The year 2019 1 Photo: Britta Hüning Photo: People Research profile 25,170 Students (of which 7,955 female) 6 Profile Areas: 4,221 first-semester undergraduate students Cybersecurity 2,827 first-semester Master’s students Internet and Digitisation From Material to Product 248 male professors (of which 18 assistant professors) Innovation Thermo-Fluids & 64 female professors (of which 11 assistant professors) Interfaces 2,617 academic employees (of which 687 female) Future Energy Systems A summary 1,914 non-academic employees (of which 1,156 female) Matter and Radiation Science 148 trainees (of which 48 female) 21 ERC-Grants since 2012 Transition and affirmation 105 graduate assistants (of which 38 female) 12 DFG Collaborative Research Change and continuity – these two words provide a 2,858 student assistants (of which 902 female) Centres/Transfer Units good description of how the Technical University of Darmstadt has developed in 2019.
6 DFG Research Training Groups Binner Katrin Photo: 11 LOEWE Clusters of Excellence TU Darmstadt remained on course for success, thus demonstrating its continuity. Especially prestigious were several awards from the European Research Campus Council for computer science and new funding pro- 5 locations: City Centre, Lichtwiese, Botanical jects from the German Research Foundation (DFG), Gardens, University Stadium, August-Euler Airfield including a collaborative research centre and a (with wind tunnel) graduate school – both of which are anchored in the material sciences. Existing research groups funded 250 hectares of property by the DFG were given extensions, new projects as part of the Hessian LOEWE programme for the fund- buildings (incl. 13 rented) 165 ing of excellent research were given the green light 309,000 square metres of usable space (incl. and 14 research projects were launched with the aid of EU funding. 16,900 rented)
At the same time, the year also brought about Change at the top: President Hans Jürgen Prömel and his successor Tanja Brühl changes with respect to personnel. TU Darmstadt Budget welcomed the new Minister of State for Higher Affairs), alongside the new Vice Presidents Professor Education, Research and the Arts Angela Dorn and Barbara Albert (Research and Early Careers), Professor EUR 254.9 million basic funds from the State of Hesse (excl. LOEWE) her State Secretary Ayse Asar for their inaugural Heribert Warzecha (Academic Affairs and Diversity), EUR 24.3 million from Bund-Länder-Hochschulpakt (Phase II) visit in March 2019. In September 2019, the former Professor Jens Schneider (Transfer and International President of TU Darmstadt Professor Hans Jürgen Affairs) and Professor Herbert De Gersem (Scientific EUR million other funds 8.8 Prömel was given a ceremonial farewell after twelve Infrastructure and Digitization). EUR 165.2 million third-party funds (incl. LOEWE) years in office. Under his leadership, TU Darmstadt has actively shaped and defined its autonomy and “European University” self-responsibility and has strengthened its reputa- One success that was officially announced in the Upgrowth of third-party funds Sources of third-party funds tion both at home and abroad. summer of 2019 holds great significance for the (in mio EUR) in % future of TU Darmstadt and will have a far-reaching Professor Tanja Brühl took office as the new Presi- impact: The university was successful with its entry
2019 Federal Government2019 dent of TU Darmstadt on 1 October, following her in the EU funding competition “European University”, election by the University Assembly in March 2019. together with six other European technical universi- 165.2 The German Federation of Industrial Research At the end of the year, the former Vice Presidents Associations – AiF 2.9 32.1 ties. This prestigious honour comes with total funding other funds 7.2 Professor Mira Mezini, Professor Andrea Rapp, Pro- of five million euros. The competition is the result of fessor Ralph Bruder and Professor Matthias Rehahn an initiative by French President Macron. The aim 4.1 LOEWE stepped down from the Executive Board at the end of the UNITE! (University Network for Innovation, of their terms of office – all of them can take credit Technology and Engineering) alliance coordinated by 27.4 German for pushing forward strategically important projects TU Darmstadt is to create a trans-European virtual 19.2 Research Industry Foundation with the highest degree of professionalism. campus. DFG 7.1 The university’s new management team took up The alliance will establish cross-university study EU their duties at the turn of the year: The President courses and transnational knowledge transfer as TU Darmstadt TU Darmstadt The Year 2019
Overview Overview will continue to rely on the support of Vice President its natural standards. The partner universities will Figures rounded Dr. Manfred Efinger (Administration and Financial establish links with start-up networks and companies
2 3 Rhine-Main Universities Outstanding education and research thrive off networking and cooperation. On a regional level,
Photo: Patrick Bal Patrick Photo: TU Darmstadt, the Goethe University Frankfurt and
Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz joined together Binner Katrin Photo: to create the Rhine-Main Universities (RMU) strategic alliance in 2015 to exploit their combined strengths – the independent profiles of each university comple- ment each other very well. TU Darmstadt has been able to enhance the attractiveness of its teaching and research through targeted synergies – such as in the areas of biomedical engineering and peace and conflict research. The alliance now combines 103,000 students, has links to 22 non-university research institutes and acts as the coordinator for 21 collabora- tive research centres funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG).
In 2019, three new joint projects at the RMU were ap- proved both by the German Research Foundation and as part of the Hessian LOEWE programme for scientific excellence: a DFG collaborative research centre for the regulation of DNA repair and genome stability, as well in their local regions and strengthen and coordi- as LOEWE projects on biochemical drug development nate their joint research on pressing social themes and on the significance of architecture for social, cul- such as the energy transition, artificial intelligence tural and scientific concepts of order. and Industry 4.0. This will benefit the graduates from the UNITE! universities above all: They will Alongside TU Darmstadt, UNITE! includes The dynamic development of the RMU was demon- acquire interdisciplinary and intercultural exper- the Aalto University (Finland), KTH strated in September 2019 at the 1st RMU Day: More tise, which graduates need now more than ever Royal Institute of Technology (Sweden), than 250 members of the three universities reported Grenoble Institute of Technology so that they are optimally prepared to meet the (France), Politecnico Di Torino (Italy), on their achievements to date and discussed the next future requirements of the job market and global Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya steps for networking and cooperating in the areas of challenges. (Spain) and Universidade de Lisboa research, studies, teaching and administration. The (Portugal). Together, the seven partners world of politics also expressed its support for this have 167,000 students and 36,700 special alliance because it spans two different Ger- Basic research for the future graduates annually. They already cooperate closely in more than 80 EU man states: The Hessian Minister of State for Higher projects and have exchanged more than Education, Research and the Arts Angela Dorn and 2,000 students in the last five years. They her counterpart from Rhineland-Palatinate Professor „We are taking the European idea have all been members of the CLUSTER Konrad Wolf held discussions on the podium with the ing awarded to the Department of Computer Science, Network (Consortium Linking Universities heads of the universities. which focuses, in particular, on important issues relat- a step further. Students and teach- of Science and Technology for Education and Research) which encompasses twelve ed to protection and security: Professor Stefan Roth ing staff are sharing knowledge leading European technical universities Research strength received an ERC Consolidator Grant of two million and information across borders since 1990. TU Darmstadt is one of the leading research universi- euros, Professor Thomas Schneider received an ERC ties, both compared to other German universities and Starting Grant of 1.5 million euros and Professor Mira and developing a European Edu- also from an international perspective. The university Mezini, who had previously received an ERC Advanced received a total of three new grants from the European Grant, was honoured in 2019 with a Proof-of-Concept Overview cation Area together.“ Research Council (ERC) in 2019 – with all of them be- Grant. Professor Dr. Tanja Brühl, TU President and UNITE! President 4 5 TU Darmstadt is contributing its internationally A programme at TU Darmstadt that specifically focuses Executive Board recognised expertise in IT security to the National on female guest professors has also been well received: Research Center for Applied Cybersecurity, which Three women with career and research experience in started work in 2019 under the name Athene. This industry have taken the opportunity to research and research centre has been significantly shaped by TU teach for a fixed term at TU Darmstadt without having Darmstadt and is also supported by two Fraunhofer to give up their positions at their companies. institutes and the Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences. The Federal Minister of Education and Remain curious Research Anja Karliczek and the Hessian Minister of One thing is clear when we look back on 2019: TU State for Higher Education, Research and the Arts Darmstadt possesses an enormous amount of potential. Angela Dorn participated in the official opening It is well worth systematically examining its profile ceremony. The federal and state governments plan in more depth – and continuing to closely follow the to increase the funding for Athene from 12.5 mil- development of the university. lion euros in 2019 to 37 million euros in 2026. You are thus invited to take a journey of discovery as The outstanding position that computer sciences at you read through this publication: You may find the TU Darmstadt holds (ranked in 1st place in Germa- new degree course in Cognitive Science and Data and ny in the Funding Atlas from the German Research Discourse Studies just as interesting as the