Archive: News of Technical University of Darmstadt

Vera Krewald decodes chemical reaction mechanisms on the computer

TU Chemistry Professor Vera Krewald doesn’t need a laboratory but rather powerful computers. She uses the tools of quantum chemistry to describe chemical reactions – namely those that will play a key role in the transition to a sustainable economy.

TU Workshop for all

How should the university alliance Unite! continue? The Unite! team would like to answer this question on January 19, 2022 from 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. with representatives of all status groups of the TU Darmstadt and invites on behalf of the Vice President for Transfer and International Affairs to an online workshop. The elaborated ideas and proposals will then flow into the follow-up application for further funding within the framework of the European Higher Education Initiative.

Research at the Institute of Political Science

Brexit, the refugee issue, conflicts with Poland and Hungary: the EU is never out of the headlines. But how do people in Europe talk about Europe? An international team at TU Darmstadt is exploring this now.

“Booster” vaccination possible for TU employees on 22 December

More than 740 TU members, citizens and volunteers have been vaccinated against Covid-19 during the vaccination campaigns on the TU Darmstadt campus.

Graz University of Technology and Wroclaw University of Science and Technology will join the alliance

Unite! is pleased to welcome two new excellent partners to the alliance. They are Graz University of Technology (Austria) and Wroclaw University of Science and Technology (Poland). Both partners share Unite!'s dynamic spirit and approach. With this expansion to 9 members, Unite! increases its impact on the European Higher Education Area.

Review of the 4th Dialogue in Barcelona

Starting on November 29, the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) welcomed members of the university alliance Unite! to the 4th Unite! Dialogue, as well as representatives of various stakeholders, for the first Branding Event in Barcelona to pave the way for Unite! in the future.

Topics: Scalable quantum processors; Cohesion of the EU; Insights for the raw material turnaround; New keys to diagnostics

Professor Yun Chien Cheng on his doctorate in Germany

Yun Chien Cheng took part in the PhD programme at the German Cancer Research Center Heidelberg (DKFZ) and TU Darmstadt. Today, he is working as an associate Professor for Medical Engineering at National Chiao Tung University in Taiwan.

TU Darmstadt project paves the way for powerful quantum computers

A physics research group at TU Darmstadt, which has received funding of 3.3 million euros as part of the "Quantum Technologies“ program of the German federal government, is pursuing ambitious goals.

Professor Gabriel Martínez-Pinedo awarded the Leibniz Prize

Professor Gabriel Martínez-Pinedo has been awarded a Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize 2022 by the German Research Foundation (DFG), endowed with prize money of 2.5 million euros. The most prestigious German research prize with the largest amount of prize money has thus been awarded to an outstanding scientist working at the interface of the fields of astro, nuclear and neutrino physics.

Physics: publication in PNAS

A research team from Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf (HHU) has worked together with TU Darmstadt and an MPI based in Garching to examine the group dynamics of communicating active particles. These particles are consistently focused on self-optimisation. By always endeavouring to maintain their own personal comfort, they also help the other group members. As the researchers describe in the journal Proceedings National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), such self-optimisation is a common multi-body phenomenon which can occur for penguins and bacteria.

Co-creation session: Past & Future. Unite! Vision revisited

This session aims to encourage the Unite! community to share ideas, initiatives or actions you would like to propose to be incorporated in the following dialogues and for the construction of the 2030 Unite! and beyond!

Unite! Past, Present and Future – for the first time with Branding Event

A four-day program with the Unite! community together with external international experts coming together to share insights and learn best practices about the european university alliance Unite!, both online and in Barcelona.

The online hackathon will take place from November 22 to 26, 2021.

Grenoble INP is organising an online hackathon which will take place from November 22 to 26, 2021 (5 to 7pm CET) via online Zoom meetings. It aims at getting together different groups of students of different partners’ universities to work on a collaborative project solution for the University of the Future. You have until November 15th to register and the winner will get to travel to the KTH Royal Institute of Technology Dialogue in March to present the results of the Hackathon.

Dates for first vaccination on 4 and 11 November

TU Darmstadt offers the opportunity to get vaccinated against COVID-19 on Campus Stadtmitte in cooperation with the vaccination team of the Gesundheitsamt (public health department): On 04 November 2021 from 12 noon to 5 pm, vaccination against SARS-CoV-2 is possible in Building S 3|20 Rundeturmstraße 10 (ground floor). The scheduled second vaccination will then take place on 02 December from 12 noon to 5 pm.