Guests of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation at TU Darmstadt

International scientific prize winners and scholarship holders of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation are visiting TU Darmstadt regularly. Here they engage in research and push scientific projects forward. We are glad to introduce our guests and their hosts.

The top address for foreign engineers

International engineers really like spending their research stay at TU Darmstadt. This was again evident in the renowned Alexander von Humboldt Foundation rankings of 2020. TU Darmstadt claimed the fourth place in the whole of Germany for guest researcher numbers.

Our recent guests

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Dr Arnab Roy

is a Humboldt Research Fellow and guest of Professor Dr Matthias Hieber at the Department of Mathematics. He is researching incompressible and compressible fluids, fluid-structure interaction and control of partial differential equations.

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 Professor Dr Marin Alexe
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Professor Dr Marin Alexe

from the University of Warwick is researching solid-state physics, ferroic materials and semiconductors. He is a guest of Professor Jürgen Rödel at the Department of Materials- and Geosciences.

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Professor Dr Dragan Damjanovic
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Professor Dr Dragan Damjanovic

is researching fundamental and applied investigations of piezoelectric, ferroelectric and dielectric properties of a broad class of materials, from oxide ceramics, crystals, and thin films to polymers and hybrid organo-metallic materials multifunctional electro-catalysts for energy storage and conversion. He is a guest of Professor Jürgen Rödel at the Department of Materials- and Geosciences.

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Dr Umair Shamraiz

is researching multifunctional electro-catalysts for energy storage and conversion. He is a guest of Professor Bastian J.M. Etzold at the Department of Chemistry.

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Dr Abdul Majeed

is researching catalyst design for hydrogen production. He is a guest of Professor Bastian J.M. Etzold at the Department of Chemistry.

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All our guests at a glance