university’s Prof. Dr. Tanja Brühl Dr. Manfred Efinger Prof. Dr. Heribert Warzecha Foundation) was also highlighted in the Hessian once again very good rankings. In the field of research, President Vice President, Administration Vice President, Academic Affairs State Parliament – to which TU Darmstadt provides the focus is placed on nanoelectronics in which ultra- and Financial Affairs and Diversity a progress report every year due to its autonomous thin material layers with extremely large memory status. In addition, the members of parliament were functions are being developed. The “Cooperation and also very interested in the research being carried transfer” section highlights projects with both a high out in the areas of artificial intelligence and digital- social and economic relevance: For example, long-term isation – including the launch of the new LOEWE field studies are being carried out by the Department centre called the “The Resilient Digital City”. of Electrical Engineering and Information Technol- ogy in cooperation with external partners that are New career paths important for the German energy transition, such as In the competition to secure the best minds, TU investigating how to efficiently transmit electricity gen- Darmstadt finds it important to develop its own erated by renewable sources over a distance of many approach and strengthen diversity on many lev- hundreds of kilometres using underground cables and els. Therefore, it is also very important for TU with low losses. Darmstadt to perform really well in the Tenure Track Programme (the federal and state programme to Prestigious honours and awards should of course also promote young researchers): TU Darmstadt achieved not be forgotten in this annual report, such as the the best possible result with its concept in 2019 – the Reinhart Koselleck Project awarded to the material sci- Prof. Dr. Barbara Albert Prof. Dr.-Ing. Herbert De Gersem Prof. Dr.-Ing. Jens Schneider funding applications for all 20 professorships were entist Professor Jürgen Rödel by the German Research Vice President, Research and Vice President, Scientific Infrastructure Vice President, Transfer and approved. The federal government will provide Foundation with funding of 1.25 million euros, or the Early Careers and Digitization International Affairs funding of 2.4 million euros. This will allow TU appointment of the electotechnician Professor Jutta Darmstadt to increase the opportunities available on Hanson to the Senate of the Helmholtz Association. the career path towards a tenured professorship. And it is also important not to ignore life on campus: TU Darmstadt was awarded, for example, the title of “sportiest university in Germany” for the third time in TU Darmstadt appointed 13 women and a row in 2019 in a competition including seven other 11 men to professorships German universities and several events that all took in 2019. place at the same time. Overview Photos: Katrin Binner (1) / Fotostudio Hirch (2–6) Hirch (1) / Fotostudio Binner Katrin Photos:
6 7 8 Academic Affairs
TU Darmstadt The year 2019
Photo: Jan-Christoph Hartung Highlights 2019 weighed 150 kilogrammes and was able to carry three people. designed and constructed the bridge inthe Botanical Gardens. Itwas sixmetres long, master’s students from the areas of civil, environmental and industrial engineering Students have built abridge out of paper of as aninterdisciplinary part project. Weighing inat150kilogrammes and 4thplace for electrical engineering. mation systems, 3rd place for industrial engineering Darmstadt was ranked in2nd place for business infor- TU Munich, RWTH Aachen, and KIT LMUMunich. TU Darmstadt received one of the top rankings alongside published bythe magazine “WirtschaftsWoche”, TU university. According to auniversity career ranking Germany’s HRmanagers rate TUDarmstadt as atop 2 to 4
Photo: Team Hector applications. largest globalcompetition forsmartrobotsthatare usedforadiverserangeof category andtheBestinClassAutonomy awardintheRoboCup, theoldestand competitions: 1stplaceintheEuropean “EnRich”competitioninthemapping Department ofComputerScience hasbeensuccessfultwiceininternational The rescuerobotteamHectorheaded byProfessorOskarvonStrykinthe 1 year, of which athird of them are young women. videos, experiments and tours. Around 450pupils take every part from senior schools to study the natural sciences through lectures, been held for Department The 20years. of Physics inspires pupils seriesThe of events entitled “Saturday Morning Physics” have now 20 yearsold st place
Photo: Claus Völker 24 months accepted on the scholarship receive financial support for focussing on mathematics, list oflist the Thomas Weiland grades for their bachelor’s their further studies at TU Darmstadt for aperiod of technical or engineering achieved outstanding Foundation: will They Eight students who sciences have been degrees incourses two years. two 9 Highlights 2019
8 subjects in focus New and grippy Bachelor’s students at TU Darmstadt have given a predo- minantly positive assessment of their engineering science degree courses. According to the Photo: Jan-Christoph Hartung Jan-Christoph Photo: ranking conducted by the Center for Higher Education Develop- ment, mechanical engineering and materials science students, Photo: Jan-Christoph Hartung Jan-Christoph Photo: in particular, were very satisfied with the overall study condi- tions. This was also the case for electrical engineering and information technology and mechatronics students.
Discussion in the Discourse Lab
Master in Data and Discourse Studies Who can grip the best? 4 specialist fields Top 100 An increasing amount of data is being accumulated Who can develop a sophisticated gripping technology Master’s students from the Departments of Mecha- TU Darmstadt is one of the top 100 uni- in academia and business. At the same time, there is for a robot arm that can be used to pick up and put nical Engineering, Civil and Environmental Enginee- versities worldwide whose graduates have a need for experts who can understand and process down not only a fragile, blown chicken’s egg and a ring Sciences, Electrical Engineering and Information the best employment opportunities. The this data and effectively communicate with the complex ten-sided object but also a full cup of coffee? Technology and Law and Economics have produced university was ranked in 97th place in the intended target groups. TU Darmstadt is educating This was the task given to teams of students in the wind turbines small enough to fit in a display cabinet QS Graduate Employability Rankings 2020. these experts in the new English-language Master’s Department of Electrical Engineering and Information in the interdisciplinary teaching course “Design for When asked to assess those universities degree in Data and Discourse Studies. This interdis- Technology in the seminar “Practical development Additive Manufacturing”. They learnt how to use 3D who would provide the most qualified and ciplinary course, based at the Institute of Linguistics methods” that was developed by the Measurement printers for practical applications and evaluated the innovative employees of the future, com- and Literary Studies, is following a special approach and Sensor Technology Group. The systematic, me- opportunities and risks from a technical and econo- panies ranked TU Darmstadt in 79th place when compared to international standards: A key thodical approach required to independently solve this mic perspective. internationally. focus is being placed on the handling and digital kind of technical problem should equip the students analysis of research data. for their professional lives in the future.
Orientation for refugees 76 refugees prepared themselves for their future “Discourse analysis deals with the studies in the 2019 summer semester in numerous
Photo: HRK Photo: 160 guests relationship between language, language courses at various levels. TUtor International The German Rectors’ Conference (HRK) held the organised a meet and greet event, an orientation week nexus annual conference at TU Darmstadt in 2019 knowledge and society. The main and extensive tours of the campus, while the Studien- on the theme of “Interdisciplinarity in exper- focus is placed on the amalgama- kolleg gave the participants information on admission tise-based teaching”. TU Darmstadt has plenty of requirements, language tests and the general contents experience in this field. The HRK supports German tion of language analysis with his- of the courses. The Language Center at TU Darmstadt universities in the implementation of European torical, sociological, philosophical provided helpful strategies for how prospective stu- study reform in the project “nexus – forming tran- and political research areas.” dents can effectively manage their own independent
Academic Affairs Affairs Academic sitions, promoting student success”. learning. Marcus Müller, Professor for Digital Linguistics
10 11 Courses offered by TU Darmstadt
Bachelor Master For future generations Applied Geosciences Applied Geosciences Applied Mechanics Applied Linguistics Architecture Architecture Building Technology Autonomous Systems Biology Biomolecular Engineering Surgical robots from a printer Biomedical Engineering* Business Administration/Industrial Engineering For his bachelor thesis in the Measurement and Biomolecular Engineering • specialising in Civil Engineering Business Administration/Industrial Engineering • specialising in Electrical Engineering and Sensor Technology Group, Felix Herbst developed a • specialising in Civil Engineering Information Technology six-axis articulated robot and manufactured it using • specialising in Electrical Engineering and • specialising in Mechanical Engineering Information Technology Business Information Systems a 3D printer. His design is smaller than an industri- Völker Claus Photo: • specialising in Mechanical Engineering Chemistry al robot and much cheaper to produce. The robot Business Information Systems Civil Engineering was then combined with a hollow needle with an Chemistry Cognitive Science Civil Engineering and Geodesy Computational Engineering integrated force sensor which was designed by Sonja Cognitive Science Computer Science Wismath, a bachelor graduate at the Department of Computational Engineering Distributed Software Systems Electrical Engineering and Information Technolo- Computer Science Educational Sciences – Education in Processes Digital Philology of Global Technologicalisation gy. The resulting demonstration robot was used as Electrical Engineering and Information Technology Electrical Engineering and Information Technology a surgical assistant in the biomedical engineering