emergenCITY Welcomes Two New Scientists
Mahshid Khazaeiathar and Mohsen Dehghani Darmian strengthen Program Area of Cyber-Physical Systems
Jun
18, 2025
Advertising Pillar 4.0 in Use for the First Time During Darmstadt Siren Testing
Column informed the people of Darmstadt on Riegerplatz during the city siren test
Jun
12, 2025
New scientist Kai Schulze
Kai Schulze works on new ideas in local climate policy making within the City and...
Jun
12, 2025
Female Student Travel Award 2025 Presented
emergenCITY prizes go to Helena Sax and Noreen Mehler
Jun
11, 2025
Experts Discuss Digital Resilience at the Digital Leaders Roundtable in Brussels
At the invitation of the Hessian Minister for Digitalization and Innovation, emergenCITY coordinator Matthias Hollick...
Jun
11, 2025
Submit Papers for ICRS 2026 Now
The call for submissions for the International Conference on Resilient Systems 2026 is open -...
Jun
6, 2025
emergenCITY Alumnus Jasin Machkour Receives Award for Best Dissertation
The Friends of TU Darmstadt honored the engineer for his outstanding achievements in his doctoral...
Jun
5, 2025
Collaboration Award 2024
emergenCITY presents internal award for outstanding publications
Jun
4, 2025
Prize for Sustainability and Interdisciplinarity goes to the eHUB Living Lab
The Association “Vereinigung von Freunden der Technischen Universität zu Darmstadt” honors the achievements of emergenCITY...
May
28, 2025
Interdisciplinary Exchange in Focus at emergenCITY Week 2025
For three days, researchers presented their findings in lectures and poster sessions. Together with the...
May
28, 2025
Trailer for the serious game “Krisopolis” released
Crisis prevention game for smartphones and tablets is being jointly developed by scientists and students....
May
22, 2025
A Trip to Japan for ACM CHI 2025
At the end of April 2025, I had the opportunity to travel to Yokohama, Japan,...
May
19, 2025
Blog
Max Mühlhäuser promotes exchange with Tongji University in Shanghai
Distinguished Emeritus presented emergenCITY and 4D.City at the renowned College of Architecture and Urban Planning...
May
19, 2025
Distinguished Lecture with emergenCITY Advisor Klara Nahrstedt
Before this year’s emergenCITY week, Klara Nahrstedt, member of the scientific advisory board of the...
May
14, 2025
Events
Eight Contributions Presented at ACM CHI Conference
emergenCITY scientists presented work on resilient communication infrastructures, responsible AI systems, and the future of...
May
12, 2025
Christian Reuter Appointed Deputy Coordinator
Professor of Science and Technology for Peace and Security follows on Max Mühlhäuser.
May
12, 2025
Science Meets Practice
emergenCITY and KRITIS bring PhD students and companies into conversation
May
9, 2025
Events
Mira Mezini Receives Dahl-Nygaard Senior Prize
The award, presented by the Association Internationale pour les Technologies Objets (AITO), is one of...
May
8, 2025
Pioneer of the German Computer Games Industry as a Guest
Dirk Ringe from award-winning developer studio Envision Entertainment will speak about “Start-ups in the gaming...
May
6, 2025
Events
Blackout in Spain and Portugal
emergenCITY-PI Florian Steinke explains how cities can prepare for such crises.
Apr
29, 2025
Ruzena Bajcsy Lecture with Katja Mombaur
Lecture on humanoid robots and exoskeletons and presentation of the Female Student Travel Award 2025...
Apr
29, 2025
Events
Stefan Pickl Supports emergenCITY as Associated PI
The Professor of Operations Research at the University of the Bundeswehr Munich brings with him...
Apr
28, 2025
Julian Zobel Re-Elected as WiMi Representative
The emergenCITY scientific staff have re-elected Julian Zobel as their representative on the Board of...
Apr
17, 2025
Resilient Strategies for Urban Neighborhoods
In the current issue of the specialist magazine “Notfallvorsorge”, emergenCITY researchers Joachim Schulze and Michèle...
