University-Wide Inaugural Lecture
Newly appointed professors in focus
The university-wide inaugural lecture introduces newly appointed professors of outstanding strategic importance1 for TUD's research profile.
Follow the event live in the Heinz Schönfeld lecture hall or online on the TUD YouTube channel – always on the 3rd Thursday of the month at 4:40 pm during the lecture period. The informal get-together following each lecture offers the opportunity for individual discussions.
Upcoming lecture by Prof. Jakob Zscheischler
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The University-Wide Inaugural Lecture "Towards Understanding Extreme Climate Impacts" by Prof. Jakob Zscheischler will take place on:
May 16, 2024
4:40 pm – 6:10 pm (6th double period)
Schönfeld Lecture Hall, Barkhausenbau Building I90, Georg-Schumann-Straße 13
The lecture and subsequent discussion will be held in English.
Afterwards, there will be time for an informal get-together.
| 2014 | PhD, Environmental System Science, ETH Zurich, Switzerland |
| 2010 | Diploma, Mathematics, Humboldt University Berlin, Germany |
| 2023 | Highly Cited Researcher, Cross-Field (Web of Science / Thomson Reuters, top 1% cited papers) |
| 2022 | Highly Cited Researcher, Cross-Field (Web of Science / Thomson Reuters, top 1% cited papers) |
| 2022 | Arne Richter Award for Outstanding Early Career Scientists, European Geosciences Union |
| 2021 | Highly Cited Researcher, Cross-Field (Web of Science / Thomson Reuters, top 1% cited papers) |
| 2015 | Vladimir Peter Köppen Award, Universität Hamburg’s Cluster of Excellence “Integrated Climate System Analysis and Prediction“ (CliSAP) |
| 2014 | Otto Hahn Medal, Max Planck Society |
| 2024 | Department head, Department of Compound Environmental Risks (CER) - UFZ |
| 2023 | Professor (W3) for Data Analytics in Hydro Sciences, Faculty of Environmental Sciences, TU Dresden |
| 10/2020-12/2023 | Group Leader, Department of Computational Hydrosystems – UFZ |
| 11/2018-6/2021 | Ambizione Fellow, Climate and Environmental Physics, University of Bern, Switzerland |
| 2/2015-10/2018 | Postdoc, Institute for Atmospheric and Climate Science, ETH Zurich, Switzerland |
| 6/2014-12/2014 | Postdoc, Department Biogeochemical Integration, Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Jena, Germany |
| 10/2010-6/2014 | PhD student, Department Biogeochemical Integration, Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Jena, Germany and Department Empirical Inference, Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Tübingen, Germany |
Upcoming lectures in 2024
| May 16, 2024 | May 30, 2024 | Jul 18, 2024 | Oct 17, 2024 | Nov 21, 2024 |
| Jakob Zscheischler | Dirk Brockmann | Günther Hasinger | Miki Matsuda | Anjana Devi |
| Data Analytics in Hydro Sciences | Biology of Complex Systems | Astrophysics |
Cell and Tissue Control | Materials Chemistry |
| Faculty: Environmental Sciences | Faculty: Biology | Faculty: Physics | / | Faculty: Chemistry and Food Chemistry |
| Co-Sponsor: Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research UFZ | Co-Sponsor: Center Synergy of Systems SynoSys | Co-Sponsor: German Center for Astrophysics DZA |
Co-Sponsor: Cluster of Excellence PoL Center for Molecular and Cellular Bioengineering CMCB |
Co-Sponsor: Leibniz Institute for Solid State and Materials Research IFW Dresden |
2024 archive of the University-Wide Inaugural Lectures
The University-Wide Inaugural Lecture “Towards Intelligent Robots” by Prof. Roberto Calandra took place on January 18, 2024. Watch the record here.
Introducing Prof. Roberto Calandra © TUD
Roberto Calandra is a Full (W3) Professor at the Technische Universität Dresden, and at the Centre for Tactile Internet with Human-in-the-Loop (CeTI).
