Research for Disaster Relief
Former Solar Decathlon house reopened as research laboratory eHUB at TU Darmstadt
Jun 5, 2023
Events
CfA Trifels Summer School 2023
25-29.09.2023, Annweiler am Trifels, Germany
Jun 1, 2023
Events
Team Hector Wins Rescue Robotics Competition at the German Rescue Robotics Center
The rescue robotics team Hector from Darmstadt University of Technology has once again won this...
May 12, 2023
Awards
Funding for Energy Robotics
Associated start-up founded with the collaboration of TU professor and emergenCITY PI Oskar von Stryk...
May 10, 2023
News
Passwordless yet Secure – Best Paper Award at Flagship Conference
Study on smartphone authentication with emergenCITY participation has won a Best Paper Award at the...
May 8, 2023
Awards
Research
Ruzena Bajcsy Lecture 2023 with Eleni Chatzi and Presentation of the Female Student Travel Award
Apr 24, 2023
Events
Awards
Female Student Travel Award 2023
Are you a female student in computer science, electrical engineering or information technology? Apply by...
Apr 18, 2023
Awards
Distinguished Lecture with Torsten Hoefler
For the Distinguished Lecture in April, MAKI and emergenCITY could win Professor Torsten Hoefler from...
Apr 14, 2023
Events
Science Meets Regions with emergenCITY
The practice day of the EU-funded project enables guests from politics and administration to gain...
Apr 6, 2023
Events
Lively Internal Exchange on emergenCITY Demonstrators
At the second emergenCITY Demo Fair in March, scientists had the opportunity to exchange information...
Apr 5, 2023
Events
Research
Lessons Learned from the Flood of 2021
The heavy rainfall event of summer 2021 in the Ahr Valley, with more than 180...
Mar 22, 2023
Research
emergenCITY Participates in EU “Science Meets Regions” Pilot Project
EU promotes science-policy dialogue at regional and local levels – emergenCITY participates in the project...
Feb 28, 2023
Events
Distinguished Lecture with David F. Bacon
The next Distinguished Lecture organized by MAKI and emergenCITY with an exciting topic is coming...
Feb 27, 2023
Events
Sharing electricity in a crisis situation? With a friend in need, definitely!
What about the willingness to share privately generated electricity during a prolonged power outage? Researchers...
Feb 21, 2023
Research
Publications
Distinguished Lecture with Christoph Dietzel
Good news: The Distinguished Lecture with Christoph Dietzel, Global Head of Products & Research of...
Feb 2, 2023
Events
Where are the Female Professors?
Panel discussion on the compatibility of “Academia & Family – Men need to act!”
Feb 1, 2023
Events
emergenCITY Thesis wins Datenlotsen-Preis 2022
Bachelor thesis by Ben-Jasper Kettlitz supervised at emergenCITY has received “Datenlotsen Prize 2022”
Jan 23, 2023
Awards
Side Channel Attacks on Mobile and Wireless Systems
Distinguished Lecture with Professor Guevara Noubir In collaboration with SFB MAKI, emergenCITY is organizing a...
Jan 11, 2023
Events
An Ordinary Crisis – Fiction or a Glimpse into the Future?
Jana trudged across the bone-dry street in her rubber boots and rang the bell. It...
Dec 8, 2022
Research
Warning, but what’s next? – Research for the Crisis
The Warning Day on December 08 attracts public attention throughout Germany. After the disaster of...
Dec 7, 2022
Research
ACN
eHUB
This was emergenCITY at “Stunde der Wahrheit”
At the event “Stunde der Wahrheit” Hesse’s Minister of Science Angela Dorn invited to Wetzlar...
Dec 1, 2022
Events
emergenCITY Demonstrators Successfully Presented
In October, the first emergenCITY Demonstrator Fair took place, an in-house fair during which the...
Nov 21, 2022
Events
Research
First emergenCITY Student Award
The two Bachelor students Bianca Beer and Benjamin Schmidt of the Mechanical Engineering – Sustainable...
Nov 16, 2022
Awards
Events
Guest at “Die Stunde der Wahrheit“
On Tuesday, November 22, 2022 at 7 pm, Die Stunde der Wahrheit, an event series...
Nov 14, 2022
Events
Bastian Bloessl wins Ulrich Rohde Award
emergenCITY researcher Bastian Bloessl was awarded the Ulrich L. Rohde Award of 2022 during this...
Oct 20, 2022
Awards
The “Brain” of the Digital City explained
Mission Knowledge Base launches explanatory video What can digital data with information about cities help...
Oct 19, 2022
News
KB
Lecture Series “Secure Critical Infrastructures”
How secure are our critical infrastructures? This is the question asked by the digital lecture...