Apr
15, 2025
emergenCITY Attending the Darmstadt Transformation Days
Michèle Knodt, Joachim Schulze and Frank Hessel presented the “Digital Heinerblock” mission at the Schader...
Apr
15, 2025
CHI Conference 2025: Three emergenCITY Papers Honored
A total of eight papers by emergenCITY researchers were accepted to the leading conference on...
Apr
14, 2025
Shaping the Future of Wireless Communications
emergenCITY Researchers Vahid Jamali und Ladan Khaloopour Lead Workshop on Resilient 6G Networks at IEEE...
Apr
8, 2025
Resilient Crisis Communication: Advertising Pillar 4.0 Presented in Darmstadt
Digital, energy self-sufficient extension for existing advertising pillars informs and warns citizens of dangers and...
Apr
3, 2025
Center for digital resilience in disasters planned with the participation of emergenCITY
Ministers Faeser and Sinemus sign declaration of intent
Mar
24, 2025
Hesse-wide warning day: animation film about “Digital Heinerblock” presented
The video clearly shows how advertising pillar 4.0 and sensor boxes can help in disasters....
Mar
13, 2025
emergenCITY Welcomes Christoph Löser to the Team
The engineer conducts research on signal processing and machine learning and wants to further develop...
Mar
13, 2025
Smart Homes as Saviors in Times of Need
emergenCITY researchers investigated whether automatic responses from a smart home are perceived as annoying or...
Mar
11, 2025
Distinguished Lecture with Mathy Vanhoef
The emergenCITY Distinguished Lecture Series presents a new lecture by Mathy Vanhoef, professor in the...
Mar
6, 2025
Events
Research on Data Platforms Presented to Hessian Municipalities
At the invitation of the Hessian Ministry of Digital Affairs, researcher Tobias Gebhard (German Aerospace...
Mar
6, 2025
Recognizing Ambient Noise and Constructing Virtual Buildings
emergenCITY researchers discussed their latest research at the internal DemoFair
Feb
27, 2025
Events
Trip to FOSDEM in Brussels
The three emergenCITY lab engineers gathered inspiration at one of the largest meetings for open-source...
Feb
27, 2025
Blog
Finding the Needle in the Haystack
emergenCITY scientist develops T-Rex selector, an efficient framework that enables fast variable selection in large,...
Feb
24, 2025
International Day of Women and Girls in Science 2025
Under the motto “Many women, one mission: LOEWE top research from Hesse” ProLOEWE launched a...
Feb
12, 2025
Research for Civil Protection presented
emergenCITY scientists featured a vulnerability study and smart home warning systems at the BBK conference....
Feb
12, 2025
Robin Müller Has Joined the emergenCITY Team as a Scientist
The engineer will strengthen the program area of Cyper-Physical Systems in the LOEWE center emergenCITY....
Feb
11, 2025
Female Student Travel Award 2025
Are you a student passionate about innovation, technology, and building connections? This is your chance...
Feb
6, 2025
Events
Meet & Greet - Science Meets Practice
LOEWE Center emergenCITY and Research Training Group KRITIS at TU Darmstadt invite PhD students and...
Feb
6, 2025
Events
Distinguished Lecture with Ira Helsloot
emergenCITY is warmly inviting to the upcoming Distinguished Lecture with Ira Helsloot, professor of the...
Feb
3, 2025
Events
Digital Twins for More Resilient Critical Infrastructures
DLR Institute for the Protection of Terrestrial Infrastructures developed modeling framework
Jan
27, 2025
Mira Mezini Honored as ACM Fellow
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) recognizes emergenCITY scientist’s achievements in programming languages and cybersecurity
Jan
23, 2025
Distinguished Lecture with Henrik Lund
emergenCITY likes to promote the talk with Henrik Lund, one of the top scientists in...
Jan
20, 2025
Events
emergenCITY Welcomes Three New Scientists
Scientists Mengguang Li, Marcian Seeger and Timon Dörnfeld strengthen Program Areas Communication, Information and City...
Jan
9, 2025
Lecture Series: Maritime Infrastructures, Power Grids and Crisis Communication
Lecture series on secure critical infrastructures offers further exciting expert lectures in January and February...
