News 2024
(17.12.2024)Electromobility: Forecast Model for Tire Wear in Delivery Traffic

Researchers at KIT and Fraunhofer ITWM investigate factors influencing tire wear in electrified vehicles

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(13.12.2024)Finding Better Photovoltaic Materials Faster with AI

How machine learning speeds up the search for new semiconducting molecules for perovskite solar cells

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(12.12.2024)Novel Materials with Almost Perfect Water Repellency

Potential application for self-cleaning surfaces in cars or buildings

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(11.12.2024)New Fuel Technologies for Fusion Power Plants

For an environmentally friendly energy future: KIT researchers and partners develop first stellarator fuel cycle

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(10.12.2024)Julius Wess Award 2024 for Glennys Farrar

New York University physicist to be honored for significant contributions to particle and astroparticle physics

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(06.12.2024)Karlsruhe School of Education Founded

Joint institution of Karlsruhe Institute of Technology and Karlsruhe University of Education to improve teacher training

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(05.12.2024)Inaugural Ceremony for KIT’s New President, Jan S. Hesthaven

Hesthaven: We must face challenges such as demographic change, digital transformation, and sustainable development, with courage and strong partners

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(03.12.2024)Robotics: KIT Researcher Receives ERC Consolidator Grant

Professor Gerhard Neumann has been granted around 2.4 million euros for his research on autonomously learning robots

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(27.11.2024)KIT Joins the Center for Quantum Science as a New Partner

For ten years, the world-renowned center has stood for interdisciplinary top research in quantum sciences and quantum technology

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(26.11.2024)Hydrogen Engine for Off-road Usage

Partners from industry and science develop hydrogen-based propulsion concepts for construction and agricultural applications

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(26.11.2024)KIT Climate Researcher Receives Award

Klaus Butterbach-Bahl receives the Sustainability Award of the Nobel Sustainability Trust for his research on the environmental impact of global agriculture

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(25.11.2024)High Potential for Flexible Public Transportation with Fully Automated Minibuses

KIT researchers and partners study autonomous buses as mobility option under real-life conditions – Transport Minister Hermann extends research project

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(22.11.2024)KIT Receives Another Humboldt Professorship for an International Top Researcher

Christopher Barner-Kowollik is an expert in macromolecular photochemistry – and has now been awarded the most valuable German research prize

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(21.11.2024)Algorithms Improve the Analysis of Medical Images

Algorithms based on deep learning can detect tumors – KIT researchers among the best teams in the international AutoPET competition

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(20.11.2024)Woodland Strawberry Genes Protect Against Cold

Research team identifies genes of wild relatives for cold tolerant domesticated strawberries

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(19.11.2024)SpecPlate: Better Standard for Laboratory Analysis

Novel laboratory equipment for pharmaceutical and biotech research – Increased efficiency, speed, and precision in analysis and significantly reduced material consumption

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(18.11.2024)International Excellence Award Goes to Climate Researcher Chris Funk

For his work on early warning and forecasting methods, the top US researcher receives the KIT award, which is endowed with up to 50,000 euros

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(14.11.2024)KIT Will Celebrate Its 200th Anniversary in 2025

Highlights from research, academic education and transfer – KIT invites the public to a varied program throughout the year

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(12.11.2024)Space-Time Crystal: Important Puzzle Piece for New Optical Materials

KIT researchers design customized materials for optical information processing

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(11.11.2024)Higher Education Funding: Strengthening Universities, Securing the Future

KIT’s executive board and student members of the KIT senate support the university rectorate conference of Baden-Württemberg in its demand for appropriate funding

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(07.11.2024)Water Treatment: Nano Tubes Catch Steroid Hormones

KIT researchers investigate the removal of micropollutants in electrochemical electrochemical membrane reactor using carbon nanotubess

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(05.11.2024)Alternative Methods for Animal Testing: State Funds Research at KIT

The new “3ROCKIT” center will be part of the Baden-Württemberg 3R network, which works on alternative test methods using different approaches

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(05.11.2024)New Materials for More Efficient Optical Data Transmission