Oct 14, 2022
Events
Future-Proof Infrastructures
Distinguished Lecture with Professor Timothy Moss and Award for Outstanding Student Project Together with SFB...
Oct 4, 2022
Events
emergenCITY at the ISNGI Conference in Rotterdam
After a summer of unprecedented heatwaves, energy crisis and a dramatic drought that made the...
Sep 21, 2022
Events
KB
ReSON
emergenCITY Opens its Doors at the Demonstrator Fair
emergenCITY opens its doors: Together with our scientists we would like to give all partners...
Sep 19, 2022
Events
Conference Mensch und Computer with great response and almost 600 participants
The Mensch und Computer (MuC) 2022 conference was held at Darmstadt University of Technology from...
Sep 15, 2022
Events
Flying Communication Infrastructures
The emergenCITY cross-sectional mission Aerial Crisis Networks (ACN) is conducting research on communication systems based...
Sep 7, 2022
ACN
Research
10 Scientific Recommendations on Reconstruction and Sustainability of Flood-Affected Regions
The flood disaster in North Rhine-Westphalia and Rhineland-Palatinate last year is one of the most...
Aug 23, 2022
News
Research
Look Back on the emergenCITY Week 2022
Participatory workshops, distinguished lectures and inspiring discussions: During the emergenCITY Week 2022, the exchange between...
Aug 11, 2022
News
Events
Second emergenCITY Collaboration Award
The winners of the second emergenCITY Collaboration Award, which was awarded during this year’s emergenCITY...
Jul 27, 2022
Awards
Publications
emergenCITY at the exhibition “Wissensspeicher” in Kassel
emergenCITY is involved with the Knowledge Base in the exhibition “Wissensspeicher - 100 Ideen für...
Jul 20, 2022
Events
KB
Ruzena Bajcsy Lecture and Female Student Travel Award Ceremony
Together with MAKI, CROSSING and the Research Training Group Privacy & Trust, we cordially invite...
Jul 8, 2022
Events
Distinguished Lecture with Prof. Hermann de Meer
The research centers MAKI and emergenCITY are inviting to the Distinguished Lecture with Professor Hermann...
Jul 1, 2022
Events
New Principal Investigators at emergenCITY
emergenCITY gets new reinforcement. Professors Britta Schmalz and Jan Gugenheimer have started their work at...
Jun 28, 2022
News
Joint Conference with the Schader Foundation: Hybrid Threats for Critical Infrastructures
Extreme weather or cyber-attack – what difference does it make for prevention and emergency response...
Jun 14, 2022
Events
Workshop “Urban Resilience” during emergenCITY Week 2022
How can the city of tomorrow contribute to the well-being and safety of the people...
Jun 1, 2022
Events
Publication in the “International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction” on blackout as a crisis scenario
The lights don’t turn on, the shower is cold, the coffee maker won’t brew a...
May 30, 2022
Publications
Research
First emergenCITY funded professor takes up his work
Since April, Professor Vahid Jamali has been the new PI at emergenCITY for the first...
May 13, 2022
News
Research
Report of the “Ethics of the Digital City” Conference
The report of the conference “Ethics of the Digital City”, jointly organized by emergenCITY, KRITIS...
May 5, 2022
Publications
Apply now for the Female Student Travel Award 2022!
Attention female students of computer science, electrical engineering and information technology! Together with the Collaborative...
May 2, 2022
News
Renovation work at the eHUB is progressing
A lot has happened at the eHUB. The conversion and renovation of the former Solar...
Apr 29, 2022
News
eHUB
Digital Control Center for Crises
emergenCITY cross-sectional mission researches a Smart Digital Situation Control Center Our cities are becoming more...
Apr 27, 2022
Research
Organizing digital data on cities
emergenCITY cross-sectional mission works on the design of a knowledge base Information can become the...
Apr 11, 2022
KB
Research
Resilience for Digital Agriculture
Resilience is an important factor also in agriculture. New technologies for automation and data collection...
Mar 28, 2022
Research
The Missing Piece of the Puzzle
In the June 2021 flood disaster, the devastation caused a long lasting blackout in the...
Mar 23, 2022
Research
Publications
Safe and crisis-proof communication and organisation
emergenCITY cross-sectional mission ReSON develops resilient neighborhood app Neighborhoods that organise themselves by using digital...
Mar 22, 2022
ReSON
Research
emergenCITY at the Future Dialogue in Kassel
Is technology the answer to all our questions or the cause of new problems? The...
Mar 11, 2022
Events
Dr. Michael Muma elected Chairman of a Technical Area Committee of EURASIP
emergenCITY scientist Dr. Michael Muma has been elected Chair of the Technical Area Committee (TAC)...
