Scientific exchange is valuable for doctoral students and the THM Interdisciplinary Doctoral Colloquium is intended to promote this exchange. It serves for professional discussion and public presentation of the research topic. For the eleventh time, doctoral candidates presented the topic of their dissertation to around 70 interested people from the staff, administration and student body.

Spin-offs from the university are the focus of the THM once a year in Friedberg - when the ideaco is awarded to the best, most sustainable, most social business ideas from the student body. But sustainable innovations and start-ups are important sources of inspiration for a changing economy beyond the university context. That is why they will be the focus of the “Responsibility for the Future” lecture series on November 29th.

Klara Geywitz, Federal Minister for Housing, Urban Development and Building, learned about the potential of municipal wastewater for heating and cooling at the Technische Hochschule Mittelhessen ( THM ). As part of her summer trip "On the road for the home - together social & innovative" she visited the recently commissioned waste water heat utilization plant of the university. This supplies the central "Campus Wiesenstraße" in Gießen with heat and cold.

Researchers from three continents met at the Technische Hochschule Mittelhessen ( THM ) in Gießen for the 15th "International Conference on Reversible Computation". The programme was jointly organized by the THM and the Justus Liebig University Gießen (JLU).

As part of the "3D - Print for Everyone" project, the 3D printing center at the Technische Hochschule Mittelhessen ( THM ) organized the so-called spinner contest in June. Any member of the university could take part in this. With excitement and a lot of good humor, the aim was to let the self-constructed and printed spinning top spin longer than that of the competition. Before the actual competition, the spinning tops were weighed and checked.

With an idea that is as technical as it is social, Emily Schmidt, Vincent Dern, Schlemun Danho and Paul Miesen won the THM start-up competition Ideaco three times over. As the "Clever Sole" team, they want to give people with dementia more freedom with a high-tech insole and received both the audience award and the jury's award for social sustainability and finally first place in the overall competition. The four students on the Friedberg campus thus receive a total of 4000 euros to further develop their idea and create a business plan.

The Technische Hochschule Mittelhessen ( THM ) receives a grant of 4.8 million euros to create the LOEWE focus ADMIT. Together with the partners Philipps University Marburg and Justus Liebig University Gießen (JLU) as well as other research institutions and companies from Germany and the USA, new imaging methods for the diagnosis and therapy of tumor diseases are to be developed and applied.

The aim of a research project at the Technische Hochschule Mittelhessen is to develop innovative and resource-saving building constructions. The building materials used are waste products from the wood processing industry and parts that are produced when concrete structures are demolished.

The research project entitled “Sustainable visibility as a supporting and aesthetic element in architecture” is funded by the Hessian State Offensive for the Development of Scientific and Economic Excellence (LOEWE) with a total of around 285,000 euros. The management is Prof. Dr. Christine Döbert from the THM Construction Department. In addition, professors Achim Vogelsberg and Bartosz Czempiel are involved in this interdisciplinary research project between the fields of architecture and civil engineering. The research team receives support in questions of design from the internationally renowned artist Thomas Vinson.    

The Technische Hochschule Mittelhessen ( THM ) was successful twice in a row in the new "Large Equipment Campaign" of the German Research Foundation (DFG) - as the only university for applied sciences in Germany. With the two grants from the 2021 and 2022 calls, the THM will receive more than two million euros for complex research tasks from the Centres of Competence AutoM and BioTecMed.

Industry 4.0 is a buzzword that is often used – but what that means for small and medium-sized companies and where there is potential for them has been difficult to convey up to now. That changed the "Smart Factory Mittelhessen", which was set up at the Technische Hochschule Mittelhessen ( THM ) through their own commitment, public funding and foundations from local companies.

With a large-scale study, the Hessian Radon Center (HeRaZ) wants to provide information about the radioactive noble gas and at the same time investigate the concentration of the gas in private houses in Hesse. The participants will be sent measuring devices free of charge so that they can measure radon at home for a year. The data from 3000 households in Hesse are to be determined and then evaluated. The Hessian Ministry of the Environment is fully financing the campaign.

The Technische Hochschule Mittelhessen ( THM ) hosted the SCHALL23 conference. Experts from the German Society for Non-Destructive Testing (DGZfP) met in Wetzlar. The specialist committees for noise emission testing procedures and condition monitoring were invited. Vice President Prof. Peter Hohmann welcomed the 71 participants from Germany, Austria and Switzerland on behalf of THM .

The Technische Hochschule Mittelhessen works in various areas with universities from the autonomous region of Kurdistan in Iraq. A project with the Erbil Polytechnic University (EPU), funded by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), covers the creation of structures and academic training in the field of renewable energies.

As part of the cooperation, two scientists from THM 's Friedberg campus visited the partner university in Erbil again in April to - after being welcomed by the Rector Prof. Dr. Edrees Muhamad Tahir Harki - to give multi-day courses for academic and administrative staff. Prof. Dr. Klaus Behler, physicist at the Department of Mathematics, Natural Sciences and Data Processing (MND), dedicated his event to the topics of project management and the development of systematic problem solutions.     

The transistor is one of the most important scientific and technical discoveries of the modern age. This year is already celebrating its 75th anniversary. Researchers, including those at the Technische Hochschule Mittelhessen ( THM ), acknowledge this with lectures and conferences, at which they also look back on the history of the transistor.

The electronic component was developed in 1947/48 by the physicists Walter Brattain, John Bardeen and William Shockley, who received the Nobel Prize for it. It is a semiconductor component used to control or amplify low electrical voltages and currents. It represents the most important "active" component in electronic circuits and is used, for example, in computer systems or communications technology.

The new Gießen city district, the “Philosophenhöhe”, will have innovative energy management. A team from the Technische Hochschule Mittelhessen is working on this in cooperation with the city and the Gießen public utilities. Prof. Dr. Stefan Lechner from the Center for Energy Technology and Energy Management (etem.THM) leads the “FlexQuartier” project, which the federal government is funding with 4.6 million euros.

