Research
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).
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
- Integrated Energy Systems
- Scalable Clean Water Cycles
- Thermo-Fluids and Interfacial Phenomena
Profile Topics of I+I
- Cognitive Science
- Complex Interconnected Systems
- Cybersecurity & Privacy
- Artificial Intelligence
Profile Topics of M+M
- Materials Design for Circularity
- Nuclear Science
- Synthetic Biology
- Intelligent, sustainable value creation networks for Industry 4.0 of the future
Successes in competitive research programmes:
German Research Foundation (DFG)
EU-funded projects at TU Darmstadt
Funding from the federal government
LOEWE projects
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.
Scientific Infrastructure
Excellent research and teaching succeed on the basis of a corresponding research and information infrastructure.