ERC Synergy Grant for ATHENS project – Researchers develop hybrid materials to prepare information technology for growing data volumes

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(04.11.2024)Carl-Zeiss-Stiftung Funds Projects in Physics and Electrobiotechnology

New approaches in radiotherapy and sustainable production of chemicals: projects to receive 900,000 euros each from CSZ wildcard program

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(29.10.2024)Knowledge Week: "Mobility in the Data Frenzy"

The ANYMOS competence cluster offers insight into the world of mobility data collection with a variety of events

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(24.10.2024)Material with Innovative Stretch Properties Developed

KIT researchers produce metamaterial that stretches and compresses differently than conventional materials

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(21.10.2024)Start-up Scene: Funding for the DeepTechHub

Ministry of Science, Research and the Arts funds DeepTechHub initiative led by KIT with up to 1.95 million euros

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(17.10.2024)Making Learning Fun with Innovative Teaching Formats

KIT applying creative teaching approaches in new winter semester; students excited about learning aerodynamics in a glider and bridge-in-a-bag

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(17.10.2024)More than 5,200 First-year Students at KIT

Welcome event at Audimax and online – the number of KIT students totals about 22,000 in the winter semester 2024/2025

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(16.10.2024)Philipp Niemann Set to Head NaWik

Beatrice Lugger handing over management duties to Philipp Niemann, who aims to further enhance the organization’s science communication expertise

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(14.10.2024)No Significant PFAS Emissions from Waste Incineration

A KIT study demonstrates, that fluoropolymers decompose almost completely in municipal waste combustion according to European standards

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(11.10.2024)Making the Energy Transition a Success

Helmholtz study develops integrated scenarios: Social and economic aspects must also be considered for a sustainable transformation

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(10.10.2024)Heinrich Hertz Guest Professorship 2024 for Cordelia Schmid

The computer scientist and artificial intelligence expert will give a public lecture on "seeing machines" on October 22, 2024

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(09.10.2024)World's First Agile Production Facility for Battery Cells Opened

A robotic and modular, agile production system will make it possible to produce customized battery cells in the required quantities in the future

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(26.09.2024)Jan S. Hesthaven to Be New President of KIT

Even closer interlocking of research and academic education and strong national and international partnerships are major goals

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(24.09.2024)New Impulses for Scientific Debates

From October, KIT's renowned ZAK will start as General Studies. Forum Science and Society (FORUM)

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(19.09.2024)Quantum Communication: Efficient Microwave Control of Diamond Qubits

Major breakthrough in the development of powerful diamond-based quantum computers

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(17.09.2024)Renewable fuels: InnoFuels Aims to Accelerate Industrial Production

Platform project networks stakeholders from science, business and politics - creating synergies, tackling challenges together

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(13.09.2024)How a Fjord Created a Global Seismic Signal

Researchers from KIT and around the world are using realistic numerical models to solve mysteries about the Earth's vibrations of unknown origin.

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(11.09.2024)Innovative Wearable: Sustainably Improving Posture

KIT spin-off StraightUp aims to permanently relieve posture-related back pain

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(10.09.2024)Highlights from Research, Teaching and Transfer

KIT Annual Report 2023 with exciting insights from cutting-edge research to knowledge transfer in business and society

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(09.09.2024)Robert Habeck Informs Himself about KIT's Sustainable Technologies

The Federal Minister of Economic Affairs and Climate Action visited the KIT stand at the Thessaloniki International Fair

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(05.09.2024)One week of "Days of Democracy"

Various event formats for interested citizens around Karlsruhe's Kronenplatz from September 15 to 21

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(03.09.2024)NMR-Spectroscopy: Clarifying the "Sense of Rotation" of Molecules Faster

A new method makes it easy to determine the spatial arrangement of atoms – a tool for drug discovery

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(30.08.2024)Conference on the Interaction between Humans and Computers

Conference takes place at KIT for the first time - about 600 experts from science and practice exchange ideas

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(27.08.2024)New Administrative Vice President of KIT Takes Office

Legal Expert and Science Manager Stefan Schwartze Responsible for Finance, Human Resources, and Infrastructure as of September