Environmental Engineering Energy Science and Engineering History with a Focus on Modern History Environmental Engineering cooperative degree programme and has been further 113 degree programmes Information Systems Technology Geodesy and Geoinformation developed by the master’s student Dennis Roth. A Materials Science Governance and Public Policy successful project by students for students. Mathematics History Mechanical and Process Engineering Information and Communication Engineering Mechatronics Information Systems Technology Pedagogy International Cooperation in Urban Development Physics International Studies/Peace and Conflict Research* Political Science Internet and Web-based Systems “From scratch, our students Psychology IT Security Sociology Linguistic and Literary Computing have developed a very Materials Science 13 Bachelor of Education (Teaching’s degree) departments Building Technology Mathematics impressive robot that is Body Care Mechanical and Process Engineering Chemical Engineering Mechanics now available to the next Computer Science Mechatronics Electrical Engineering and Information Technology Paper Science and Technology – Paper Technology generation of biomedical Metal Engineering and Biobased Fiber Materials Philosophy Physics Joint Bachelor of Arts engineering students, as Powerful stuff: Articulated robots Political Theory* Business Administration and Economics Psychology well as students of electrical Computer Science Sociology Digital Philology Sports Management engineering, mechatronics stand and explain human intelligence. The focus of 5 German Studies fields of study Sustainable Urban Development* the English-language degree is modelling adaptive History Technology and Philosophy and computer science, and Musical Culture* behaviour using computers. The aim is not only to Traffic and Transport Philosophy Tropical Hydrogeology and Environmental Engineering (TropHEE) will significantly improve their explain human behaviour but also to make technical Political Science Visual Computing systems more intelligent. Sociology practical training.” Sports Science Master of Education (Teaching’s degree) Catholic Religion Lehramt an Gymnasien (Teaching’s degree) Computer Science Professor Mario Kupnik, Head of the Measurement Biology Ethics and Sensor Technology Group Chemistry German Computer Science History German Mathematics History Physics “The increasing application of AI Mathematics Politics and Economics Understanding thought processes Philosophy/Ethics Protestant Religion will only serve people when we Physics Sports Science New bachelor and master degrees in Cognitive Sports Science are now available. Cognitive science deals learn what it is exactly that makes with the human mind as an information process- us humans and how we can take this ing system and acts as a bridge between various into account in technical systems.” disciplines. It combines insights from psychology, neuroscience, linguistics, philosophy and artificial Professor Constantin Rothkopf, Director of the Centre for *Subject related cooperation of TU Darmstadt Academic Affairs Affairs Academic Biomedical Engineering: Cooperation with the Faculty of Medicine, Goethe University Frankfurt intelligence. Algorithms are used to help under- Cognitive Science Joint Bachelor of Arts Musical Culture: Cooperation with Akademie für Tonkunst, Darmstadt winter semester 2019/20 Master International Studies/Peace and Conflict Research: Cooperation with Goethe University, Frtankfurt Master Political Theory: Cooperation with Goethe University, Frankfurt 12 Master Sustainable Urban Development: Cooperation with Vietnamese-German University, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam 13 University 25,170 7,048 8,731 and State Library 2019 Students Students in Master’s students
first subject-related semester Hartung Jan-Christoph Photo: in 2019
1.34 million visitors
697,000 users of the Students Departments Total Women Foreigners* of which of which reading room in % in % Master’s** Master’s in % Law and Economics 3,531 22 15 1,006 28 History and Social Sciences 2,954 53 9 1,076 36 501,000 items borrowed Human Sciences 1,358 62 10 461 34 Mathematics 749 34 8 234 31 77,000 requests for information Physics 1,138 25 6 196 17 Chemistry 981 38 9 256 26 Biology 787 64 8 167 21 Around 5.82 million: the number Materials and Earth Sciences 1,134 34 34 501 44 Civil and Environmental Engineering 2,068 39 20 710 34 of individual pages Architecture 1,274 57 26 579 45 of the digital collection accessed Mechanical Engineering 2,614 13 24 1,136 43 Electrical Engineering and Inf. Technology 2,011 20 40 634 32 Computer Science 3,569 15 21 1,239 35 Around 1 million: the number Fields of Study Mechanics 193 21 21 76 39 of times the library’s publication Computational Engineering 299 17 17 111 37 service (TUprints) was accessed Information Systems Engineering 239 14 15 78 33 Mechatronics 154 5 22 154 100 Energy Science and Engineering 117 25 29 117 100 Total 25,170 32 19 8,731 35 Source: Data Warehouse / Excludes individuals with leave of absence, includes doctoral students, excludes those on second degree courses. Assignment based on first subject, winter semester 2019/20. / * Foreigners refer here to all individuals with foreign citizenship, even if they obtained their university entrance qualifications in Germany./ ** Master’s = all except Master of Education, preparation for Master’s included Collection: 4.74 million printed works, of which 2.4 million Students in first subject-related semester are books and journals Undergraduate degree courses* Master’s degree courses** Fachbereiche Total Women Foreigners Total Women Foreigners in % *** in % in % *** in % 516.000 electronic media Law and Economics 564 22 13 371 21 11 History and Social Sciences 482 57 5 300 54 9 (excluding magazines) Human Sciences 194 73 10 110 60 9 Mathematics 132 38 8 64 30 11 Physics 541 42 10 61 11 5 53.564 continuously published Chemistry 158 42 14 104 34 6 journals,of which Biology 156 66 6 58 66 9 Materials and Earth Sciences 156 51 4 156 39 67 51,159 are electronic Civil and Environmental Engineering 392 38 16 240 45 27 Architecture 166 55 14 187 67 41 13,696 manuscripts Mechanical Engineering 211 11 21 357 13 29 Electrical Engineering and Inf. Technology 349 24 24 246 19 68 3.78 million Euro of expenditure Computer Science 580 21 19 390 18 20 Fields of Study on acquisitions, of which Mechanics 48 46 6 20 10 40 almost 2.85 million Euro Computational Engineering 53 19 8 54 9 22 Information Systems Engineering 39 10 15 23 9 17 on electronic media Mechatronics 53 8 19 Energy Science and Engineering 33 30 21 Total 4,221 37 13 2,827 31 26 705 books and Source: Data Warehouse / Excludes individuals with leave of absence, doctoral students, and those on second degree courses. Assignment based on first 727 graphics restored subject. Summer semester 2019 + winter semester 2019/20. / * Bachelor’s at university, Bachelor of Education, Joint Bachelor, Lehramt an Gymnasien- sup- Academic Affairs Affairs Academic figures and Facts plementary teacher’s training **Master’s at university, Master of Education, preparation for Master’s ***Foreigners refer here to all individuals with foreign citizenship, even if they obtained their university entrance qualifications in Germany
14 15 International students* at TU Darmstadt Doctorates Total of 3.672 from 118 countries in winter semester 2018/19, including ... 4,179 total: 453 | Women: 25 % | Foreigners*: 21 % China 1,056 graduates in 2019 India 228 Departments 149 Turkey Law and Economics Syria 149 total: 25 | Women: 32 % | Foreigners: 8 % Iran 146 Pakistan 139 2,249 of students History and Social Sciences Tunesia 123 14 % total: 12 | Women: 67 % | Foreigners: 8 % Vietnam 91 studying for Bachelor degrees are Indonesia 80 foreign nationals. Human Sciences Egypt 79 total: 13 | Women: 54 % | Foreigners: 8 % Brazil 72 738 Cameroon 71 Mathematics Russian Fed. 69 total: 17 | Women: 6 % | Foreigners: 6 % Bulgaria 57 Spain 57 With 3,569 Physics students, Computer Science total: 33 | Women: 18 % | Foreigners: 6 % Europe is the most popular department at Chemistry Asia TU Darmstadt. total: 39 | Women: 28 % | Foreigners: 8 %
Biology 274 408 total: 34 | Women: 38 % | Foreigners: 15 % Source: Data Warehouse /data: Graduations reported in winter America semester 2018/2019 and summer Materials and Earth Sciences Africa semester 2019 40 % total: 45 | Women: 42 % | Foreigners: 51 % * Foreigners refer here to all of students in the department individuals with foreign citizenship, even if they obtained Civil and Environmental Engineering of Electrical Engineering and Information their university entrance total: 39 | Women: 28 % | Foreigners: 23 % Technology are foreign nationals. qualifications in Germany. ** Excluding PhD graduates. The Architecture diagram still contains Diploma total: 4 | Women: 50 % | Foreigners: 25 % and Magister qualifications so that the number may be larger than the sum of the Bachelor, Mechanical Engineering Masters and teaching qualifi- Australia 1 total: 102 | Women: 12 % | Foreigners: 17 % cations of students *** includes Joint Bachelor, except 25 % Bachelor of Education Electrical Engineering and Inf. Technology studying for Master’s degrees are **** except Master of Education total: 53 | Women: 15 % | Foreigners: 34 % foreign nationals. ***** Lehramt an Gymnasien, Bachelor of Education, * Foreign students who obtained their university entrance qualifications outside of Germany. Computer Science Master of Education total: 37 | Women: 19 % | Foreigners: 38 %
Degree courses in highest demand Graduations