Jan
8, 2025
Visualizing Data-Spaces in Disasters With the Help of XR
Julius von Willich successfully defended his doctoral thesis
Jan
6, 2025
New Design for the emergenCITY Policy Papers
They are the flagship publications of emergenCITY’s interdisciplinary research work: The emergenCITY Policy Papers negotiate...
Dec
19, 2024
SFC Energy AG Becomes New Partner for Advertising Pillar 4.0
Fuel cell manufacturer from Brunnthal near Munich provides sustainable solution for energy self-sufficient operation of...
Dec
12, 2024
Benefiting From a Wealth of Experience: emergenCITY Appoints Distinguished Emeriti
Long-standing members of the Directorate Max Mühlhäuser and Ralf Steinmetz will continue to support the...
Dec
9, 2024
State of Hesse to Continue Funding emergenCITY Until the End of 2026
The LOEWE boards approved the continued funding of around nine million euros.
Dec
3, 2024
Computer Security Day: How We Can Protect Ourselves From Disinformation and Cyberattacks
For 36 years, Computer Security Day on November 30 has been drawing attention to IT...
Nov
29, 2024
Hessian University Award for emergenCITY PIs and a Colleague
Interdisciplinary course “Shaping the Energy Transition” honored for excellence in teaching
Nov
28, 2024
Resilience of Drinking Water Supply
Workshop by Michaela Leštáková at the annual conference of the German Association of Women Engineers...
Nov
27, 2024
Company of emergenCITY Alumni Honored with Hessian Founder Award
trackIT Systems offers digital technologies to monitor wildlife in real time.
Nov
25, 2024
When the Smartphone Warns of Air Pollution
Exchange of Tunisian medical and computer science researchers and students on the “DAAD AirFit” project...
Nov
22, 2024
Public Lecture Series on Resilience and Sustainability in Digital Cities
On Tuesday, November 26, 6:05 p.m., Matthias Hollick and Frank Hessel will talk about desire...
Nov
19, 2024
Events
Best Paper Award for Smartphone App PairSonic
User-friendly app transmits contact information securely and quickly using sound waves and ad-hoc WiFi
Nov
14, 2024
Distinguished Lecture with Ivica Rimac
emergenCITY is inviting to the upcoming Distinguished Lecture with Ivica Rimac, Senior Researcher and Distinguished...
Nov
8, 2024
Events
Distinguished Lecture with Prof. Steven Gabriel
Close to the end of the year, emergenCITY is happy to announce another Distinguished Lecture...
Nov
7, 2024
Events
Battery-free Open-Source Platform for the Internet of Things Presented at SenSys Conference
emergenCITY PI Marco Zimmerling and his former research assistant Kai Geissdoerfer presented a user-friendly, commercially...
Nov
6, 2024
Crisis Resilience, Start-up Foundation and Slide Aesthetics
The emergenCITY Barcamp from 28.10. to 1.11. provided insights into current research projects, a successful...
Nov
5, 2024
From Research to Application
emergenCITY presents demonstrators on YouTube
Nov
4, 2024
Robots Find Their Way Through Crowds
Associate emergenCITY PI Roderich Groß presents study in cooperation with the University of Sheffield
Oct
31, 2024
Networking at the Grace Hopper Celebration
As part of the Female Student Travel Awards (FSTA), we, Annika Gabrian, Isabel Schwalm and...
Oct
30, 2024
Blog
emergenCITY Presents new Video Series #emergenCITYinsights on Social Media
Getting to the heart of your own research in just a few seconds is no...
Oct
30, 2024
BBK congress: Three Contributions from emergenCITY Accepted
From February 5 to 7, 2025, the Federal Office of Civil Protection and Disaster Assistance...
Oct
28, 2024
Resilience for Terrestrial and Extraterrestrial Digital Cities
Oskar von Stryk presented emergenCITY at the “Hessen in Space” conference of the State Chancellery...
Oct
25, 2024
Florian Müller Joins emergenCITY as Associated PI
Computer Science professor Florian Müller joined the LOEWE center emergenCITY as an associated Principal Investigator...
Oct
23, 2024
emergenCITY Presents Itself at the Digital Summit in Frankfurt am Main
From October 21 to 22, the LOEWE Center emergenCITY is exhibiting resilient digital solutions that...