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(15.08.2024)KIT Chipdesign House to Advance European Production

Founding of the KIT Chipdesign House at KIT – Institution to strengthen top-level research in chip design in Baden-Württemberg

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(14.08.2024)Improved Speech Recognition and Translation

KIT researchers further develop intelligent speech recognition and translation system: automatic text segmentation, summarization and intelligent query possible

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(06.08.2024)Research for More Sustainable Particle Accelerators

Research Facility 2.0 project: The KITTEN testfield at KIT focuses on the efficiency of particle accelerator facilities

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(30.07.2024)Multi-talented Urban Tree: Healthy Trees for a Better Quality of Life

KIT and partners start inventory and monitoring of urban tree populations on the Upper Rhine

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(25.07.2024)Farewell to KIT: Michael Ganß Retires

Partnership between science and administration in the focus of his term of office

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(24.07.2024)Fighting Energy Poverty: Better Access to Affordable Housing

KIT researchers develop innovations for affordable housing through sustainable renovations of old dwellings

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(24.07.2024)KIT and Intel Develop Microchip for Research-oriented Teaching

KIT is the first German university to develop a test chip together with the semiconductor manufacturer Intel

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(23.07.2024)Concept for more Efficient Noble Metal Catalysts

New approach for the production of resource-saving and durable catalysts uses different interactions of noble metals with different carrier materials

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(22.07.2024)New Imaging Technique with 3D-printed Nanolenses

KIT researchers and spin-off have developed key components for a new, ultra-precise and fast X-ray method

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(18.07.2024)Microgrids: Resilient City for Everyone

KIT researchers have developed a model that takes into account the fair design of decentralized energy systems

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(16.07.2024)Millions for the Everyday Product Hydrogen Peroxide

The German Research Foundation (DFG) grants 3.9 million euros to KIT research group that is investigating sustainable production methods for hydrogen peroxide

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(09.07.2024)Data Protection: Secure Systems in Digital School Life

In the DIRECTIONS project, KIT researchers present criteria for educational information systems ensuring compliance to data protection regulations

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(03.07.2024)More Inclusive Ways of Citizen Participation

KIT researchers show how real-world labs with a mix of digital and face-to-face forms of participation can reach more people than before

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(01.07.2024)Mobility: Tram Takes Over Parcel Service

Research project LogIKTram demonstrates concept for parcel delivery by rail – presentation of a converted freight streetcar at the closing event

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(27.06.2024)Preventing Extremism: Conference 'Was heißt hier ‚Nie wieder‘?'

'Never Again! What meaning does it have for KIT?' – Event on the occasion of the renaming of the Scientific Computing Center at KIT

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(27.06.2024)Funding for the Search for Dark Matter and New Physics

KIT has been granted 8.2 million euros for experimental particle physics by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research

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(20.06.2024)With Real-World Labs Into the Future

KIT's Real:lab Festival invites you to experiment in and with the city

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(20.06.2024)Update: No Closure for Motorized Traffic at Campus South

False reports about the implementation of a car-free Campus South continue to circulate

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(18.06.2024)Math Tutoring for Everyone - Daniel Jung to Visit KIT

Live event of the "Startup Date" talk series at Kronenplatz in Karlsruhe on June 27, 2024 with YouTuber Daniel Jung

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(14.06.2024)Soccer: Insight into the Psychology of Crises

A sports psychology study by KIT examines the complex dynamics of crises in professional soccer and shows ways to counteract the dreaded downward spiral

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(13.06.2024)Eyesight from the 3D Printer

KIT researchers and industrial partners develop a process for printing patient-specific corneas – project wins NEULAND innovation competition

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(11.06.2024)Pilot Plant Produces Climate-friendly Cement Clinker

KIT reaches milestone in the development of a greenhouse gas-free circular concrete

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(10.06.2024)Studying at KIT, Where Research and Teaching Are Uniquely Linked

Applications are being accepted for the 2024/25 winter semester; New “KIT –That’s Why” video series for prospective students

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(04.06.2024)Rising Temperatures Affect Groundwater Quality

KIT researchers investigate the effects of climate change on groundwater resources and the resulting consequences