Digitization has become an integral part of everyday life, and it is also playing an increasingly important role in production. For this reason, the Technische Hochschule Mittelhessen ( THM ) and Hessen Trade & Invest GmbH (HTAI) invite you to the third event in the "DIGI-Impulse - On to digital change" series on Tuesday, March 21, 2023 from 11:30 a.m Gießen in

The leading German trade fair for optics, photonics, electronics and mechanics takes place every year in the optics city of Wetzlar: again a good 1500 trade visitors are expected at the W3+ Fair in the Buderus Arena on March 29th and 30th. Three teams from the Technische Hochschule Mittelhessen ( THM ) are also represented, two of them at the THM own stand with the number S1, one at the IHK at D7.

Idiopathic Parkinson's disease is one of the most common chronic neurodegenerative diseases that particularly affects people over the age of 65. The syndrome has a significant impact on everyday life. In order to recognize a deterioration in the cognitive, motor and visual areas due to a flare-up at an early stage, an app is to be developed as part of a project cooperation between the Health Department of the Technische Hochschule Mittelhessen ( THM ) and the Clinic for Neurology at the University Hospital Gießen and Marburg (UKGM) in Marburg which, thanks to artificial intelligence, enables long-term monitoring in the home environment.

The high accuracy of the measurement technology in the laboratories and workshops of the Technische Hochschule Mittelhessen ( THM ) has brought two companies together in the Gießen laboratory for vehicle technology and piston engines for a special test: the use of a waste-based diesel substitute in a test engine. The experiment led by Prof. Dr. Klaus Herzog from the Mechanical and Energy Engineering Department was successful and showed that thermal power plants do not have to be the only place to burn waste.

Prof. Dr. Jochen Frey has been elected as Vice President of the Technische Hochschule Mittelhessen for another term of office. 30 of 31 participating Senate members voted for the engineer. His term of office begins on April 1 and lasts three years.

THM President Prof. Dr. Matthias Willems congratulated Prof. Frey on his election and was pleased to be able to continue the good cooperation in the university management.

The Technische Hochschule Mittelhessen ( THM ) has opened its 3D printing center. “We firmly assume that it will be well received by all departments and students, as well as by the founders,” said Dr. Iris Stallkamp, ​​deputy head of the transfer department. This was also emphasized by the president of the university, Prof. Dr. Matthias Willems. He noted how important it is that this potential is available now. “The THM is at the forefront of Hessian universities when it comes to 3D printing. We have one of the largest ranges of printers.”

“Thumping basses”: This is a brief summary of what disturbs the peace of many people who live within earshot of venues and open-air events. A team from the Technische Hochschule Mittelhessen is interested in how such deep-sounding sound reinforcement can be measured in a practical manner and evaluated meaningfully. A research project entitled "Low-frequency emissions in leisure time noise" has started at the THM , which is funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research with a total of around 655,000 euros. Of this, 525,000 euros will go to the THM . Industry is contributing a further 40,000 euros.  

The Technische Hochschule Mittelhessen ( THM ) has held the right to award doctorates in Life Science Engineering (LSE) since 2019, which it exercises through the Doctoral Center for Engineering Sciences (PZI) on the Central Hesse research campus. Detlef Behrens is now the first to hold a doctorate in this subject. The 56-year-old's path to a doctorate was anything but ordinary.

When Hesse's Prime Minister Boris Rhein invited people to Frankfurt at the beginning of the month to bring together around 200 players from the Hessian space industry and research at the one-day specialist conference "Hessen in Space", Prof. Dr. -Ing. Guido Bartsch from the MNI ( THM ) department, Prof. Dr. Chris Volkmar from the EI department ( THM ) and Prof. Dr. Peter Klar from the I. Physical Institute of the Justus Liebig University Gießen (JLU) also represented strong research voices Gießen . The state government wants the participants to get to know each other and find starting points for future collaborations.

Finally back in attendance - this applies to many events at the Technische Hochschule Mittelhessen ( THM ) this winter semester. When it comes to “networking”, the two Corona years, which were characterized by video conferences, had their downsides. Face-to-face scientific exchange is particularly valuable for doctoral students, as the 10th Interdisciplinary Doctoral Colloquium at the THM showed.

The small revolution that Dr. Joel Eichmann and Felix Wollenhaupt into the final of the Hessian Founder's Prize. With their now six-strong team from the start-up Green Elephant Biotech, the two want to turn the field of cell cultivation in biotechnology, which is characterized by single-use plastic, upside down - make it more efficient, cheaper and more environmentally friendly.

The Hessen Ideas competition has been a good place for start-up teams from the Technische Hochschule Mittelhessen ( THM ) in recent years. Usually at least one team made it to the final, in 2020 and 2021 FISEGO and CardioIQ THM ideas each came second. For the fire protection technicians from FISEGO, the Hessian Founder's Prize followed later, CardioIQ is one of the flagship projects of the Distr@l programme of the State of Hesse, which aims to promote AI innovations. Now three other teams are about to enter the final: Feschd, Green Bottle and Minin.

The THM demonstrated its skills in interdisciplinary research at the first "Day of the Centres of Competence " in the Roxy cinema. Eight current research projects, one from each center, framed a networking event. This should multiply the already interdisciplinary approach of the institutions: in the eight centers, researchers from different THM departments work on joint projects, now those involved should also get to know the active and focal points of the other centers.

For the second time in a row, a start-up from the Technische Hochschule Mittelhessen ( THM ) has qualified for the final of the Hessian Founder's Prize. Green Elephant Biotech follows the FISEGO team in the "University start-up" category, which brought the award to Central Hesse last year.

The potential for renewable energies in Central American countries – compared to Germany – is huge: the sun shines more often, the wind blows more regularly. In Costa Rica in particular, the potential for hydropower alone is enormous: Currently, around 70 percent of the electricity generated there comes from hydropower. However, the unpredictability of regenerative energies already poses challenges for the power grids of highly industrialized countries. Partners from the University of Costa Rica and the Cuban University of Camagüey and University of Oriente Santiago de Cuba therefore visited the Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology at the Technische Hochschule Mittelhessen ( THM ) to explore opportunities for establishing a research collaboration in the field of "New planning approaches for electrical distribution networks “ to fathom.