Oct
21, 2024
emergenCITY Contribution at the Theme Week “Water Between Extremes” of the Volkswagen Foundation
From October 9 to 11, the Herrenhausen Palace in Hanover opened its doors for the...
Oct
16, 2024
International Day for Disaster Risk Reduction: Protecting Cities from Floods, Heavy Rainfall and Drought
With the International Day for Disaster Risk Reduction on October 13, the United Nations reminds...
Oct
10, 2024
Lecture Series on Secure Critical Infrastructures starts for the 11th Time
How can hospitals, energy and communication networks be better protected against attacks and failures? The...
Oct
8, 2024
Events
Christian Reuter Joins Directorate
Christian Reuter joined emergenCITY’s Board of Directors on October 1. The computer science professor at...
Oct
8, 2024
Strengthening Digital Resilience
Faeser, Sinemus and Gremmels visit LOEWE center emergenCITY at TU Darmstadt
Oct
7, 2024
Exchange and Information: emergenCITY Networked at InnoDay 2024
How does a power-operated information display on an advertising pillar work even in the event...
Sep
30, 2024
Events
Research in Urban Districts: Matthias Hollick Presented “Digital Heinerblock” to Mobility Office
The Lichtenbergblock in Darmstadt’s district Martinsviertel is to become more livable. To this end, the...
Sep
26, 2024
Digital Self-Organization in Crises: Steffen Haesler Successfully Defended his Doctoral Thesis
How do people help themselves in disasters? Which technologies can support them? Computer scientist Steffen...
Sep
20, 2024
emergenCITY Exhibits at the Startup & Innovation Day 2024
emergenCITY will present itself at this year’s INNODAY24, the Start-up and Innovation Day of TU...
Sep
17, 2024
Events
Travel to the ICRS Conference 2024 in Singapore
From August 28th to 30th, 2024, I had the privilege of attending the International Conference...
Sep
16, 2024
Blog
Jasin Machkour Defended Doctoral Thesis with Summa Cum Laude
Among other things, Jasin Machkour’s research is helping to improve the Scout robot’s ability to...
Sep
16, 2024
Travel to the ICLR 2024 Conference in Vienna
My trip to the International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) from May, 7 to 11,...
Sep
13, 2024
Blog
Nationwide Warning Day: How Population Could be Informed in the Event of a Power Outage
September 12 is “Bundesweiter Warntag”, a nationwide warning day. emergenCITY has looked into the question...
Sep
11, 2024
DARE 2024: TU Darmstadt Hosts Second ACM Europe Summer School on Distributed Environments
From Monday, September 9 to Friday, September 13, 32 Master’s and PhD students from Europe...
Sep
9, 2024
Digital Summit 2024: emergenCITY among the Exhibitors
From October 21 to 22, the German Federal Government is hosting the Digital Summit in...
Aug
30, 2024
Iryna Gurevych Receives Prestigious Milner Arward
emergenCITY Principal Investigator Iryna Gurevych has been honored with the prestigious “Milner Award and Lecture”...
Aug
29, 2024
New Communications and Public Relations Officer
Since August, Angela Zimmerling has been supporting the emergenCITY administration as the new Communications and...
Aug
27, 2024
International Conference on Resilient Systems: emergenCITY on the Organizing Committee
From August 28 to 30, more than 150 scientists will come together for the International...
Aug
26, 2024
Darmstadt Marketing and the Fire Department Support Advertising Pillar 4.0
The advertising pillar 4.0, an energy self-sufficient warning pillar, is to be tested in Darmstadt...
Aug
23, 2024
Syrine Adala Wins Best Paper at the EURAM Conference
At this year’s European Academy of Management Conference (EURAM) in Barth - one of the...
Jul
10, 2024
Female Student Travel Award 2024 Presented
Ten beaming winners gathered for the photo at the end: Greys Frankyeyeva, Carina Schulte, Iris...
Jul
4, 2024
Events
Presentation of the emergenCITY Collaboration Award 2023
Promoting and rewarding interdisciplinary collaboration of young scientists: This is what the emergenCITY Collaboration Award...
