Archive: News of Technische Universität Darmstadt
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A voice for women in Afghanistan
2023/02/10
Environmental engineer Fatima Akbari is the second Hilde Domin scholarship holder at TU Darmstadt
With the support of the DAAD programme, Fatima Akbari has been able to start her doctoral degree in Darmstadt. TU Darmstadt's International Office supports at-risk academics like this young woman from Afghanistan.
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Picture: Walter OppelPicture: Walter Oppel
Tracking tumors with quantum optics
2023/02/08
Research team works on new tool for cancer diagnostics
Quantum imaging enables insights into previously invisible areas. Can tumour diagnostics also benefit from this? The TU Darmstadt, which has special expertise in quantum optics, is now investigating this question together with eight partners. The Quancer research project has a budget of 6.7 million euros and is being funded with 5.6 million euros in the framework programme “Quantum Technologies – from basic research to market” by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF).
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Basis for intelligent therapeutics
2023/02/06
Professor Heinz Koeppl involved in founding of new start-up Dirac Biosciences
A new start-up with significant participation of etit professor Heinz Koeppl is dedicated to the computer-aided design of innovative gene circuits in synthetic biology. In addition to Koeppl, partners of the new company Dirac Biosciences are the TU Darmstadt and the investment company eureKARE, which finances and develops innovations in the field of synthetic biology in Europe. The founding of the start-up was supported by the Innovation and Start-up Center HIGHEST of the TU Darmstadt.
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How and why Artificial Intelligence is transforming cities
2023/01/31
ERC Consolidator Grant for TU project “scAInce” by Professor Eva Kassens-Noor
Can technological change lead to a more sustainable life in our cities? This question is being addressed by the research project “scAInce”. Under the direction of Professor Eva Kassens-Noor, researchers at TU Darmstadt are investigating how cities that want to solve their economic, ecological and social problems with artificial intelligence are changing. The project is supported by a renowned ERC Consolidator Grant from the European Research Council (ERC) to the tune of some two million euros over five years.
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A look at the activity in electronic components
2023/01/31
Professor Leopoldo Molina-Luna receives ERC Consolidator Grant
In its current funding round, the European Research Council ERC has awarded Professor Leopoldo Molina-Luna a Consolidator Grant of around 2.1 million euros for his project “ELECTRON – Enabling spatially-resolved mapping of electric activity in operational devices at atomic-resolution”.
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The mystery of visual perception
2023/01/31
TU Professor Thomas Wallis receives ERC Consolidator Grant
How do we perceive the individual objects in a scene even if they are only partially visible? And how do we learn this so-called segmentation from visual experience? This is now being investigated by researchers at TU Darmstadt. The European Research Council is funding the project with a renowned ERC Consolidator Grant to the tune of approximately two million euros.
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Unite! works for the green transformation of Ukrainian universities
2023/01/30
Following the initiative of Wrocław University of Science and Technology, Unite! has invited seven universities from Ukraine to collaborate
The tertiary institutes will implement the “Green Transformation at Ukrainian Universities” project, funded by the National Academic Exchange Agency. The main objective is to support the academic community of Ukraine by engaging partner institutions in regular activities under the Unite! Erasmus+ programme, this work will be carried through by Unite!’s community devoted to “An Open Innovation Community for the Green Transition”, led by Wrocław University of Science and Technology. A second, equally important objective is to establish permanent cooperation between Ukrainian universities and Unite!, which will facilitate the country's post-war reconstruction process, as well as constituting an important step in the process of its integration into the European Union.
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“The mysteries of the human brain”
2023/01/20
An interview with the new Humboldt Professor Angela Yu
The US cognitive scientist Angela Yu has started her Humboldt Professorship for “Computational and Cognitive Neuroscience” at TU Darmstadt on 1 December 2022. The 45-year-old was previously Assistant Professor (2008-2015) and Associate Professor (2015-2022) at the University of California San Diego. We asked her a few questions about her start at TU Darmstadt.
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EU promotes science-policy dialogue at regional and local levels
2023/01/17
Rhine-Main Universities selected for pilot project
The Science Meets Regions programme of the European Commission is promoting science-policy dialogue at regional and local levels. As part of the programme, the Rhine-Main Universities – Technical University of Darmstadt, Goethe University Frankfurt and Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz – will offer dialogue opportunities for policy professionals from Hessian and Rhineland-Palatinate state institutions and city administrations on issues concerning green and digital transformations.
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Unite!4Future 2023
2022/12/22
Share your vision of the university of the future and participate in the Unite! Student Festival
Gather a team of students in Unite! universities, prepare a video with your vision of the university of the future and compete with other teams to win a participation on the Unite! Student Festival in Lisbon.
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ULISSES goes into the 3rd round
2022/12/21
Interdisciplinary research project for all Unite! students
Unite! students have until the 15th of January to apply to take part in an interdisciplinary real-life research project for the solution of an important challenge related to the sustainability of the Oceans. ULISSES – University of Lisbon Interdisciplinary Studies on Sustainable Environment and Seas is a project that will provide students with a deep knowledge of ocean related problems.
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“I’m glad that I dared to take that step.”
2022/12/15
Determined and combative – TU alumnus Michael Fitzke in portrait
Michael Fitzke is a fighter. With lots of motivation and firm determination he worked for his enrolment in Mathematics at TU Darmstadt; after all, his parents had not gone to university, and he had to take the route via an Advanced Vocational Certificate of Education. “The first two semesters were tough,” the alumnus says, “but after that, I really enjoyed it.” His sense of purpose has led him to his present leadership position with the US corporation Mars. As a specialist for Machine Learning and Big Data analysis, Fitzke works on developing AI systems in veterinary medicine with the objective to enable vets to make faster and more precise diagnoses in cases of cancer, coronary diseases, or joint problems in pets.
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New Executive Board for TU Darmstadt
2022/12/07
The University Assembly elects new Vice Presidents
A new Executive Board – including three newly elected members and one reappointed member – will take up its duties on 1 January 2023. The candidates proposed by TU President Professor Tanja Brühl were thus elected by the University Assembly.
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Developing novel catalysts from enzymes
2022/11/29
PhD network MetRaZymes receives funding as Marie Skłodowska-Curie action
TU Darmstadt coordinates the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Network “Metal-Containing Radical Enzymes – MetRaZymes” under the leadership of Professor Nico Bruns from the Department of Chemistry. The project, funded by the EU, Switzerland and the UK with more than three million euros, will enable 13 PhD students to develop novel enzymes as environmentally friendly and efficient catalysts for radical reactions to produce drugs, polymers and other chemical compounds.
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Unite! strengthens its leadership with two new vice presidents
2022/11/29
The two vice-presidents are the rectors of two Unite! partner universities, Ilkka Niemelä from Aalto University and Daniel Crespo from Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya · BarcelonaTech.
Based on the feedback from the European Commission, Unite! has decided to strengthen its leadership and establish two new Vice President positions. President Ilkka Niemelä from Aalto University and Rector Daniel Crespo from Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya were elected for these positions by the Academic Forum of Unite! on 29 November, 2022.