The fact that guests and the jury of the Ideaco start-up competition of the Technische Hochschule Mittelhessen ( THM ) were able to buy Simon Josenhans' idea on the spot and take it with them may have helped him to win. His product "Feschd" convinced "through conciseness, expandability and sustainability beyond Germany", said Markus Mietchen, member of the jury and representative of the main sponsor Sparkasse Oberhessen. He presented Josenhans with a check for 4,000 euros, which the tinkerer wants to put into the marketing of his mobile phone holder for the bicycle.

Radon - the name of the noble gas is familiar to many, but very few are aware of the risk that it can pose, especially in everyday life. The Hessian Radon Center (HeRaZ) would like to remedy this on its tour through Hesse. From September 2nd to 16th, the center, which is based at the Technische Hochschule Mittelhessen ( THM ), will visit a total of ten cities. At the HeRaZ stand in central squares or in pedestrian zones, interested parties can clarify questions and get detailed advice.

Whenever innovative teaching formats were mentioned in the past two years, almost exclusively digital ideas were meant. The pandemic forced in video conferencing. Courses that actively involve students were in demand. The Technische Hochschule Mittelhessen ( THM ) has taken a lot with it from this time into the return to normal teaching and yet has not neglected the fact that its teaching - as a rule - takes place in attendance. Even the "classical teaching" must be constantly developed, needs innovation. Three good ideas from the THM are now being funded for one year.

If you have an idea for a start-up, you can count on the support of the Technische Hochschule Mittelhessen ( THM ). It's not just the Transfer department that supports those wanting to set up a business on their way to market entry. Founders have been able to put their ideas through their paces since 2020 at the Ideaco internal university competition and the associated Ideaco Summits. In August, the competition, which is largely supported by Business Administration and Engineering department in Friedberg and the student management consultancy Sail Solutions under the leadership of Christian Abt, enters the third round.

It is considered the “leading trade fair for the process industry”: every three years, now a year late due to the pandemic, the “Exhibition Conference for Chemical Apparatus” – better known as ACHEMA – takes place in Frankfurt with 2,200 exhibitors from 50 countries. The Technische Hochschule Mittelhessen ( THM ) is regularly represented there, including at this year's edition from August 22nd to 26th under the leadership of Prof. Dirk Holtmann from the Life Science Engineering department. The focus of the THM presence are two exhibits by doctoral students Alexander Langsdorf and Björn Sabel-Becker. They present ideas for more sustainability in the chemical industry. “To be able to present these projects to such a top-class, international audience is a special honor and a great opportunity,” says Holtmann.

Optics, photonics, electronics and mechanics are the – not just proverbial – focus at the W3+ Fair in the Buderus Arena in Wetzlar on July 6th and 7th. In addition to the large companies in the industry and the many Central Hessian technology and world market leaders, the Technische Hochschule Mittelhessen ( THM ) is also represented in the campus area.

The Technische Hochschule Mittelhessen ( THM ) has one more competence center: WuMS is the “Competence Center for Business and Management Science” and brings together expertise from the departments of Economics (W), Business Administration and Engineering (WI) and Management and Communication (MuK). At the founding meeting on Monday, May 30th, Prof. Dr. Jens Klose, economist and specialist in monetary and economic policy, was elected.

Have data from electrocardiograms analyzed by artificial intelligence and thus quickly, inexpensively and reliably determine the risk of certain heart diseases - with this founding idea, the CardioIQ team with researchers from the Technical University of Central Hesse ( THM ) and Justus Liebig University Gießen (JLU) has already found the one or the other prize jury convinced. On the way to becoming a marketable medical product, the project with the project name "RisKa" is now being funded with 740,000 euros from the Hessian state programme Distr@l fpromotes. Digital Minister Prof. Dr. Kristina Sinemus virtually to the project managers Prof. Dr. Michael Guckert ( THM , Department of Mathematics, Natural Sciences and Data Processing) and Prof. Dr. Till Keller (JLU, Department of Medicine). “‘AI made in Hessen’ should become a trademark of our state that stands for innovation, responsibility and the future,” said Sinemus. “RisKa” is an outstanding example of this.

Social enterprises are in vogue and more and more people want to make positive social and ecological changes when they start their own business. But for many, the question still arises as to what actually lies behind the term “social entrepreneurship”. For this reason, the Technology and Innovation Center Gießen (TIG), the Entrepreneurship Cluster Mittelhessen (ECM), the student management consultancy Sail Solutions (THINK), the Technische Hochschule Mittelhessen ( THM ) and the Social Entrepreneurship Network Germany (SEND) invite you to a joint event movie night on.

There are countless holders for smartphones. Mostly made of cheap plastic, they are discarded items in electronics stores and supermarkets, in mobile phone shops and on the Internet. "I've never been satisfied with anyone," says Simon Josenhans. With his wife Luisa, he has therefore developed a holder whose name not only indicates Josenhans' Swabian origins, but is also the "unique selling point" of the product - in other words, what makes it special: "Feschd".

If you want to combine climate protection and mobility, there is no way around lightweight construction: Mass that is not even produced, installed and then accelerated and then decelerated every day saves energy not only in production, but in everyday life. Public perception often focuses on electric cars, which use aluminum and fiber-reinforced plastics and, increasingly, plastic instead of steel. But new mobility also requires greater use of public transport, buses and trains. There is a lot of potential here through weight reduction.

Despite many global efforts to achieve equal rights, women are still greatly underrepresented in science: according to the UNESCO Institute for Statistics, almost 30 percent of researchers worldwide were women in 2016. Germany is still two percentage points lower and is at the bottom of the European comparison. On the occasion of the "International Day of Women and Girls in Science" on February 11, proclaimed by the UNO cultural organization, the women's representatives of the Technische Hochschule Mittelhessen ( THM ) remind that even this value would be a doubling of the quota for the university.

