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January 13, 2025

Human thinking as a model for Artificial Intelligence

New LOEWE start professorship: Charley Wu strengthens cognitive sciences at TU

December 23, 2024

Understanding what AI models can – and can't – do

Interview with Dr. Simone Schaub-Meyer, early career researcher in the cluster project “RAI”

December 20, 2024

The merging of two worlds

Dr. Andrea Belluati, early career researcher in the cluster project “CoM2Life”, in an interview

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Excellence Strategy from the German federal and state governments

TU Darmstadt is preparing full applications for its projects Reasonable Artificial Intelligence (RAI), The Adaptive Mind (TAM) and CoM2Life – and is thus applying for the Cluster of Excellence funding line.

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Picture: Tübingen AI Center / Elia Schmid

January 13, 2025

Human thinking as a model for Artificial Intelligence

New LOEWE start professorship: Charley Wu strengthens cognitive sciences at TU

Picture: Mercedes-Benz Group

January 07, 2025

“I learnt to work hard at an early age”

Mechanical engineering alumnus Markus Schäfer is now Chief Technology Officer on the Mercedes-Benz Group’s Board of Management

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December 18, 2024

Lord of the parcels

TU alumnus Dr. Tobias Meyer is CEO of the DHL Group and head of almost 600,000 employees worldwide

2025/01/22,
13:15-14:00

Das Akademische Viertel am 22.01.2025 mit Annette Andrieu-Brunsen

"Warum sind Nanoporen wichtig für viele Zukunftstechnologien?"

2025/01/22,
14:00-17:00

Freies Malen // free painting

2025/01/22,
16:15-17:55

Die Bevölkerung und ihre Wahrnehmung in Krisen

Dr. Daniel Lorenz (Berlin, Katastrophenforschungsstelle) im Rahmen der Ringvorlesung "Sichere Kritische Infrastrukturen"

2025/01/22,
18:00-20:00

Vortrag Dr. Thorsten Pötzsch (BaFin): Kapitalmarkt heute und morgen

Veranstaltung des Fachgebiets Rechtspolitik für den digitalen Finanzsektor

Outstanding in rankings

TU graduates welcome!

Employers worldwide appreciate TU graduates for their excellent qualification.

QS Graduate Employability Ranking
International top in the QS Ranking

TU Darmstadt is ranked among the top 150 in mechanical engineering, materials sciences and physics.

QS Subject Ranking
Leading research subjects worldwide

Computer Science: top 100
Engineering: top 150

THE Subject Ranking
Excellent career prospects

Employers are particularly keen to hire TU graduates. In the WirtschaftsWoche-Ranking, Business Information Systems, Business Administration/Industrial Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science and Mechanical Engineering at the TU Darmstadt continue to be ranked in the top ten.
Leading the way in innovation

In the field of “Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure”, TU Darmstadt is in the top ten of THE Impact Ranking 2024 worldwide.
Inventive spirit

TU Darmstadt is one of Germany’s top ten universities filing patents.

IW-Kurzbericht 59/2024: Patentanmeldungen der Hochschulen
Attractive for start-ups

Alongside Berlin and Munich, Darmstadt is one of the three cities with the most start-ups per inhabitant.

Start Up Verband
More CEOs in the making?

The TU Darmstadt is one of the three universities at which most DAX 40 CEOs have studied.

Handelsbatt Ranking 2024
Welcoming the world

TU Darmstadt has a large international student body: the share of international students ranks in the top five among German universities.

QS Ranking
Great support

Students at the TU Darmstadt are very satisfied with the support they receive at the beginning of their studies.

CHE University Ranking (since 2019)
Highly connected

Almost two-thirds of TU Darmstadt's publications are written with international participation. For one-third, the research partners are even more than 5000 km away.

Leiden Ranking

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Research Fields

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).

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Departments

The various scientific disciplines and engineering fields at TU Darmstadt are organized into thirteen departments and five fields of study.

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Academic programms

About 120 degree programmes in engineering, natural sciences as well as humanities subjects – TU Darmstadt offers a wide range of courses.

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Alliances and networks – a selection

TU Darmstadt strengthens its position through strategic cooperation and networking with other universities in Germany and abroad.

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Excellence Strategy

Human thinking as a model for Artificial Intelligence