Previously, he founded at Meta AI (formerly Facebook AI Research) the Robotic Lab in Menlo Park. Prior to that, he was a Postdoctoral Scholar at the University of California, Berkeley (US) in the Berkeley Artificial Intelligence Research (BAIR) Lab.
His education includes a Ph.D. from TU Darmstadt (Germany), a M.Sc. in Machine Learning and Data Mining from the Aalto university (Finland), and a B.Sc. in Computer Science from the Università degli studi di Palermo (Italy). His scientific interests are broadly at the conjunction of Robotics and Machine Learning, with the goal of making robots more intelligent and useful in the real world.
Among his contributions is the design and commercialization of DIGIT -- the first high-resolution compact tactile sensor commercially available, which is the most widely used tactile sensor in robotics. Roberto served as Program Chair for AISTATS 2020, as Guest Editor for the JMLR Special Issue on Bayesian Optimization, and has previously co-organized over 16 international workshops (including at NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, ICRA, IROS, RSS).
2023 archive of the University-Wide Inaugural Lectures
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The University-Wide Inaugural Lecture “The Mystery of Patents” by Prof. Andreas Pinkwart took place on December 14, 2023. Watch the record here.
Academic Career
| Since 2023 | Professorship for Innovation Management and Entrepreneurship and Director of the Excellence Center for Innovation, Technology and Entrepreneurship at Dresden University of Technology (TUD|excite), Dresden, Germany. |
| 2023 | Chairholder of the Chair of Digital Innovation Management and Entrepreneurship at the University of Siegen, Germany |
| 1998-2011 | Professor of Business Economics, University of Siegen (Sabbatical 10/2002-2011), Germany |
| 1994-1997 | Professor for Business Administration and Economics, University of Applied Sciences for Public Administration North Rhine-Westphalia, Düsseldorf, Germany |
| 1987-1988 | Research Associate, Institute for SME Research Bonn, Germany |
Political and Economic Career
| 2022 | Member of the State Parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia, Düsseldorf, Germany |
| 2017-2022 | Minister of Economic Affairs, Innovation, Digitalization and Energy of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, Düsseldorf, Germany |
| Member of the German Bundesrat, Berlin, Germany | |
| Chairman of the Administrative Council of the NRW Bank, Düsseldorf, Germany | |
| 2011-2017 | Dean and Chairholder of the Stiftungsfonds Deutsche Bank Chair of Innovation Management and Entrepreneurship, HHL Leipzig Graduate School of Management, Leipzig, Germany |
| 2011-2014 | Member of Supervisory Board of Evotec SE, Hamburg, Germany |
| 2010-2011 | Member of the State Parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany |
| 2005-2010 | Minister for Innovation, Science, Research and Technology as well as Deputy Prime Minister of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany |
| Member of the German Bundesrat, Berlin, Germany | |
| Member of the German Council of Science and Humanities, Köln, Germany | |
| Member of the Administrative Council and Chairman of the Risk Committee of the NRW Bank, Düsseldorf, Germany | |
| 2002-2005 | Member of the German Bundestag, Member of the Finance and the Budget Committee, Berlin, Germany |
| 1989-1994 | Research Associate and (from 1991) Executive Assistant to the leader of the Free Democratic Party’s parliamentary group in the German Bundestag, Germany |
| 1979-1981 | Banking apprenticeship at Dresdner Bank AG in Cologne and Frankfurt/M., Germany |
Education
| 2011 | Visiting Scholar, American Institute for Contemporary German Studies (AICGS), John Hopkins University, Washington D.C., USA |
| 2003 | Attested research qualifications equalling those of a habilitation, University of Siegen, Germany |
| 1991 | Dr. rer. pol., summa cum laude, University of Bonn, Germany |
| 1987 | Diplomvolkswirt (Master’s level degree in Economics), University of Bonn, Germany |
Awards and Honors
| 2020 | German Startup-Award 2020 for Best Support |
| 2017 | University of Kent Innovation in Academia Award for Science and Business |
| 2013 | Diesterweg Ring of the University of Siegen |
| 2012 | Order of Merit of the State of North-Rhine Westfalia |
| 2008 | Deutscher Elite-Mittelstandspreis of the Union Mittelständischer Unternehmen e.V., Munich |
| 2007 | Commander with Star of the Order of Merit of Norway |
The University-Wide Inaugural Lecture “On the Trail of Great Apes” by Prof. Hjalmar S. Kühl took place on October 16, 2023. Watch the record here.