The Technische Hochschule Mittelhessen ( THM ) and partner universities from all over Germany associated with it in the "University Alliance for SMEs" invite interested parties to a digital conference on the subject of transfer and the establishment of a German Agency for Transfer and Innovation (DATI) by the new federal government one.

Creating living space and protecting the climate - two political goals that have not only been important since they feature prominently in the coalition agreement of the new federal government. But there are also two goals that partially contradict each other. Because in construction, reinforced concrete systems or concrete-steel composite beams are usually used for large ceiling spans. However, concrete production, primarily that of the main component cement, is extremely harmful to the climate: the cement industry contributes around eight percent to global CO ₂-Emission at. The Technische Hochschule Mittelhessen ( THM ) and the Wettenberg timber construction company Kai Laumann want to develop a climate-friendly alternative with other partners.

Sebastian Wegener, Nils Gumpfer and Joshua Prim purposefully string success after success. In April, the founders of the Gießen medical technology Start-ups “CardioIQ” were accepted into the “Hessen Ideas” scholarship programme. In the associated competition, which is aimed at all Hessian universities that are willing to start a business, they now took second place. They had also achieved this a few days earlier in the "Idea Slam" ideas competition at the Justus Liebig University (JLU), and it was only in September that they had won place in the "Ideeco" at the Technische Hochschule Mittelhessen ( THM ) with their potentially life-saving idea one pitched.

"What an experience" – Fabian Goedert and Sophia Reiter still seem slightly shocked the morning after. In a positive sense. "Of course we are convinced of our idea," says Goedert and adds: "But until now we have only guessed how much our invention will convince others." With their BEBBS system, the two THM students as Team Fisego on Wednesday evening in Frankfurt Hessian start-up award in the category "Start-up from the university". "That gives an enormous boost for the next steps," says Reiter.

In the ninth interdisciplinary doctoral colloquium, four doctoral students from the Technische Hochschule Mittelhessen ( THM ) showed how different the paths to the same goal - the doctorate - can be: Jakob Prüfer, Alina Scholz, Lukas Käßer and Nils Gumpfer presented their doctoral topics in front of an audience in four short presentations made up of more than 50 professors and other doctoral students.

Many items we use in everyday life are petroleum products. They are considered to be environmentally harmful and unsustainable. The bioeconomy offers an ecological alternative, whose production concept is based on the use of renewable raw materials. A research project at the Technische Hochschule Mittelhessen is dealing with this topic. Prof. Dr. Dirk Holtmann from Gießen Institute for Bioprocess Engineering and Pharmaceutical Technology is working with Phytowelt GreenTechnologies from Cologne. The aim is to develop processes for biotechnological terpene production. The Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) is funding the project with 640,000 euros.

Biocatalysts are considered to have great potential for the industrial production of chemical compounds for the pharmaceutical, agricultural and food industries. In the research project “Surface display of enzymes as a platform technology,” scientists at the Technische Hochschule Mittelhessen are working on simplifying the use of such biocatalysts and making it more convenient. The state of Hesse is funding the project with 40,000 euros as part of the “Research for Practice” programme. The project leader is Prof. Dr. -Ing. Dirk Holtmann from the Institute for Bioprocess Engineering and Pharmaceutical Technology.

At the Competence Center for Automotive, Mobility and Materials Research at the Technische Hochschule Mittelhessen a working group focuses on the behavior of materials under special loads. Led by Prof. Dr. Stefan Kolling from the Department Mechanical and Energy Engineering has already successfully completed funded research projects on the crash behavior of car windows made of mineral glass and Plexiglas. In a current project, the team is now examining certain battery systems for electric vehicles to determine their operational safety in the event of accidents.

The celebration had to be on a very small scale: first with a few fellow doctoral candidates outdoors in front of the armory in Gießen , then in the evening in the family circle. Corona makes it difficult to appreciate a multiple milestone: Marcel Berlinger from Langenselbold is not only the first in his family to complete a university degree and a doctorate, but also the first graduate of the Doctoral Center for Engineering (PZI) at the Central Hesse Research Campus (FCMH). In front of his supervisor Prof. Dr. Stefan Kolling from the Department Mechanical and Energy Engineering at the Technische Hochschule Mittelhessen ( THM ) successfully defended his dissertation on May 14, 2021. The other members of the examination committee were connected via video. His doctoral certificate will be the first in Central Hesse to bear the signature of a female and two presidents - and at the same time the first ever to be signed by a THM president.

How can raw materials for the chemical industry be made from CO₂and produce electrical energy efficiently? Scientists are looking for answers to this question in the research project “Gas diffusion electrodes for coupled microbial-electrochemical syntheses from CO ₂ (Games)”. The coordinator is Prof. Dr. -Ing. Dirk Holtmann from the Competence Center for Sustainable Engineering and Environmental Systems at the TH Mittelhessen. These are partners Dechema Research Institute in Frankfurt am Main, that Helmholtz Center for Environmental Research (UFZ) in Leipzig and two companies: Gaskatel in Kassel and that ifn research and technology center in Elsteraue. The Federal Ministry of Education and Research is funding the project for four years with a total of 1.3 million euros.

Seeing rockets launch into space are spectacular images: tons of steel and advanced composites vibrate into motion, lifted into the air by a controlled explosion. For example, the European Ariane 5 burns 476 tons of solid fuel for a launch within 130 seconds and an additional 158 tons of liquid fuel in the first five minutes of a flight. That is enough to bring up to 16 tons of payload into the earth's atmosphere.

In patients with acute heart failure, clinics can use heart-lung machines to save lives. In technical language this is called Extracorporeal Life Support (ECLS). A serious problem that can arise when using ECLS systems is the lack of supply to certain organs. More detailed examinations on patients are only possible to a limited extent. Medicine therefore uses circulatory simulators to research the causes of dangerous side effects and to identify opportunities for improvement. This is where the current research project “ECLS Sim” comes in, which Prof. Dr. Stefan Bernhard from the Technische Hochschule Mittelhessen leads.