Feb 21, 2022
News
Tracking down information from biobanks
ERC Starting Grant for research project of emergenCITY scientist Michael Muma emergenCITY scientist Dr. Michael...
Feb 15, 2022
News
emergenCITY Scout at work
For Team Hector, the two ground robots DRZ Telemax and emergenCITY Scout won first rank...
Feb 4, 2022
Awards
Database Systems and Information Management – Distinguished Lecture with Prof. Volker Markl
In the next Distinguished Lecture on Monday, February 07, Professor Volker Markl from TU Berlin...
Jan 31, 2022
Events
emergenCITY and Floods – Current Research Projects
The devastating floods in mid-July 2021 painfully demonstrated the vulnerability of our cities. The extent...
Jan 31, 2022
Research
Flood disaster 2021 survey
The LOEWE Center emergenCITY and our scientists were deeply affected by the floods in Germany...
Jan 21, 2022
Research
New LOEWE funding for research on slums
Since the beginning of January, a new research project of the TU Darmstadt is funded...
Jan 18, 2022
News
The Right to the Smart City – Distinguished Lecture with Prof. Rob Kitchin
Professor Rob Kitchin of Maynooth University will give a Distinguished Lecture on the “idea and...
Jan 17, 2022
Events
Distinguished Lecture with Prof. Maurice Herlihy
On December 9 at 4:15pm we are co-hosting a Distinguished Lecture with SFB MAKI in...
Dec 2, 2021
Events
SLSIP Workshop in Rüdesheim
After a delay due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the third Statistical Learning for Signal and...
Nov 30, 2021
Events
Online Conference “Ethics of the Digital City“
We invite you to the public online conference “Ethics of the Digital City - Challenge...
Nov 29, 2021
Events
New professors at emergenCITY
emergenCITY is growing! Three new professors were recruited for emergenCITY this fall: Prof. Rolf Findeisen,...
Nov 25, 2021
News
Mission eHUB starts research on power crisis
The cross-cutting mission eHUB from the different program areas of emergenCITY starts to convert the...
Nov 1, 2021
eHUB
Research
Darmstadt’s rescue robots on course for success
The rescue robotics team Hector recently won two competitions: the European robotics competition EnRicH and...
Oct 28, 2021
Awards
Lecture series “Secure Critical Infrastructures” during the winter term
How secure are our critical infrastructures? This is the question asked by the digital lecture...
Oct 20, 2021
Events
KuVS Science Award for emergenCITY Master Thesis
For his master thesis on “Secure Device Pairing Using Short-Range Acoustic Communication” emergenCITY researcher Florentin...
Oct 8, 2021
Awards
Bringing the next generation to campus
The project NeXT Generation on Campus at TU Darmstadt playfully introduces pupils to the degree...
Oct 6, 2021
News
When devices learn foreign languages to communicate universally
Best Paper Award for emergenCITY and MAKI scientists All smart home devices controlled from one...
Sep 22, 2021
Awards
Research
Our three lemon experiment winners of the ProLOEWE science rally
There were six weeks to solve 21 ProLOEWE science puzzles - six great weeks in...
Sep 22, 2021
News
emergenCITY participates in BMBF Research Project Open6GHub
TU Darmstadt is part of the 6G research consortium Open6GHub funded by the German Federal...
Aug 18, 2021
News
Tracking lost keys or stolen bikes made easy
ATHENE and emergenCITY researchers provide award-winning open-source framework for locating personal Bluetooth devices While it...
Aug 11, 2021
Awards
Research
Start of the ProLOEWE Science Rally with emergenCITY Experiment
Great news: You can continue to puzzle! The participation period of the ProLOEWE Science Rally...
Aug 1, 2021
Events
ProLOEWE science rally starts on 2 August with emergenCITY’s contribution
Summer boredom has no chance during these summer holidays: On 2 August, the ProLOEWE science...
Jul 29, 2021
Events
Female Student Travel Award presented
Congratulations to the winners of the Female Student Travel Award 2021! The awards were given...
Jul 19, 2021
Awards
Team Hector successful at RoboCup
The rescue robot team Hector from TU Darmstadt has won the Best-in-Class Awards in two...
Jul 14, 2021
Awards
emergenCITY week 2021
During the first emergenCITY Week, emergenCITY focused on its primary goal: interdisciplinary research on resilience...
Jul 12, 2021
Events
First emergenCITY Collaboration Awards presented
During the first emergenCITY week, emergenCITY presented the first emergenCITY Collaboration Award. An internal committee...
Jul 12, 2021
Awards
Ruzena Bajcsy Lecture and Female Student Travel Award Ceremony 2021
Together with MAKI and the Research Training Group Privacy & Trust, we cordially invite you...
Jul 7, 2021
Events
Second emergenCITY Policy Paper – Crisis-proof through dark times
Our critical infrastructures are becoming increasingly complex and thus more crisis-prone. Even if hardly anyone...