Academic Career:
| since 2022 | Professorship for Mammal Diversity at IHI Zittau and TU Dresden, Head of Zoology Department at Senckenberg Museum of Natural History Görlitz |
| 2021-2022 | Head of Research Group ‘Evolutionary and Anthropocene Ecology’ at German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) |
| 2010-2021 | Head of Research Group ‘Great Ape Evolutionary Ecology and Conservation’ at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology |
| 2014-2019 | Robert Bosch Junior Professor ‘Sustainable Use of Renewable Natural Resources’ at the German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) |
| 2008-2010 | Post-doctoral researcher at MPI EVAN with various research topics on monitoring of great apes and development of concept for the Pan African Programme (http://panafrican.eva.mpg.de/) |
| 2003-2008 |
PhD student in the Department of Primatology at MPI EVAN and Leipzig University, Germany with field data collection in Gabon and Republic of the Congo |
Education:
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2003-2008 |
PhD in the Department of Primatology at MPI EVAN and
Leipzig University, Germany with field data collection in Gabon and Republic of the Congo Thesis title: ‘Wild chimpanzee and gorilla density: Predictor variables, efficient estimation, and disease dynamic consequences’ |
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2002-2003 |
Research assistant at MPI EVAN Topic: Chimpanzee population survey in Côte d’Ivoire |
| 2001-2002 | Field assistant for Taϊ Chimpanzee Project, Côte d’Ivoire Topic: Habituation of a chimpanzee group |
| 1999-2000 |
Diploma thesis at the Institute for Human Genetics and Anthropology, Albert Ludwigs University of Freiburg, Germany. Thesis title: ‘Characterization of the satellited Y-chromosome (Yqs) in humans and apes using fluorescence in situ hybridization’ |
| 1994-2000 | Study of biology at the Albert Ludwigs University of Freiburg and the University of Konstanz, Germany, with a particular focus on limnology, anthropology, cell biology and microbiology |
Introducing Prof. Yana Vaynzof © TUD
The University-Wide Inaugural Lecture “Metal Halide Perovskites: Black Magic in a Bottle" by Prof. Yana Vaynzof took place on October 19, 2023. Watch the record here.
Academic Career
| 2023 | Director of the IFW Dresden Institute for Emerging Electronic Technologies |
| Since 2022 | Elected member of the Dept. of Physics Council, TU Dresden |
| Since 2021 | - Executive Board member of the Center for Advancing Electronics Dresden (cfaed) at Technische Universität Dresden |
| - Head of the examination board and head of the recruitment committee of “Organic and Molecular Electronics” maser course at TU Dresden |
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| - Member of the Dresden-concept Scientific Area speaker’s council | |
| 2019 | University Professor (W2) for Organic Electronics, University of Heidelberg |
| Since 2019 | - Heading the Chair for Emerging Electronic Technologies (W2) at IAPP, and full member of the Faculty of Physics of Technische Universität Dresden |
| - University Professor (W2) and Chair for Emerging Electronic Technologies, IAPP, Technische Universität Dresden |
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| Since 2017 | Heading independent research groups as (Junior)Professor and ERC- Grantee |
| 2014-2018 | Juniorprofessor (W1) for Physical Principles of Organic Electronics, University of Heidelberg |
| 2011-2013 | Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Cambridge, UK |
Education
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2011 |
PhD in Physics, University of Cambridge, UK, Supervisor: R. H. Friend |
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2008 |
M. Sc. In Electrical Engineering, Princeton University, USA, Supervisor: A. Kahn |
| 2006 | B. Sc. In Electrical Engineering, Technion – Israel Institute for Technology |
Honors and Awards
| 2023 | ERC Consolidator Grant |
| 2021 | Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC) |
| Since 2021 | Editorial Advisory Board, Joule |
| 2020 | Energy & Environmental Science Lectureship Award of the RSC |
| Since 2020 | Associate editor for Journal of Materials Chemistry C and Material Advances, Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) |
| Since 2019 |
Review of proposals for FETOPEN and ERC, the National Science |
| 2018 | Fulbright-Cottrell Award |
| 2018 | Kalkhof Rose Memorial Award |
| 2016 | ERC Starting Grant |
| Since 2014 | Reviewer for Science, Nature, ASC, APS, RSC, Elsevier and Wiley journals in the field of physics and chemistry |
| 2008-2011 | Henry Kressel Scholarship, University of Cambridge, UK |
| 2006-2008 | Gordon Y.S. Wu Fellowship, Princeton University, USA |
| 2005 | Finzi Fellowship for Excellence, Israel Institute of Technology |
| 2004 | The Knesset Excellence Award for academic achievements and contributions to the Israeli society |
Member of the American Physical Society and the German Physical Society.
