AI4Science Hackathon

​Build an autonomous AI agent that can solve scientific research tasks — without knowing in advance what those tasks will be.

​Each team designs a system — an agent scaffold, prompting strategy, tool-use pipeline, or any combination — capable of autonomously tackling data-driven scientific problems. You won't be solving the problems yourself; your agent will.

​How it works

​We provide a set of development problems: real scientific tasks with known solutions, drawn from experimental and observational data. Use them however you like — study the task format, run your agent against them, evaluate its outputs, and iterate on your design.

​Final submissions are scored on a set of hidden test problems that no team has seen. Same format, different tasks. Your agent runs fully autonomously during evaluation — no human intervention allowed.

​What we're testing

​Can your agent generalise across scientific domains? Can it load unfamiliar data, form an approach, execute the analysis, and produce meaningful results entirely on its own?

​Problem categories

​Tasks are drawn from three domains: (1) Materials, (2) Science of AI / ML, (3) Climate, and (4) Bio. A fifth "super-category" — General Science — tests for cross-domain generalisation.

​Program

​1:30 PM - Doors open and check-in at Merantix AI Campus

​1:45 PM - Hack kick-off and track intro

​2:00 PM - 10 min pairing session

​2:10 PM - Hacking begins

​6:00 PM - Pizza & networking

​7:00 PM - Winners announcement & showcase

​8:00 PM - Networking

​This event is part of Deep Tech Week. Create a free profile at deep-tech-week.com/register to help hosts approve your registration and build your schedule for the week.

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​​About your hosts

​​Merantix AI Campus: In the heart of Berlin, the Campus is home to 80+ AI teams and hosts 300+ events a year. Part of Merantix, driving Europe’s AI future since 2016, the Campus is where the brightest and most ambitious founders, operators, engineers, industry leaders, and investors come together to shape next-generation AI infrastructure and applications across industries.

​CuspAI is a frontier AI company on a mission to solve the breakthrough materials needed to power human progress. The team at Cusp designes climate-focused materials for carbon capture, clean energy, and sustainable industrial applications.

Dunia Innovations is redefining how the world discovers new materials. By closing the “simulation-to-reality” gap, Dunia’s AI-driven autonomous lab, IRIS, fuses robotics, real-world data, and multi-modal learning to accelerate the design of next-generation materials. From energy to chemicals to advanced manufacturing, Dunia is building the discovery engine for a sustainable, abundant future.

​Tiptree Systems is an AI company on a mission to accelerate science by reimagining how researchers and AI collaborate. Their AI scientific coordinator, Althea, routes knowledge and opportunities to the right people, so that breakthroughs don’t get left on the table.

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