Brushing teeth is part of the daily routine, but the actual tooth brushing process is largely not scientifically understood. There is a lack of suitable research equipment. In an interdisciplinary team, researchers from the Technische Hochschule Mittelhessen ( THM ), the Justus Liebig University Gießen (JLU) and the University of Kassel are developing a new research device for dentistry - artificial intelligence and machine learning are also used.

“90 percent of the population brush their teeth every day, but over 70 percent suffer from inflammation of the gums or periodontium. That means everyone knows how important brushing your teeth is, but almost no one does it properly,” says Prof. Dr. Bernhard Sick, head of the Intelligent Embedded Systems department at the University of Kassel.

The care of people who are in the last phase of life is the subject of a virtual symposium at the Technische Hochschule Mittelhessen . At the event on May 6th, 20 speakers will present and discuss ways to improve the situation of the dying.  

The symposium takes up the tasks and results of the "Avenue-Pal" project, which is funded by the innovation fund of the Federal Joint Committee (G-BA). It is intended to further develop the framework conditions in places and in medical and nursing systems where people spend their last days. A specific goal: to reduce the transfer of dying people between and within care facilities, which is still frequently practiced at present. The project includes both the elaboration of a scientifically based practice concept and its testing introduction in two large facilities, which represent the large number of hospitals and nursing homes in Germany.  

Two doctoral students from the Technische Hochschule Mittelhessen together with a partner from the Justus Liebig University Gießen , have developed a technology for fast and reliable evaluation of ECG recordings. As the founding team of CardioIQ, they entered the competition for a Hessen Ideas grant. Her idea was convincing in a two-stage application process. The trio from THM and JLU submitted one of the 15 applications selected from 58 projects for the current round of the funding programme.

Nils Gumpfer and Joshua Prim are currently gaining further scientific qualifications with a doctorate in computer science and business informatics at the THM . Sebastian Wegener is a doctoral student in medicine at JLU. In the interdisciplinary CardioIQ project, they contribute their respective knowledge, so that the founding team has expertise in the fields of modern health care, economics and applied computer science. The THM start-up advice accompanied the three partners in the preparation of the funding application and also offers support with the next steps towards marketing.    

Fars Samann already knew what collegiality means before he came to Gießen . The Iraqi learned how far it can go when he immigrated to Germany at the end of January and moved into his apartment. Ten days of quarantine were the condition for him finally being able to start his doctoral studies at the Technische Hochschule Mittelhessen . His new colleagues from the Life Science Engineering department provided him with food and other everyday items.

Two engineering scientists from the Technische Hochschule Mittelhessen took part as speakers in the "Schall 21" colloquium. At the virtual event, which replaced a conference originally planned in Weimar, around 60 participants from German-speaking countries dealt with new developments in the field of acoustic emission analysis. The possible uses of guided waves for monitoring purposes, for example in steel construction, formed a second set of topics.

You won't be able to build skyscrapers out of paper any time soon. The material is also out of the question for the classic single-family house. But you can do more with paper than printing or folding planes. What exactly did scientists from the leading TU Darmstadt, the Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences and the TH Mittelhessen in the project “BAMP! – Building with Paper”.

The aim was to create previously unexplored scientific and technical foundations for the use of paper in construction and to develop practical solutions. The application focus was on buildings for temporary use, for example for trade fair construction, for emergency accommodation or one-off major events.

Three scientists from the Technische Hochschule Mittelhessen will be advising the federal government on matters of protection against the dangers of ionizing and non-ionizing radiation in the coming years.

Prof. Dr. Joachim Breckow from the Department of Mathematics, Natural Sciences and Computer Science (MNI) has been appointed to the Radiation Protection Commission (SSK) by the Federal Environment Minister. The 20-member expert committee deals, among other things, with the assessment of biological radiation effects, the development of the population's radiation exposure and radiation protection measures. The physicist Breckow is also deputy chairman of the SSK crisis team.

The Federal Railway Authority was in a hurry with this research project: it was advertised in August 2020 and in November it was sent to the steel specialist Prof. Dr. Bertram Kühn from the Construction Department at the Technische Hochschule Mittelhessen , the work began immediately after the turn of the year. Over the next two and a half years, Kühn will research the “suitable choice of materials to avoid brittle fractures in bridge supports and retaining structures,” is the title of the project, which is funded with around 780,000 euros. That may sound brittle, but it affects the safety of everyone who only occasionally takes the train.

The Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) is funding the development of a new type of ventilation technology for newborns with 1.7 million euros. Under the leadership of Gießen Thora Tech GmbH, the Justus Liebig University (JLU) and Acutronic Medical are involved in the research project in addition to the Technische Hochschule Mittelhessen .

Between 3,000 and 6,000 newborns in Germany suffer from meconium aspiration syndrome every year. Meconium is the intestinal contents of the fetus that can enter the respiratory tract via the amniotic fluid before or during birth. The result is a severe dysfunction of the lungs, which makes mechanical ventilation necessary. So far, the high-risk extracorporeal membrane oxygenation, in which the blood is supplied with oxygen outside the body, has been available for this purpose. Risks of this therapy are possible cerebral hemorrhages and neurodevelopmental disorders.

High distinction at the 51st annual conference of the German Society for Medical Physics - virtual due to the corona situation: Dr. Kilian Baumann received second place in the Behnken Berger Prize, which is worth 10,000 euros. The foundation of the same name honors young scientists who have made outstanding achievements in the research areas of radiation protection, radiation therapy, the treatment of radiation damage and the application of physical methods in radiology. The jury considered Baumann's doctoral thesis "Investigation of the modulation properties of lung tissue in radiation therapy with protons" to be worthy of an award.

Not only the audience is convinced, but also the expert jury: the invention of Sophia Reiter and Fabian Goedert has what it takes to save lives. The two young Butzbachers, developers of the FISEGO fire protection system, took second place in the "Hessen Ideas" competition, in which 40 teams from all Hessian universities were registered - endowed with 3500 euros.