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(29.05.2024)Experience a Digitalized World: Bunte Nacht der Digitalisierung also at KIT

KIT researchers provide insights into their current work on the topic of digitalization at the city festival

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(28.05.2024)KIT at the City Hall: Shaping the Transformation – Energy Research for a Sustainable Future

The KIT Energy Center presents its current research to the public

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(27.05.2024)Campus Day at KIT: Get to Know the Research University on Site

Information day for future students and their families with lectures, experiments and hands-on activities

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(23.05.2024)MatCom-ComMat Research Training Group enters second funding period

The German Research Foundation (DFG) extends joint Research Training Group on high-temperature composites of the partners KIT, TU Darmstadt and DECHEMA

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(22.05.2024)Artificial Intelligence: Algorithms and Chips Developed Together

EDAI project coordinated at KIT aims for energy-efficient and trustworthy AI chips - open-source software facilitates access for small and medium-sized enterprises

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(15.05.2024)For Respect and an Open Society

KIT is a member of the Alliance for Democracy and Human Rights Karlsruhe and is committed to diversity far beyond that

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(15.05.2024)Battery Research with Synchrotron Radiation

New measuring instrument for operando battery research with KIT Light Source

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(13.05.2024)KIT Supercomputer is One of the Most Energy-Efficient in the World

Upgraded Karlsruhe supercomputer ranks in the top 10 of the international Green500 list

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(10.05.2024)New Material for Sustainable Building

KIT researchers develop a transparent metamaterial for energy-saving light and temperature regulation in buildings

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(08.05.2024)AI Recognizes Athletes’ Emotions

KIT researchers have developed an emotion analysis model that can determine affective states with accuracy similar to that of humans

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(29.04.2024)Children and Teenager Fitness: Half-time for MoMo 2.0 Tests

First half of the nationwide survey on sports motor skills of children and young people completed – focus on the fitness of the "coronavirus generation"

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(23.04.2024)Batteries: Modeling Tomorrow's Materials Today

Microstructure simulations reveal strong influence of elastic deformations on charging behavior of layered oxides as cathode in sodium-ion batteries

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(22.04.2024)Sustainable Architecture with Digital Building Technologies

Innovative manufacturing strategies enable the transition to a circular economy in the civil engineering sector – KIT presents project at the Landesgartenschau 2024

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(18.04.2024)Better Understanding of Earthquake Risks

KIT researchers show that the idea of strong single earthquakes at subduction zones could be outdated

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(17.04.2024)Molecular Code Stimulates Pioneer Cells to Build Blood Vessels in the Body

KIT researchers discover cell type that controls the formation and growth of new blood vessels

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(16.04.2024)Energy Storage: 100 Times Better Heat Transfer with Liquid Metal

World's first high-temperature heat storage system using liquid metal technology has potential for defossilization of industry

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(12.04.2024)QS World University Ranking: Outstanding Results for KIT

KIT is among the top 50 universities worldwide in two subject areas – and has been ranked in these areas among the top 3 in Germany

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(11.04.2024)ERC Advanced Grant for Steffen Grohmann from KIT

Key Technology for the Einstein Telescope: European Research Council (ERC) Funds GRAVITHELIUM Project with EUR 3.4 Million

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(10.04.2024)Jan S. Hesthaven Will Assume Presidency of KIT in October

As of October 1, 2024, Professor Jan S. Hesthaven will take over the President’s office from Professor Oliver Kraft

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(10.04.2024)Freedom of Science in the Focus of KIT's Annual Celebration

Annual Celebration presented the theme of the Science Year 2024 and honored successes in research, teaching, innovation and transfer

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(04.04.2024)Resources, Circular Economy, Energy: KIT at Hannover Messe 2024

From smart robots, and data-secure mobility to sustainable batteries: from April, 22 to 26, KIT will present highlights from the technological development in the Future Hub and at Energy Solutions

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(27.03.2023)Battery Material for the Sodium-Ion Revolution

Litona, a spin-off from KIT, produces the cathode material Prussian white for next-generation batteries

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(26.03.2024)Girls' Day 2024: Vocational Training and Studies at KIT