Jul
3, 2024
Summer School 2024 on the Internet of BioNano Things in Hohwacht
The specialist group “Communication and Distributed Systems” (KuVS) of the German Informatics Society hosted a...
Jun
27, 2024
Blog
Cooperation during a Crisis and Resilience in Digitalized Agriculture
emergenCITY publishes two new Policy Papers
Jun
27, 2024
The Minister Explores Krisopolis
Timon Gremmels was not the only one impressed by emergenCITY’s research at the Open eHUB...
Jun
26, 2024
Events
emergenCITY Keynote of Prof. Tsakiris at the SLSIP Workshop
On May 14th, Prof. Manolis Tsakiris gave an emergenCITY Keynote at the 5th Statistical Learning...
Jun
24, 2024
Events
Talk of Francesca Meneghello
Date: Tuesday, 25.06.2024, 3:45pm Speaker: Prof. Francesca Meneghello, University of Padova Title: Adversary Attack to...
Jun
19, 2024
Events
Distinguished Lecture with Prof. Francesco Gringoli
For the third Distinguished Lecture this Summer, emergenCITY and MAKI could win Professor Francesco Gringoli...
Jun
18, 2024
Events
emergenCITY at the Digitaltag
emergenCITY will be presenting local and hands-on resilience research on Friday, 7 June between 3...
Jun
5, 2024
Events
Distinguished Lecture with Prof. Gustavo de Veciana
emergenCITY and MAKI invite you to the Distinguished Lecture with Professor Gustavo de Veciana from...
May
28, 2024
Events
Open eHUB Day: Minister of Science and Research, Arts and Culture Timon Gremmels Visits
As one part of this year’s emergenCITY week, the eHUB on the Lichtwiese campus is...
May
21, 2024
Events
emergenCITY Researchers Participate at the Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction
Researchers from PEASEC and emergenCITY took part in the Disaster Risk Reduction Conference of the...
May
14, 2024
Second Associated emergenCITY-PI Hans-Joachim Linke
emergenCITY is thrilled to welcome Prof. Dr.-Ing. Hans-Joachim Linke as a further associated PI (Principal...
May
10, 2024
Media Response to Serious Game Krisopolis
How can the population be better sensitized to the topic of crisis prevention? Scientists from...
May
8, 2024
This was the emergenCITY GradDay
Last Friday was the first emergenCITY GradDay, where our PhD students and postdocs had the...
May
2, 2024
Events
Distinguished Lecture with Prof. Amr El Abbadi
For the first Distinguished Lecture in the summer semester 2024 we are looking forward to...
May
1, 2024
Events
Travel to the AAAI 2024 Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Vancouver
My trip to the AAAI 2024 conference in Vancouver, Canada, was a great experience and...
Apr
29, 2024
Blog
Ruzena Bajcsy Lectures 2024
In 2024, the Ruzena Bajcsy Lectures on Communication and Resilience will be a twin pack....
Apr
25, 2024
Events
Paper Awards for Iryna Gurevych
At this year’s conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL)...
Apr
24, 2024
Visit to Peking University
I had the privilege of visiting Peking University in China as a guest of Prof....
Apr
19, 2024
Blog
Female Student Travel Award 2024
Are you a female student in computer science, electrical engineering, IT, or artificial intelligence? Apply...
Apr
15, 2024
Events
Roderich Groß Joins emergenCITY as New Associated PI
Since January 2024, Prof. Dr. Roderich Groß holds the professorship for Resilient Cyber-Physical Systems at...
Apr
10, 2024
Exciting Workshops and Exchange with emergenCITY Alumni at emergenCITY GradDAY
The emergenCITY Graduate School is hosting the first emergenCITY GradDAY on Friday, April 26, 2024,...
Apr
10, 2024
Events
Member of the State Parliament Torsten Leveringhaus as a Guest
On April 2nd, Torsten Leveringhaus, member of the Hessian state parliament and digital policy spokesman...
Apr
8, 2024
Carolin Bock is the new Equal Opportunities and Family Representative at emergenCITY
emergenCITY has a new Equal Opportunities and Family representative: Prof. Carolin Bock follows Michaela Leštáková...
