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Progress Report 2018 Progress Report 2018 18 Academic Affairs The new biomedical engineering degree course is very popular. TU Darmstadt has attracted Goethe University Frankfurt as a partner. 4 Summary by Executive Board 14 Academic Affairs 17 Tricky tasks 18 Run on biomedical engineering degree course 20 Demanding from the very start 22 Comprehensive protection 23 Settling in quickly 24 Generous opening hours 25 Courses offered by TU Darmstadt 26 Facts and figures 30 Research 33 Top positions in German Research Foundation ranking 34 Major projects with a promising future 35 Machine learning for agriculture 36 From human to artificial intelligence 38 Recipe against the power of quantum computers 39 Pros and cons from noise 40 Health data under lock and key 41 Faster DNA synthesis 42 The insect perfume trick 43 Innovations for waterways and buildings 44 Overcoming subject boundaries 46 Top-Level Research 43 Research Environmental engineers design special lifts 50 Why I study here to make waterways passable for fish throughout. 60 Cooperation and transfer 63 50 years of partnership with Lyon 64 Energy-efficient ETA factory 65 Side by side with SMEs 66 From the laboratory into practice 68 Ground mission in the lecture hall 69 Clean water 70 The mobility of the future 71 3D scanner for insects 72 New tools 73 Awakening inquiring minds with Merck 77 Life on campus Open laboratories and exciting 74 Life on campus research were to be discovered 77 Thousands were wide awake at the “hellwach!” (“wide awake!”) 78 Urban quality science day of TU Darmstadt. 80 Climate-friendly energy centre 81 Vespa swirl 82 90 years university swimming pool 83 New cultural business with tradition 84 Facts and figures 86 Awards 89 Double peak power 64 90 Postdocs with Athene Cooperation 92 Take-off in research and transfer 94 Search for matter 2.0 The ETA factory on 95 Not always platinum campus proves it: 96 Instructive Industrial production Awards 97 Outstanding 89 enterprises save up to Highest-endowed international research 98 Proximity to the Nobel Prize 99 Concentrated inspirations 40 percent of energy award in Germany: The first Alexander 100 Facts and figures if they cleverly network von Humboldt professorship at Content their plants and TU Darmstadt is held by the physicist 102 Campus impressions / Imprint industrial buildings. Alexandre Obertelli. 2 3 4 Summary by Executive Board TU Darmstadt Progress Report 2018 Summary by Executive Board Federal Chancellor as guest Pillar of the National Research Centre “A jewel in the crown of artificial intelligence” – this The Cyber Security Centre, which opened in Darmstadt is how German Chancellor Angela Merkel described in 2015, will receive long-term funding from 2019 as TU Darmstadt when she visited the university in the new Center for Research in Security and Privacy October 2018 with Hesse’s Prime Minister Volker (CRISP). Along with the Fraunhofer Institutes for Bouffier and found out more about robotics and Secure Information Technology and for Computer artificial intelligence as well as the opportunities Graphics and the Darmstadt University of Applied that digitisation offers society. The Simulation, Sciences, TU Darmstadt is a major partner in this pro- System Optimisation and Robotics Group in the ject. The research centre of the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft Department of Computer Science presented its is to be the largest in this field in Germany. Darmstadt autonomous reconnaissance robot for search and is also Europe’s most important hub for IT security rescue missions in the event of catastrophes or research. More than 450 scientists conduct research accidents. on current topics of cyber security in society, business and administration. CRISP bundles these activities. According to current rankings, computer science at TU Darmstadt occupies a leading position in Success in the Tenure Track Programme Europe. It is the highest-performing in a nationwide TU Darmstadt was successful with its concept in comparison of universities and shapes the univer- the first round of the federal and state programme sity: Two of the six profile areas – Internet and for the promotion of young scientists (Tenure Track Digitisation as well as Cybersecurity (CYSEC) – Programme). It successfully applied for funding for are researching the technological foundations twelve professorships, quickly advertised the positions necessary for digitisation. A key to the success of and completed several appointment procedures. computer science at the TU are its excellent con- In December 2018, Assistant Professor Vera Krewald nections with application disciplines in engineering began her research and teaching in the Department and the humanities. It also provides important of Chemistry as the first scientist of TU