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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
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© Christian Reuter

Christian Reuter joins Directorate

Christian Reuter joined emergenCITY’s Board of Directors on October 1. The computer science professor at...

Oct 8, 2024
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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
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© Gerd Keim

Strengthening digital resilience

Faeser, Sinemus and Gremmels visit LOEWE center emergenCITY at TU Darmstadt

Oct 7, 2024
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Exchange and Information: emergenCITY networked at InnoDay 2024

Sep 30, 2024 Events
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© Interaktives Stadtmodell. Foto: Gerd Keim

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
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© Steffen Haesler (Mitte) und das PEASEC-Team. Foto: PEASEC

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
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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
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© Scout-Roboter. Foto: emergenCITY

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
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© Botanischer Garten Singapur. Foto: Canva

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
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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
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© Bernd Dittrich auf Unsplash

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
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© Robert-Piloty Gebäude. Foto: TU Darmstadt/Alex Becker

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
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© Serious Game Krisopolis. Foto: Gerd Keim

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
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Iryna Gurevych receives prestigious Milner Arward

emergenCITY Principal Investigator Iryna Gurevych has been honored with the prestigious “Milner Award and Lecture”...

Aug 29, 2024
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© Inja Pavlić auf Unsplash/Julia Funke

New Communications and Public Relations Officer

Since August, Angela Zimmerling has been supporting the emergenCITY administration as the new Communications and...

Aug 27, 2024
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© CREATE Tower, National Research Foundation, Singapore

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
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© Visualisierung: Joachim Schulze

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
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© ProLOEWE, Fotograf: Dr. Jürgen Schreiter, Darmstadt

Summer issue of ProLOEWE-NEWS with review of Open eHUB Day

Three times a year, the ProLOEWE-NEWS summarises news from the federal state of Hesse’s cutting-edge...

Aug 6, 2024
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© Syrine Adala

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
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© Fleckenstein/CROSSING

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
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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
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Elanor Jongmans-Hochschulz: 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
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Cooperation during a Crisis and Resilience in Digitalized Agriculture

emergenCITY publishes two new Policy Papers

Jun 27, 2024
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© Gerd Keim

The Minister Explores Krisopolis

Timon Gremmels was not the only one impressed by emergenCITY’s research at the Open eHUB...

Jun 26, 2024 Events
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© Manolis Tsakiris

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
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© Gerd Keim

Media Response of the Open eHUB Day

During this year’s emergenCITY week, our eHUB opened its doors on the Lichtwiese campus of...

Jun 20, 2024 Media
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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
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© Francesco Gringoli

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
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© Stockfoto pixabay (Annette)

emergenCITY at the Digitaltag

emergenCITY will be presenting local and hands-on resilience research on Friday, 7 June between 3...

Jun 5, 2024 Events
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© Gustavo de Veciana

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
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© Lea Holaus

Open eHUB Day: Minister of Science and Research, Arts and Culture Timon Gremmels Visits

May 21, 2024 Events
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© PEASEC

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
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© Sascha Mannel / Klaus Mai

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
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© Sascha Mannel

Media Response to Serious Game Krisopolis

How can the population be better sensitized to the topic of crisis prevention? Scientists from...

May 8, 2024
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© Vanessa Winkels

This was the emergenCITY GradDay

Last Friday was the first emergenCITY GradDay, where our PhD students and postdocs had the...

May 2, 2024 Events
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© Amr El Abbadi

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
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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
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© Lea Holaus

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
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Arash Asadi: Visit to Peking University

I had the privilege of visiting Peking University in China as a guest of Prof....

Apr 19, 2024 Blog
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© Eileen Bosselmann

Female Student Travel Award 2024

Are you a female student in computer science, electrical engineering, IT, or artificial intelligence? Apply...

Apr 15, 2024 Events
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Being Prepared for a Crises

TV-Feature on emergenCITY’s research into warning systems in the case of power outages in the...

Apr 12, 2024 Media
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© emergenCITY / Patrick Bal

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
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© Lea Holaus

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
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© TU Darmstadt

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
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© Carolin Bock

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
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© Sascha Mannel

Media Response: Open Lab Day 2024

Take a look behind the scenes and discover current research: that’s what the Open Lab...