Girls' Day on April 25 for girls from class 5 with lectures and interactive workshops - registration open until April 18

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(13.03.2024)Monika Landgraf to Join the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft

The longtime head of Corporate Communications and press officer of KIT will direct the Science Communications section of Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft

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(12.03.2024)Leopoldina Prize for Young Scientist at KIT

The engineer Jingyuan Xu also receives the Hector Fellow Academy Award and has been selected for the Global Young Academy

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(08.03.2023)On the Death of Horst Hippler

The founding president of KIT and former rector of the University of Karlsruhe died at the age of 77

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(07.03.2024)Public Transport: Efficient Commuting Opportunities

The German Center for Future Mobility launches a site project in Karlsruhe to improve transport links between the city and surrounding areas

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(06.03.2024)Project Week on Sustainable Mobility

Spring Academy Sustainability at KIT with public lecture, forum and panel discussion

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(06.03.2024)A Successful Entry into Studies: Start of the topMINT Orientation Semester

For prospective students of mathematics, informatics, natural sciences and engineering, the new "topMINT" program at KIT starts in the summer semester

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(05.03.2024)New Center for Synthetic Genomics

Carl Zeiss Foundation funds the establishment of a joint facility in Heidelberg, Karlsruhe and Mainz

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(27.02.2024)Accelerating Innovations for Climate Neutrality

KIT coordinates EU project RISEnergy, which aims at cross-technology promotion and networking of all fields of renewable energies

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(20.02.2024)Perovskite Solar Cells: Vacuum Process Can Lead to Market Readiness

Various production approaches in research and industry – comparative study explores paths to mass production

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(19.02.2024)KIT Senate Confirms Election of Jan S. Hesthaven

KIT Senate follows the vote of the Supervisory Board - the election of Dr. Stefan Schwartze as Vice-President Finance, Human Resources, and Infrastructure is also confirmed

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(14.02.2024)Fundamental Equation for Superconducting Quantum Bits Revised

Quantum bits can be described more precisely with the help of newly discovered harmonics as a team of 30 researchers reports in Nature Physics

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(12.02.2024)State Teaching Award Conferred

Architecture professor Moritz Dörstelmann from KIT was honored for the combination of digital fabrication technologies with sustainability in teaching

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(08.02.2024)Membrane Technology: A Deep Look into Tiny Pores

Researchers at KIT investigate adsorption of micropollutants by vertically-aligned carbon nanotubes - Publication in Nature Communications

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(02.02.2024)Clusters of Excellence: One New Proposal, Two Renewal Proposals

Full proposal for a new initiative on quantum technologies – Renewal proposals for the existing Clusters of Excellence on 3D designer materials and battery research

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(01.02.2024)Mobility: Toolchain for Complex Applications

KIT researchers and partners develop automated toolchain that fulfills important safety and real-time requirements for future mobility

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(30.01.2024)Belén Gavela Receives Julius Wess Prize 2023

Physicist from the University of Madrid to be awarded for pioneering scientific contributions in particle physics

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(24.01.2024)Sustainability Innovation Campus Launched

The aim of the fifth innovation campus in Baden-Württemberg is to contribute scientifically to the transformation towards a sustainable way of life

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(23.01.2024)Supervisory Board Elects Jan S. Hesthaven President of KIT

Election remains to be confirmed by the KIT Senate – The Supervisory Board also elected Dr. Stefan Schwartze Vice President Finance, Human Resources, and Infrastructure

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(18.01.2024)KIT at the City Hall: Health of the Future

The KIT Center Health Technologies (KITHealthTech) presents its current research to the public

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(12.01.2024)Mobility of the Future: State Government Gathers Information in Karlsruhe

KIT and Karlsruhe University of Applied Sciences present current projects and results from mobility research together with partners

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(11.01.2024)Open Source: System Change in Library Management

KIT Library is the first university library in Germany to use the free library system Koha - enhanced functionality and usability

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(04.01.2024)2023 State Teaching Award for KIT Professor of Architecture

Interdisciplinary course combines digital design and production technologies with prototypical implementation using sustainable materials

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