Graduates (total)** Graduates (Bachelor)*** Graduates (Master)**** Graduates Top 5 Bachelor’s degree courses Top 5 Master’s degree courses (teaching degrees)***** Number Number Subject Departments total Women Foreigners* total Women Foreigners* total Women Foreigners* total Women Foreigners* of students Subject of students in % in % in % in % in % in % in % in % Computer Science 2,115 Mechanical and Process Engineering 1,105 Law and Economics 577 19 7 328 21 7 249 18 8 Mechanical and Process Engineering 1,277 Computer Science 615 History and Social Sciences 360 56 5 137 59 2 152 52 7 71 58 4 Human Sciences 212 69 8 109 72 9 87 67 5 16 63 13 Business Administration/Industrial Engineer- Architecture 547 1,174 ing – specialising in Mechanical Engineering Business Administration/Industrial Engineer- Mathematics 149 40 10 56 41 7 80 38 14 13 54 0 518 Civil Engineering and Geodesy 817 ing – specialising in Mechanical Engineering Physics 134 16 2 66 15 0 66 18 5 2 0 0 220 40 5 102 37 8 109 44 4 9 22 0 Physics 715 Electrical Engineering and Information 451 Chemistry Technology Biology 139 65 3 53 58 4 60 67 3 24 75 0 Materials and Earth Sciences 156 33 31 51 39 8 105 30 42 Top 5 Bachelor’s degree courses for international students* Top 5 Master’s degree courses for international students* Civil and Environmental Engineering 389 38 12 177 42 8 212 34 15 Number Number Architecture 327 59 30 135 64 20 186 57 38 6 17 0 Subject Subject of students of students Mechanical Engineering 611 13 14 265 13 10 341 12 17 5 20 0 Computer Science 208 Mechanical and Process Engineering 270 Electrical Engineering and Inf. Technology 283 12 35 121 4 11 162 17 54 Mechanical and Process Engineering 189 Electrical Engineering and Information 217 Computer Science 449 14 25 186 11 5 257 17 39 6 0 0 Technology Fields of Study Electrical Engineering and Information 139 Technology Distributed Software Systems 209 Mechanics 31 10 29 11 9 36 20 10 25 Mechatronik 83 Materials Science 162 Computational Engineering 50 22 12 20 25 5 30 20 17 Business Administration/Industrial Engineer- Information Systems Engineering 31 6 16 16 13 13 15 0 20 ing – specialising in Mechanical Engineering 81 Architecture 118 Mechatronics 33 9 33 33 9 33 28 39 21 28 39 21 Source: Data Warehouse; excludes individuals with leave of absence and those on second degree courses, winter semester 2019/20. Energy Science and Engineering Academic Affairs Affairs Academic figures and Facts Total 4,179 31 15 1,833 31 8 2,192 30 22 152 53 3
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TU Darmstadt The year 2019
Photo: Katrin Binner Highlights 2019 research personalities inthe area of business studies. magazine “WirtschaftsWoche”. Itlisted the strongest100 nomics were placed inthe top 50inaranking bythe Six professors from the Department of and Eco Law - Top 50 emission future. new The “HoMMage” successful energy transition and alow- collaborative research centre has been permanent magnets for wind turbines funding of 12 million euros from the run initially for four withtotal years and electric motors or materials for University of Duisburg-Essen. Itwill launched at TUDarmstadt and the materials are required to ensure a magnetic cooling, new functional Whether itisextremely strong German Research Foundation. MILLION EUROS 12 12
Photo: Patrick Bal evaluate measures tocounterit. experience ofunsubstantiated orfakenewsandhow itishandled–andto damaged democracy. 1,023peoplewere askedtogivetheirassessmentand Technology forPeace andSecurity(PEASEC). 68percentsaidthatfakenews representative studyconductedacross GermanybytheInstituteofScienceand of thegeneralpublic.Thisisbelief of84percentthosesurveyedina Fake newsisdangerousbecauseitcanbeusedtomanipulate theopinion percent84 context of self-driving cars. machine learning methods inimage analysis, such as inthe intelligence.artificial Roth’s research aims to improve trust in TU Darmstadt’s diverse range of activitiesinthe field of million euros over aperiod of fiveThis grant years. strengthens in Computer willreceive Vision” total funding of around two Council. Hisproject “RED–Robust, Explainable Deep Networks prestigious Consolidator Grant from the European Research computerThe science Professor Stefan Roth has received a 2 millioneuros
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Renowned in Europe
34 3 partners How do you develop drugs for proteins that up to now MILLION have been pharmacologically inaccessible? This is the EUROS subject of the LOEWE research cluster “TRABITA – Tran-
sient Binding Pockets for Drug Development”, which Binner Katrin Photo: The federal government will provide has the aim of developing effective medicines. The state around 34 million euros of funding programme is providing TU Darmstadt with 4.5 million for the construction of a “Center euros of funding up to the end of 2023. Other partners for Reliability Analytics” at the are the Goethe University Frankfurt and the Darmstadt Lichtwiese campus. By constructing University of Applied Sciences. this research building, TU Darmstadt will create an infrastructure that will enable the reliability of components to be evaluated over their entire life
cycles using digital methods. Binner Katrin Photo: “The aim is to understand precisely what happens at a TOP 1 PERCENT nano level.” Professor Leopoldo Molina-Luna, According to the Web of Science 2019, the phys- Department of Materials and Earth icist Michael Saliba is one of the “world’s most Sciences influential researchers” in their particular field Assistant Professor Leopoldo Molina-Luna (top 15 by citations for field and year). The As- sistant Professor at the Department of Materials and Earth Sciences prepares perovskites for use Tiny components with huge potential Frosty conditions in solar cells, detectors and other applications. A research group headed by TU physicist Leopoldo Professor Thomas Burg can freeze living cells and Molina-Luna is observing tiny electronic compo- organisms under a light microscope almost instanta- nents in action. Their electron microscope can not neously. The head of “Integrated Micro-Nano Systems” 1,5 MILLION EUROS only be used to image individual atoms but also to in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Infor- manipulate them. For this purpose, Molina-Luna’s mation Technology has one aim: to develop a better How can services for Internet applications cooperation partner DENSsolutions has shrunk link between light and electron microscopy and de- such as data storage, online surveys and a testing laboratory down to the size of a small cisively push forward the continuous investigation of e-mail communication be developed that chip measuring just a few millimetres. It can be dynamic cellular processes. The researcher, who is the protect privacy? Professor Thomas Schnei- inserted into the microscope and allows the team recipient of a Consolidator Grant from the European Photo: Eileén Bosselmann Eileén Photo: der from the Department of Computer to produce, heat and electronically manipulate the Research Council, uses components from microsystem Science has been awarded an ERC Starting samples. Molina-Luna, Assistant Professor in the technology – an electrically heated microchannel and Grant with funding of around 1.5 million Department of Materials and Earth Sciences and the a silicon chip that is cooled with liquid nitrogen – for euros for his project “Privacy-preserving recipient of a Starting Grant from the European Re- his approach. Services on the Internet”. He is working to search Council, believes that there is great potential ensure that users no longer have to trust in nanoelectronics – for example, components that just one service provider and can retain are made using extremely thin layers of different
Research control over their data at all times. materials also have huge memory or storage func- tions.
20 21 In cooperation Medical fi ndings
Synthetic biology Better clinical diagnostics TU Darmstadt is bundling together its research Coffin-Siris syndrome is a little known developmental expertise in a new Centre of Synthetic Biology with disorder in humans that is often left undiagnosed. a strong focus on engineering sciences. The centre Ulrike Nuber, TU Professor for Stem Cell and
will, for example, create genetic circuits and develop Junker Sandra Photo: Junker Sandra Photo: Developmental Biology, has demonstrated which ion conducting nanopores to open up new fields of structural changes this disorder can cause in the brain application in biosensor technology. There is a broad using a mouse model and has proven – in cooperation range of applications for this kind of technology with medical colleagues – that these changes actually ranging from optimised proteins and new regulatory occur to varying degrees in patients affected by the mechanisms that could make plants more robust disorder. through to electrical energy generated by microor- ganisms. Artifi cial bones Hip and knee joints made out of titanium, vertebrae Nuclear physics project extended made out of plastic and other bone implants help to A research programme into nuclear structure physics free many patients from pain. However, some patients and nuclear astrophysics headed by TU Darmstadt suffer complications, such as when the artificial bones has received funding for a further four years: The fail to integrate properly. Anne Martin, a research as- DFG approved the extension of the collaborative sistant in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, research centre that has been running since 2016. has developed a model together with a team headed More than 100 researchers at the Institute for Nu- by Dr. Bianca Bertulat in the Department of Biology clear Physics at TU Darmstadt, the GSI Helmholtz that simulates the first few days after insertion of the Centre for Heavy Ion Research and the University of bone implant. A special test chamber has been devel- Mainz are investigating the physics of atomic nuclei oped for this purpose that should make some animal and the nucleosynthesis of elements in the universe experiments unnecessary in the future. in 13 subprojects. Research in the Centre of Synthetic Biology Professor Ulrike Nuber (right) and Michaela Becker-Röck Taking measurements directly on-site Life Science Engineering Anybody who needs laboratory results to diagnose Researchers from the Departments of Chemistry, an illness or test the pollution in waste water usually Biology, Physics, Electrical Engineering and Informa- “The LOEWE centre will has to send the samples to the laboratory and wait for tion Technology and Civil and Environmental Engi- develop solutions that ensure the results. The research groups headed by Wolfgang neering are working together in the new English-lan- Ensinger, Professor of Material Sciences, and Helmut guage Life Science Engineering graduate school. the emergency operation of Schlaak, Professor of Electrical Engineering and Infor- information and communication mation Technology, have developed and patented a New LOEWE centre prototype for a “Lab-on-a-Chip-System” as part of the “The Resilient Digital City” – this is the mission of technology in crisis situations as LOEWE research cluster iNAPO that can already give the research centre that TU Darmstadt was able to well as the use of this technology the results in the doctor’s surgery or at the sampling establish as part of the Hessian LOEWE research site. Substances are detected using sensors made out funding programme. It will receive 17.4 million for emergency operations, of synthetic nanopores. euros of funding up to 2023. 23 professors from provide quick assistance and offer “As a result of the findings from different disciplines are carrying out research in this the mouse model, doctors now joint project – headed by TU Darmstadt and in coop- the support needed to enable an eration with the Universities of Kassel and Marburg, efficient return to normality.” know precisely what to look for the City of Darmstadt and the Federal Office of Civil on MRI scans.” Protection and Disaster Assistance. Professor Matthias Hollick, Department of Computer Science Professor Ulrike Nuber, Department of Biology Research
