Archive: News of Technical University of Darmstadt

Interview with Christian Hoppe, Head of the E-Learning Working Group

Christian Hoppe is Head of the E-Learning Working Group at the Center for Educational Development and Technology (HDA) at TU Darmstadt. His team is currently working almost around the clock so that the university, teachers and students can begin a digital semester. In this interview, the teaching graduate who specialises in media didactics talks about the challenges and pragmatism, virtual lectures and what services and assistance TU Darmstadt is able to offer.

TU Vice President Heribert Warzecha on the digital summer semester

Professor Heribert Warzecha, Vice President for Academic Affairs and Diversity, explains how the corona crisis is impacting the summer semester that begins on 20 April.

Handling the coronavirus was the main theme

Due to the current coronavirus pandemic, the annual General Assembly for the CLUSTER network (Consortium Linking Universities of Science and Technology in Education and Research) was held in virtual form for the first time on 3 April 2020. The meeting of 36 representatives from 13 different countries was organised by TU Darmstadt.

Protection against attacks via side channels

Spectacular security loopholes discovered in modern processors are setting new challenges for scientists: Computer Science Professor Heiko Mantel and his team are studying the danger of difficult to detect attacks via so-called side channels and possible countermeasures.

ERC Advanced Grants for TU Professors Durante and Martínez-Pinedo

The two TU professors and GSI physicists PhD Marco Durante und Dr. Gabriel Martínez-Pinedo have each been awarded an ERC Advanced Grant. The prestigious research grant from the European Union underlines the outstanding quality of their scientific research. Research and teaching at TU will also benefit from these grants.

Memory chips for the next computer generations

Researchers in Darmstadt around materials scientists Professor Lambert Alff and Professor Leopoldo Molina-Luna are developing memory devices for a new type of chip.

Boiling experiment aboard the ISS successfully completed

Many things work in slow motion in space. And researchers at TU Darmstadt are making good use of this fact. Their aim is to investigate the physical process of boiling in more detail.

TU graduates and TU robotics experts found “Energy Robotics”

Four graduates and the computer science professor and robotics expert Oskar von Stryk have founded the company “Energy Robotics”. Their software for autonomous inspection robots has made the team a global leader in the market for monitoring oil, gas and chemical plants. An example of the successful transfer of ideas and knowledge at Technical University (TU) of Darmstadt.

Two Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Prizes of the German Research Foundation for TU Darmstadt

Two of this year's Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Prizes of the German Research Foundation (DFG) go to TU Darmstadt – to junior professor Ulrike Kramm (40) and assistant professor Michael Saliba (36). Kramm, who has been a junior professor at TU Darmstadt since March 2015, develops non-precious metal catalysts for energy applications such as fuel cells. The catalysts are cheap in production as they do not require expensive and scarce precious metals. Since April 2019, Saliba has been teaching and researching at TU Darmstadt in the field of perovskite-based solar cell development, a cost-effective and easy-to-manufacture alternative to established technologies such as classic silicon technology. The prizes are endowed with 20,000 euros each.

The European university alliance explores new avenues for mobility

On 12-14 February, some 150 individuals representing faculty, staff, students and top management of seven European universities gathered at Aalto University for the first ever UNITE! Dialogue event.

TU Darmstadt launches Centre for Synthetic Biology with a strong focus on engineering

TU Darmstadt is uniting its research competence in the field of synthetic biology in a new centre. By international standards, the “Centre for Synthetic Biology” positions itself uniquely due to its emphasis on engineering and technology.

Publication on perovskites in “Nature Energy”

Improving the long-term stability of perovskite solar cells, which is crucial for the use of this pioneering technology – this is the topic of a paper published in the journal “Nature Energy” by an international research team, in which TU materials scientist Professor Michael Saliba is also involved. Perovskite solar cells convert sunlight into electricity and are regarded as the greatest hope for the solar cell industry.

Research at the Department of Computer Science

Julia Vinogradska’s algorithms make machine learning more reliable.

Research at the Department of Physics

A physics research team at TU Darmstadt is developing an apparatus that arranges atoms in desired patterns. A quantum computer could work in the same way.

Exploring the nature of dense nuclear matter

The ExtreMe Matter Institute (EMMI) with its research groups at Technical University of Darmstadt and the GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung will participate in a new network of networks for nuclear astrophysics research. The US National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $2 million grant to the Joint Institute for Nuclear Astrophysics — Center for the Evolution of the Elements (JINA-CEE), led by Michigan State University (MSU), to create the new International Research Network for Nuclear Astrophysics (IReNA).