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.

TU researchers develop AI for operations from a distance

Surgical robots require highly-qualified assistants – of which there is a worldwide shortage. Artificial intelligence developed at TU Darmstadt is intended to enable remote operations without them.

Research team for the first time observed a neutral nucleus – the Tetra Neutron

An international research team with leading participation by TU Darmstadt succeeded for the first time to create an isolated four-neutron system with low relative energy in a volume corresponding to that of an atomic nucleus. The scientists have overcome the experimental challenge by employing a new method using a 8He beam and a fast high-energy reaction.

Lively and creative discussions during Unite! Summer Community Event

A bright and mostly sunny Stockholm welcomed more than 200 Unite! staff members and students for the Unite! Summer Community Event June 13-15. The event gathered members of the Erasmus+ Task Forces and the Horizon 2020 Work Packages and around 30 meetings were scheduled. In addition, a number of open seminars were arranged on different Unite!-related themes.

The Alliance is committed to Flexible Study Pathways

The alliance presents a first report including definitions and recommendations for Flexible Study Pathways (FSPways) in order to build a common framework for flexibility that can be easily communicated to students, teachers and non-teaching staff.

DFKI establishes laboratory at TU Darmstadt

The German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) is expanding basic AI research with a laboratory at TU Darmstadt. The focus is on Systemic AI, the combination of different AI building blocks into complex, comprehensive AI systems.

Combining heavy-ion experiments, astrophysical observations, and nuclear theory

An international research team has for the first time combined data from heavy-ion experiments, gravitational wave measurements and other astronomical observations using advanced theoretical modelling to more precisely constrain the properties of nuclear matter as it can be found in the interior of neutron stars. The results were published in the journal “Nature”.

Publication in Journal Advanced Science

Research team with involvement of TU Darmstadt shows: Cone scales open and close due to the interaction of multiple tissue layers, all of which respond to moisture

Advanced Science: researchers investigate movements when leaves reopen

The rapid speed at which the carnivorous Venus flytrap catches its prey is legendary. What is less well known is that Dionaea muscipula is also capable of a variety of other forms of movement. In a study, a team at the Universities of Darmstadt, Freiburg and Stuttgart studied the opening – i.e. the “re-setting” – of the traps. The results are also interesting for technical disciplines such as mechanical engineering or soft robotics, and have just been published in the renowned journal “Advanced Science”.