Jun 17, 2021
Publications
Research
Workshop “Software and Resilience” at emergenCITY Week 2021
In the crisis and disaster management of digital cities, a fail-safe IT infrastructure and resilient...
Jun 11, 2021
Events
Joint emergenCITY – MAKI DLS Impulse Lectures during emergenCITY Week 2021
As part of the emergenCITY Week 2021, emergenCITY and the Collaborative Research Centre MAKI of...
Jun 10, 2021
Events
emergenCITY Week 2021
From June 14 - 17, 2021, the first emergenCITY week will take place. We would...
Jun 7, 2021
Events
Apply now for the Female Student Travel Award 2021!
Attention female students of computer science, electrical engineering and information technology! Together with the Collaborative...
May 19, 2021
News
Apple AirDrop shares more than files
Researchers discover significant privacy leak in Apple’s file-sharing service AirDrop Pictures, presentations, or videos –...
Apr 21, 2021
Research
Publications
Shaping the computers of the future in the new DFG focus programme “Disruptive Main Memory Technologies”
The new focus programme “Disruptive Main Memory Technologies” of the German Research Foundation (DFG) will...
Apr 15, 2021
News
How prepared are major German cities for a blackout? – emergenCITY in BBK magazine
The snow chaos in Münsterland in November 2005 caused a sudden power failure for 250,000...
Apr 9, 2021
Research
Publications
New focus programme in the field of resilient networks
Following the motto “Mastering faults, overload, attacks and the unknown”, the new focus programme “Resilience...
Apr 8, 2021
News
Study Award of the SEW-Eurodrive Foundation for emergenCITY Master Thesis
Christian Schroth’s master thesis titled “Robust Bayesian Cluster Analysis” has been awarded the 2020 Study...
Mar 31, 2021
Awards
Dr. Michael Muma receives the EURASIP Early Career Award 2021
Congratulations to emergenCITY scientist Dr.-Ing. Michael Muma, who receives the 2021 Early Career Award from...
Mar 15, 2021
Awards
Congratulations to Iryna Gurevych on the first LOEWE-professorship
emergenCITY-PI Prof. Dr. Iryna Gurevych receives the first LOEWE-professorship of the Hessian research funding programme...
Mar 10, 2021
News
Prof. Oskar von Stryk among the World’s Top 25 Influential Computer Scientists
According to the ranking of Academic Influence, emergenCITY Program Area Lead Prof. Dr. Oskar von...
Mar 9, 2021
Awards
Who Can “Find My” Devices?
It is supposed to make it easier to find Apple devices - but normally not...
Mar 4, 2021
Research
Publications
Prof. Annette Rudolph-Cleff at the BDA’s 25th Berliner (Fern-) Gespräch
Information and communication technologies are more important to us than ever, as the Corona pandemic...
Dec 22, 2020
News
Paper accepted at top tier conference SIGMETRICS’21
Congratulations to our emergenCITY scientists Arash Asadi, Allyson Sim and Matthias Hollick. The paper “Stay...
Dec 2, 2020
News
Research
IANUS Award 2020 for emergenCITY researcher Marc-André Kaufhold
IANUS stands for scientific and technical peace and conflict research at the Technische Universität Darmstadt....
Nov 25, 2020
Awards
Research Training Group KRITIS extended
emergenCITY cooperates with the Graduiertenkolleg KRITIS since the beginning, because it fits to the research...
Nov 11, 2020
News
Congratulations to Iryna Gurevych as future President of the ACL
emergenCITY-PI Prof. Iryna Gurevych takes over the office of Vice-President-elect as of January 1, 2021...
Nov 11, 2020
News
Policy Paper published with recommendations for action
How can our society function reliably even in crises? This is the key question of...
Oct 22, 2020
Publications
emergenCITY Paper wins Best Student Paper Award at IEEE Radar Conference 2020
Among the 143 papers submitted to the competition from across the world, the best five...
Oct 16, 2020
Awards
emergenCITY at the Darmstädter Energiekonferenz
emergenCITY at the 12th Darmstädter Energiekonferenz: Resilience – Smart security of our energy supply. The...
Feb 19, 2020
Events
Talk on human disasters of natural origin by Prof. Christian Oberli
“There are no natural disasters. There are only human disasters of natural origin” – their...
Dec 4, 2019
Events
First guest researcher at emergenCITY: Prof. Michael Zink (UMass Amherst)
We are happy to announce our first visitor: Prof. Michael Zink, co-director of CASA at...
Jul 22, 2019
Events
emergenCITY – we have started!
In January 2020 the research center “emergenCITY - The Resilient Digital City” under the direction...
Jul 4, 2019
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