TU-Alumnus Chen Shen invited to the Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting

Alumnus Dr. Chen Shen completed his doctorate in the Department of Materials and Earth Sciences and is now doing postdoctoral research in the USA. Lately he was invited to the Lindau Meeting with Nobel Laureates. In an interview, he talks about his experiences at TU Darmstadt.

Event is aimed at young scientists

Leading researchers from the project ‘The Adaptive Mind’ (TAM) are once again organising a summer school on Visual Neuroscience this year. The event is coordinated by TAM researchers Roland Fleming and Alexander Schütz and funded by the Center for Mind, Brain and Behaviour of the three TAM partner universities. These are TU Darmstadt, Justus Liebig University Giessen and Philipps University Marburg. TAM is in the running for a Cluster of Excellence in the prestigious Excellence Strategy of the German federal and state governments.

The LOEWE focus area “WhiteBox”

The researchers at “WhiteBox”, a LOEWE focus at TU Darmstadt funded by the state of Hesse, are developing methods at the interface between cognitive science and AI research in order to better understand human and artificial intelligence.

Pragmatic AI for less bias

Researchers at the research group of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (AIML) in the Department of Computer Science are working on the question of how human thinking and learning can be transferred to AI systems. As part of the TU project “Reasonable Artificial Intelligence (RAI)”, which has submitted a full application to the Excellence Strategy of the German federal and state governments for the ‘Clusters of Excellence’ funding line, the comprehensibility of AI decisions in particular is being investigated.

Graduate School presents itself in a video

In the “CoM2Life” cluster project, scientists from Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research and TU Darmstadt are researching intelligent biomaterials that will enable innovations in medicine such as tissue repair or the development of artificial organs. At TU Darmstadt, the Centre for Synthetic Biology is involved in the project. The International Graduate School Life Science Engineering, which is based there, also conducts research at the interface between biology and engineering.

Funding for Dr. Tatiana Tatarenko

In her project “Distributed decision-making in real time in autonomous driving and smart grids”, Tatiana Tatarenko is developing new efficient decision-making algorithms for real multi-agent systems at the Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology. The project is funded by the Emmy Noether Programme of the German Research Foundation (DFG). The funding for the first three years amounts to around 1.1 million euros, and includes the funds for two doctoral positions.

Already more than a dozen publications this year

Researchers from the project “The Adaptive Mind” (TAM) have already published more than a dozen articles in renowned journals since the beginning of the year. TAM is in the running for a Cluster of Excellence in the prestigious Excellence Strategy of the German federal and state governments.

Publication by TU Darmstadt researchers in renowned journal “Science Advances”

In an amazing phenomenon of quantum physics known as tunneling, particles appear to move faster than the speed of light. However, physicists from Darmstadt believe that the time it takes for particles to tunnel has been measured incorrectly until now. They propose a new method to stop the speed of quantum particles.

TU Darmstadt and PRIF establish Professorship for Peace Research in Natural Sciences

Professor Malte Göttsche is to take over the newly-created Professorship for Peace Research in Natural Sciences in June 2024. It is being set up jointly by TU Darmstadt and the Peace Research Institute Frankfurt (PRIF) as part of the joint project “Cluster for Natural and Technical Science Arms Control Research” (CNTR), and is initially being funded by the Federal Foreign Office. With the appointment of Malte Göttsche, PRIF and TU Darmstadt are contributing to the strengthening of scientific and technical peace research in Hesse.

A hub for faculty and staff to connect, collaborate, and internationalize their professional activities where they will find ample opportunities for networking, accessing resources, and fostering international collaborations to enhance their professional

Unite! presents its Faculty & Staff Training Catalogue, now accessible via Unite! website. Designed to enrich the professional journey of professors, researchers, administrative and technical staff across the alliance, this initiative aims to equip participants with the essential tools and resources necessary for success. The catalogue is the result of the work done by the expert community 6.6: Compile a Unite! annual training programme for staff.

Research team suggests new process

A new nucleosynthesis process denoted the νr-process has been suggested by scientists from GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung, Technische Universität Darmstadt, and the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics. It operates when neutron-rich material is exposed to a high flux of neutrinos. The theoretical proposal, which was recently published in “Physical Review Letters”, may be the solution to a long-standing issue related to the production of a group of rare isotopes present in the solar system but whose origin is still poorly understood, the so-called p-nuclei.

New Research Training Group approved

The German Research Foundation (DFG) has approved funding for the new “Organising architecture” Research Training Group (GRK) involving Goethe University Frankfurt and TU Darmstadt. The GRK will investigate architectures as symptoms and tools of modern institutions, networks and discourses and will receive funding over a period of five years. Co-spokesperson is TU Professor Sybille Frank.

The DFG extends the “MatComComMat” Research Training Group

The German Research Foundation (DFG) has announced that it will fund the “MatComComMat” Research Training Group (GRK), in which TU Darmstadt is participating, for a further four and a half years. The DFG approved a budget of more than four million euros for the second funding period from 1 October 2024 to 31 March 2029.

ELLIS researchers involved in "RAI”

ELLIS – the European Laboratory for Learning and Intelligent Systems – is a pan-European AI network of excellence which focuses on fundamental science, technical innovation and societal impact. Researchers from ELLIS are also involved in the TU project “Reasonable Artificial Intelligence (RAI)”, which has submitted a full application for the Cluster of Excellence funding line as part of the Excellence Strategy of the German federal and state governments.

Seed Fund virtual matchmaking event

103 participants from all 9 universities met to present their ideas for Seed Fund projects and look for the right partner to submit their proposals.