"Curiosity, a thirst for knowledge and an inventive spirit" attests Ayse Asar, State Secretary in the Hessian Ministry for Science and Art, of all twelve final teams. This applies in particular to the three inventions on the podium: The system that Reiter and Goedert are developing and with which they started can be installed in almost all technical systems, from the socket to household appliances to industrial machines - either ex works or for retrofitting . It automatically detects when a smoldering fire develops and extinguishes it. The founding idea came about after a friend of Fabian Goedert's washing machine caught on fire.

Final phase III studies for the first vaccines against the new coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 are underway worldwide. The first people in the western world are to be vaccinated against Covid-19 this year in order to get the pandemic under control. Meanwhile, research is already being done on second-generation vaccines. One of these projects, which is scheduled to start the decisive clinical tests on humans in May 2021, relies on a process that was co-developed at the Technische Hochschule Mittelhessen .

The preparation, which is being developed at the University Hospital in Tübingen (UKT) under the direction of Dr. Ralf Amann in cooperation with the biotech startup Prime Vector Technologies, which he founded, is a viral vector vaccine. So-called antigens of the coronavirus, such as specific surface structures, are built into a carrier virus, the vector, which is harmless to humans. After administration, the vector mimics an infection and the antigens are presented to the immune system. Both antibodies and T-cells are formed, which are directed against the antigens. In this way, an immunological memory that is as long-lasting as possible is to be formed, which protects against an actual infection with Covid-19.

The Mittelhessen district association in the Association of Engineers (VDI) has Dr. Fabian Horst (Mücke) and Peer Schrader ( Gießen ) were awarded the Robert Paul Kling Prize. The VDI jury awarded the two graduates of the Technische Hochschule Mittelhessen for achievements that they have made within the framework of their scientific qualifications. They were able to receive the certificates and cash prizes at a ceremony at the VDI office in Wetzlar.

Dr. Fabian Horst received the 500 euro award for his dissertation at the University of Rovira i Virgili in Tarragona. The engineer, who had previously completed his master's degree in electrical and information technology in Gießen , was able to carry out laboratory tests for his doctoral project at THM 's Spanish partner university. His doctoral thesis dealt with the topic “Compact DC Modeling of Tunnel-FETs”. The doctoral student developed the physically based compact model of a special transistor. In doing so, he made contributions to a research project funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research, which was carried out by the supervisor of his doctorate, Prof. Dr. Alexander Klös (Department of Electrical and Information Technology), who headed THM .

Prof. Dr. has more than 80 participants. Jochen Frey was welcomed at the eighth interdisciplinary doctoral colloquium at the Technische Hochschule Mittelhessen . In the online event, the Vice President for Research, Transfer and Young Scientists reported that around 120 young scientists at THM are currently pursuing further qualifications with a doctorate. This is an increase of 20 percent compared to the previous year. Most projects are located at the scientific Centres of Competence . According to Frey, these centers need to be further strengthened. The doctoral center for engineering sciences, which is located at the Central Hesse research campus, also plays an important role. The vice president attributed the increasing number of doctorates, among other things, to “remarkable funding elements” at THM , such as the strategic research fund and the structured doctoral training.

The Centre of Competence for Nanotechnology and Photonics (NanoP) at the Technische Hochschule Mittelhessen hosted a three-day live video conference on the modeling of microelectronic devices.

Under the title "Joint Spring MOS-AK Workshop and Symposium on Schottky Barrier MOS Devices", this virtual format was offered in place of regular international working meetings, which could not take place due to the corona pandemic. A meeting planned for March at the THM had to be cancelled.

Lithium-ion batteries used in electric vehicles, for example, lose performance over time and must be replaced. The Technische Hochschule Mittelhessen is investigating how this process can be slowed down in the Department of Information Technology - Electrical Engineering - Mechatronics in Friedberg. The head of the research project is Prof. Dr. Alexander Kuznietsov from the Competence Center for Automotive, Mobility and Materials Research. The cooperation partner is the company BE Power in Fernwald. The state of Hesse is funding the project with 385,000 euros.

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How can metal laser beam melting be used to produce load-bearing lightweight structures in automobile construction? A research project at the Technische Hochschule Mittelhessen is dealing with this topic. It is funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research with almost 600,000 euros. The project leader is Prof. Dr. Udo Jung from the Competence Center for Automotive, Mobility and Materials Research. The Friedberg researchers are working with the company Continental Engineering Services from Frankfurt.

In basic physical research, particle accelerators are used to investigate interactions in the microcosm and to examine the smallest structures of matter. Medicine and industry benefit from knowledge gained in acceleration systems for energetically highly charged electrons or ions.   

A team from the Technische Hochschule Mittelhessen is working on an artificial nail plate that is to be used in the development of new drugs for the treatment of nail fungus. Project leader is Dr. Peggy Schlupp from the Biopharmaceutical Technology working group in the Life Science Engineering department. The Federal Ministry of Economics is funding the project with 190,000 euros. Cooperation partner is the company Dermatest from Münster.

Unwanted reflections make the use of optical instruments difficult. In a research project, the Technische Hochschule Mittelhessen is investigating what role nanowires could play as anti-reflection layers to reduce these interferences. Its head is Prof. Dr. Jochen Frey from the THM Competence Center for Nanotechnology and Photonics.

“The great fear of a small fly” was the title of an article in the Frankfurter Allgemeine 2015 in its Rhein-Main section. What was meant by this was the spotted drosophila (Drosophila suzukii) from Asia, which has been spreading rapidly in Europe since 2008. The insect is extremely unwelcome to fruit growers and winegrowers. Because this fly is not content with falling fruit, but infests healthy fruit, for example cherries or red grapes. This has already led to serious economic damage in Hesse.

Under the title “GreenToGreen”, a consortium is working on developing organic material flows for new processes and products. The coordinator of the association is Prof. Dr. Dirk Holtmann from the Life Science Engineering department at TH Mittelhessen. Project partners are the TU Kaiserslautern and the ifn Forschungs- und Technologiezentrum GmbH in Elsteraue. The three-year THM sub-project is funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) with around 280,000 euros.