Mar 28, 2024 Media
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© Gerd Keim

Staying Operational in a Crisis

LOEWE-Center emergenCITY presents innovative solutions

Mar 26, 2024 Events
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© Lea Holaus

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
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© Communications of the ACM

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

Media Response to Study on Empathy in Entrepreneurship

With their study “Flip the tweet - two-sided coin of entrepreneurial empathy and its ambiguous...

Mar 7, 2024 Media
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© VDE/Florian Steinke

Interdependencies of Electricity and Communication Networks

emergenCITY-PI Florian Steinke co-edits VDE impulse paper

Feb 27, 2024
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© Syrine Adala

Syrine Adala: International Conference in Sendai, Japan

From February 15 to February 17, 2024, I had the privilege of attending the International...

Feb 23, 2024 Blog
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© emergenCITY

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
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© Lea Holaus für emergenCITY

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
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© emergenCITY

New emergenCITY PIs in Kassel and Marburg

Oliver Hohlfeld and Thorsten Papenbrock join the emergenCITY team for next phase

Jan 23, 2024
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© Olga Saukh

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
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© Falko Dressler

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
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© Phoebe Chen

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
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© Gerd Keim

Media coverage of the cooperation agreement with Ströer for the advertising pillar 4.0

Everyone knows them as part of the cityscape: the advertising pillar. Around 25,000 of them...

Jan 4, 2024 Media
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Fabian Scheidt: Workshop in Costa Rica

Thanks to the support of emergenCity I received a short-term financial grant to participate and...

Dec 22, 2023 Blog
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© @emergenCITY

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
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© @emergenCITY

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
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© SPRINT Robotics

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
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© Klaus Mai

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
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© ICRS 2024

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
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© emergenCITY

Women* networking at emergenCITY

Last Friday, the LOEWE Center emergenCITY and the MAKI Collaborative Research Centre hosted the Women*...

Dec 7, 2023 Events
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© Stefan Fabian

Stefan Fabian: 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
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© TU Darmstadt

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
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John Friesen: 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
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FSTA: 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
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© TU Darmstadt/Gerd Keim

Communication in the Event of a Crisis

Digital Advertising Pillars will provide Information for the Population

Oct 31, 2023
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© emergenCITY

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
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© Eleni Chatzi

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
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© Nadja Thiessen

9th Trifels Summer School – Focus on Critical Infrastructures

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
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© Frank Hessel

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
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© Max Mühlhäuser

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
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© emergenCITY

Media response to the launch of the Heinerblock Mission

The emergenCITY Mission Heinerblock, which was launched this year, is researching the transformation of a...

Oct 15, 2023 Media
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© Constanze Schneider, Convincing.media

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
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© Jan-Phillip Muttach

Jan-Phillip Muttach: Travel to Edinburgh

Greetings from sunny and rainy Scotland  Edinburgh provided a captivating setting for my research. The...

Oct 13, 2023 Blog
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© Kateryna Zarembo

Kateryna Zarembo is honored with Emma Goldman Snowball Award

Her thanks also goes to emergenCITY and thus to TUDa.

Oct 6, 2023
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© emergenCITY

Invitation to the 8th Trifels Talk

Panel discussion on the topic of digitization of infrastructures and its challenges for security

Sep 28, 2023 Events
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© Pixabay

Jonas Emrich: Travel to Helsinki

I received a travel grant to attend the 31st European Signal Processing Conference 2023 (EUSICPO)...

Sep 15, 2023 Blog
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© emergenCITY, TU Darmstadt

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
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© ProSieben Galileo

emergenCITY Robot Scout at Galileo

In a TV report on the dismantling of nuclear power plants on the ProSieben science...

Sep 6, 2023 Media
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© Haselhorst Associates Consulting

Resilience through Urban Data Platforms

Best practice dossier on the situation in Germany published

Aug 23, 2023
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© Pixabay

Arash Asadi: Journey to China and Japan

I had the privilege of visiting China as part of a collaborative effort with Prof....

Aug 17, 2023 Blog
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© HMWK

Virtual Tour of the eHUB

The Hessian Ministry of Science and Art (HMWK) has modelled a virtual interactive image of...