Introducing Prof. Markus Schubert © TUD
The University-Wide Inaugural Lecture “Synthetic Fuels: A Promise for Future Mobility? A Chemical Engineering Perspective” by Prof. Markus Schubert took place on June 15, 2023. Watch the record here.
Academic Career:
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Since 2022 |
Professor (W3) for Chemical Process Engineering; Institute of Process Engineering and Environmental Technology, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany |
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2017 - 2022 |
Leader of the Research Group “Fluid Process Engineering” at Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR), Germany |
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2012 - 2016 |
Leader of the Research Group “Multiphase Reactors” at Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf, Germany |
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2009 - 2011 |
Research Associate, Institute of Safety Research, Research Center Forschungszentrum Rossendorf, Germany |
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2008 - 2009 |
Postdoc, Green Processes for Cleaner & Sustainable Energy Laboratory, Université Laval, Québec, Canada |
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2007 - 2008 |
Postdoc, Institute of Safety Research, Research Center Forschungszentrum Rossendorf, Germany |
Education:
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2003 - 2007 |
PhD in Chemical Process Engineering, Performance enhancement of trickle bed reactors; Faculty of Mechanical Science and Engineering, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany; Supervisor: Prof. Rüdiger Lange |
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1997 - 2003 |
Diploma in Process Engineering, Reaction rate and kinetics of the of alpha methylstyrene hydrogenation with Pd catalyst; Institute of Process Engineering and Environmental Technology, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany |
Honors and Awards:
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2020 |
HZDR Technology and Innovation Award |
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2013 |
HZDR Research Award |
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2012 |
ERC Starting Grant XFLOW |
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2009 - 2009 |
Postdoctoral Fellow of the Canadian Bureau of International Education (CBIE) |
|
2007 |
Summa Cum Laude – Ph.D. thesis |
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2001 - 2002 |
Student Scholarship from Polymer Engineering GmbH, Rudolstadt, Germany |
Introducing Prof. Oliver Bruns © TUD
The University-Wide Inaugural Lecture “Biomedical Imaging beyond the Visible: Fluorescence Imaging in the SWIR” by Prof. Oliver Bruns took place on May 25, 2023. Watch the record here.
