Vietnamese Researchers Visit the ALSVV Department

How does light influence plant growth? This question is at the center of an international collaboration at the ALSVV research group in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology at TU Darmstadt. Together with researchers from Vietnam, the team led by Professor Tran Quoc Khanh is investigating innovative LED technologies aimed at enabling sustainable plant production.

Interview with Professor Tran Quoc Khanh on the Upcoming International Symposium on Automotive Lighting

Early next week, the 16th International Symposium on Automotive Lighting (ISAL) will kick off in Darmstadt, featuring 48 exhibitors and around 700 experts from research, industry, and regulatory bodies. They will come together for an intensive exchange on the latest findings in research and development.

On 1 July, Dirk Hartmann joined the Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology as a cooperation professor for the research area ‘Digital Twins’. The 47-year-old scientist, who completed his doctorate at the University of Heidelberg and worked there as a junior research group leader at the Institute for Scientific Computing, has had an expert career with various management roles at Siemens AG. He currently heads the technology innovation team for the simulation products of Siemens Digital Industrie Software.

Since July 1, Yvonne Späck-Leigsnering has been a cooperation professor for “Computational Electromagnetic Compatibility” at the Department of Electrical and Information Engineering. The scientist, who earned her doctorate from TU Darmstadt in 2019, has been leading the independent junior research group “Quasistatics in Computational Engineering (QuinCE)” at the TU's “Electromagnetic Field Theory (EMFT)” department since 2022. Additionally, she has been heading the simulation team in the ME/EMC division of Robert Bosch GmbH since 2023.

Since July 1st, Holger Maune has been a Professor of High-Frequency Engineering at the Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology at TU Darmstadt. The 43-year-old completed his doctoral studies at TU Darmstadt in 2011 and subsequently worked as a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Institute of Microwave Engineering and Photonics. In 2020, he habilitated in the field of High-Frequency Engineering at TU Darmstadt. Most recently, he held the position of Professor of High-Frequency and Communication Engineering at Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg since 2021. In an interview, he shares what particularly attracts him to return to TU Darmstadt and the challenges he anticipates in his new role.

TU Darmstadt honours Ralf Steinmetz with the Robert Piloty Prize

The renowned etit scientist Ralf Steinmetz received this year's Robert Piloty Prize last Friday (23 May): Steinmetz, professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology until 2024, received the prize for his tireless commitment to networking – both in the technical and figurative sense. Johannes Buchmann, who was a professor at the Department of Computer Science until 2019, was also honoured.

etit scientist develops T-Rex selector

Finding missing people under rubble after an earthquake is a major challenge, even for rescue robots. The situation is similar in medicine: finding genes that are responsible for specific diseases is complicated. Sometimes it’s like looking for a needle in a haystack. With the T-Rex Selector etit scientist Jasin Machkour has developed an efficient method for applications such as these as part of emergenCITY.

TU researchers present the first comprehensive study on the Bluesky platform

The booming short messaging service Bluesky is not only a suitable alternative to X, but also offers users real advantages: This is the conclusion reached by a research team with leading participation from TU Darmstadt in a study on the platform with the blue butterfly logo.

LOEWE committees approved further funding totalling around nine million euros

Once again, the LOEWE centre emergenCITY has been able to convince the LOEWE committees and the Hessian Ministry of Science with a comprehensive concept paper. On 4 December, they decided to release a further nine million euros in state funding from the LOEWE programme, which promotes excellent research in Hesse, for the years 2025 and 2026.

Interview with Prof Dr Dr h.c. Ralf Steinmetz before his retirement

After 28 years at the Technical University of Darmstadt, Professor Ralf Steinmetz is retiring. Until the end of the special research centre ‘MAKI – Multi-Mechanism Adaptation for the Future Internet’, he has agreed to take on all tasks as its spokesperson. In this interview, the head of the Multimedia Communication Lab looks back on this time. He talks about challenges and his grand vision, provides insights into how the collaboration between different researchers and different technical communication systems has been successful – and reveals how research and teaching can continue to be successfully organised in the future.