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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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If you would like to find out more about scientists and their research topics at TU Dortmund University or are looking for future cooperation partners for joint projects, you can use an expert search to get an overview of the diverse research landscape at TU Dortmund University.

Research News from TU Dortmund University

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
05/26/2025

European Physical Society Honors Prof. Doris Reiter

The physicist receives the Emmy Noether Award for her outstanding research and commitment to science communication.
Photo of Dr. Doris Reiter
05/22/2025

Ruhr Region Secures Three Clusters of Excellence in Tough Competition

The partners of the University Alliance Ruhr succeed in the Excellence Strategy and will continue their cooperation.
Collage of three photos showing laser pulses, a solvent and data cables
05/16/2025

DFG Announces Selection of Clusters of Excellence on 22 May

The Presidents of the UA Ruhr will discuss the results in a webinar at 8 pm. All TU members are invited to attend.
Logo of the Excellence Strategy of the Federal Government & the Federal States with blue lettering and yellow and blue triangles forming a crown.
05/16/2025

Researchers Detect Tiny Atomic Motion in Crystals

The team led by Dr. Alexey Scherbakov from the Department of Physics is now presenting its new method in Nature Materials.
Graphic: A network of bright blue and purple lines against a dark background. Pink numbers are shown behind it.
05/12/2025

Nearsightedness in School Students Often Goes Undetected

To study the rise in nearsightedness, Professor Sarah Weigelt and her team examined around 1,500 children.
Brille, die auf blauen Schulmaterialien liegt
05/08/2025

Innovative Ideas for Energy Transition and Climate Protection Assessed

Felix Nal won the first prize in the “Forum Junge Spitzenforschung” science competition with an energy-retrieving turbine.
Photo: A man in a light blue shirt holds a colorful wind turbine in his hand and speaks into a microphone in front of an audience.
04/15/2025

MERCUR Funding Continues – Now Under its Own Steam

UA Ruhr now funds bi- and trilateral research projects without Stiftung Mercator. The first call is open until 15 May.
A man in protective clothing carrying out experiments in a laboratory.
04/11/2025

Experiments at CERN honored with the “Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics”

Four groups from the Department of Physics work at the particle accelerator LHC, which received the 3-million-dollar prize.
Particle accelerator "Large Hadron Collider (LHC)"
04/07/2025

How the Routine Killing of Animals Works

Sociologist Dr. Marcel Sebastian has published a new study on emotional labor in slaughterhouses.
Mehrere Schweine in Massentierhaltung
04/03/2025

TU Physicists Investigate Dynamic Phenomena of a Time Crystal

The team led by Dr. Alex Greilich recently published its findings in Nature Communications.
The picture shows a graphic in blue. It shows red strands that resemble the pattern of a wire mesh fence. “Devil's staircase” is written in white on the graphic itself.
03/31/2025

TU Postdoc Chosen for EU’s Marie Curie Fellowship

Competing with more than 10,000 proposals, Dr. Aleksandr Mikherdov convinced with his research on supramolecular chemistry.
Portrait Dr. Aleksandr Mikherdov

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.

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