Academic Career:
| Since 2022 | Full professor at the NCT/UCC Dresden (W3-Professur für Funktionelle Bildgebung in der Operativen Onkologie am NCT/UCC Dresden; getragen vom Deutschen Krebsforschungszentrum (DKFZ), dem Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR) und der Medizinischen Fakultät der TU Dresden). |
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Since 2018 |
Principal Investigator at the Helmholtz Pioneer Campus |
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2020-2022 |
TUM Junior Fellow- Department of Medicine TU Munich |
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2018-2022 |
Emmy Noether Group leader |
| 2015-2017 | Research Scientist (Senior Scientist) in the group of Prof. Moungi Bawendi/ Department of Chemistry at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) |
| 2011-2015 |
Postdoctoral Associate in the group of Prof. Moungi Bawendi at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) |
| 2009-2011 | Senior Scientist in the group of Dr. Heinrich |
Education:
| 2005-2009 | PhD-Thesis with Prof. Ulrike Beisiegel and Prof. Horst Weller at the University Medical Center and Institute of Physical Chemistry in Hamburg/Germany ('1.0') |
| 2000-2005 |
Studies of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology at the University of Hamburg/Germany, Diploma in Biochemistry/Molecular Biology ('1.0') |
Honors and Awards:
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2022-2024 |
PI for BMBF funded consortium BetterView |
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2021-2023 |
PI and Coordinator for a deep tissue imaging grant by the Chan-Zuckerberg-Initiative (CZI) |
| 2018-2023 | Emmy Noether Grant |
| 2011-2013 | EMBO Long-Term Fellowship |
| 2010 |
DAAD fellowship (declined in favor of EMBO Long-term Fellowship) |
| 2010 |
Karl-Heinz Hölzer Award for Interdisciplinary Medical Research (PhD-Thesis) |
| 2006-2009 |
Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes Fellowship |
Introducing Prof. Elena Hassinger © TUD
Prof. Elena Hassinger held her University-Wide Inaugural Lecture "Unlocking the Quantum World of Superconductivity" on April 20, 2023. Watch the recording.
Academic Career:
| 2022 |
Professor (W2, tenured) for Low Temperature Physics of Complex Electron Systems; Institute of Solid State and Materials Physics, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany |
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2016-2022 |
Professor (W2, tenure track) for Quantum Matter – Experimental Solid-State Physics; Physics Department, Technical University Munich (TUM), Germany |
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2014-2022 |
Independent Max-Planck Research Group leader Physics of Unconventional Metals and Superconductors; Max-Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids, Dresden, Germany |
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2010-2014 |
Postdoctoral researcher with Prof. Louis Taillefer, Physics Department, Sherbrooke University, Canada |
Education:
| 2007-2010 |
PhD in Physics, Competition of ground states in URu2Si2 and UCoGe, CEA Grenoble; Grenoble University, France, Supervisor: Dr. Jacques Flouquet |
| 2001-2007 |
Master (Diplom) in Physics, Pressure-temperature phase diagram of URu2Si2 by accolorimetry and resistivity measurements, Department of Physics, Heidelberg University, Germany |
Honors and Awards:
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2022-2027 |
Max Planck Fellow |
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2014-2022 |
Independent Max Planck Research Group |
| 2011-2014 | CIFAR Global Scholarship, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research/ Canada |
| 2011-2012 | Fellowship for excellent foreign postdoc students, FRQNT (Fond de Recherche du Québec – Nature et Technologies) |
| 2007-2010 |
CFR thesis stipend, CEA Grenoble |
2022 archive of the University-Wide Inaugural Lectures
Prof. Carsten Timm, Prof. Alexey Chernikov, Prof.in Ursula M. Staudinger, Prof. Matthias Vojta © TU Dresden
Prof. Helmut Schießel, Prof. Otger Campàs, Prof.in Ursula M. Staudinger, Prof. Stefan Diez © TU Dresden
Prof. Michael Schroeder, Prof.in Catherina G. Becker, Prof.in Ursula M. Staudinger, Prof. Federico Calegari © Magdalena Gonciarz
Prof. Günther Prokop, Prof.in Regine Gerike, Prof. S. Travis Waller, Prof.in Ursula M. Staudinger © Andrea Suma
Prof. Lars Koch, Prof.in Orit Halpern, Prof.in Ursula M. Staudinger, Prof. Christian Prunitsch © Crispin-Iven Mokry
Prof.in Ursula M. Staudinger, Prof.in Elizabeth von Hauff, Prof. Karlheinz Bock © Nils Eisfeld
Prof. Wolfgang Nagel, Prof.in Sabine Roller, Prof.in Ursula M. Staudinger, Prof. Ivo F. Sbalzarini © Nils Eisfeld
Schönfeldhörsaal zur Universitätsweiten Antrittsvorlesung © Crispin-Iven Mokry
Get Together nach der Universitätsweiten Antrittsvorlesung © Crispin-Iven Mokry
Prof. Sabine Roller held her University-Wide Inaugural Lecture "Software Methods for the Virtual Product" on December 15, 2022. Watch the recording.