22 23 24 Research Pioneering useful and and aluminium without having to apply heat. and aluminiumwithouthaving toapplyheat. permanently jointogethertwo metalssuchassteel welding –acoldforgingprocess. Itcanbeusedto successfully carriedoutresearch intocoldpressflow engineer ChristianeGerlitzkyhas, forexample, trial applications.Ateamheaded bythemechanical for thispurposeandhowtheycanbeusedinindus- together materials,whichtechnologiesaresuitable which newmethodscanbeusedtopermanentlyjoin coordinating multipleteamswhoareinvestigating part ofaDFGpriorityprogramme,TUDarmstadtis components inmodernproductiontechnology. As There isanincreasingdemandforlightweight,smart Welding heat without use theelectricitythemselvestotransformCO grid withoutgeneratingaprofit,theoperatorscan ation. Insteadoffeedingtheenergyintopublic surplus electricitygeneratedduringwasteinciner- veloped aprocesstocapturecarbondioxideusing Department ofMechanicalEngineeringhasde- Institute forEnergySystemsandTechnology inthe A teamheadedbyProfessorBerndEpplefromthe Update for climate protection ca, CanadaandGermany. tion”, whichhassincetouredthroughIsrael,Ameri- “Synagogues inGermany–AVirtual Reconstruc- The projectdevelopedintothetravellingexhibition further 26synagogueshavenowbeenreconstructed. the Nazierawerevisualisedinastudentseminar; synagogues inFrankfurtthathadbeendestroyed anti-Semitism wasinitiatedin1994whenthree tion ofdestroyedsynagogues.Thisactionagainst A mainfocusoftheirworkisthedigitalreconstruc- new formsofculturalmemoryforthelast25years. Department ofArchitecturehavebeeninvestigating Researchers intheDigitalDesignGroup from computerMemories the campus. industrial scaleatatestingfacilityontheLichtwiese the chemicalsindustry. Themethodwastestedonan diesel substituteOMEorusedasarawmaterialin ane. Themethanecanthenbeprocessedintothe produced duringtheincinerationprocessintometh- 2
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Photo: Katrin Binner forward the development of artificial intelligence. forward thedevelopmentofartificial intelligence. been designedtosupportneurosurgeons andpush this Barnes-Hutalgorithmintheir model,whichhas bodies intogroups.TheTUresearchers areusing a calculationprocessthatcombinesthecelestial a starinthehugeMilkyWay, astronomersdeveloped assistance. To determine thepositionof, forexample, calculated? Atrickfromastrophysicsprovidedsome the brainwithitsaround100billionneuronsbe for supercomputers:Howcantheconnectionsin selves toataskthathasproventoodifficulteven Parallel ComputersGroup havededicatedthem- assistant Dr. SebastianRinkefromtheProgramming Computer ScienceProfessorFelix Wolf andhis astrophysicsComputer meets science Using senses allthe Professor Felix Wolf (left)andDr. SebastianRink the AAAI/ACM Conference onAI,EthicsandSociety. decisions fromhumans. Theresultshadbeenpresented at shown thatAImachinescanlearn howtomakemoral and KristianKersting (CentreforCognitiveScience)has pass? AstudyheadedbyProfessors ConstantinRothkopf and optimiseworkprocesses.But whereisitsmoralcom- mend treatmentsforpatients,make purchasingdecisions Artificial intelligencecanbeused totranslatetext,recom- AI withamoral compass derstanding ofhowinformationisprocessedinthebrain. planning behaviour. Theresultswillcontribute totheun- methods fromartificialintelligencetoinvestigatehuman research publishedinthejournal“ScientificReports” uses plan theireyemovementsmultiplestepsinadvance.The demonstrated inastudythatpeoplecanunconsciously the CentreforCognitiveScienceatTUDarmstadthave Professor ConstantinRothkopf andDr. David Hoppefrom frontEyes
Photo: Katrin Binner Department of ComputerDepartment Science Wolf, Felix Professor important organ.” place inourmost the processestaking understanding of more in-depth is togaina brain simulations “The mainaimof
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Photo: Katrin Binner Highlights 2019 artificial intelligenceartificial and intelligentsystems. euros per yearfor five into years cutting-edge research into pean countries and Israel that willinvest at least 1.5 million Technology. TUDarmstadt isone of 17 sites across ten Euro- Human Sciences Engineering and Electrical and Information investigators from the Departments of Computer Science, coreThe team for the Darmstadt unitincludes sixprincipal pean Laboratory for Learning and Intelligent Systems (ELLIS). TU Darmstadt has been accepted into the renowned Euro- 1 among17 in the TUIdea Competition. politics. Prizes were awarded to the best entries guests from the worlds of science, industry and Day at TUDarmstadt, building contacts with pated inthe 4thDarmstadt Startup &Innovation and also already- established –partici start-ups funded that byEXIST are intheir still early stages innovation projects from TUDarmstadt, start-ups More than 90exhibitors –including former 1.000 Guests
for electricity, heating,gas,communications andtransport. educational –inDarmstadt willbelinkedwiththegrid infrastructures project, severaltypesofdistricts– residential, industrial,commercial, energy consumptionandcarbondioxide emissionsincitydistricts.Inthe million eurosoffundingisavailable eachyear. DELTA aimstoreduce and Energyawardedfundingto20 consortiumsacrossGermany;100 with itsprojectoutlineDELTA. TheFederal Ministry forEconomicAffairs wende“ (Real Laboratoriesofthe EnergyTransition) ideacompetition TU Darmstadtwasoneofthewinners„Reallabore derEnergie- One of 20 One
Photo: Sibylle Scheibner event apower of shortage up to 2.5gigabytes for 15 minutes inthe tobe able reduceitspower by demand was flexibly, more organised it would inGermany Ifindustry result: One gie”. “SynEr Copernicus inthe project - gart Stutt University the of - and Darmstadt 2016since TU of leadership the under investigated than 80partners bymore hasbeen subject This supply? energy processes beadapted to afluctuating How canenergy-intensive production More than 80 .
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3,2 million euros Building bridges Can gas-insulated direct current lines installed under- ground efficiently and compactly transmit electricity generated using renewable sources over large distan-
ces with low losses? This is what the researchers in Rynkowski Gregor Photo: the High Voltage Technology Group at TU Darmstadt and their partners want to fi nd out in a large-scale,
long-term fi eld test at a test site at the August-Euler Völker Claus Photo: airport. The project has received funding of 3.2 mil- lion euros, half of which was provided by the Hessian Ministry of Economics.
“Printed bridges have so far always been produced 21 YEAR TERM FOR 10 YEARS vertically. However, our The long-term project “European Religious Peace Agreements – A TU Darmstadt and Deutsche Bahn have had an innovation process allows you to Digital Edition” sponsored by the alliance since 2009. Joint interdisciplinary teams are working print on an incline.” German federal and state govern- on future themes such as cybersecurity, economic rail transport, Thilo Feucht, research assistant in the ments receives 325,000 euros of infrastructure, mobility management and urban logistics. More Institute of Steel Construction funding per year. The University than 25 departments at TU Darmstadt have participated in Welding robot used for bridge building work and State Library Darmstadt is the alliance up to now, resulting in more than 100 research one of the partners. The digital projects, doctorates, scientific publications and talks. These edition will be freely accessible addressed specific issues such as: How can changeover times at Steel from 3D printers Glass construction on the Internet – fully in keeping train stations be reduced? How can passengers be directed to The TU project “AM Bridge 2019” could revolution- Researchers at the Glass Competence Center (GCC) with the ideals of open science. alternative routes? ise the construction sector. Researchers at the Insti- are carrying out research into the glass technologies of tute of Steel Constructions and Material Mechanics the future. New types of glass will be thinner, larger, have built a steel bridge using a 3D printer at the thicker or printed using a 3D printer. The current Lichtwiese campus. Instead of printing the individu- trend is for thin glass with a thickness in some case of al components, the welding robots welded the entire just 25 micrometres, which is thinner than a human 1 MILLION structure on-site and over the water. hair. This transparent building material is especially The number of insect species on many areas of land hard, scratch-resistant and does not age like plas- has fallen by a third compared to ten years ago. Sensitive measurement processes tic. The GCC – based at the Institute for Structural Photo: Claus Völker Claus Photo: These are the findings of an international team of Many of the more than 100,000 bridges in Germany Mechanics and Design – is searching for new applica- researchers under the leadership of the Department are starting to show their age or signs of stress. To tions in the construction sector in the form of movable of Biology at TU Darmstadt. Grasslands in highly inspect the bridges, it has always been necessary windows or façades. agricultural regions have particularly suffered from to attach sensors to the structure, dismantle them a decline in the number of species, as well as forests later and close the bridge to road and rail transport. and nature reserves. More than one million insects A team from the Geodetic Measuring Systems and were collected at 300 sites. Sensor Technology Group has developed a moni- toring process that can inspect the entire profile of “A modern and practical system the bridge contact-free using profile laser scanners. is required in order to efficiently Static and dynamic deformations can be identified to a precision of one tenth of a millimetre. The max- manage the large and increasing imum measurement distance is around 120 metres, number of monitoring tasks.”
Cooperation and transfer and Cooperation with a maximum data acquisition rate of one million Professor Andreas Eichhorn, Department of Civil and points per second. Environmental Engineering Sciences
28 29 On the road Feel-good factors Photo: Sandra Junker Sandra Photo: Photo: Gregor Rynkowski Gregor Photo:
“Sun shades and glare protection will be future issues for the construction sector in our latitudes.”