Darmstadt to impetus for the new fields of cognitive science be funded by the programme. The university wants and digital humanities. to establish assistant professorships as an alternative career path to professorships. In 2030, it will recruit about half of its professors through assistant professor- ships with tenure track. “In intense international competition, TU Darmstadt proves that Germany can be top of the league”. Chancellor Angela Merkel “TU Darmstadt gives its researchers “This is where scientific the opportunity to work on developments take place that questions with a long-term are of the utmost importance Guiding hand: Chancellor Angela Merkel visited TU Darmstadt to learn more about robotics and artificial intelligence. relevance, without any guarantees to the future”. of short-term success”. Summary by Executive Board Summary by Executive Prime Minister of Hesse Volker Bouffier Vera Krewald, Assistant Professor for Theoretical Chemistry 6 7 Once again, the university presented its activities at a parliamentary evening in the Hesse state parliament, this time with a focus on spin-offs and innovations. With their business ideas and previous market successes, the two TU start-ups Alcan Systems GmbH and IT-Seal GmbH were met with great interest. IT-Seal specialises in combating cybercrime and phishing attacks and uses simulated Open for dialogue: Prime Minister Volker Bouffier was interested in technology scenarios in working environments. e-mail attacks to train security awareness in everyday working life. Alcan Systems is advancing Excellence strategy Close exchange with politicians the development of a fully electric, intelligent In the “Excellence Strategy of the Federal Govern- In 2018, the University continued to publicly repre- antenna technology based on a liquid crystal ment and the States”competition, TU Darmstadt sent its positions on current challenges in science design for satellite and mobile communications. was the most successful university in Hesse in the and higher education policy. It invited leading politi- preselection and was asked to submit two of its cians from the parliamentary groups represented in The Hesse state government met for a cabinet draft proposals as full proposals. Unfortunately, the state parliament to a panel discussion with the meeting in the “Leap in time Lab”, a spin-off of TU Darmstadt was not successful in the final title “(Neu)gierig auf morgen? Wie Digitalisierung TU Darmstadt, and found out more about concrete selection. The projects “Centre for Predictive Wissenschaft und Wirtschaft verändert”(“Curious technology scenarios of future working environ- Thermofluids – Accelerating the Energy Revol- about tomorrow? How digitisation is changing ments. In the Science Committee of the Hesse state The University in the heart of the science city Darmstadt. ution” and “Data Analysis for the Humanities” science and industry”). parliament, TU President Professor Hans Jürgen which had been nominated as Clusters of Prömel and the chairwoman of the University intensified in order to facilitate more research stays Excellence were not included in the list of funded Council, Professor Heidi Wunderli-Allenspach, for doctoral students of TU Darmstadt. projects. Nevertheless, the university will continue “The current technological trans- summed up the progress made by the university on its path of promoting innovation on the basis with a focus on the internationalisation strategy. Responsibility in the science city of strong interdisciplinarity. Both projects fit formation is historically unique The “Science City Round Table”, established on into the research profile of TU Darmstadt and in its speed and is driven by the European network the initiative of the President of TU Darmstadt, the can strengthen the profile areas “Thermo-Fluids digitisation of science, society and TU Darmstadt chairs the CLUSTER network of lead- Schader Foundation and the Lord Mayor of Darm- and Interfaces” and “Energy Systems of the ing European technical universities (Consortium stadt, regularly brings together top executives from Future” as well as “Internet and Digitisation”. industry. The central topics of Linking Universities of Science and Technology universities, politics, industry, cultural institutions the future of particular importance for Education and Research). TU President Hans and research institutes to discuss the potential of The Executive Board of TU Darmstadt submitted Jürgen Prömel assumed the office of chairman the science city. In 2018, the heads of 37 institutions concrete proposals to the Hesse state government for Hesse include robotics, smart for two years. CLUSTER aims at excellent teaching signed a joint memorandum. As part of this cooper- to supplement the LOEWE research funding cities, digital
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