Key Projects
Although today’s society is more advanced than ever before, many fundamental questions are still unanswered: How will we satisfy our growing demand for energy in the future? How do we deal with the demographic change in our society? How does our brain work?
Mastering these complex challenges not only requires visionary and excellent researchers, it also requires interdisciplinary teams of experts from different fields and the allocation of sufficient resources of time and money. IMTEK researchers are integrated in five key projects, either as leaders or partners.
Excellence Initiative / Excellence Strategy
The
German federal government and states launched an excellence initiative
in 2005 and 2019 to support outstanding research at German
universities.
- Living, Adaptive and Energy-autonomous Materials Systems (livMatS) / Contact: Prof. Jürgen Rühe, Department of Microsystems Engineering
Collaborative Research Centres / Research Training Groups
- PlanOS – Planar Optronic Systems
- Research Training Group Soft Matter Science: Concepts for the Design of Functional Materials
- Cooperative graduate program: "Decentralized sustainable energy systems" (DENE)
Contact: Prof. Dr. Leonhard Reindl, Department of Microsystems Engineering - Cooperative graduate program "Mechanisms of Microstructure Generation" (GEnMik II)
Contact:: Prof. Dr. Holger Reinecke, Department of Microsystems Engineering