Professor Stefan Schäfer, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering Sciences Professor Stefan Schäfer
A trick used by orchids Optimised capacitors Orchid flowers act as a role model. Researchers at The material scientists Patrick Salg and Lukas Zeinar and the electrical the Institute for Constructive Design and Building engineer Dominik Walk are working on low-loss and rapid mobile tele- Pilot project: Electrical “refuelling” of Hybrid HGVs Construction in the Department of Civil and Envi- communication transmissions. The scientists, who are being funded by the ronmental Engineering Sciences have developed Pioneer Fund at TU Darmstadt and the ENTEGA NATURpur Institute, are Electrically powered HGVs Inquisitive vacuum cleaner an innovative sun protection system that combines carrying out research into technical solutions that can also respond flexibly Heavy goods vehicles are driving up and down a test sec- A research team at the Security Lab in the Department of the advantages of fabric roller blinds and Venetian to different frequency bands. They have developed capacitors made out of tion of the A5 motorway to the south of Frankfurt am Main Computer Science has identified a weakness in the soft- blinds and can also be used to control the light. conductive oxide instead of gold or platinum, which are thus cheaper and powered by electricity from overhead cables. The pilot ware for robot vacuum cleaners that could allow them to For this purpose, a laser cutting process is used to more durable. system for the “ELISA” project was launched in 2019. A be controlled remotely. The commercially available devices perforate a piece of fabric with an optimised pattern team at the Institute for Transport Planning and Traffic En- tested at the lab collect data using a camera and sensors of small, staggered curved holes. If the material is City without barriers gineering headed by Professor Manfred Boltze is providing and create a floor plan so that they can move about au- stretched, it opens up the “joints” that have been People’s health and well-being often also depends on their surroundings scientific support for “ELISA”. The aim is to make reliable tonomously. The combination of sensors, connectivity and produced. This creates uniform openings that also – whether the road network, building typology, mobility or air quality. assessments of the extent to which the “eHighway” system poor or often non-existent security measures makes these allow enough light into the room when the blind is Therefore, junior professor Martin Knöll and his team in the Department of can contribute to climate and environmental protection. devices highly vulnerable to hackers. closed while still protecting against glare. Architecture are introducing new approaches to city planning: Every space requires its own specific solution that meets the needs of residents. This Tram of the future Cooling materials of tomorrow approach has also become a fixed component of the courses, teaching and The Institute of Automotive Engineering is cooperating Smart parking space barrier It is anticipated that humans will require more research. with the transport company HEAG mobilo in the MAAS The TU start-up Green Mobility Solutions UG is now energy for cooling than for heating for the first time (“Feasibility Analysis for Automation and Assistance Sys- able to launch its product “parking space activation via in 2060. Processes such as magnetic cooling could tems of Trams”) research project. A specially equipped tram smartphone” onto the market after concluding the required minimise the impact on the climate. Researchers “How do senior citizens, wheelchair users, is using sensors to record events outside of the tram during contractual agreements. This start-up, which was launched at TU Darmstadt and the Helmholtz Centre Dres- people of short stature, children, refugees or its daily operations; a computer programme uses machine by students, employees and researchers from the university, den-Rossendorf have conducted research into learning to learn from the measurement data and draw has developed a combination of a parking space barrier promising materials and created the first systematic people with depression perceive spaces? conclusions about, for example, the behaviour of pedestri- and web interface. Parking spaces can thus be made library of materials. The promising materials in- This is one of the key questions.” ans and thus reduce the risk of accidents. available and blocked again via app. clude intermetallic compounds of lanthanum, iron,
Cooperation and transfer and Cooperation manganese and silicon in which hydrogen has been Professor Sabine Hopp, “Smart und Inclusive City” Project, stored in the crystal lattice. Department of Architecture
30 31 A good investment The depth of space
New generation exoskeletons The mission continues Will old or sick people be using exoskeletons TU Darmstadt and the European Space Agency instead of walking frames to move around in the (ESA) have signed a Memorandum of Collab- future? Will motorised walking aids provide an eas- oration. The aim is to strengthen research and Photo: Patrick Bal Patrick Photo:
ier form of mobility in old age? These questions are Binner Katrin Photo: development relevant to space travel and improve being investigated by TU Sports Scientist Dr. Martin networking and transfer activities, as well as to Grimmer. The researcher, who was honoured by develop new learning content for students. Joint TU Darmstadt as the “Athene Young Investigator”, scientific conferences are planned. The cooperation has developed a simulator that can be used to help is designed as an open platform in which other customise exoskeletons to people’s bodies. European partners can participate. TU Darmstadt also aims to strengthen its cooperation with the Intelligent insoles European Space Operations Centre (ESOC) and Novapace is a removable sensory insole equipped its activities in the joint research laboratory ESA_ with electronics that is used for modern locomo- Lab@TU Darmstadt in the Department of Mechani- tion training. The start-up was founded by three cal Engineering. entrepreneurs (Patrick Scholl, Simon Staffa and Lukas Braisz) with a background at TU Darmstadt The alchemy of merging neutron stars who want to help Parkinson’s patients regain some For the first time, astronomers have identified a quality of life and independence. Sensors in the chemical element that was formed by the merging insole measure rollover and pressure distribution of two neutron stars. The underlying mechanism of the foot and a vibrating alarm is triggered if the called the r-process – also known as rapid neu- person is at risk of moving incorrectly or stum- tron capture – is considered to be responsible for bling. The young entrepreneurs were supported by the origin of large quantities of elements heavier Signed agreement: Johann-Dietrich Wörner (left) and Hans Jürgen Prömel HIGHEST – the Startup and Innovation Center at than iron. The research team from TU Darmstadt, TU Darmstadt. the GSI Helmholtz Centre and FAIR were able to Dr. Martin Grimmer in the TU Locomotion Laboratory demonstrate that the fusion of two neutron stars Roller bearings as sensors creates the conditions for this process and acts as a Drive shafts with roller bearings are found in Lost revenue due to data errors reactor that breads new elements. almost every technical system to position rotating Faulty data in automated stock management systems components within stationary ones. Tobias Schirra is causing considerable amounts of lost revenue in Precise nuclear model “For ESA, the cooperation with TU Darmstadt and Georg Martin, research assistants in the De- the retail trade. Professor Christoph Glock, Head of Precise measurements using laser spectroscopy partment of Mechanical Engineering, are working the Institute of Production and Supply Chain Man- make it possible to determine the size of atomic is of major importance for giving additional on the further development of these bearings. They agement, has investigated more than 100 branches nuclei even in very short-lived isotopes. Physicists impetus to the entire innovation chain, from have converted a standard roller bearing into a of stores with over a million different product groups at TU Darmstadt and their international colleagues sensor bearing without having to install additional in Europe and the USA in cooperation with research- have succeeded for the first time in applying this basic research through to space missions.” measurement sensors. Instead, they are making ers at TU Darmstadt, the EM Lyon Business School technology beyond the “doubly magic” tin isotope Professor Johann-Dietrich Wörner, Director General of ESA use of standard electrical properties. The aim is in France and Cardiff University in Wales. The 132Sn. They identified an abrupt increase in the to be able to better predict the operating life of result: Revenue can be increased by six percent just radius. The data suggest that the nuclear surface the components and develop smoother operating by correcting data errors. Sources of errors include has a greater influence on the binding of the neu- processes. The project is being supported by the incorrect scanning at the cash till, theft and spoilt or trons and protons than previously assumed. The Pioneer Fund. TU Darmstadt and the Entega Natur damaged products that were not correctly booked magazine “Physical Review Letters” highlighted this “Two ideal partners are coming together here pur Institute are investing 600,000 euros per year out of stock. work as an “Editors’ Suggestion”. to bundle their outstanding research and into the innovation programme. application expertise in future areas of digital transformation.” Cooperation and transfer and Cooperation Professor Hans Jürgen Prömel, President of TU Darmstadt until 2019
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Photo: Jan-Christoph Hartung Highlights 2019 increasing rapidly. TU Darmstadt. Demand for the courses is life and quickly inthe city feel at home at courses help people to cope witheveryday Language Center at TUDarmstadt. The family members incooperation withthe student, postdocs, researchers and their German courses for international doctoral at the Welcome Centre, which provides wasThis the number of in2019 participants Over 330 cinema initiatives”. university This the “Hessian cinema culture prize in the Audimax and Rex arthouse group has been offering the very for non-commercial cinemas and stadt has been honoured for the best cinematic programme from since 1954. filmsare The shown (Student Film Club) at TUDarm - third time inarow in2019 with 3 timesinarow blockbusters to arthouse films The “StudentischeThe Filmkreis” cinema in Darmstadt.
