Archive: News of Technical University of Darmstadt

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.

Researchers from TU Darmstadt and University of Brescia present their results at conferences

Wireless chips, as they are built into many modern devices, pose a security risk. Jiska Classen from the TU Darmstadt and Francesco Gringoli from the University of Brescia were able to demonstrate this at the Blackhat and DefCon conferences.

New Master's programme “Entrepreneurship and Innovation Management”

The English-language Master’s programme “Entrepreneurship and Innovation Management” in the Department of Law and Economics will begin in the winter semester 2020/21. In this interview, Professor Dr. Alexander Kock, who is responsible for the new study programme together with Professor Dr. Carolin Bock, explains what topics the study programme covers, who it is aimed at and what career prospects it offers graduates.

New study programme taught in English starts in the winter semester

The master programme “Logistics and Supply Chain Management” offered by the Department of Law and Economics will start in the winter semester 2020/21. It addresses Bachelor graduates with a special interest in logistics, production, supply chain management and transport. Students will be able to complete the entire programme in English. Which topics does the study programme cover, what are the career prospects, and does the programme have an international focus? Professor Christoph Glock, who is responsible for the new study programme together with Professor Ralf Elbert, gives some insights into the new study programme in this interview.

Additional EU-funding for research and innovation

A year after its start, UNITE! is awarded an additional 2 million Euro funding from the EU – under the Horizon 2020 “Science with and for Society” call – in order to boost the Research and Innovation dimension of the European Universities. Politecnico di Torino coordinates the new UNITE! project “Horizon 2020”.

Physicist receives the Failla Award of the Radiation Research Society

Marco Durante, professor at the TU Darmstadt and head of the GSI Biophysics Research Department, has been awarded the prestigious Failla Award 2020 by the Radiation Research Society (RRS).

Proof of Concept: Professor Peters receives 150.000 euros from European Research Council

Professor Jan Peters has been awarded a “Proof of Concept” grant of 150,000 euros by the European Research Council (ERC). He receives the award for his project “AssemblySkills”. The aim of the project is to give robots the ability to learn autonomously with the help of artificial intelligence.´

Publication in “Reviews of Modern Physics”

Among the fundamental forces of nature, the so-called “strong interaction” plays a crucial role for the existence of matter in the universe. Just how exactly this force, fundamentally described by the theory of quantum chromodynamics as the interaction between quarks and gluons -- elementary particles that cannot be observed in isolation -- brings about the nuclear force that binds protons and neutrons to atomic nuclei is still a matter of active research. Researchers around Professor Hans-Werner Hammer at the Institute of Nuclear Physics have published an article on this topic in the renowned scientific journal Reviews of Modern Physics.

A report from a teaching perspective

Switching over to the digital semester may have been comparatively easy for the Digital Design Group as many of the course units have already been taught using computers for quite a long time. Nevertheless, there was still much to learn about cloud-based applications and the limits of digital modelling. Professor Oliver Tessmann provides some insights into the digital semester in the Department of Architecture.