Apr
5, 2024
Staying Operational in a Crisis
LOEWE-Center emergenCITY presents innovative solutions
Mar
26, 2024
Events
In Dialogue for Urban Innovation – Startup Workshop at emergenCITY
As part of the Open Lab Day, emergenCITY hosted the workshop “emergenCITY Meets Startups: A...
Mar
25, 2024
Events
WWTF Grant for emergenCITY Alumni Andrea Ortiz
Dr. Andrea Ortiz worked for several years at the Communications Engineering Lab with the deputy...
Mar
15, 2024
A Glimpse into the Batteryless Future of the Internet of Things
How can the Internet of Things operate without batteries? emergenCITY Professor Marco Zimmerling and his...
Mar
7, 2024
Interdependencies of Electricity and Communication Networks
emergenCITY-PI Florian Steinke co-edits VDE impulse paper
Feb
27, 2024
International Conference in Sendai, Japan
From February 15 to February 17, 2024, I had the privilege of attending the International...
Feb
23, 2024
Blog
New Research in the Field of Entrepreneurship: The Ambivalence of Empathy
Is empathy uniformly a good thing for entrepreneurs? The emergenCITY publication in the renowned Journal...
Feb
5, 2024
Third Open Lab Day “Resilience Meets Innovation” at emergenCITY
emergenCITY is bursting of new digital ideas - and as in previous years, the 2024...
Feb
2, 2024
Events
New emergenCITY PIs in Kassel and Marburg
Oliver Hohlfeld and Thorsten Papenbrock join the emergenCITY team for next phase
Jan
23, 2024
Distinguished Lecture with Prof. Olga Saukh
emergenCITY and SFB MAKI cordially invite you to the Distinguished Lecture with Professor Olga Saukh...
Jan
12, 2024
Events
Distinguished Lecture with Prof. Falko Dressler
We start the new year again with exciting Distinguished Lectures. On 09.02.2024 at 11:40 we...
Jan
8, 2024
Events
Distinguished Lecture with Prof. Phoebe Chen
We invite you to the Distinguished Lecture with Professor Phoebe Chen from La Trobe University...
Jan
8, 2024
Events
Workshop in Costa Rica
Thanks to the support of emergenCity I received a short-term financial grant to participate and...
Dec
22, 2023
Blog
Save the Date: emergenCITY Week 2024
The emergenCITY Week will take place from June 10-14, 2024 in Darmstadt. During the week...
Dec
21, 2023
Events
Save the Date: emergenCITY Open Lab Day 2024
The next emergenCITY Open Lab Day will be held on March 14, 2024 in the...
Dec
21, 2023
Events
International Company Representatives Impressed by the AI, Robotics and Startup Ecosystem at TU Darmstadt
45 representatives of European companies visited TU Darmstadt and hessian.AI on December 12 and were...
Dec
19, 2023
Athene-Sonderpreis für Gute Lehre 2023 for emergenCITY PIs
TU Darmstadt honors outstanding best-practice models of teaching with the Athene Awards for Good Teaching....
Dec
12, 2023
International Conference on Resilient Systems 2024 – Call for Abstracts
From 28-30 August 2024, researchers from all over the world will gather at the CREATE...
Dec
8, 2023
Events
Women* Networking at emergenCITY
Last Friday, the LOEWE Center emergenCITY and the MAKI Collaborative Research Centre hosted the Women*...
Dec
7, 2023
Events
Travel to the SSRR 2023 Conference in Fukushima
Our trip to the SSRR 2023 conference in Fukushima, Japan, was an unforgettable experience as...
Dec
3, 2023
Blog
Member of the Bundestag Larem Visits emergenCITY’s eHUB
Member of the Bundestag Andreas Larem (SPD) visited emergenCITY’s resilient Smart Home eHUB and took...
Nov
16, 2023
Short research Stay at Karlstad University, Sweden
I spent three months at Karlstad University, Sweden, from August 5th to November 3rd, 2023....
Nov
10, 2023
Blog
Conference for Women in Engineering in Los Angeles
We are thrilled to share that we had an amazing experience attending SWE23, the World’s...