the softwarefor sensorshasbeenrefinedtooptimally controlthesailandrudder. sufficient boatdesign acrosstheAtlantic. To counteract thechallengesfacedouton ocean, boats. Thevisionoftheuniversity group:To bethefirst team tosailtheircurrentenergyself- Sailing Team Darmstadt isworkingonthedevelopmentofautonomous,unmanned sailing For 10 years
Photo: Patrick Bal from 60entries. almost design was Berthold’s selectedbuilding. to design external the façade of new the 2018, TUDarmstadt acompetition held paint onto grey the concrete façade. In stencils to paint 39words indark blue campus withhis“word field”.He used newthe energy centre on Lichtwiese the Hamburg has decorated façade the of Matthias from Berthold artist The 39 words
Photo: Sailing Team Darmstadt Photo: Claus Völker 35 36 Life on campus active life. 2015 toinspire youngpeopletoleadahealthy, held theSportsBadgeUniversity Challengesince German OlympicFederation andBKK24havejointly 330 peoplehadalreadyregistered inadvance.The ployees andalumnistartedthe eventinDarmstadt; to breakthe33,000pointbarrier. 383students,em- points andwastheonlyoneof theeightuniversities Darmstadt secureditsthirdtitleinarowwith3,682 ny”. IntheSportsBadgeUniversityChallenge,TU TU Darmstadtisthe“sportiestuniversityinGerma- university inGermany Sportiest contributing 12.3millioneuros. cost 20.2millioneurosandthestategovernmentis 2 isduetobeplacedintooperationin2021.Itwill jects inthelastfourdecades.Thenewroutenumber line asoneofthemostimportantinfrastructurepro- Manfred Efinger, theuniversityviewsnewtram- here by2022/23.AccordingtoVice PresidentDr. fast rate:Upto10,000peoplewillstudyandwork network. ThisTUDarmstadtsiteisexpandingata will connecttheLichtwiesecampustolocaltram construction ofthearoundonekilometretramline Work hasstartedontheLichtwiesetramline. The Faster progress Lichtwiese tramlineLichtwiese for ceremony the Groundbreaking Symbolic startingsignalfortheconstructionofnewtramlinewithHessianMinisterTransport Tarek Al-Wazir (2ndfromright) Jochen Partsch, Lord MayorJochen Partsch, the Cityof Science.” will increasetheattractiveness of without havingtochange trams centre andLichtwiese campus between themainstation, city “A quick,convenient connection Olympic sport–istodayconsideredanichesport. 1998. Wheelgymnastics–whichusedtobean Centre hasbeenofferingcoursesinthissportsince wheels connectedtogether. TheUniversitySports of variouslevelsdifficultywhilestandinginlarge execute acrobaticfiguresandfreestylemovements In wheelgymnastics,sportswomenandsportsmen overHead gymnastics heels
Photo: Andreas Kelm Culture Foundation Frankfurt RheinMain. project receives 122,000eurosoffundingfrom the to includeinternationalartists andinstitutions.The to lasttendays,whilethefocus hasbeenexpanded photography festival.Theevent hasbeenextended administrative supportandspace fortherenowned future. TheArtForum attheuniversitywillprovide organised undertheumbrella ofTUDarmstadtin The ambitiousDarmstadtPhotographyDayswillbe Photography Days generations ofarchitects. Technische Hochschule Darmstadtandeducated From 1904to1934,hetaughtattheformer various companiessuchasforOpelinRüsselsheim. also designedimportantindustrialbuildingsfor pothekenbank onPaulusplatz inDarmstadt.He the newconstructionofHessianStateHy- eras. Hisbreakthroughasanarchitectcamewith between thelatehistoricismandearlymodern (1868-1939) isoneofthearchitectswhoworked servator fromDarmstadtforthefirsttime.Meißner university lecturer, architectandmonumentcon- at TUDarmstadthasplacedthespotlighton between traditionandawakening”,theArtForum In theexhibition“Paul Meißner. Anarchitect tradition awakeningBetween and Exhibition aboutPaul Meißner Art and culture and Art Darmstadt Darmstadt Director of Akademie the Meijering, Cord fürTonkunst, great joyandenergy.” University toperform musicwith opened upbytheTechnical “The academywilluse thisspace concerts inthechurchandpracticeonorgan. Students attheacademycangivetheirexamination open upnewopportunitiesforconcertprogrammes. palace organandaBechsteingrandpianofrom1870 Tonkunst) andtheChristoph-GraupnerSociety. The ment withtheAcademyofMusicArt(Akademiefür TU Darmstadthasconcludedacooperationagree- ensure thatmusicofallstylesanderascanbeheard, heart ofthecityinrestoredPalace Church.To activities inahistoricalatmosphererightthe TU Darmstadtoffersauniquespaceforcultural palace at the Music
Photo: André Hirtz 37 Good old money In motion 2,140 TU Darmstadt students received a 31,600 places on university sports courses Photo: Jan-Christoph Hartung Jan-Christoph Photo: total of 12.83 million euros from were booked in 2019. BAföG funds in 2019. More than 60 99,960 individual admissions were recor- percent of TU Darmstadt students also ded at the university stadium in 2019 have a job alongside their studies. (43,500 students and 7,000 emp- loyees). Far more than three quarters of them were in the swimming pool season from the middle of May until the end of Food & drink August. 1.2 million warm meals were served in 60 Unifit courses were held per quarter in the Stadtmitte and Lichtwiese canteens 2019. in 2019. 370 employees from 105 office units made use of Office Fresh Up training during breaks. Up to 150 employees per quarter took Energy & advantage of the courses offered at sustainability uniGym. 17 TU Darmstadt students achieved top 55,600 megawatt hours of district heating three finishes in German university was consumed by TU Darmstadt in championships – for example, in snow- 2019. boarding and freeskiing, swimming, fen- 53,000 megawatt hours of electricity cing, karate, Ju-Jutsu and Taekwondo. was needed by TU Darmstadt in 2019. 280 international students used the sports Of which 38,800 megawatt hours programme designed especially for were generated in the university’s own them. combined heat and power plant. The remainder was purchased as green electricity. 175,000 cubic metres of fresh water were Living & drawn by the university in 2019. 150 used mobile phones were collected assistance by the TU Darmstadt Office for 1,900 TU Darmstadt students were Sustainability in 2019 for recycling living in halls of residence provided purposes. by Student Affairs at the end of 15 electric bikes and 16 cargo bikes were 2019. newly purchased for transport services 415 TU Darmstadt students sought on the campus in 2019. advice and support during difficult 17 percent of the food prepared by the situations in life from Student university catering service from Student Affairs’ social counsellors in 2019. Affairs in 2019 was made using organic produce – which included 67,500 Life on campus on Life figures and Facts kilogrammes of organic potatoes.
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Photo: Gregor Rynkowski Highlights 2019 and Research to help develop their ideas inthe area of security. IT UpSecure funding programme from the Federal of Ministry Education are being provided withfunding of 1.5 million euros bythe new Start- TUDarmstadtThe projects Prochain start-up and QuantiCor Security 2 with1.5 million euros which is considered higher risk ina positive higher which isconsidered sense. innovative particularly programme supports research inCeramics”. Dislocations “Research The of of subject Koselleck forFoundation onthe aReinhart project euros over fiveGerman Research from the years MaterialsInorganic 1.25 willreceive of funding million Nonmetallic- from Institute Rödel the of Jürgen Professor for 5years 1.25 millioneuros priorities andthefinancialfundingofresearchprogrammes. of externalmembers,givesitsrecommendationsonthematic from thefieldofenergyresearch.TheSenate,whichismadeup elected membersofthebody, shewillcontributeherexperience ted totheSenateofHelmholtzAssociation.Asonetwelve Supply withIntegrationofRenewable Energies,hasbeenappoin- Professor JuttaHanson,HeadoftheInstituteforElectricalPower of 12One
Photo: Claus Völker new methods for machine learning and artificial 100,000 euros recognises the development of “ the German AIPrize bythe business magazine at the Machine Learning Lab has been awarded teamThe headed byProfessor Kristian Kersting 100,000 eurosforAI BILANZ ”. The prize”. The withanendowment of
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High potential The Junior Professor Ulrike Kramm is carrying out research in the Department of Materials and Earth Sciences into precious metal-free catalysts for low-temperature fuel cells, such as those used in e-mobility drives. She has received a Curious Minds Research Award (7,500 euros) for her achievements in the area of “Mobility and Ener- Photo: Bildkraftwerk/Bernd Lammel Bildkraftwerk/Bernd Photo: gy”. The company Merck KGaA, in cooperation Photo: © Lêmrich für manager magazin für manager © Lêmrich Photo: with “Manager Magazine”, pays tribute to per- formances with a high potential for technological and industrial innovations.
