Published on Tue, 09 Dec 2025 in PRESS RELEASES
Jerónimo Castrillón-Mazo, Chair of Compiler Construction at the Faculty of Computer Science at TUD Dresden University of Technology (TUD), has been awarded one of the European Union's highly endowed ERC Consolidator Grants. His project, COMpilers for ExTreme Heterogeneity (COMETH), which will run for five years and receive EUR 2 million in funding, aims to develop a new generation of tools that will simplify the programming of increasingly complex computer systems for scientists, engineers, and other users.
Read more … 2 million EUR to simplify the programming of computer systems: TUD researcher Jerónimo Castrillón-Mazo receives ERC Consolidator Grant
Published on Tue, 25 Nov 2025 in NEWS
The application for the STIPT Program 2026/2027 (Semiconductor Talent Incubation Program Taiwan) is now officially open. Application deadline is December 12.
This program is a joint initiative of the Federal Ministry for Research, Technology and Space (BMFTR), the Saxon State Ministry for Science, Culture and Tourism (SMWK), the TUD Dresden University of Technology, and the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited (TSMC). It includes a study program as well as practical training at TSMC, a global leader in the semiconductor sector. The STIPT program offers an excellent opportunity for students from Saxony to gain invaluable academic and practical experience in Taiwan's world-leading semiconductor industry. This program is particularly relevant for students in your department, Institute of Theoretical Physics.
Read more … STIPT Program 2026/2027 (Semiconductor Talent Incubation Program Taiwan) - APPLICATION DEADLINE
Published on Thu, 13 Nov 2025 in PRESS RELEASES
Three researchers affiliated with cfaed are among the world's most cited academics in their respective disciplines. This is one of the latest findings of the Highly-Cited Researcher Rankings, analyzed by the Institute for Scientific Information from the American company Clarivate Analytics. Over all, 11 TUD-own researchers and two stating TUD as their second affiliation are among the world's most cited academics in their respective disciplines. Nationally, TUD has reasserted its research prowess and once again positioned itself in the top group of universities in Germany.
Read more … Great Success: Three cfaed researchers are among the most cited worldwide
Published on Thu, 06 Nov 2025 in PRESS RELEASES
Thomas Mikolajick, Professor of Nanoelectronics at Dresden University of Technology (TUD) and Scientific Director of NaMlab gGmbH, has been awarded the James C. McGroddy Prize for New Materials 2026 together with his colleague Sayeef Salahudduin from UC Berkeley. The American Physical Society is honoring his research on materials and components for microelectronics.
The prize is based on work carried out at NaMlab gGmbH. The TUD subsidiary conducts research in close cooperation with the semiconductor and microelectronics industry on new materials for micro- and nanoelectronics and on components based on them.
Read more … For research into ferroelectricity: Prof. Thomas Mikolajick receives award from the American Physical Society
Published on Thu, 02 Oct 2025 in NEWS
Every year, cfaed organizes its Scientific Image Competiton to collect the best visual output from all our labs and research fields. Also in 2025, we received wonderful and stunning images of your daily scientific work – thanks to all who submitted contributions!
Now, the cfaed-wide voting was taking place – and now we can finally announce the winners!
Friedrich Dürrenmatt, famous Swiss author and dramatist once said: "In science, there is the unity, in art the diversity of the mystery we call the world."
View all winning pictures and all submissions
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