Drei Wissenschaftler*innen im Labor © Felix Noak

Research at Technische Universität Berlin

Five reasons to choose Technische Universität Berlin: In the video, researchers discuss the opportunities the University offers them and what they value most here.

[Translate to English:] Fünf Gründe für die Technische Universität Berlin: Im Video verraten Forschende, welche Möglichkeiten ihnen die Universität bietet und was sie an ihr schätzen. © Philipp Arnoldt

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Current Research Porjects

Ilja Radusch © Philipp Plum / Fraunhofer FOKUS

“We Underestimated the Complexity of the Matter”

Dr.-Ing. Ilja Radusch, head of the Daimler Center for Automotive IT Innovations (DCAITI) at TU Berlin, reveals sobering facts and findings about autonomous driving, the new direction research is taking, and just how economical this new technology can be.

© PRAMOMOLECULAR GmbH

Silencing Diseases

TU Berlin start-up PRAMOMOLECULAR received the Berlin Brandenburg Innovation Award 2023 for its work on developing a new technology for well-tolerated, targeted drugs to fight cancer and heart disease.

© Christian Kielmann

Textile Recycling 4.0

A second life for clothes: Researchers are developing new processes to enable automated sorting of used garments and textile waste

Außenbordeinsatz auf dem Mond © NASA/JSC

Moondust for Solar Power

Researchers at TU Berlin are developing an innovative production process that uses lunar regolith to create solar cells for a future lunar base

© Robert Nilsson/Pixabay

Christmas Goose 2033

Professor Dr. Cornelia Rauh heads the Department of Food Biotechnology and Food Process Engineering at TU Berlin In an interview, she tells us which Christmas classics can now also be prepared as vegan dishes, what a Christmas goose made from cultured meat might look like, and why the ban on cultured meat recently passed in Italy provides an important signal.

Introducing TU Berlin’s New Professors Appointed in 2023

Researching information processing in the human brain, investigating the next generation of “digital twins” in mechanical systems, exploring the development of “plant-physical” methods in the 18th century, analyzing the effectiveness of environmental testing in practice, exploring the long-term storage of carbon in soils, and developing haptic rehabilitation robots for stroke patients. These are just some of the topics being explored by the more than 20 new professors appointed at TU Berlin in 2023. You can learn more about each professor at our website.

A closer look at TU Berlin’s labs

The Fine Art of Packaging

What links the probiotic microorganisms in yogurt and the flavors used in chewing gum? The answer is that they all require a certain type of “packaging”, known as a micro-capsule, which protects the ingredients and releases them precisely where their effects are required. Professor Dr. Stephan Drusch and his team focus on the “packaging materials” required.

[Translate to English:] Tageslichtmesskopf © Felix Noak

Measuring the Sky

Perched commandingly on the roof of the engineering building at TU Berlin is a unique piece of equipment in the form of a six-meter by four-meter aluminum construction. It houses a sky scanner, pyrheliometer, and a daylight measurement head. Professor Dr.-Ing. Stephan Volker and his team designed this “open air lab” to research the exact characteristics of daylight.

[Translate to English:] Flüssigchromatographie-Massenspektrometer © Dominic Simon

Who Interacts With Whom and Why?

“They are the most diverse and variable building blocks of life. Nothing happens without proteins – they are key molecules in all living cells,” says Professor Dr. Juri Rappsilber. He and his team aim to understand how proteins fold in their natural environment, what they interact with, and how they arrange themselves into larger structures.

Open-air lab or UFO landing site?

One of the most remarkable labs TU Berlin researchers can use is the LakeLab at Lake Stechlin. Just getting there is an experience in itself: The directions provided by Professor Dr. Mark Gessner, head of the Chair of Applied Aquatic Ecology at Technische Universität Berlin and the Department of Experimental Limnology at the Leibniz-Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries (IGB) go something like this: “Whatever you do, don’t turn on your GPS, otherwise you’ll never find us.”