 and its English and American literature first in 2005, results still cited in the university's profile.CHE 与《时代》周报于 2006 年把帕德博恩的计算机科学列为德国前三，2005 年把其英美文学列为德国第一，这些成绩至今仍被校方引用。
• Four Paderborn professors have won the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize, namely Burkhard Monien and Friedhelm Meyer auf der Heide in 1992, Frank Vollertsen in 2002 and Christine Silberhorn in 2011.帕德博恩大学有四位教授获得戈特弗里德·威廉·莱布尼茨奖，分别是 1992 年的 Burkhard Monien 与 弗里德海姆·迈尔·奥夫·德·海德、2002 年的 Frank Vollertsen 以及 2011 年的 Christine Silberhorn。
• The university's industrial ties, reinforced by the Nixdorf legacy, the Fraunhofer institute and the software campus, give it a strong regional reputation in information technology and mechanical engineering.依托尼克斯多夫遗产、弗劳恩霍夫研究所与软件园区，该校的产业联系使其在信息技术与机械工程领域拥有很强的区域声誉。

Student life

• Paderborn's motto is Die Universität der Informationsgesellschaft, or The University of the Information Society, a phrase that captures its focus on computing and digital transformation.帕德博恩大学的校训是「信息社会中的大学」（德文：Die Universität der Informationsgesellschaft），这一表述概括了其对计算与数字转型的重视。
• With more than 18,000 students in a city of 150,000, the university dominates Paderborn's social and cultural life, and most student housing lies within cycling distance of the campus.在 15 万人口的帕德博恩，1.8 万余名学生主导着城市的社会与文化生活，多数学生宿舍都在校园骑行范围内。
• The uni-line bus runs between the main campus and Fürstenallee, and the semester ticket also covers regional trains and buses across North Rhine-Westphalia.uni-line 巴士往返于主校区与 Fürstenallee 之间，学期票还可乘坐北莱茵-威斯特法伦州的区域火车与公交。
• Eurobiz, a student organisation at the Faculty of Business Administration and Economics, runs social and orientation programmes for incoming exchange students and works with the International Office.工商管理与经济学院的学生组织 Eurobiz 为交换生组织社交与迎新项目，并与国际处合作。
• Student societies range from competitive programming and robotics teams to business consultancies and cultural associations, many of them housed in the faculties' own buildings.学生社团从竞技编程与机器人团队到商业咨询与文化协会不一而足，许多社团设在各学院自己的建筑内。
• The university sports programme offers team sports, fitness, dance and outdoor courses, and the nearby Pader springs and green belt provide routes for running and cycling.大学体育项目提供团队运动、健身、舞蹈与户外课程，附近的帕德泉群与绿带则为跑步和骑行提供路线。
• Libori, the city's ten-day festival held in July and October, is the high point of the local year, with fairgrounds, processions and open-air concerts that draw students into the old town.每年七月与十月举行的 Libori 节为期十天，是当地年度盛事，集市、游行与露天音乐会吸引学生走进老城。
• The Heinz Nixdorf MuseumsForum offers student tickets and evening lectures, and its collection of computing history is a distinctive part of studying informatics in Paderborn.海因茨·尼克斯多夫计算机博物馆提供学生票与晚间讲座，其计算史收藏是帕德博恩信息学学习体验的独特组成部分。

Notable people

• Dietrich von Fürstenberg, prince-bishop of Paderborn from 1585 to 1618, founded the Jesuit university in 1614 and gave the city its first lasting institution of higher learning.迪特里希·冯·菲尔斯滕贝格于 1585 至 1618 年任帕德博恩主教，1614 年创办耶稣会大学，为这座城市留下第一所持久的高等学府。
• Heinz Nixdorf, born in Paderborn in 1925, built Nixdorf Computer into one of Europe's largest computer manufacturers and shaped the university's computer science orientation.海因茨·尼克斯多夫 1925 年生于帕德博恩，把 Nixdorf Computer 建成欧洲最大的计算机制造商之一，并塑造了该校的计算机科学方向。
• Preda Mihăilescu, a Romanian mathematician at Paderborn, proved the Catalan conjecture in 2002, settling a problem posed by Eugène Charles Catalan in 1844.帕德博恩的罗马尼亚数学家 Preda Mihăilescu 于 2002 年证明卡塔兰猜想，解决了 Eugène Charles Catalan 在 1844 年提出的问题。
• Dieter Zetsche earned a doctorate in engineering at Paderborn in 1982 and later became chairman of Daimler and head of Mercedes-Benz, one of the university's most prominent alumni.Dieter Zetsche 于 1982 年在帕德博恩获得工程学博士学位，后来出任戴姆勒董事长与梅赛德斯-奔驰负责人，是该校最知名的校友之一。
• Frank-Walter Steinmeier, Germany's federal president since 2017, received an honorary doctorate from Paderborn in 2016 in recognition of his contribution to European diplomacy.德国联邦总统弗兰克-瓦尔特·施泰因迈尔自 2017 年起任职，他于 2016 年获帕德博恩大学荣誉博士学位，以表彰其对欧洲外交的贡献。
• Herta Müller, winner of the 2009 Nobel Prize in Literature, received an honorary doctorate from the university's arts and humanities faculty and is counted among its distinguished honorary graduates.2009 年诺贝尔文学奖得主赫塔·米勒获该校人文学院荣誉博士学位，被列为该校杰出的荣誉毕业生之一。
• Burkhard Monien, professor of theoretical computer science, received the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize in 1992 for his work on algorithms, complexity and parallel computing.理论计算机科学教授 Burkhard Monien 因其在算法、复杂度与并行计算方面的研究，于 1992 年获得戈特弗里德·威廉·莱布尼茨奖。
• Friedhelm Meyer auf der Heide, also a theoretical computer scientist, shared the 1992 Leibniz Prize and is known for research on data structures, routing and algorithmic geometry.同样从事理论计算机科学的弗里德海姆·迈尔·奥夫·德·海德共享 1992 年莱布尼茨奖，以数据结构、路由与算法几何研究著称。
• Frank Vollertsen, professor of manufacturing engineering, received the Leibniz Prize in 2002 for work on forming technology and laser-based materials processing.制造工程教授 Frank Vollertsen 因其在成形技术与激光材料加工方面的研究，于 2002 年获得莱布尼茨奖。
• Christine Silberhorn, professor of integrated quantum optics, won the 2011 Leibniz Prize and leads research on photonic quantum sources for secure communication.集成量子光学教授 Christine Silberhorn 获得 2011 年莱布尼茨奖，并领导面向安全通信的光子量子源研究。
• Meinolf Sellmann, a computer scientist who completed his doctorate at Paderborn, later led optimisation research at General Electric's global research centre.计算机科学家 Meinolf Sellmann 在帕德博恩获得博士学位，后来在通用电气全球研究中心领导优化研究。
• Wilhelm Schäfer, professor of software engineering, has shaped the university's research on software product lines, model-driven development and industrial software engineering.软件工程教授 Wilhelm Schäfer 塑造了该校在软件产品线、模型驱动开发与工业软件工程方面的研究。