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Dr. David-Maximilian Storch won the 2022 BASF Dissertation Award - Congratulations!

Published on Fri, 21 Oct 2022 in NEWS

photo of the awarding ceremony of BASF Schwarzheide GmbH Föderpreis - awardee Dr. David-Maximilian Storch — Awarding ceremony of BASF Schwarzheide GmbH Föderpreis: awardee Dr. rer. nat. David-Maximilian Storch; Photo (image detail): Christian Hüller

Once a year, BASF Schwarzheide GmbH selects outstanding scientific works from TU Dresden focusing on sustainability, circular economy or digitalization. One out of three prizes in 2022, endowed with 1,500 Euros, was awarded to David-Maximilian Storch from the Chair of Network Dynamics. His dissertation entitled "Statistical Physics of Urban Mobility" sheds new light on the complex dynamics of modern digital and shared mobility services. The work in particular uncovered how adoption of ride-sharing may be promoted, thus improving more sustainable transport through cleverly using digitization.

Nanoelectronics for Immunotherapies: HZDR Cancer Researcher Receives ERC Consolidator Grant

Published on Wed, 19 Oct 2022 in PRESS RELEASES

portrait photo of physicist dr. Larysa Baraban in the laboratory — Physicist Dr. Larysa Baraban is awarded an ERC Consolidator Grant. ©Copyright: HZDR / A. Wirsig

Congratulations to cfaed Associated Member Dr. Larysa Baraban!

Press release from Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR), 19 Oct 2022

Approximately thirty thousand people die every day from cancer worldwide. What is known as “immunotherapy” is increasingly becoming the scientific focus in the fight against the disease. Together with her team, Dr. Larysa Baraban, physicist at the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR) is researching a chip that should ultimately make it possible to develop customized cancer immunotherapies. Her efforts are funded by the European Research Council (ERC) for five years through an ERC Consolidator Grant totaling nearly two million euros.

Good planning gets the bike rolling

Published on Thu, 06 Oct 2022 in PRESS RELEASES

visualisation of route choice schemes of cyclists in urban areas — The route choice of cyclists is subject to various decision factors. For example, many prefer a separate bike lane (top left) instead of sharing space with dense car traffic (top right). Depending on whether streets with heavy car traffic (thick edges) are equipped with dedicated bike paths (blue) or not (gray), cyclists take the direct route (black arrow, bottom left), take detours to stay on bike paths (bottom center) or ride on small side streets (thin edges) (bottom right). Image author: Christoph Steinacker

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Turning it downside up: Novel, network-dynamic planning approach for urban bike path infrastructure enables demand-driven design of cycling networks by reversing the usual approach. The new concept could improve the bike-friendliness of cities - and thus their sustainability and climate footprint.
In surveys, a large majority of respondents usually agree that cycling can make a significant contribution to reducing greenhouse gases and to sustainable transport, especially in densely populated areas. In contrast, for many countries in reality there is a large gap between desired and actual numbers. In Germany, for example, only 20% of the short-distance of everyday trips in residential environments are covered by bicycle.

Cloud & Heat Dissertationspreis for Andrés Goens!

Published on Wed, 17 Aug 2022 in NEWS

Andrés Goens, a former member of the CC Chair (2014-2021), has been awarded the “Cloud & Heat Dissertationspreis” for his thesis “Improving Model-based Software Synthesis”. Andrés’ thesis encompasses much of his work at the CC Chair, including 25 different co-authored publications during his PhD research time at the chair. As the title suggests, it deals with model-based software synthesis, one of the main areas of research at our chair. The Cloud & Heat prize is awarded to outstanding doctoral dissertation work at TU Dresden.

Fundraising campaign: The Deutschlandstipendium collects for students from Ukraine - please donate!

Published on Wed, 10 Aug 2022 in NEWS

Around 120 young people from Ukraine are currently studying at TU Dresden and many more Ukrainian students have applied for a place to study in Dresden for the coming winter semester. In order to give them a good start, the TUD's Deutschlandstipendium, with its DUAStip Challenge fundraising campaign, aims to provide around 20 scholarships for students affected by the war in Ukraine from October 2022.