Project overview

With the funding of the Carl Zeiss Foundation, open rooms and workshops are being set up at the TU Ilmenau - so-called FabLabs. This is where people interested in setting up a business can produce and test their prototypes.

Prof. Dr. Andreas Walter, Professor of Biomedical Imaging & Biophotonics, is researching the implementation of super-resolution cryo-fluorescence microscopy and its combination with scanning electron microscopy.

The Prisma fund enables Prof. Dr. Katrin Giller, Professor of Molecular Nutritional Sciences at the University of Hohenheim, to carry out preliminary work for a human study on the health effects of red meat.

Prof. Dr. Christina Zielinski has been appointed Endowed Professor of Infection Immunology at the University of Jena with effect from the summer semester of 2021.

INTACT is researching a miniaturized transport system with intelligent ultrasound- and photonics-based sensor technology that for the first time realizes continuous transport and real-time analysis of intestinal contents discharged via a stoma in newborn and premature infants.

Prof. Dr. Christian Rabeling will become Professor of Integrative Taxonomy of Insects at the University of Hohenheim on 1 July 2022. He previously conducted research at Arizona State University, USA.

Whether and how are degradable materials possible? To clarify this question, research is being conducted into intelligent materials with embedded microphases that promote colonisation by microorganisms in water bodies and thus trigger their complete degradation.

Novel technical materials are supposed to react to changing environmental conditions with a response previously programmed into the material itself. Like biological materials, they can thus adapt to changing environmental conditions.

A research training group is investigating how conclusions are drawn in machine learning, taking into account the uncertainties involved.

Prof. Dr. Heide Biollaz, professor of sustainable energy technology and plant engineering at Offenburg University of Applied Sciences, is researching the feasibility of isothermal membrane distillation (IMD) for drinking water production.