Aug 9, 2023
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© Team Hector

World’s Best Autonomous Rescuers

TU Darmstadt’s rescue robotics team Hector won awards for Best in Class Autonomy, Technology Challenge,...

Aug 7, 2023
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© Canva

Allyson Sim: Visit to Malaysia

During my recent visit, I had the pleasure of collaborating with esteemed faculty members at...

Aug 4, 2023 Blog
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© emergenCITY

Fruitful Exchange at Startup Day

The first “Startup Day” recently took place at emergenCITY. The exchange event brought together young...

Aug 3, 2023 Events
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© Avikal Somvanshi

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
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© emergenCITY

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
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© Jasin Machkour

Jasin Machkour: Travel to Hong Kong

During my research visit at The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), I...

Jul 7, 2023 Blog
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© emergenCITY/DeGruyter

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
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© Nils Aschenbruck

Robust Networks for Cyber Agricultural Systems

Distinguished Lecture with Prof. Nils Aschenbruck

Jul 3, 2023 Events
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© emergenCITY

emergenCITY Collaboration Award 2022

Promoting and rewarding collaboration in research, even among young scientists: This is what the emergenCITY...

Jun 30, 2023
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© emergenCITY

These are the winners of the Female Student Travel Award 2023

Jun 27, 2023 Events
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© Team Hector

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
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© Vincent Poor

Learning at the Wireless Edge

Distinguished Lecture with Prof. H. Vincent Poor

Jun 23, 2023 Events

Media coverage of emergenCITY research on the Ahr floods

emergenCITY-PI Michèle Knodt and Eva Platzer conducted a comprehensive analysis in the course of the...

Jun 6, 2023 Media
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© Jens Steingässer

Research for Disaster Relief

Former Solar Decathlon house reopened as research laboratory eHUB at TU Darmstadt

Jun 5, 2023 Events
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© Jens Steingässer

Media Coverage concerning the eHUB opening

The eHUB is the research laboratory of the emergenCITY Mission of the same name and...

Jun 5, 2023 Media
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© emergenCITY

Second emergenCITY Professorship Appointed

In April 2023, Professor Marco Zimmerling joined the team of PIs at emergenCITY in the...

Jun 2, 2023
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© wladimir1804, Adobe Stock

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
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© Team Hector

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
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© Energy Robotics

Funding for Energy Robotics

Associated start-up founded with the collaboration of TU professor and emergenCITY PI Oskar von Stryk...

May 10, 2023
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© CHI 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
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© CROSSING

Female Student Travel Award 2023

Are you a female student in computer science, electrical engineering or information technology? Apply by...

Apr 18, 2023 Events
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© Canva

Christian Schroth: Research visit in London

I was allowed to visit the Imperial College in London for seven weeks. This is...

Apr 16, 2023 Blog
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© Torsten Hoefler

Distinguished Lecture with Torsten Hoefler

For the Distinguished Lecture in April, MAKI and emergenCITY could win Professor Torsten Hoefler from...

Apr 14, 2023 Events
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© Goethe-Universität Frankfurt

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
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© emergenCITY

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
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© emergenCITY

An Advertising Pillar 4.0

Joachim Schulze interviewed in OOH! Magazine

Mar 28, 2023 Media

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
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© ZEVEDI, Collage emergenCITY

State-of-the-Art of Automated Aerial Vehicles

Uwe Klingauf on the podcast “Digitalgespräch”

Mar 9, 2023 Media
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© Uwe Dettmar

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
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© David F. Bacon

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
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© FrauOdilo, Pixabay

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
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© Christoph Dietzel

Distinguished Lecture with Christoph Dietzel

Good news: The Distinguished Lecture with Christoph Dietzel, Global Head of Products & Research of...

Feb 2, 2023 Events
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© LOEWE

Where are the Female Professors?

Panel discussion on the compatibility of “Academia & Family – Men need to act!”