Academic career:
| seit 2021 | Institute Director of the Institute of Software Methods for Product Virtualization at the German Aerospace Center (DLR) in Dresden, Germany |
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seit 2021 |
Chair of Software Engineering for Product Virtualization at Technische Universität Dresden, Germany |
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2013 - 2021 |
Chair of Simulation Techniques and Scientific Computing at the University of Siegen, Germany |
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2013 - 2021 |
Director of the Center for Information and Media Technology (ZIMT) at the University of Siegen, Germany |
| 2009 - 2012 | Fixed-term Chair of Applied Supercomputing in Engineering at RWTH Aachen University, Germany and the German Research School for Simulation Sciences |
| 2007 - 2009 | Leader of the Working group "Scalable Computing & Coupled Systems" (SCCS), habilitation preparation |
| 2003 - 2009 | Research Associate at the High Performance Computing Center in Stuttgart (HLRS), Germany |
| 1997 - 2003 | Research Associate at the Institute for Aerodynamics and Gas Dynamics of the University of Stuttgart, Germany |
| 1994 - 1997 | PhD student (scholarship) at the Institute for Neutron Physics and Reactor Technology, Research Center Karlsruhe, Germany, Technology and Environment |
| 1992 - 1994 | Working student at Robert Bosch GmbH, Karlsruhe, Germany |
Education:
| 2004 | Doctorate (Dr.-Ing.) at the Faculty for Aerospace Engineering and Geodesy at the University of Stuttgart, Germany |
| 1988 - 1994 | Technomathematics degree (Dipl.-Math. Techn.), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology mathematics; engineering and applied computer science (minors) |
Honors and awards:
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2003 |
Specialist teaching award of the state of Baden-Wuerttemberg |
|
1999 |
Amelia Earhart Fellowship Award |
Bodies and advisory activities
| Joint Science Conference | Strategic committee of High-Performance Computing (NHR) |
| German Research Foundation (DFG) |
Scientific Instrumentation and Information Technology (WGI) |
| German Research Foundation (DFG) | Committee on Scientific Library Services and Information Systems (AWBI) |
| Further boards | Subjects research data, High-Performance Computing, Computational Science |
| Expert activities |
for the EU, the Federal Ministry of Education and Research, the Baden-Wuerttemberg Foundation, journals and conferences |
Prof. Elizabeth von Hauff held her University-Wide Inaugural Lecture "Energy Technologies: The magic is at the Interface" on November 17, 2022. Watch the recording.
Academic Career
| since 2021 |
Joint appointment as Professor of Coating Technologies for Electronics at the Faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Director of the Fraunhofer Institute for Organic Electronics, Electron Beam and Plasma Technologies (FEP), TU Dresden |
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2020 |
Special appointment as Professor of Chemistry at the University of Amsterdam |
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2013-2021 |
Associate Professor of Physics at the VU University Amsterdam |
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2011-2013 |
Joint appointment as Associate Professor of Physics at the University of Freiburg and the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems (ISE) |
| 2006-2011 | Postdoc researcher and group leader of “Organic Electronics” at the Institute of Physics, University of Oldenburg |
Education
| 2011 |
Habilitation in Experimental Physics, University of Oldenburg |
| 2002-2005 |
PhD researcher at the Institute of Physics, University of Oldenburg |
| 2001-2002 |
Research assistant, University of Jena |
| 2000-2001 | M.Sc. in Renewable Energy Physics, University of Oldenburg |
| 1996-2000 |
B.Sc. in Honors Physics, University of Alberta |
Awards and Honors
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2019 |
Open Mind Award from the Dutch Research Council |
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2019-2021 |
Associate Editor for Journal of Materials Chemistry C |
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2016 |
Mercator Fellow (German Science Foundation DFG), University of Freiburg |
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2015 |
Visiting fellowship in the focus Designed Quantum Transport in Complex Materials at the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (FRIAS) |
Prof. Orit Halpern held her University-Wide Inaugural Lecture "The Smartness Mandate: Re-imagining our Technological Future" on October 13, 2022. Watch the recording.
