Feb 21, 2018
Excellence Strategy: TU Dresden submits six full proposals for Clusters of Excellence and the letter of intent for the University of Excellence application
21 February 2018 – twelve o’clock sharp. The time is up for submitting the applications in the current round of the Excellence Strategy of the Federal and State government. TU Dresden scientists were on time uploading full proposals for six Clusters of Excellence to the online platform elan: one proposal in cooperation with the Julius-Maximilians University Würzburg and five independent proposals by TUD. At least two Clusters must be approved so that TU Dresden may renew its application for the “University of Excellence” title on 10 December 2018. TU Dresden’s letter of intent to reapply for this title and the corresponding funding was also submitted in time on 21 February.
“During the final sprint towards the deadline, we once again mobilised all our forces”, confirms TUD Rector Prof. Hans Müller-Steinhagen. ”The scientific teams, the Rectorate, the University Administration, the Corporate Design and Translation Office teams as well as all others involved have done their utmost. The application process has fostered discourse, dialogue and cooperation within the university.” The next milestones in the application marathon will be the reviews of the applications by internationally renowned teams of experts, which will take place between April and June in Frankfurt and Bonn. “Following this, all hopes are focused on 27 September when the results will be announced”, comments Prof. Müller-Steinhagen. On this very day, it will also be decided whether TUD will be allowed to continue the race for the “University of Excellence” title.
The six submitted Cluster of Excellence proposals belong to the Research Priority Areas (1) Health Sciences, Biomedicine and Bioengineering, (2) Smart Materials and Structures and (3) Information Technology and Microelectronics. All Research Priority Areas at TU Dresden are interdisciplinarily intertwined so that virtually all academic disciplines are involved in the Excellence competition.
TU Dresden has submitted full proposals for the following Clusters:
cfaed: Center for Advancing Electronics Dresden
cfaed lines up again to push boundaries: beyond the possible – beyond the imaginable. Following its vision, the Cluster will shape the future of electronics and initiate revolutionary new applications, such as electronics featuring zero-boot time, THz imaging, and complex bio-signal processing. For this, breakthroughs in fundamental electronics are needed beyond the predicted industry roadmaps. In order to achieve its goals, cfaed bridges discovery-driven natural sciences and innovation-oriented engineering sciences and considers all levels of electronics: materials, devices, circuits towards completely new systems. Five materials-inspired research directions ("Routes") are intertwined by a sixth Route - orchestration - which will unleash their innovations and dissolve the classical structure of electronic systems (memory, logic and sensing). cfaed has been funded as a Cluster of Excellence since 2012 as part of the Excellence Initiative.
DTRC: Dresden Translational Regeneration Cluster
Chronic diseases are a large burden for both the patients and the health systems. Recent advances and discoveries in regenerative biology have opened new possibilities for developing and applying therapies for chronic diseases in the concept of regenerative medicine. The DTRC has formulated a multi-disciplinary approach to bring regenerative biology research from the bench to clinical application.
DCM: Center for Materiomics Dresden
The DCM will explore and develop innovative programmable materials. The focus is on technologies and simulation tools that enable the transfer of material properties and functions on a nanoscale to applications on a macroscale – reinventing materials from bit to atom to system.
PoL: Physics of Life
To fathom life is one of the greatest and most complex scientific challenges. The Cluster aims to investigate the fundamental issues in cell and developmental biology and initiate a paradigm shift: to create understanding of the underlying biological processes of life as complex physical phenomena.
ct.qmat: Complexity and Topology in Quantum Materials
Innovative materials with specifically tailor-made functions are the basis for progress in virtually all areas of modern technology. ct.qmat places emphasis on quantum mechanisms on the atomic scale, which, in conjunction with topological physics and the chemical and physical complexities, reveals hitherto unprecedented properties and phenomena. This Cluster proposal is submitted in co-operation with the University of Würzburg.
CeTI: Center for Tactile Internet
CeTI’s central vision is to enable humans to interact in quasi real-time with cyber physical systems (CPS) in the real or virtual world over intelligent wide-area communication networks. Such advances go far beyond the current state-of-the-art approaches in computer and engineering sciences: intelligent communication networks and adaptive CPS for quasi real-time co-operations with humans require online mutual learning mechanisms, which are crucial challenges. To tackle these challenges, CeTI will conduct unique interdisciplinary research and will address major open research topics in key areas of the complexity of human control in the human–machine loop, sensor and actuator technologies, software and hardware designs, and the communication networks as the basis for several novel use cases grouped in medicine, industry, and the Internet of Skills.
Further information on the Excellence Strategy of TU Dresden:
https://tu-dresden.de/exstra