The wheels are among the most wear-prone components in railway operations. In a joint project with the Hessian State Railway, the Technische Hochschule Mittelhessen is investigating how wear and tear can be reduced and how, for example, maintenance intervals and service life can be extended. Project leaders at the THM are the professors Dr. Frank Lademann from the Department of Civil Engineering and Dr. Jörg Pfister from the Department of Mathematics, Natural Sciences and Data Processing. The European Regional Development Fund is supporting the project with half a million euros.

A research project in which the Technische Hochschule Mittelhessen Sciences is involved deals with the use of methane-producing microorganisms in the industrial bioeconomy. Prof. Dr. Dirk Holtmann from Gießen 's Life Science Engineering department is working with the Institute of Microbiology at TU Dresden. Other cooperation partners include the universities in Kiel and Tübingen and Electrochea GmbH. The Munich start-up has developed a novel process for converting the greenhouse gas CO2 and electrical energy into natural gas. This “power-to-gas technology” is used to store electricity from renewable sources. The Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) is funding the THM sub-project with 340,000 euros.

Methanogens are methanogenic microbes that have so far been used in industry as efficient biogas producers. On the one hand, the project partners want to optimize the power-to-gas process and, on the other hand, create a basis for the industrial production of higher-quality biotechnological products. This can be, for example, isoprene, which is used in the manufacture of rubber. However, other basic substances that are components of turpentine or odoriferous and flavoring substances can also be used.

The development of a "system for analyzing hydraulic faulty connections" is the goal of a research project in which the Technische Hochschule Mittelhessen is collaborating with two medium-sized companies. Project manager at the THM is Dr. Hans-Martin Seipp, Professor of Technical Building Services at the Gießen Department of Life Science Engineering. Partners are Erb Messtechnik from Frankfurt and Schmidt Präzisionstechnik from Schwarza in Thuringia. The Federal Ministry of Economics is funding the project with more than 460,000 euros.

Faulty connections in complex drinking water networks harbor health risks, among other things. In clinics, infectious agents have repeatedly found their way from the cold to the hot water network because the two networks were not strictly separated from each other. Nursing homes, chemical plants or hotels are also prone to faulty installations during the construction phase or during repair work. Limescale deposits and corrosion after a long period of operation can also cause problems.

The German Society for Medical Physics (DGMP) has appointed Prof. Dr. Klemens Zink awarded the Glocker Medal. The physicist, who teaches at the Technische Hochschule Mittelhessen , was honored for his “outstanding achievements in the field of medical physics in science and practice”.

Since 2001, Zink has been a professor at the Gießen Department of Life Science Engineering at the THM in Gießen . He co-founded the Institute for Medical Physics and Radiation Protection, of which he was Managing Director from 2006 to 2014. His research focus is on radiation therapy with high-energy protons and ions.

The THM celebrates its founders!
on Thursday, February 13, 2020, from 6:00 p.m. to approx. 10:00 p.m
in the MAGIE Makerspace Gießen , Walltorstrasse 57, 35390 Gießen

The start-up network Mittelhessen StartMiUp is being funded by the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWi) as part of the Exist-Potentiale measure over a four-year project phase. A total of three million euros has been applied for.

Prof. Dr. welcomed around 60 participants. Stefan Kolling at the seventh interdisciplinary doctoral colloquium at the TH Mittelhessen in Gießen . The university professor reported that around 100 young scientists at THM are currently pursuing further qualifications with a doctorate. Half of them graduated in engineering and half in natural sciences. The university is taking the path of cooperation. The doctoral center for engineering, which is located at the Central Hesse research campus, plays an important role in this.

More than 30 scientists from Germany, Russia, Italy, Argentina and the Ukraine met at the Technische Hochschule Mittelhessen in Friedberg. The topic of her workshop was "Intelligent strategies for controlling electrical energy systems, grids and drives."

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(Octopus Catamarans)A research project at the Technische Hochschule Mittelhessen is about developing a lightweight construction concept for sports boats and yachts. Prof. Dr. Stephan Marzi from the Gießen Institute for Mechanics and Materials Research is working with the boat builder Krake Catamarane from Apolda, Thuringia. International cooperation partners are Prof. Anders Biel from the Swedish University of Karlstad and the Lamera company from Gothenburg. The Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy is supporting THM 's project contribution with 190,000 euros as part of the Central Innovation Programme for SMEs.

A current research project at the TH Mittelhessen is concerned with the further development of engines that are used for satellites. It is funded with 35,000 euros as part of the state programme “Research for Practice”. The project leader is Prof. Dr. Uwe Probst from the THM Department of Electrical and Information Technology.

Anyone who wanted to find out what scientists at the Technische Hochschule Mittelhessen are working on was welcome at the Research Day. Teams from Gießen and Friedberg informed the guests in discussions and demonstrations about current application-related projects and main areas of work.

In his welcome, THM President Prof. Dr. Matthias Willems emphasized the importance of research for the university and the region's medium-sized businesses. The general conditions at the universities of applied sciences (HAW) are significantly worse than at the universities. The researchers therefore needed a high level of intrinsic motivation. Willems praised the “State Offensive for the Development of Scientific and Economic Excellence” (Loewe), from which the THM benefits greatly. The state's investments in research infrastructure were worth it, said Willems. In particular, the expansion of mid-level academic staff at the HAW must continue.

A research project in which the Technische Hochschule Mittelhessen is involved is concerned with the “development of organic thin-film transistors for flexible biomedical systems”. Prof. Dr. Alexander Klös from the Competence Center for Nanotechnology and Photonics is cooperating with the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research in Stuttgart and the Institute for Microsystems Technology at the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg. The project is funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG). THM will receive funding of 250,000 euros over the three-year project period.

The aim of the cooperation partners is to optimize organic thin-film transistors, which are used in biomedicine and are intended to replace silicon technology there. Researchers are focusing on neural interfaces that allow direct connection between the human brain and a computer. An application example is the cochlear implant. This is an electronic hearing prosthesis that can replace the function of the inner ear. Other possible uses include disposable ECG systems or sweat sensors.

