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The second M+M Symposium took place on 29. October 2024 in the Wilhelm-Köhler-Saal of the TU Darmstadt. The M+M Symposium is an open format for valuable exchange and free discussions on the broad spectrum of the Research Field Matter and Materials and the four profile topics, Materials for Circularity, Networks for Industry 4.0, Nuclear Science and Synthetic Biology. It is an excellent opportunity for the members to meet, network and discuss burning matters for the research field, which in turn strengthens its core values and identity.

Professor Heinz Koeppl, Darmstadt spokesman of the project ‘CoM2Life’, in a video interview

The cluster initiative ‘COM2Life’ is a project within the framework of the Rhine-Main Universities (RMU), with TU Darmstadt and Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz as partners. Professor Koeppl introduces the research project, which aims to develop a new generation of soft biomaterials. Part one of a three-part video series on TU Darmstadt's Cluster of Excellence applications.

European Research Council supports four projects at TU Darmstadt with ERC Starting Grants

This success is impressive: four young researchers at TU Darmstadt have been awarded a Starting Grant by the European Research Council (ERC) for excellent and innovative fundamental and frontier research. The selected early career researchers will be receiving a total of around 1.5 million euros each for their projects on learning robot systems, digital 3D doppelgangers, permanent magnets and deformed atomic nuclei over a period of five years. This excellent achievement once again shows TU Darmstadt’s research prowess – including by international standards.

Dr. Pelin Tozman receives ERC Starting Grant totalling 1.5 million euros

Permanent magnets are crucially important for green technologies. However, their production requires expensive and environmentally harmful raw materials. That is why material scientist Dr. Pelin Tozman from TU Darmstadt is researching resource-friendly alternatives. Her project, MAG-TOOL, is now receiving a Starting Grant totalling 1.5 million euros from the European Research Council (ERC) for five years.

ERC Starting Grant for physicist Alexander Tichai

Alexander Tichai is receiving a Starting Grant from the European Research Council (ERC) for his project “DeformedNuclei – Ab initio pathway to deformed nuclei”. In the project the theoretical physicist is developing new methods for investigating deformed atomic nuclei and analysing the effects of interaction models on the predicted nuclear shapes. The funding totals 1.5 million euros.

Machine learning for electron microscopy: Leopoldo Molina-Luna receives EU funding

Leopoldo Molina-Luna, Professor of Electron Microscopy at TU Darmstadt, is the first TU researcher to receive funding from the European Research Council (ERC) for the fourth time. Following Starting and Consolidator Grants, Molina-Luna is now receiving a Proof of Concept Grant. The new project “BED-TEM”, which is receiving 150,000 euros of funding for 18 months, aims to make methods of machine learning accessible for use in electron microscopy in a user-friendly manner. In doing so, it should help to optimise the design of experiments.

Millisecond pulsars are rotating neutron stars that emit regular electromagnetic signals, similar to lighthouses. The pulsar PSR J0437-4715 is the closest to Earth and thus the brightest. Researchers with the participation of TU Darmstadt have now gained new insights into the neutron star’s radius and its consequences for the equation of state of dense matter. The results are published in a series of papers in the renowned journal “The Astrophysical Journal Letters”.

TU research team publication in renowned journal “Physical Review Letters”

Neutron stars are extreme objects whose inner matter can take on exotic forms. Researchers at TU Darmstadt and the University of Copenhagen have now been able to predict a new phase that favours “nuclear pasta”.

Publication by TU researchers in the renowned journal “Physical Review Letters”

Atomic nuclei can be tiny magnets. Their magnetic moment can be precisely measured, but the corresponding calculations have been deficient until now. Physicists from TU Darmstadt have now solved this problem, as they report in the journal “Physical Review Letters”.

Veröffentlichung in Nature

Forschende des Adolphe-Merkle-Instituts (AMI, Université de Fribourg, Schweiz), der TU Darmstadt und weiterer internationalen Forschungsgruppen haben eine neue Methode zur Herstellung dünner, energieumwandelnder Membranen entwickelt, die die Struktur und Funktion biologischer Zellmembranen nachahmen. Diese Entdeckung könnte bedeutende Anwendungen in Bereichen haben, die von implantierbaren künstlichen elektrischen Organen bis zur Wasserentsalzung reichen.