Archive: News of Technical University of Darmstadt

First German-Austrian Collaborative Research Centre/Transregio approved

TU Darmstadt and TU Graz are intensifying their research into how electrical machines can be decisively improved through computer simulation. To this end, the first German-Austrian Collaborative Research Centre/Transregio (TRR) 361 has been approved. The German Research Foundation (DFG) and the Austrian Science Fund FWF are funding the TRR “Computational Electrical Machine Laboratory” with a total of over eight million euros.

Publication in “Physical Review Letters”

A team led by the Darmstadt mechanical engineering professor, Martin Oberlack, has discovered fundamental principles that make it easier to calculate turbulence than was previously possible. This could significantly reduce time-consuming experiments in wind tunnels as they could be simulated on the computer.

European Research Council funds two young scientists at TU Darmstadt with ERC Starting Grants

Two research projects at TU Darmstadt will in the future be funded by the European Research Council (ERC) as excellent and innovative basic and frontier research with ERC Starting Grants. A total of around three million euros will go to two Early Career Researchers.

Meike Saul researches new diagnostic methods

Meike Saul, head of a research group in the Department of Biology at TU Darmstadt, has decoded the function of a short strand of RNA linked with lung cancer and arthritis. She is now using her findings to develop new diagnostic methods and therapies.

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.