Energy and Environment – Information and Intelligence – Matter and Materials
At TU Darmstadt, we carry out research in three major fields transcending the boundaries of individual disciplines: Energy and Environment (E+E), Information and Intelligence (I+I) as well as Matter and Materials (M+M).
Clusters of Excellence
Success for TU Darmstadt: The two projects “Reasonable Artificial Intelligence” (RAI) and “The Adaptive Mind” (TAM) in the fields of artificial intelligence and cognitive sciences are being funded as Clusters of Excellence.
Research Fields
Research Fields
We provide pioneering and relevant discoveries and scientific solutions answering today’s unsolved questions while generating the ideas of tomorrow. We carry out in-depth, sustainable, excellent, transformative research that attracts inquisitive students, creative early-career researchers and excellent scientists from around the world. At TU Darmstadt, we solve basic research problems and implement scientific discoveries in technical and social processes.
In our Research Fields, we combine theory and experiment and address future challenges: digital intelligence and responsibility, environments worth living in and sustainable transformation as well as securing and generating resources.
Profile Topics
All our Research Fields live and breathe scientific excellence. Top scientists and their teams propel research forward by way of highly focussed and highly relevant research topics. These Profile Topic shape the academic reputation of Technical University of Darmstadt. They are characterised by highly attractive and successful collaborative projects.
Profile Topics of E+E
- Carbon-Neutral Circles
- Computational Engineering
- Integrated Energy Systems
- Scalable Clean Water Cycles
- Thermo-Fluids and Interfacial Phenomena
Profile Topics of I+I
- Artificial Intelligence
- Cognitive Science
- Complex Interconnected Systems
- Cybersecurity and Privacy
Profile Topics of M+M
- Networks for Industry 4.0
- Materials for Circularity
- Nuclear Science
- Synthetic Biology
Third-Party Funding at Technical University of Darmstadt
The long-term growth and the volume of third-party funding provide clear evidence of the research strength of TU Darmstadt. Annual third-party funding has more than doubled in the last ten years alone and has stabilised at a high level. Third-party funds are primarily obtained through competitive processes in which the scientists at TU Darmstadt repeatedly prove their capabilities and the outstanding position of the university in national and European competition.
External funding at TU Darmstadt broken down by source (percentage).
Development of Third-Party Funding
Competitive research programmes
Services and offers
Computational Engineering
FiF – Forum for Interdisciplinary Research
Scientific Infrastructure
Excellent research and teaching succeed on the basis of a corresponding research and information infrastructure.
Research services
An overview of funding opportunities and the most important funding organizations – as well as information and advice on all aspects of third-party funded projects and contract management.
Nationale Förderprogramme
EU for You! – The EU-Support Agency
Drittmitteladministration
Vertragsmanagement
Forschungsmentoring
Ensuring good scientific practice
TU Darmstadt attaches the highest importance to safeguarding good scientific practice. These are formulated in two statutes.
Equal Opportunities in Research Networks
An overview over the activities and offers from research networks on the field of equal opportunities.
