Excellence as a driving force
Cutting-edge research, excellent appointments and international visibility – in 2022, TU Dresden celebrated ten years as one of just eleven Universities of Excellence in Germany. This Excellence status has initiated dynamic change and a surge of innovation at TUD. The university has become more interdisciplinary and international, attracting outstanding researchers from all over the world. With the DRESDEN-concept Science and Innovation Campus, our university serves as a science hub that supports optimal research conditions and brings together the brightest minds. These researchers are united by the vision of using their findings to solve global challenges.
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To mark the anniversary, the university produced a film titled "Bright Minds. Excellent Research“, which provides insight into how passionate researchers at TUD are working to find solutions to the great global challenges of our day.
Since February 2023 the series "Bright Minds" features every month the eight protagonists from the film:
October: Prof. Lars Koch
Prof. Lars Koch is Chair of Media Studies and Modern German Literature.
September: Prof. Frank Fitzek
Prof. Frank Fitzek is the Deutsche Telekom Chair of Communication Networks and Speaker of the Cluster of Excellence Centre for Tactile Internet with Human-in-the-Loop (CeTI).
July: Prof. Stefanie Speidel
Prof. Stefanie Speidel is Professor for Translational Surgical Oncology at the National Center for Tumor Diseases Dresden (NCT/UCC).
June: Prof. Otger Campàs
Prof. Otger Campàs holds the Chair of Tissue Dynamics and is speaker of the Cluster of Excellence Physics of Life (PoL).
May: Prof. Catherina G. Becker
Prof. Catherina G. Becker is a research group leader at the Center for Regenerative Therapies Dresden (CRTD), where she holds the Chair of Neural Development and Regeneration.
April: Prof. Wolfgang E. Nagel
Prof. Wolfgang E. Nagel holds the Chair of Computer Architecture at the Institute of Computer Engineering and is the Director of the Center for Information Services and High-Performance Computing (ZIH).
March: Dr. Rita Mateus
Dr. Rita Mateus works as a quantitative developmental biologist in a position shared between the Cluster of Excellence Physics of Life (PoL) at TU Dresden and the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics (MPI-CBG).
February: Prof. Matthias Vojta
Prof. Matthias Vojta is a theoretical physicist at TU Dresden and speaker for the Cluster of Excellence ct.qmat – Complexity and Topology in Quantum Matter in Dresden.
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