International students honoured

On 5 November, TU Darmstadt once again honoured recipients of international scholarships with a ceremony. Among them was Mireille Kroon, winner of the 2025 DAAD Prize for outstanding achievements by international students. The award recognises the excellent academic achievements of the Master's student in Business Mathematics as well as her exceptional social and intercultural commitment. The prize is endowed with 1,000 euros.

First session hosted within the Unite! Networking Hub, a dynamic space for colleagues to connect, share expertise, and grow together

In autumn 2025, a new series of events will kick off at the Unite! Networking Hub – a digital space for cross-institutional exchange, connecting expertise and promoting joint development within the alliance.

Inspiring the Next Generation of European Engineers

From 3 to 7 November 2025, 200 Master’s and PhD students, researchers, and industry leaders from across Europe gather in Autrans, France for the second edition of the Unite! Research School dedicated to AI and cybersecurity, Space & Tech, and Engineering Biology.

Unite! seed-funded project explores next generation of intelligent vehicles

As automated vehicles become more advanced, their energy demands increase rapidly, especially for perception and decision-making. While conventional AI approaches offer high performance, they are often too energy-intensive for scalable and mobile applications in automated vehicles. A promising alternative is neuromorphic computing, which uses brain-inspired techniques like event-based cameras, spiking neural networks, and specialized low-power hardware.

European Day of Languages at TU Darmstadt

Discover languages, experience diversity: On 6 November, TU Darmstadt invites all members of the university community and their families to the second edition of the European Day of Languages. From 9:00 to 19:00, a diverse programme awaits visitors in the Lounge and TUbar of Karo 5.

Jan Philipp Hofmann, Bettina Wagner and Corinna Caspar-Terizakis

An alliance like Unite! requires a great deal of commitment and dedication. This year's winners of the Unite! Awards have done so in a particularly remarkable way. Jan Philipp Hofmann, Bettina Wagner and Corinna Caspar-Terizakis from TU Darmstadt received the Unite! Award for their contribution to promoting young scientists.

Text-to-image generators reproduce and magnify role stereotypes

Researchers at Technical University of Darmstadt and the Technical University of Munich (TUM) and have studied how text-to-image generators deal with gender stereotypes in various languages. The results show that the models not only reflect gender biases, but also amplify them. The direction and strength of the distortion depends on the language in question.

UKP Lab transfers further development of Sentence Transformers to Hugging Face

The Ubiquitous Knowledge Processing (UKP) Lab at Technische Universität Darmstadt has officially transferred the stewardship and further development of Sentence Transformers, one of the world’s most widely used open-source libraries for semantic embeddings, to Hugging Face. The open-source software originated from research at the UKP Lab in 2019 and has since become one of the most important resources for artificial intelligence (AI) in language processing (Natural Language Processing, NLP). It enables entire sentences to be represented in such a way that computers can capture and compare their meaning.

Doctoral student Theresa Nolte on her medical technology studies – fifth and final part of a series

While searching for an application-oriented engineering degree programme, Theresa Nolte came across medical technology. In this interview, the 27-year-old, who graduated in 2024, talks about what particularly motivated and surprised her during her studies.

Doctoral student Phil Reize on his studies in medical technology – part four of a five-part series

For Phil Reize, the medical technology degree programme brought together two of his interests: electrical engineering and medicine. In this interview, the 24-year-old, who graduated in October 2023, looks back on his studies – and gives first-year students an important tip.

Use of Artificial Intelligence in the Diagnosis and Treatment of Mental Disorders

Researchers led by Computer Science Professor Iryna Gurevych at TU Darmstadt and the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi are addressing a key question: How can AI-based tools in the mental health domain be designed to reliably protect patient privacy?

Graduate Ellen Bräuer on her medical technology studies – part three of a five-part series

Ellen Bräuer took up medical technology as a second degree rather by chance during her bachelor's studies and then switched to it completely for her master's degree. In this interview, the 33-year-old, who graduated in April 2024 and now works as a medical physicist, talks about her experiences – including the oddest ones.

Welcome Guide Now Live

The next Unite! Dialogue will soon take place at Aalto University, and the official Welcome Guide, including everything you need to know about the Dialogue, is now live. Themed “Connect and Collaborate”, the Dialogue will take place in Espoo, Finland between 6-9 October 2025. The event will bring together students, researchers, staff, and faculty from across Europe to strengthen partnerships in education, research, and innovation. The programme features community meetings, a parallel programme for early-career academics, and Mix & Match workshops designed to spark new collaborations.

From idea to start-up

In September 2025, the 3rd ryon Start-up Summer School took place in Darmstadt, organized by the Centre for Synthetic Biology and the ryon GreenTech Accelerator. The program is designed for young scientists and aims to transform research ideas from the field of synthetic biology into groundbreaking start-up concepts.

Interview with the Deans of Studies for the RMU joint degree programme “Medizintechnik” – part two of a five-part series

Together with Goethe University Frankfurt as a partner in the Rhine-Main Universities (RMU) alliance, TU Darmstadt has been offering the Medizintechnik programme since 2018. The two Deans of Studies, Anja Klein and Miriam Rüsseler, look back on the beginnings and venture a prediction for the future.