Academic Career:
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since 2022 |
Chair of Digital Cultures, TU Dresden, Germany |
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2016–2022 |
Associate Professor and Strategic Hire, Department of Sociology and Anthropology and Milieux Institute, Concordia University, Canada Director Speculative Life Research Cluster, Milieux Institute, Founding Board Member, Milieux Institute, https://milieux.concordia.ca/ |
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2007–2015 |
Assistant Professor, Department of History/Media Studies, New School for Social Research, USA |
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2006–2007 |
Post-Doctoral Fellowship, Franklin Humanities Institute, Duke University, USA |
Education:
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2006 |
Ph.D. History of Science, Harvard University, USA |
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1997 |
MPH., Columbia University, Mailmen School of Public Health, USA |
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1994 |
B.A. Dartmouth College, USA |
Awards and honors:
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2020–2022 |
Member of World Economic Forum, Frontier Risks Working Group |
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2019–2021 |
Advisory Board Operational Images Research Group, funded by Czech Science Foundation |
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2019–2023 |
Advisory Board and Associated Researcher, Matters of Activity, German Excellence Research Cluster in Design and Materials Science, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany |
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2019–2020 |
Advisor, United Nations Department of Political Affairs, Artificial Intelligence in Security and Humanitarian Aid Working Group |
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2016–present |
Director Speculative Life Research Cluster, Milieux Institute, Concordia |
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2016–present |
Executive Board, Milieux Institute, Concordia |
Prof. S. Travis Waller held his university-wide inaugural lecture "How We Move into the Future: The Complex Models Needed to Understand Emerging Transport" on June 16, 2022. Watch the recording.
Academic Career
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since 2022 |
Chair of Transport Modeling and Simulation |
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since 2022 |
Professor |
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since 2022 |
Honorary Professor |
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2020–2022 |
Professor and Head of School |
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2015–2019 |
Professor and Advisian Chair of Transport Innovation |
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2011–2015 |
Professor and Evans & Peck Chair of Transport Innovation |
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2011–2012 |
Adjunct Professor |
Education
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2000 |
Ph.D. Industrial Engineering & Management Sciences |
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1999 |
M.Sc. Industrial Engineering & Management Sciences |
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1997 |
B.Sc. Electrical Engineering |
Honors and Rewards
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2021 |
Fellow of the Institution of Engineers Australia |
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2019 |
Pyke Johnson Award (Transportation Research Board; Div. of U.S. National Academy) |
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2016 |
C.C. Mei Distinguished Lecture at MIT |
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2012 |
Hojjat Adeli Award for Innovation in Computing |
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2009 |
Fred Burggraf Award by the U.S. Transportation Research Board |
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2008–2011 |
Phil M. Ferguson Teaching Fellowship in Civil Engineering (UT) |
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2006–2008 |
Fellow of Clyde E. Lee Endowed Professorship in Transportation Engineering (UT) |
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2006 2004 |
Annual New Faculty Award sponsored by the Council of University Transportation Centers and the American Road and Transportation Builders Association U.S. National Sciences Foundation Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award |
The University-Wide Inaugural Lecture “Make Do and Mend: How to Repair the Spinal Cord” held by Prof. Catherina G. Becker took place on May 19, 2022. You can view the recording here.