Nov
3, 2023
Blog
Communication in the Event of a Crisis
Digital Advertising Pillars will provide Information for the Population
Oct
31, 2023
emergenCITY Presents Sensor Box to the Public
Research turns into practice: emergenCITY is not only scientifically accompanying the transformation of Darmstadt’s Lichtenbergviertel...
Oct
30, 2023
Events
Ruzena Bajcsy Lecture with Eleni Chatzi with Networking Event for Women
Now we are catching up with the Ruzena Bajcsy Lecture with Eleni Chatzi: On Friday,...
Oct
28, 2023
Events
9th Trifels Summer School – Focus on Critical Infrastructures
This year’s Trifels Summer School was organized under the auspices of the TU Darmstadt, in...
Oct
28, 2023
Events
Lecture Series Secure Critical Infrastructures in WS 2023/2024
In the winter semester 2023/2024, the lecture series “Secure Critical Infrastructures” will be offered for...
Oct
23, 2023
Events
Mission Heinerblock is Ready for Take-off
The sixth mission, “Heinerblock” now extends emergenCITY’s research with a second living lab in the...
Oct
18, 2023
emergenCITY Moderates Panel on Resilience at Scientific Flagship Conference “Ubicomp”
The flagship scientific conference in the research field of Ubiquitous Computing, “Ubicomp”, took place in...
Oct
17, 2023
Events
Success of G-Forum Conference at TU Darmstadt
From September 27th to 29th – more than 250 researchers and practitioners gathered at this...
Oct
13, 2023
Events
Travel to Edinburgh
Greetings from sunny and rainy Scotland Edinburgh provided a captivating setting for my research. The...
Oct
13, 2023
Blog
Kateryna Zarembo is Honored with Emma Goldman Snowball Award
Her thanks also goes to emergenCITY and thus to TUDa.
Oct
6, 2023
Invitation to the 8th Trifels Talk
Panel discussion on the topic of digitization of infrastructures and its challenges for security
Sep
28, 2023
Events
Travel to Helsinki
I received a travel grant to attend the 31st European Signal Processing Conference 2023 (EUSICPO)...
Sep
15, 2023
Blog
emergenCITY at European Mobility Week and Castle Opening in Darmstadt
On Saturday, September 16, the LOEWE Center emergenCITY will be present at two events in...
Sep
12, 2023
Events
Resilience through Urban Data Platforms
Best practice dossier on the situation in Germany published
Aug
23, 2023
Journey to China and Japan
I had the privilege of visiting China as part of a collaborative effort with Prof....
Aug
17, 2023
Blog
Virtual Tour of the eHUB
The Hessian Ministry of Science and Art (HMWK) has modelled a virtual interactive image of...
Aug
9, 2023
World’s Best Autonomous Rescuers
TU Darmstadt’s rescue robotics team Hector won awards for Best in Class Autonomy, Technology Challenge,...
Aug
7, 2023
Visit to Malaysia
During my recent visit, I had the pleasure of collaborating with esteemed faculty members at...
Aug
4, 2023
Blog
Fruitful Exchange at Startup Day
The first “Startup Day” recently took place at emergenCITY. The exchange event brought together young...
Aug
3, 2023
Events
Guest Lecture on Heat Waves and Electricity Infrastructure in Cities of the Global South and North
emergenCITY guest researcher Avikal Somvanshi will speak on 19 July at 1 p.m. at TU...
Jul
13, 2023
Events
Learning from the Disaster – Two Years after the Flood of the Ahr Valley
The next few days will mark the second anniversary of the heavy flood event in...
Jul
12, 2023
Travel to Hong Kong
During my research visit at The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), I...
Jul
7, 2023
Blog
Book Publication “Endangerment of Urban Infrastructure by Floods”
We congratulate emergenCITY WiMi Nadja Thiessen on the publication of her book “Gefährdung städtischer Infrastruktur...
Jul
5, 2023
Robust Networks for Cyber Agricultural Systems
Distinguished Lecture with Prof. Nils Aschenbruck
Jul
3, 2023
Events
emergenCITY Collaboration Award 2022
Promoting and rewarding collaboration in research, even among young scientists: This is what the emergenCITY...