A research project at the Technische Hochschule Mittelhessen is concerned with the computer-based coding of medical information in patient files. Health insurance companies, for example, need such data to bill services. The project leaders at THM are the Friedberg professors Dr. Michael Guckert and Dr. Christian Schulze from the Competence Center for Information Technology. You cooperate with Prof. Dr. Mirjam Minor from the Department of Computer Science and Mathematics at Frankfurt Goethe University. Another partner is Minds-Medical from Frankfurt. The company specializes in the development of artificial intelligence for the healthcare industry. The state of Hesse is supporting the project with almost 370,000 euros.

For small and medium-sized companies in particular, getting started with the digitization of production (Industry 4.0) is associated with risks. In a project at the Technische Hochschule Mittelhessen , researchers are therefore developing a platform for a secure and at the same time inexpensive connection to the Internet. This allows current measurement data to be transmitted for cloud-based applications. Programmes point out the wear and tear of machines at an early stage, so that production downtimes can be avoided.

This has never existed before in Germany's higher education landscape: the Technische Hochschule Mittelhessen is the first university of applied sciences (HAW) to open an independent doctorate center for engineering sciences. So far the “ Dr. -Ing.” only possible at universities. Hesse is the only federal state that grants universities of applied sciences – the former universities of applied sciences – the right to award doctorates for research-intensive areas.

Four scientists from the Technical University of Havana were guests at the TH Mittelhessen. Tania Carbonell Morales, Director of the Center for Renewable Energy Technologies (Centro de Estudio de Tecnologías Energéticas Renovables, CETER), Ramón Piloto Rodríguez, Rubén Borrajo Pérez and Indira Tobio are working on a joint project with researchers from THM .

The THM has been cooperating with the university in the Cuban capital since 2001. Among other things, CETER deals with biomass and biofuels, solar collectors, wind farms, fuel cells and efficient building air conditioning.

The “Internet of Things” and “Cloud Computing” were among the topics of a seminar given by Prof. Dr. Ulrich Birkel and Mark Weber held at the University of Jaén. The two scientists from the Gießen Department of Electrical and Information Technology at the TH Mittelhessen were invited to Andalusia by the Departamento de Ingeniería de Telecomunicación.

Scientists, practitioners and device manufacturers met for the 22nd Colloquium on Acoustic Emission in Karlsruhe to exchange information on current work results and the latest developments. Acoustic emission analysis is a non-destructive test method. The measurement of the noise emission allows conclusions to be drawn about damage or other changes in a material.

Among the researchers who presented the results of their work at the conference were university teachers from the TH Mittelhessen. The professors Dr. Gerd Manthei, Dr. Joerg Subke, Dr. Burkhard Ziegler and the research assistant Marcel Walther held lectures there, headed working groups and took part in workshops. The main focus was on the application of the process in construction and medicine.

The non-contact long-term monitoring of infants and small children with respiratory diseases is the goal of a research project in which the TH Mittelhessen collaborates with various partners. These include the leading engineering office for medical technology (IfM) in Wettenberg, the Children's University Hospital of Eastern Bavaria in Regensburg and the Gießen Transmit Center for Bioacoustics and Respiratory Physiology. Responsible at THM is Prof. Dr. Keywan Sohrabi from the Department of Health. The Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) is funding the project with 1.1 million euros.

Respiratory diseases are among the most common health problems in children. In addition to acute diseases, chronic diseases play a major role. Around ten percent of all children under the age of 15 are affected by asthma. In the majority of cases, the disease breaks out before the age of five. However, it is often overlooked or treated too late.

Scientists from the Institute for Thermodynamics, Energy Process Engineering and System Analysis at the TH Mittelhessen attended the 11th International Energy Management Conference at the TU Vienna.

Over three days, 450 participants from science and industry discussed the topic "Freedom, equality, democracy: blessing or chaos for energy markets?". Around 200 presentations were on the programme, including two from the THM scientists.

The master's student Manuela Richter spoke about "Simulative investigations of the thermal charging and discharging processes of a sensitive high-temperature storage tank." In the lecture, which she had prepared together with the research assistant Sergej Herzog, she reported on the interim results of a current Gießen research project.

The TH Mittelhessen has been involved since the premiere of the high-tech trade fair "W3+ Fair/Convention" in Wetzlar in 2014. The university presented current research projects at the sixth edition in the Rittal Arena.

The project "Knowledge and technology transfer to the economy" on the subject of "3D printing in individualized medicine" is brand new. Dr. Ulf Mäder from the Institute for Medical Physics and Radiation Protection explains how this technology can be used in quality assurance in radiology, for example in mammography. "Three-dimensional anthropomorphic test specimens, which are produced using radiological images in 3D printing, can be used in the future to determine image quality parameters." This can be used to determine whether the X-ray machines and image display devices used in mammography meet the prescribed requirements.

A team from the TH Mittelhessen is investigating how algae can be used to protect water and recover phosphorus. The research project is entitled “Algae biotechnology in wastewater treatment plants – phosphorus recycling and energy production”. It is funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) with 725,000 euros. The project leader is Prof. Dr. Ulf Theilen, spokesman for the Competence Center for Energy and Environmental Systems Technology (ZEuUS) at THM .  

An "innovative design and manufacturing process based on crash energy-absorbing hyperelastic adhesives" is the goal of a research project in which the TH Mittelhessen is collaborating with two medium-sized companies. Project leader at the THM is Dr. Stephan Marzi, Professor of Technical Mechanics and Dynamics at the Gießen Department Mechanical and Energy Engineering . Partners are GlueTec industrial adhesives from Greußenheim and Volante paneling systems from Windischeschenbach in Upper Palatinate. The Federal Ministry of Economics is funding the project with more than 500,000 euros.

With its strategic research fund, the TH Mittelhessen has created its own set of instruments with which it expands its research profile and further develops young scientists.

To strengthen young scientists, the TH Mittelhessen has now awarded 18 doctoral positions. Research-strong professors are given a position for three years, which they can fill with a doctoral student. It can be extended to four years. The costs of a good three million euros are being financed from state funds via the Mittelhessen Research Campus (FCMH) and the "Further Development and Establishment of Research Structures" programme.