Vita:
Academic career:
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since July 2021 |
Chair of Neural Development and Regeneration, Center for Regenerative Therapies, TU Dresden and Alexander-von-Humboldt Professor |
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since 2013 |
Professor of Neural Development and Regeneration, Centre for Discovery Brain Sciences, The University of Edinburgh |
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2009–2013 |
Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of California, Santa Barbara |
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2005–2009 |
Senior Lecturer (Assistant Professor with Tenure), Centre for Neuroregeneration, The University of Edinburgh |
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1999–2004 |
Group Leader, ZMNH, University of Hamburg |
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1996–1998 |
Postdoc, University of California Irvine |
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1994–1996 |
Postdoc, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, ETH Zürich |
Education:
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2006 |
Habilitation/Venia legendi Neurobiology, University of Hamburg |
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1993 |
Ph.D. Neurobiology, University of Bremen |
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1989 |
Diplom (MSci) Biology, University of Bremen |
Honors and awards:
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2021 |
Alexander-von-Humboldt Professorship |
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2016 |
Suffrage in Science Award, MRC |
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2016 |
Eurolife Prize Lecture |
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2014 |
Elected Fellow of the Royal Society for Biology |
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2004 |
Chica and Heinz Schaller Stiftung Fellowship |
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2000–02 |
DFG Habilitation Fellowship |
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1997–98 |
DFG Research Fellowship |
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1994–95 1993 |
EMBO Long Term Fellowship Ph.D. with honors “summa cum laude” |
The University-Wide Inaugural Lecture “Sculpting Life: How Physics Shapes Organisms” was held by Prof. Otger Campàs on April 21, 2022. You can view the recording here.
Academic Career:
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since July 2021 |
Chair of Tissue Dynamics at the Physics of Life Cluster of Excellence, TU Dresden |
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since 2019 |
Associate Professor (with tenure), Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of California, Santa Barbara |
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2012–2019 |
Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of California, Santa Barbara |
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2010–2011 |
Research Associate, Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, Harvard University |
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2006–2010 |
Postdoctoral fellow, Harvard University |
Education:
| 2006 |
Ph.D. Biological Physics, Curie Institute (France) & University of Barcelona (Spain) |
| 2004 | M.Sc. Theoretical Physics, University of Barcelona (Spain) |
| 2002 | B.Sc. Physics, University of Barcelona (Spain) |
Honors and awards:
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2019 |
Elizabeth D. Hay New Investigator Award, Society for Developmental Biology |
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2019 |
Future of Biophysics’ Symposium speaker, Biophysical Society |
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2017 |
Frontiers of Engineering alumni, National Academy of Engineering |
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2017 |
NSF CAREER Award, National Science Foundation |
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2015 |
HFSP Young Investigator Award, Human Frontier Science Program |
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2014 |
Hellman Family Faculty Fellow, Hellman Fellows Program |
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2012 |
Mellichamp Endowed Chair in Systems Biology, University of California, Santa Barbara |
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2009 |
NIH Ruth L. Kirschstein Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, National Institutes of Health |
The University-Wide Inaugural Lecture “Quantum Materials Light Up!” was held by Prof. Alexey Chernikov January 20, 2022. You can view the recording here.
Academic Career:
| 2021 |
University Professor (W3) |
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| 2016–2021 |
Emmy-Noether Research Group Leader, Institute of Applied and Experimental Physics |
| 2013–2016 |
Alexander von Humboldt Postdoctoral Research Associate |
Education:
| 2008–2012 |
Ph.D. in Physics |
| 2003–2012 |
Diplom in Physics |
Awards and honors:
| 2020 | ERC Consolidator Grant |
| 2018 | Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Prize of the German Research Foundation (DFG) |
| 2016 | Emmy-Noether Research Group Grant of the DFG |
| 2013 | Feodor-Lynen Fellowship Grant of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation |
| 2012 | Summa Cum Laude – Ph.D. thesis |
| 2008 | Summa Cum Laude – Diplom thesis |
The University-wide inaugural lecture
Newly appointed professors who are renowned for their outstanding research work and international reputation are choosing to move to TU Dresden. The areas of research pursued by our new members are interdisciplinary in nature.
Internationally visible, newly appointed professors working in strategically relevant research areas make a decisive contribution to the development of our university. Therefore, TU Dresden welcomes enthusiastic individuals who increase the attractiveness of Dresden as a science hub and whose numerous activities connect TUD and DRESDEN-concept partners across the city.
University-wide inaugural lectures are hosted in consultation with the appointing faculties and associated institutions.