Technische Universität Darmstadt The Technische Universität (TU) Darmstadt is one of Germany’s leading technical universities. Its professors, employees and students devote their talents and best efforts to the significant future research fields such as cybersecurity, internet and digitalisation, matter and radiation science, thermo-fluids and interfaces, future energy systems and processes from material to product innovation. The wide variety of disciplines represented are all focused on technology, as viewed from the vantage point of engineering, the natural sciences, the humanities, and the social sciences, and cover the full range of academic endeavor, from the origination of basic concepts to practical, everyday applications. Together with Goethe University Frankfurt and Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, TU Darmstadt has formed the strategic Rhine-Main Universities alliance. Portrait of the city With about 160,000 residents, Darmstadt lives up to its reputation as the ‘City of Science’: The Technische Universität Darmstadt and around 30 other international institutions like the ESOC, the GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung, three Fraunhofer Institutes as well as research-oriented enterprises like Merck, Deutsche Telekom and Software AG contribute to the prosperity and progress of the Rhine-Main-Neckar region. Moreover, the city is proud of the Mathildenhöhe, Darmstadt’s major Art Nouveau centre.