Meldungen 2020 aus der TU Darmstadt

Hochschulranking 2020 der „WirtschaftsWoche“

Jedes Jahr werden Personalverantwortliche von deutsche Unternehmen nach den Top-Universitäten des Landes gefragt. Die TU Darmstadt konnte dabei wieder in den ingenieurwissenschaftlichen Fächern punkten und ist insgesamt vier Mal in der Spitzengruppe sowie einmal auf Platz sechs vertreten.

Professor Wolfgang Ensinger is carrying out research into nanopore membranes

Professor Wolfgang Ensinger and his working group in the Department of Materials and Earth Sciences have been working together with the GSI Helmholtz Centre for Heavy Ion Research for many years on the production and use of nanopores in plastic film. Nanopore membranes are also suitable for filtering and separating purposes – and can thus be used to filter the coronavirus out of waste water.

Cryptography expert receives the Copernicus Award

Their many years of joint cutting-edge research in the field of cryptography and IT security is honoured with a prestigious award: Sebastian Faust, Professor of Computer Science at the Technical University of Darmstadt, and Professor Dr. Stefan Dziembowski (University of Warsaw) will each receive half of the Copernicus Award 2020 of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) and the Fundacja na rzecz Nauki Polskiej (FNP, Foundation for Polish Science), which is endowed with 200,000 euros.

Online lectures in the Department of Mathematics

Professor Robert Haller-Dintelmann is giving his lectures on “Higher Mathematics II” completely online for the first time. Recording lectures at home in his office was not a practical solution for him because, more than in almost any other field of study, the blackboard plays such an important role in mathematics. The professor at TU Darmstadt is thus currently giving his lectures for the summer semester in front of a camera to an empty lecture theatre.

Fundstück aus der ULB: George Naylers Bericht über die Krönung Georgs IV.

Im Altbestand der Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek befindet sich ein prächtiger Bericht zur Krönung des englischen Königs Georgs IV. am 19. Juli 1821.

Interview with Professor Koenders

Laboratory experiments are a challenge for digital teaching during the corona crisis. Professor Eddie Koenders from the Institute of Construction and Building Materials and his colleague Professor Uwe Rüppel from the Institute of Numerical Methods and Informatics in Civil Engineering had a brilliant idea in 2019. With the support of student assistants, they programmed and developed a virtual building physics laboratory for students using VR goggles and a smartphone. Their “VR4Teach” project received the Athene Award for Digital Teaching from the Carlo and Karin Giersch Foundation.

Video-Pressekonferenz zum „Digitalpakt“ an der TU Darmstadt

Der „Digitalpakt“ für Hessens Hochschulen kommt: Wissenschaftsministerin Angela Dorn und Digitalministerin Professorin Dr. Kristina Sinemus haben in einer Video-Pressekonferenz an der TU Darmstadt gemeinsam mit TU-Präsidentin Professorin Dr. Tanja Brühl ein Investitionsprogramm zur Förderung der digitalen Infrastruktur an den hessischen Hochschulen vorgestellt.

TU Darmstadt engagiert sich für die Wahrung der weltweiten akademischen Freiheit

Weltweit werden Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftler aufgrund ihrer Forschungen und Ideen bedroht und in ihrer akademischen Arbeit eingeschränkt. Die TU Darmstadt setzt sich im Rahmen verschiedener Initiativen für gefährdete Forschende und die Wahrung akademischer Freiheit ein. Ein Interview mit Aaron Szczerba, Projektkoordinator Flüchtlingsintegration an der TU Darmstadt.

Proof of Concept: Professor Molina-Luna awarded 150,000 euros grant by the European Research Council

Two scientists at the TU Darmstadt have been awarded a “Proof of Concept” grant of 150,000 euros by the European Research Council (ERC). Professor Leopoldo Molina-Luna received the award for his project “STARE”. We shall be presenting the other recipient of the grant, the “LONGSENSE” project by Professor Heinz Koeppl, in the next few days.

Models confirm observations

Plants use negative pressure to draw water from the soil. Why the pressure value does not fall below minus 100 bar was previously an unsolved mystery. An interdisciplinary and international research group with the participation of the Technical University of Darmstadt now reports in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) that apparently so-called lipid aggregates in the plant saps are responsible for the phenomenon. Simulations and model calculations show how the lipids lead to the formation of expanding cavities that cause the fluid column to break off when the negative pressures become too great.

Proof of Concept: Professor Koeppl awarded 150,000 euros grant by the European Research Council

Two scientists at the TU Darmstadt have been awarded a “Proof of Concept” grant of 150,000 euros by the European Research Council (ERC). Professor Heinz Koeppl received the award for his project “LONGSENSE”, Professor Leopoldo Molina-Luna for his project “STARE”.

E-learning tips by Alexandra Stang

Alexandra Stang gained experience in digitally supported teaching while still a student herself. She has been working at the Centre for Intercultural Competence (ZIKK), which is assigned to the university's language centre, for almost two years. Her tasks include organising an intercultural planning game project seminar on cross-site virtual cooperation in heterogeneous teams and dealing extensively with webinars and student media projects. She offers various useful tips here.

Investigation at TU Darmstadt: Sterilisation process at high temperature recommended

FFP-2 respiratory masks worn by hospital personnel and the emergency services can be used multiple times without any concerns and continue to meet the strictest hygiene standards if they have been sterilised in advance for twenty minutes at 121°C. These are the findings of analyses carried out by TU Darmstadt for the Alice Hospital Darmstadt. The results should help to ease the supply shortages for FFP-2 masks.

Der erste Ernst Ludwig-Stipendiat Simon Gehrmann erforscht vorbildliche Projekte

Von Darmstadt nach Australien: Simon Gehrmann ist der erste Stipendiat des Ernst Ludwig Mobilitätsstipendiums. Er berichtet von seinem Forschungsaufenthalt in Melbourne, der sich an seine Promotion am Fachbereich Architektur anschloss.