Archive: News of Technical University of Darmstadt

Post-quantum methods to protect against quantum computers of the future

Quantum computers may be able to crack the encryptions common in the network in ten years – even retroactively. The Darmstadt cryptographer Dr. Juliane Krämer counters with mathematics.

Focus on the interaction between humans and artificial intelligence

A new group of young female scientists at TU Darmstadt funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research will be conducting research over the next four years into “Interactive AI for Domain Experts and Everyday Users” (IKIDA). The team will be headed by Dr. Dorothea Koert from the Intelligent Autonomous Systems Group in the Department of Computer Science. She was awarded the AI Newcomer Prize in 2019.

International study provides first results

How does the property situation at home affect work success in the home office, what opportunities does it offer, and who will profit? A broad international study at the Technical University of Darmstadt is investigating these and other questions. The first results are now in.

Research project for the control of multi-resistant germs

At the Merck Lab at the TU Darmstadt, researchers from Merck and the TU have simplified the diagnosis of bacterial infectious diseases. In doing so, they want to curb a global problem: the increase in multi-resistant germs that no longer respond to antibiotics.

Research group PEASEC: IT meets peace and conflict research

Professor Christian Reuter, head of the research group of „Science and Technology for Peace and Security“ (PEASEC), is conducting research and teaches on the interface between computer science and peace and conflict research. He explains in the following interview how IT can be used during war and to bring about peace.

Study: What rail passengers want to know about regional transport

Scientists from the Institute of Transport Planning and Traffic Engineering at TU Darmstadt shed some light on the theme of passenger information in trains operated by DB Regio AG.

Billions of Users Vulnerable to Privacy Attacks

Researchers from the Technical University of Darmstadt and the University of Würzburg show that popular mobile messengers expose personal data via discovery services that allow users to find contacts based on phone numbers from their address book.

European Laboratory for Learning and Intelligent Systems launched

The European Laboratory for Learning and Intelligent Systems (ELLIS) today officially inaugurated its network of 30 research units in a video conference. One of the research units is based at TU Darmstadt. Its spokesperson is the Computer Science Professor Stefan Roth, who has been awarded an ERC grant.

Achim Schwenk another five years Max Planck Fellow at MPIK

The President of the Max Planck Society has appointed Prof. Achim Schwenk, Institute for Nuclear Physics of TU Darmstadt, as Max Planck Fellow at the MPI for Nuclear Physics in Heidelberg for another five years. This is connected with leading the theoretical research group “Strong Interactions and Exotic Nuclei”, in close collaboration with the experimental division of Prof. Klaus Blaum.

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Research impetuses from electrical engineering at TU Darmstadt

Research teams from the Technical University of Darmstadt are developing tools for process monitoring in vaccine production. In the future, the procedures are intended to help meet the high demand for vaccines against the novel SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus.

TU Darmstadt will be home to the spokespeople and main site of the centre

The new Hesse Centre for Artificial Intelligence (AI Centre Hesse) – funded by the State of Hesse and with its main site at TU Darmstadt – aims to deliver excellent basic research, focus on specific practical applications to find answers to the important challenges of our time and transfer the knowledge to business and society.

Ionic liquids help to understand the electrocatalytic conversion of CO₂

The conversion of carbon dioxide into hydrocarbons and other basic chemicals is important if we are to have a sustainable economy in the future. Researchers at the TU Darmstadt and the Helmholtz Institute Erlangen-Nürnberg for Renewable Energy have now decoded major steps in electrochemical carbon dioxide conversion.

TU research team publishes results in “Nature Machine Intelligence”

Artificial intelligence is sometimes met with scepticism but it has earned our trust. A research team at TU Darmstadt headed by Professor Kristian Kersting describes how to achieve this using a clever approach to interactive learning in the magazine “Nature Machine Intelligence”.

Alexandria Novokowsky completed her master studies "Mundus Urbano" at the TU

Alexandria Novokowsky (31) from Ottawa, Canada, is a TU Darmstadt Alumna. 2014/15 she took part in the Masters program „Mundus Urbano“ in Darmstadt. In an interview, she talks about her time in Darmstadt and the doors that her studies opened for her.