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Research at TU Dortmund University

Around 2,500 researchers from TU Dortmund University successfully develop technological innovations and achieve important advances in methods and knowledge. Acclaimed researchers in outstanding individual and collaborative projects attest to the strength of research in Dortmund.

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Research News from TU Dortmund University

10/09/2025

Action Against Disinformation Enters Next Round

The German-Austrian Digital Media Observatory (GADMO) will be funded by the European Union for a further 30 months.
Four wooden cubes lined up in a row make the words "Fact" and "Fake".
09/30/2025

How Queer Families Struggle for Recognition

In this interview, a team led by sociologist Professor Mona Motakef talks about a current study on LGBTQ+ family models.
Prof. Mona Motakef, Dr. Julia Teschlade und Prof. Christine Wimbauer (v.l.n.r.)
09/29/2025

Presidents Present Ideas for Ruhr Innovation Lab

Together, Manfred Bayer and his Bochum colleague Martin Paul introduced the concept for the planned Consortium of Excellence.
Photo: Prof. Manfred Bayer, President of TU Dortmund University, and Prof. Martin Paul, President of Ruhr University Bochum, stand in front of a green building and smile for the camera.
09/25/2025

Understanding of Democracy Examined in Pre-school Kids

Prof. Norbert Zmyj reports on when children begin to apply the majority principle – and what this means for daycare centers.
Foto: Vorschulkinder sitzen auf dem Boden eines Kita-Raums und heben die Finger hoch.
09/17/2025

Spin-off from TU Dortmund University Attracts Biotech Community’s Attention

Professor Daniel Rauh talks about the start-up “KyDo Therapeutics”, which has secured €4.45 million in seed finance.
Porträtfoto: Prof. Daniel Rauh
08/29/2025

Robot Soccer: TU Team Becomes Vice World Champion

The “Nao Devils” joined forces with a team from Leipzig at the World Humanoid Robot Games in China.
Photo: Members of the Nao Devils (TU Dortmund) and HTWK Robots (HTWK Leipzig) research teams hold banners in their hands and cheerfully raise their fists in the air. In front of the white banners stand approximately 1.30-meter-tall humanoid robots in red and blue jerseys, who also raise their arms in celebration. The group is standing on a green grass field in a large indoor stadium with packed stands.
08/28/2025

Challenges of a Sustainable Steel Industry

The Social Research Center Dortmund is participating in a new EU project that considers people and technology together.
Photo: A man wearing safety goggles and work gloves holds up a silver metal plate with cutouts and examines it closely.
08/22/2025

Using Molecules to Control Magnetism – In Record Time

Professor Mirko Cinchetti and Dr. Mattia Benini have published three papers in Science Advances and Nature Communications.
Graphic: A graphic in shades of blue and gray shows molecules (C₆₀) excited by ultrashort laser pulses on a cobalt surface.
08/20/2025

More Complex Language in Start-Up Pitches Raises Likelihood of Investment

This is the result of a study on the financing success of founders led by Prof. Lorenz Graf-Vlachy and his team.
Photo: A man in a brown sweater stands in front of an audience in a crowded conference room.
07/21/2025

New episodes of “Research Snapshots”

The video series offers fascinating insights into current research projects at TU Dortmund University – in around one minute each.
07/15/2025

New Research Unit Funded by DFG To Develop Smart Luminescent Materials

Prof. Andreas Steffen is the spokesperson for the interdisciplinary network, which is funded with around €3.7 million.
Portrait photo of Prof. Andreas Steffen: Prof. Steffen has blond hair, a beard and glasses and is standing on the TU Dortmund campus.
06/30/2025

New UA Ruhr Committee Strengthens Careers in Science

In the Early Career Researchers Board, members of the three partner universities discuss joint support programs.
Group photo ECR-Board
06/30/2025

Using Simulations to Improve Decisions in Freight Transport

Professor Uwe Clausen analyzes how rail disruptions affect which mode of transport is chosen in logistics.
Group photo: Four people standing next to each other, two of them holding a funding certificate together in the middle.
06/27/2025

Bochum and Dortmund will apply jointly as Consortium of Excellence

The two universities aim to test new forms of cross-university structures, which will also be transferable to the UA Ruhr.
Collage von zwei Gebäuden. Links ein Gebäude der Ruhr-Universität-Bochum, rechts der Mathetower der TU Dortmund
06/16/2025

Statistics Research Training Group Extended by DFG

A further 4.2 million euros have been awarded for theses on biostatistical methods for high-dimensional data in toxicology.
Graphic: The graphic shows glowing dots and spirals on a blue background.
06/08/2025

University Alliance Ruhr Creates Klaus Töpfer Professorship

The Professorship for Sustainable Development is set up in honor of Germany’s former Federal Minister for the Environment.
Black and white photo of Klaus Töpfer at a lectern

Research at TU Dortmund University is particularly visible nationally and internationally in five profile areas:

  • From Elementary Particles to Products Along Value Added Networks
  • Innovations for Sustainability and Health
  • Data, Models and Simulations to Shape Our Future
  • Educational and Labor Worlds of Tomorrow
  • Society and Transformational Processes in the 21st Century

Large collaborative and outstanding research projects stand for the research achievements of TU Dortmund University.

A core concern of TU Dortmund University is to promote young researchers – for example through a graduate center and the alliance with the Research Academy Ruhr.