Feb 1, 2023 Events
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© Rüdiger Dunker, TU Darmstadt

emergenCITY Thesis wins Datenlotsen-Preis 2022

Bachelor thesis by Ben-Jasper Kettlitz supervised at emergenCITY has received “Datenlotsen Prize 2022”

Jan 23, 2023
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© PEASEC/ARD

Cybersecurity Research on TV

In the ARD Wissen documentary “Deutschland im Ernstfall - Wie schützen wir unsere Infrastruktur?”, emergenCITY...

Jan 18, 2023 Media
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© Northeastern University

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
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© emergenCITY

Technologies for Crisis Management

From a rescue robot to a self-sufficient house and a digitalized advertising pillar: emergenCITY is...

Dec 27, 2022 Media
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© Lea Holaus

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
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© iStock

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
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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
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emergenCITY Demonstrators Successfully Presented

In October, the first emergenCITY Demonstrator Fair took place, an in-house fair during which the...

Nov 21, 2022 Events
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Gerrit Hornung Guest on Podcast “Hessen schafft Wissen”

IT and information technologies are drivers of innovation in both the social and economic spheres,...

Nov 18, 2022 Media
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First emergenCITY Student Award

The two Bachelor students Bianca Beer and Benjamin Schmidt of the Mechanical Engineering – Sustainable...

Nov 16, 2022 Events
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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
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Risk for and Protection of Underwater Infrastructures

Resilience research in the right place at the right time on a topic that also...

Nov 2, 2022 Media
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Bastian Bloessl wins Ulrich Rohde Award

emergenCITY researcher Bastian Bloessl was awarded the Ulrich L. Rohde Award of 2022 during this...

Oct 20, 2022
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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
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Lecture Series “Secure Critical Infrastructures”

How secure are our critical infrastructures? This is the question asked by the digital lecture...

Oct 14, 2022 Events
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“There is no single solution”

emergenCITY-PI Annette Rudolph-Cleff talks in an interview to Der Spiegel about the consequences of climate...

Oct 5, 2022 Media
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Future-Proof Infrastructures

Distinguished Lecture with Professor Timothy Moss and Award for Outstanding Student Project Together with SFB...

Oct 4, 2022 Events
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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
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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
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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
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Flying Communication Infrastructures

The emergenCITY cross-sectional mission Aerial Crisis Networks (ACN) is conducting research on communication systems based...

Sep 7, 2022
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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
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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
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emergenCITY Collaboration Award 2021

The winners of the second emergenCITY Collaboration Award, which was awarded during this year’s emergenCITY...

Jul 27, 2022
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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
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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
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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
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New Principal Investigators at emergenCITY

emergenCITY gets new reinforcement. Professors Britta Schmalz and Jan Gugenheimer have started their work at...

Jun 28, 2022
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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
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Connected within the Local Neighbourhood - The emergenCITY ReSON App

As one of many examples, the flood in the Ahr valley last year showed that...

May 25, 2022 Media

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

When the Internet Becomes a Battlefield – Interviews with Prof. Christian Reuter on Cyber Warfare

What role does cyber warfare play in military conflicts? And what is the current risk...

Mar 16, 2022 Media

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

SWR interview with Matthias Hollick on resilient communication networks in times of crisis

Recent floods have hit parts of North Rhine-Westphalia and Rhineland-Palatinate. The water masses pose an...

Jul 21, 2021 Media

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

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
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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

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 Media

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

Radiant future? – Prof. Michèle Knodt interviewed by HR Info on nuclear energy after Fukushima

A radiant future was predicted to Nuclear energy until the word “radiant” acquired a negative...

Mar 26, 2021 Media

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

emergenCITY researchers featured in the podcast Hessen schafft Wissen

What is a democracy? How does a convincing stage scene emerge? How does digital communication...

Feb 24, 2021 Media

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
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emergenCITY on Hessischer Rundfunk

Compared to other regions of the world, we live very safely in Germany. But our...

Dec 2, 2020 Media

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

Prof. Matthias Hollick in the “Rat der Cyberweisen”

Prof. Matthias Hollick: “Digital infrastructures in networked cities must remain available, understandable and controllable at...

Jun 25, 2020 Media

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

Crisis-proof networking on 3Sat

How important is crisis-proof networking? What are the consequences of digitalization? emergenCITY PI Prof. Ralf...

Nov 3, 2019 Media

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