AI newcomer Dorothea Koert and Michael Lutter, research assistants in the Intelligent Autonomous Systems Group in the Department of Computer Science, have been selected by the Gesellschaft für Infor- matik e. V. as two of the ten most outstanding newcomers in German AI research. Koert is carry- ing out research into new interactive methods that will, for example, help AI to directly learn from Honoured by Federal Minister Anja Karliczek (right): Professor Tatiana Gambaryan-Roisman, research assistant Sebastian Keuth humans through imitation. Lutter develops special deep learning algorithms for robots. Ralf Dahrendorf Prize Dr. Hans Messer Foundation Prize The doctoral network CoWet headed by Professor The sociologist Bianca Prietl has been awarded Giersch Foundation Award Tatiana Gambaryan-Roisman has been awarded the the Dr. Hans Messer Foundation Prize endowed The Giersch Foundation presented the 2019 Ralf Dahrendorf Prize for the European Research with 50,000 euros – the award with the highest Excellence Awards (each for 6,000 euros) to out Area (50,000 euros) by the Federal Ministry of Edu- endowment at TU Darmstadt. In the project for her standing dissertations from Dr. Julian Kahlbow, cation and Research. The group is carrying out re- habilitation thesis, the TU Darmstadt scientist aims Dr. Kristian Lars König and Dr. Steffen Georg search into complex wetting phenomena. Developing to clarify the social requirements and consequences Weber. Excellence Grants (each for 2,500 euros) a precise understanding of the interactions between of digitalisation and knowledge production. were awarded to the doctoral students Frédéric fluids and surfaces will help to make industrial pro- Kornas, Phillip Imgram, Jacob Lee, Sajjad Hussain Innovative in the fields of energy and mobility: Junior Professor Ulrike Kramm cesses more efficient and open up new applications, Kurt Ruths Prize Mirza, Franziska Papenfuß, Maruis Peck, Tabea such as in medical diagnostics. The biotechnologist Dr. Simon Krah has been Pfuhl, Niels Schlusser, Pascal Simon and Martin awarded the Kurt Ruths Prize 2019 from TU Darm- Jakob Steil. Engagement in the Friends Association ERC Grant plus stadt, which is endowed with 12,000 euros, for his The Vereinigung von Freunden der Technischen Uni- The European Research Council (ERC) is funding innovative methods in the search for new therapeu- Athene Award versität zu Darmstadt e. V. (Association of Friends of the Computer Science Professor Mira Mezini with tic antibodies in the field of medicine. Therapeutic The Athene Award from the Carlo and Karin the Technical University of Darmstadt) and the uni- an additional Proof of Concept Grant. The scientist antibodies are considered the new superstars of me- Giersch Foundation honours academic teaching versity support young scientists with the Ernst Lud- had previously received an ERC Advanced Grant dicine because they intervene in the disease process at TU Darmstadt and has a total endowment of wig Mobility Grant. Grants were awarded in 2019 to with funding of 150,000 euros for her project “A much more precisely than many other drugs as they 46,000 euros. The Main Athene Award 2019 was Dr. Marco Tamborini (History and Social Sciences), Programming Platform for Reactive Data-intensive specifically identify a single antigen. awarded to Dr. Bertram Noback (Department Dr. Simon Gehrmann (Architecture) and Raja Sangili Applications”. Mezini and her team are carrying out of History and Social Sciences) for a practical, Vadamalu (Mechanical Engineering). In addition, research into programming platforms for decentrali- interdisciplinary teaching project in the university the Friends Association rewarded twelve outstanding
Awards sed artificial intelligence systems, in which the data and schools on the culture of remembrance in young scientists for their excellent dissertations with is managed by the users themselves. Darmstadt. prize money of 2,500 euros each.
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Joint winners Professors Klara Nahrstedt and Wolfgang Dahmen “The pioneering have been awarded the Robert Piloty Prize by TU Darmstadt for their outstanding research and Photo: André Hirtz André Photo: business ideas development work. The computer science profes- from these start- sor Klara Nahrstedt, who teaches at the University Rynkowski Gregor Photo: of Illinois, was honoured for her work on the ups will help to development of multimedia systems and networks transform Germany to accelerate the use of telepresence systems in telemedicine and remote teaching. The mathemati- into a leading cian and Leibniz Award winner Wolfgang Dahmen international market carries out important basic research into, amongst other things, constructive approximation theory for as a provider of digital the development of new applications in computer- technologies.” aided geometry.
Thomas Jarzombek, Digital Pioneer in AI Commissioner at the Federal Ministry Professor Wolfgang Bibel, who was a Professor for Economic Affairs and Energy of Intellectics in the Department of Computer Still on track for success: TU start-up NanoWired GmbH Science at TU Darmstadt from 1988 to 2004, was selected as one of the “ten most influential minds in German AI history” by the “Science Year 2019 – Artificial Intelligence” initiative. The internationally NanoWired honoured once again energy management using AI-based cloud software renowned researcher developed the connection The start-up NanoWired GmbH, which was foun- – received a main award and a special award with method, which makes it possible for computers to ded at TU Darmstadt in 2017, is revolutionising in- prize money of 52,000 euros. The Core Sensing draw correct logical conclusions in a very compact dustrial production processes with its KlettWelding Technologies team, which develops and produces manner. Tape. The company received the Hermes Award mechanical components that can detect their local 2019, which is endowed with 100,000 euros, for its environment using sensors, and the QuantiCor Honorary Senatorship Award innovation that enables electronic components to Security team, which specialises in cryptographic TU Darmstadt presented the Honorary Senator Piloty Prize for Professor Klara Nahrstedt (right), Professor Wolfgang Dahmen (middle) be permanently combined very easily. methods, each received prize money of 32,000 ship Award to the benefactor Alois M. Schader. euros. Merit prizes – each endowed with 7,000 The foundation founded by the civil engineer in Digital start-up of the year euros – were also awarded to Energy Robotics, Departures from the University Council 1988 provides important funding for the practical The TU Darmstadt start-up Xelera has been honou- Sooqua and SprayPatternator. Professor Heidi Wunderli-Allenspach, the long-stand- application of social sciences. The Schader Forum red by the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs ing Chairwoman of the University Council, was ho- – a cooperation partner of TU Darmstadt – that and Energy as the “Digital Start-up of the Year Hessen Ideen Prize noured in a farewell ceremony as she stepped down was opened in 2010 acts as a meeting place for 2019”. The prize is endowed with 30,000 euros. Three TU start-up teams were successful in the from her post. The former Rector of ETH Zurich was qualified practitioners from the fields of politics, The software from Xelera accelerates applications “Hessen Ideen” (Hessian Ideas) university start-up presented with the Honorary Athene Award by TU administration, business and civil society to discuss and organises the processing of data in a more competition. First prize, which was endowed with Darmstadt for her services to promote internationa- and exchange ideas. energy efficient manner. 5,000 euros, was awarded to Caliberation for a met- lisation at the university. After ten years in office, Dr. hod that simplifies the complex and costly process Holger Zinke also retired from the University Coun- Five “Digital Innovations” of calibrating cameras. Third prize was awarded to cil. The microbiologist and TU Darmstadt alumnus Start-ups from TU Darmstadt have received mul- SprayPatternator for a system that optimises spray- is considered a pioneer of sustainable management tiple awards in the “Digital Innovations” compe- ing processes in, for example, the metal industry or and received the most highly endowed European en- tition held by the Federal Ministry for Economic agriculture. The Audience Award was presented to vironmental award – the German Environmental Pri-
Awards Affairs and Energy: The Etalytics team – which the team from NAKT who has developed a chemical- ze – in 2008 together with Prof. Dr. Ernst Ulrich von supports industrial companies with sustainable free and reusable facial care cloth. Weizsäcker for the economic impact he has made.
44 45 46 Awards Impressive students larships. universities inGermanyforsecuringGermanscho- TU Darmstadtisoneofthefivemostsuccessful made bytheKarinandCarloGierschFoundation. scholarships. Aparticularlylargecontributionwas sations contributedtothisfigurewithatotalof169 also arecord.21foundationsand non-profit organi- The totalfundingamountof1.4millioneuroswas talented studentsin2019–morethaneverbefore. larships (“Deutschlandstipendien”)toitsespecially TU Darmstadtwasabletoaward388Germanscho- record Scholarship outstanding academicperformance. Syrian forhisextraordinarysocialcommitmentand wed with1,000eurosandwasgiventotheyoung ding workasaforeignstudent.Theawardisendo- Academic ExchangeServicePrize)forhisoutstan- neering, wasawardedtheDAAD Prize(German Ayoub Alhousin,amaster’sstudentinCivilEngi- DAAD Prize • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • sponsors of – List Deutschlandstipendium • • • • • Avanade Deutschland GmbH Avanade Deutschland GmbH Deutschland Atotech Deutsche Bahn Bahn Deutsche fungsgesellschaft GmbH Wirtschaftsprü Deloitte GmbH dacoso Compagnie de Saint-Gobain GmbH Deutschland Coca-Cola European Partners GmbH Produkte (Deutschland) Clariant GmbH Gedächtnisstiftung Röhm Otto Dr. Dr. Ingrid Wagner GmbH Döhler GmbH d-fine Bank Deutsche Förder-Stiftung Rehner Manfred und Brigitte GmbH &Space Defence Airbus Bosch Rexroth Rexroth Bosch Board Deutschland BSI BBB SE BASF ALD ABB Bickhardt Bau Bau Bickhardt BIG BAU BIG an der der an Giersch-Stiftung Karin und Carlo GmbH Deutschland Business Systems Integration Integration Systems Business ank Stiftung ank Trainingscenter & Co. &Co. Trainingscenter Vacuum GmbH Technologies TU Investitionsgesellschaft Darmstadt AG AG AG AG KG - • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Dr.-Ing. Heinz-Emil Hauck ING mbH Projektmanagementgesellschaft GmbH + Co. +Co. GmbH Messtechnik +Hauser Endress Elke Deinstrop-Stiftung GOLDBECK GFP DZ HPP Gemeinschaftsstipendium Faudi-Stiftung Margot und Fritz eG Volksbank Frankfurter Evonik Stiftung GmbH Mannheim Operations Essity gGmbH Ed. Züblin Züblin Ed. GmbH Hottinger Baldwin Messtechnik Horst Görtz Stiftung GmbH Deutschland hkp Stiftung Schmidt &Josef Sauer Heinrich Hans-und-Dorrit-Michel-Stiftung Voss-Stiftung Hermann Hans für Baustatik Ingenieurbüro +Hartmann Gruber Infraserv GmbH & Co. Höchst Höchst &Co. GmbH Infraserv GmbH beratung Marketing und Strategie- Partner ENTEGA
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