Archive: News of Technical University of Darmstadt

Published in “Nature Machine Intelligence”

A team of researchers from TU Darmstadt, hessian.AI and the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence has presented a method that greatly simplifies the provision of human feedback to learning software. The work is published in the current issue of “Nature Machine Intelligence”.

NHR4CES starts campaign “High-Speed 4 Science”.

With the campaign “High-Speed 4 Science”, NHR4CES – National High Performance Computing for Computational Engineering Science – is currently drawing nationwide attention to its freely accessible service offerings in high-performance computing. At TU Darmstadt, too, posters, flyers and info screens with the slogan can be found in many places.

Researchers of the LOEWE center emergenCITY investigate motivation for sharing

What about the willingness to share privately generated electricity during a prolonged power outage? Researchers from various departments at TU Darmstadt at the LOEWE center emergenCITY have investigated this. The recently published study yields surprising results.

TU Darmstadt receives two new LOEWE professorships

The Technical University of Darmstadt continues to expand its leading international position in artificial intelligence (AI) research: The Department of Computer Science receives no less than two new LOEWE professorships for multimodal learning. One LOEWE Top Professorship is awarded to Dr Marcus Rohrbach, who is at the same time taking up his Humboldt Professorship at TU Darmstadt, and one LOEWE Start Professorship to Dr Anna Rohrbach. Both LOEWE professorships are funded with funds from the LOEWE research programme of the State of Hesse totalling five million euros.

Environmental engineer Fatima Akbari is the second Hilde Domin scholarship holder at TU Darmstadt

With the support of the DAAD programme, Fatima Akbari has been able to start her doctoral degree in Darmstadt. TU Darmstadt's International Office supports at-risk academics like this young woman from Afghanistan.

Research team works on new tool for cancer diagnostics

Quantum imaging enables insights into previously invisible areas. Can tumour diagnostics also benefit from this? The TU Darmstadt, which has special expertise in quantum optics, is now investigating this question together with eight partners. The Quancer research project has a budget of 6.7 million euros and is being funded with 5.6 million euros in the framework programme “Quantum Technologies – from basic research to market” by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF).

Professor Heinz Koeppl involved in founding of new start-up Dirac Biosciences

A new start-up with significant participation of etit professor Heinz Koeppl is dedicated to the computer-aided design of innovative gene circuits in synthetic biology. In addition to Koeppl, partners of the new company Dirac Biosciences are the TU Darmstadt and the investment company eureKARE, which finances and develops innovations in the field of synthetic biology in Europe. The founding of the start-up was supported by the Innovation and Start-up Center HIGHEST of the TU Darmstadt.

ERC Consolidator Grant for TU project “scAInce” by Professor Eva Kassens-Noor

Can technological change lead to a more sustainable life in our cities? This question is being addressed by the research project “scAInce”. Under the direction of Professor Eva Kassens-Noor, researchers at TU Darmstadt are investigating how cities that want to solve their economic, ecological and social problems with artificial intelligence are changing. The project is supported by a renowned ERC Consolidator Grant from the European Research Council (ERC) to the tune of some two million euros over five years.

Professor Leopoldo Molina-Luna receives ERC Consolidator Grant

In its current funding round, the European Research Council ERC has awarded Professor Leopoldo Molina-Luna a Consolidator Grant of around 2.1 million euros for his project “ELECTRON – Enabling spatially-resolved mapping of electric activity in operational devices at atomic-resolution”.

TU Professor Thomas Wallis receives ERC Consolidator Grant

How do we perceive the individual objects in a scene even if they are only partially visible? And how do we learn this so-called segmentation from visual experience? This is now being investigated by researchers at TU Darmstadt. The European Research Council is funding the project with a renowned ERC Consolidator Grant to the tune of approximately two million euros.

Following the initiative of Wrocław University of Science and Technology, Unite! has invited seven universities from Ukraine to collaborate

The tertiary institutes will implement the “Green Transformation at Ukrainian Universities” project, funded by the National Academic Exchange Agency. The main objective is to support the academic community of Ukraine by engaging partner institutions in regular activities under the Unite! Erasmus+ programme, this work will be carried through by Unite!’s community devoted to “An Open Innovation Community for the Green Transition”, led by Wrocław University of Science and Technology. A second, equally important objective is to establish permanent cooperation between Ukrainian universities and Unite!, which will facilitate the country's post-war reconstruction process, as well as constituting an important step in the process of its integration into the European Union.

An interview with the new Humboldt Professor Angela Yu

The US cognitive scientist Angela Yu has started her Humboldt Professorship for “Computational and Cognitive Neuroscience” at TU Darmstadt on 1 December 2022. The 45-year-old was previously Assistant Professor (2008-2015) and Associate Professor (2015-2022) at the University of California San Diego. We asked her a few questions about her start at TU Darmstadt.

Rhine-Main Universities selected for pilot project

The Science Meets Regions programme of the European Commission is promoting science-policy dialogue at regional and local levels. As part of the programme, the Rhine-Main Universities – Technical University of Darmstadt, Goethe University Frankfurt and Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz – will offer dialogue opportunities for policy professionals from Hessian and Rhineland-Palatinate state institutions and city administrations on issues concerning green and digital transformations.

Share your vision of the university of the future and participate in the Unite! Student Festival

Gather a team of students in Unite! universities, prepare a video with your vision of the university of the future and compete with other teams to win a participation on the Unite! Student Festival in Lisbon.

Interdisciplinary research project for all Unite! students

Unite! students have until the 15th of January to apply to take part in an interdisciplinary real-life research project for the solution of an important challenge related to the sustainability of the Oceans. ULISSES – University of Lisbon Interdisciplinary Studies on Sustainable Environment and Seas is a project that will provide students with a deep knowledge of ocean related problems.