Two million Euros of support for synthetic biology at department etit

The European Research Council awards an ERC Consolidator Grant to Heinz Koeppl, professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology, and supports him for a period of five years with a total of two Million Euros. This will further strengthen the activities of TU Darmstadt in the domain of synthetic biology.

The etit Scientist Focussing on Signal Processing Becomes Athene Young Investigator

TU Darmstadt’s Athene Young Investigator Programme funds outstanding young scientists on their way to becoming professors. At the Signal Processing Group, Dr.-Ing. Michael Muma researches robust statistics. Recently, he became one of the new Athene Young Investigators.

Tim Schäck wins Three Minute Thesis® Competition at EUSIPCO 2017

At this year's European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO) on Kos, Greece, Tim Schäck won out over the competitors from 6 other countries with the presentation about his thesis “Beating Atrial Fibrillation” during the finals of the Three Minute Thesis® (3MT®) competition.

Hundreds of experts in lighting technology meet in Darmstadt

The focus of the meeting of lighting engineers, driving safety experts and regulatory bodies from 25 to 27 September 2017 was the scientific exchange and presentation of the latest research results.

Humboldt Award Winner Widmer at the Institute of Multimedia Communication

From January until the end of May 2017, Prof. Dr. Joerg Widmer works as a guest scientist at etit’s Institute of Multimedia Communication. His research focuses on intelligent wireless communication. On January 19th he gave a lecture addressing the topic of “scaling up next-generation wireless networks."

TU Darmstadt joins international research project aiming for electron accelerators of micrometer-sized scale

The American Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation announced on 19th November that they will fund research for microscopic Laser accelerators. The goal of the international project named “Accelerator-on-a-chip“ is to develop a prototype of a miniaturized, laser-driven linear accelerator. The etit department of TU Darmstadt will work on simulations of electromagnetic fields and beam dynamics in the coming five years.

Future signal processing engineers win IEEE Signal Processing Cup 2015

The „Signal Processing Crew Darmstadt“ from the Signal Processing Group in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology (etit) won the prestigious IEEE Signal Processing Cup 2015 against numerous international competitors. The competition specifically addressed student researchers and took place at the 40th IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP) 2015 in Brisbane, Australia.

IEEE Photonics Society awarded Junior-Researcher

At the Asia Communications and Photonics Conference, Ali Emsia, a Ph.D.-Student with the Photonics research group at etit received an IEEE Photonics Society Best Student Paper Award for his presentation on “10 Gbit/s PON Upstream Burst-mode Equalization Based on SOAs.”

Two best paper awards within 24 hours

Last week within 24 hours two papers from the Peer-to-Peer Systems Engineering Lab of professor David Hausheer received a best paper award.

Stefan Gering from etit receives IEEE-Award

At this year’s IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems (IEEE FUZZ) of the Computational Intelligence Society in Hyderabad Stefan Gering from the Laboratory of Control Theory and Robotics (Prof. Jürgen Adamy) received the Best Student Paper Award.