Dual leadership for the Alliance of Leading Universities of Technology in Germany

As of October 1, 2022, Angela Ittel, President of Technische Universität Braunschweig, and Tanja Brühl, President of Technical University of Darmstadt, will lead the TU9 Alliance as dual leaders. This is the first time that two women have taken on the leadership role in the Alliance of leading Universities of Technology in Germany.

Publication in ChemBioChem / researchers present fundamental new technology

Customising DNA nanoparticles to make drugs: Researchers at TU Darmstadt have demonstrated how they have been able to design a new class of synthetic materials to target the vulnerabilities of a pathogen and effectively destroy it. They have now published the results of their research in the journal ChemBioChem.

TU Professor Sebastian Faust's cryptography project receives ERC grant funding

The European Research Council (ERC) is providing around two million euros of funding for a project at the Technical University of Darmstadt that aims to improve decentralised blockchain technologies. The project “CRYPTOLAYER – Cryptography for Second Layer Blockchain Protocols” by Computer Science professor Sebastian Faust is being supported with a renowned ERC Consolidator Grant for a term of five years. This will further strengthen TU Darmstadt's activities in cryptography and IT security research.

The VI Unite! Dialogue is fast approaching

To close the pilot phase of the Erasmus+ project and launch the future activities, the Alliance will hold the VI Unite! Dialogue in Politecnico di Torino, with task force meetings and public plenary sessions.

Open Science Summer School at Aalto University

One of the focus areas of the UNITE.H2020 project is the promotion of open science. Open science is transparent and accessible knowledge that is shared and developed through collaborative networks. It involves sharing ideas, data, methods and results with local, national, regional and global collaborative networks of research participants. It also goes beyond this to encompass the production and use of this scientific knowledge among these collaborative networks.

Apply now online till October 7, 2022

Great opportunity: The Deutschlandstipendium offers students 300 euros per month, for at least one year and independent of BAföG. In addition, scholarship holders get in contact with representatives of industry and society and can start forming their own network.

The emergenCITY cross-sectional mission Aerial Crisis Networks (ACN)

A functioning communication infrastructure has become a central part of our everyday life and its organization. We need it to make phone calls and write messages, to collect, send, and receive information – and increasingly to do so anywhere in the world and for many different groups with different user perspectives. The *Aerial Crisis Networks* (ACN) mission at emergenCITY is therefore researching communication networks that can be built or complemented by unmanned aerial systems (UAS), such as drones.

Published in the journal Nature: Researchers use multicomponent alloys to make strong and ductile soft magnetic materials

Researchers from the Max-Planck-Institut für Eisenforschung (MPIE), the Technical University of Darmstadt and the Central South University, China, have developed a new design strategy that increases the lifetime of SMMs and paves the way for advanced applications like high-speed motors.

European Commission approves funds for second funding phase

Unite!’s proposal to be a technology and innovation driver for the advancement of a green and digital Europe has been approved by the European Commission (EC).

International research team manipulates mobile devices with "Ghost Touch”

Touch screens on mobile devices can be attacked and manipulated via charging cables and power supply units. This is what researchers at the System Security Lab at TU Darmstadt have discovered together with a Chinese research team. Several smartphones and standalone touchscreen panels could be compromised in practical tests by simulated touches, the “ghost touches”.

Unite! students can access the new autumn offer of online language courses, communication and global skills offered by the member universities of Unite!

The Unite! Multilingual and Multicultural Training Centre has launched the new autumn series of Virtual learning tools and Language learning. These course offer students the possibility to improve their global competence, their ability to communicate and work effectively with people of different backgrounds through language and culture courses. The courses can be taken online and its an opportunity to learn with students from other European universities. Participating in this offer of courses, the student will be able to improve his knowledge of some of the nine official languages of the alliance.

Professor Jan Peters brings first Amazon Research Award to TU Darmstadt

A team from TU Darmstadt has received an Amazon Research Award (ARA) 2021 for its robotics research. It is the first such research award of the US company for the TU.

Professor Dr. Tanja Brühl and Professor Dr. Angela Ittel Elected as Dual Leaders

Professor Dr. Tanja Brühl, President of the Technical University of Darmstadt, and Professor Dr. Angela Ittel, President of Technische Universität Braunschweig, will lead the TU9 Alliance as dual leaders in the future. They were unanimously elected as the new TU9 Executive Board for the term 2022 to 2024 at the TU9 General Assembly on July 18, 2022. The new TU9 Board will take office on October 01, 2022, with Brühl and Ittel taking over from Professor Dr. Wolfram Ressel, Rector of the University of Stuttgart, and Prof. Dr. Volker Epping, President of Leibniz Universität Hannover, who have chaired the Alliance since 2018. Under TU9’s constitution, the incumbent TU9 Board was not eligible for re-election.

Alumnus Bastian Wibranek: From TU Darmstadt to the University of Texas

Even before finishing his doctorate in Architecture at TU Darmstadt in 2021, Bastian Wibranek had already secured his first job in the U.S. Today, the 38-year-old is an Assistant Professor, teaching “Digital Design and Fabrication” at the University of Texas at San Antonio (USA). It was the first position he applied to, and it was his dream job. He describes the conditions at his new home turf as “nearly perfect”.

Publication with involvement of TU Darmstadt

Water fleas are only a few millimetres in size. But they do have a whole arsenal of defences – even against aggressive plants.