Jun
30, 2023
These are the Winners of the Female Student Travel Award 2023
Last Friday, the Female Student Travel Award 2023 was presented to female students with exceptional...
Jun
27, 2023
Events
Darmstadt Rescue Robots at the International Top
The rescue robotics team Hector of TU Darmstadt took first place in the radiation mapping...
Jun
26, 2023
Learning at the Wireless Edge
Distinguished Lecture with Prof. H. Vincent Poor
Jun
23, 2023
Events
Research for Disaster Relief
Former Solar Decathlon house reopened as research laboratory eHUB at TU Darmstadt
Jun
5, 2023
Events
Second emergenCITY Professorship Appointed
In April 2023, Professor Marco Zimmerling joined the team of PIs at emergenCITY in the...
Jun
2, 2023
Trifels Summer School on Critical Infrastructures 2023
Invitation to the Summer School on Critical Infrastructures from 25 to 29.09.2023 in Annweiler am...
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
Funding for Energy Robotics
Associated start-up founded with the collaboration of TU professor and emergenCITY PI Oskar von Stryk...
May
10, 2023
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
Female Student Travel Award 2023
Are you a female student in computer science, electrical engineering or information technology? Apply by...
Apr
18, 2023
Events
Research Visit in London
I was allowed to visit the Imperial College in London for seven weeks. This is...
Apr
16, 2023
Blog
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
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
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
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
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
Blog
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
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
First emergenCITY Student Award
The two Bachelor students Bianca Beer and Benjamin Schmidt of the Mechanical Engineering – Sustainable...
Nov
16, 2022
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
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
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
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
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
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
emergenCITY Collaboration Award 2021
The winners of the second emergenCITY Collaboration Award, which was awarded during this year’s emergenCITY...
Jul
27, 2022
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Digital Control Center for Crises
emergenCITY cross-sectional mission researches a Smart Digital Situation Control Center Our cities are becoming more...
Apr
27, 2022
Organizing Digital Data on Cities
emergenCITY cross-sectional mission works on the design of a knowledge base Information can become the...
Apr
11, 2022
Resilience for Digital Agriculture
Resilience is an important factor also in agriculture. New technologies for automation and data collection...
Mar
28, 2022
The Missing Piece of the Puzzle
In the June 2021 flood disaster, the devastation caused a long lasting blackout in the...
Mar
23, 2022
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
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
Tracking Down Information from Biobanks
ERC Starting Grant for research project of emergenCITY scientist Michael Muma emergenCITY scientist Dr. Michael...
Feb
15, 2022
emergenCITY Scout at Work
For Team Hector, the two ground robots DRZ Telemax and emergenCITY Scout won first rank...
Feb
4, 2022
Events
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
Flood Disaster 2021 Survey
The LOEWE Center emergenCITY and our scientists were deeply affected by the floods in Germany...
Jan
21, 2022
New LOEWE Funding for Research on Slums
Since the beginning of January, a new research project of the TU Darmstadt is funded...
Jan
19, 2022
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
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
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
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
Bringing the Next Generation to Campus
The project NeXT Generation on Campus at TU Darmstadt playfully introduces pupils to the degree...
Oct
6, 2021
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
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
emergenCITY Participates in BMBF Research Project Open6GHub
TU Darmstadt is part of the 6G research consortium Open6GHub funded by the German Federal...
Aug
19, 2021
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
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
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
emergenCITY Week 2021 – Looking Back
During the first emergenCITY Week, emergenCITY focused on its primary goal: interdisciplinary research on resilience...
Jul
12, 2021
Events
emergenCITY Collaboration Awards 2020 Presented
During the first emergenCITY week, emergenCITY presented the first emergenCITY Collaboration Award. An internal committee...
Jul
12, 2021
Events
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
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
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
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
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
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...
Apr
1, 2021
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
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
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
Events
Who Can “Find My” Devices?
It is supposed to make it easier to find Apple devices - but normally not...
Mar
4, 2021
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
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
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
Research Training Group KRITIS Extended
emergenCITY cooperates with the Graduiertenkolleg KRITIS since the beginning, because it fits to the research...
Nov
11, 2020
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
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
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
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
