15.08.2026

Info Letter October 2023

Dear readers:

It was a great pleasure for me to welcome around 5,200 new students at the kick-off in the stadium, and I wish all students and university teachers a wonderful and successful semester. Just in time for the start of the lecture period, we were also able to inaugurate the new laboratory building of the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology with over 300 workplaces. The library on Sebrathweg also opened its doors, temporarily providing space for around 240 study places as well as 70,000 books and journals.

And we were able to celebrate yet another opening this month: The Research Alliance Ruhr, in which we bundle top-level international research together with Ruhr University Bochum and the University of Duisburg-Essen, held a kick-off event with invited guests from academia and politics. Financed by the state government this cooperation addresses urgent challenges facing humankind in an interdisciplinary approach.

You can find more news from October in this info letter.

Best regards
Manfred Bayer
President of TU Dortmund University

News from TU Dortmund University

Strong Start for the Research Alliance Ruhr

The three partners of the University Alliance Ruhr celebrated the successful start of their new research collaboration.

TU Dortmund's new students do a la-ola wave on a packed grandstand at the soccer stadium.

The New Academic Year at TU Dortmund University Kicks Off in Signal Iduna Park

At the start of the semester on 9 October, the university welcomed the new students in the Borussia Dortmund stadium.

Two gentlemen in suit and tie pose side by side for a photo. The man (Prof. Herbert Waldmann) on the right is holding a medal case and an award in his hands.

Prof. Herbert Waldmann Honored with the Otto Hahn Award 2023

The chemist received the award, which is endowed with 50,000 euros, on 26 October in Frankfurt’s Paulskirche.

Academia Europaea elects Prof. Liudvika Leišytė for Membership

The Professor of Higher Education joined the prestigious Academy of Europe whose members include 85 Nobel Prize laureates.

Five students sit at a table with pens in their hands and paper in front of them on the table.

Ten TU Projects Selected for Funding within the “Freiraum” program

The initiative of the foundation “Stiftung Innovation in der Hochschullehre” promotes new ideas for teaching at universities.

A photo of a man with glasses in a suit.

Basic Research for More Efficient Heat Pumps

Prof. Andreas Brümmer is co-speaker of a new DFG Research Unit at Chemnitz University of Technology.

A man with glasses and a suit sits in a white armchair and speaks into a portable microphone. In the background, a woman is also sitting in a white armchair.

Meeting of the German AI Competence Centers in Berlin

The Lamarr Institute was represented by Prof. Emmanuel Müller who also reported on research about trustworthy AI at UA Ruhr.

The illustration for the "Bioeconomy Startup Pulse 2023" shows two people handling an oversized microscope, test tubes and drawing a DNA spiral.

The Role Start-ups Play in Structural Change of the Rhenish Lignite Mining Region

A team led by Prof. Steffen Strese and Prof. Tessa Flatten recently published the first “Bioeconomy-Start-up Pulse” report.

In a large room there are many tables where people are having conversations

International Career Fair Helps Companies Recruit New Skilled Workers

More than two dozen companies from Dortmund and the region met students of TU Dortmund University on 25 October.

A four-story rectangular building with a street and trees in front of it.

New Laboratory Building Inaugurated

The brick building at Otto-Hahn-Straße 6a is home to state-of-the-art workplaces for chemistry students and researchers.

All news

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