University of Kaiserslautern

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University of Kaiserslauternalways at the fore!
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Campus in rural
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Centrally located
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History

• 1970 Foundation of the twin Universities of
• Trier and Kaiserslautern
• 1st September, 2003 Renaming to
• Kaiserslautern University of Technology
  
• The only technology and science oriented
• University in Rhineland-Palatinate
• Germanys second largest University for
• distance learning

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Locational advantages

• Attractive variety of courses of studies and
• disciplines
• Excellent quality of research and study
• Reputable research centres located directly on
  campus
• Modern and manageable university campus
• Excellent student-professor ratio

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Locational advantages

• Practice-oriented education
• Foreign study programmes
• Future-oriented courses of study
• Wide variety of sporting, cultural, and leisure
  activities
• Favourable costs of living

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Data, figures, facts

• 12 departments with more than 100 study
  programmes
• Approximately 12.500 students
• 1.715 employees
• Professors 157
• Scientific staff 811
• Administration and technical staff 631
• Trainees 116
• Land area 36 ha (approx. 94 acres)

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Departments

• Architecture
• Biology
• Chemistry
• Civil Engineering
• Computer Science
• Electrical Engineering and Information
  Technology

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Departments

• Mathematics
• Mechanical and Process Engineering
• Physics
• Social Sciences
• Urban and Environmental Planning
• Economics and School of Management

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State Research Centres

• (CM)² Centre for Mathematical and Computational
  Modelling
• OPTIMAS Centre for Optics and Material Sciences

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State Research Units

• AME (Advanced Materials Engineering)
• AmSys (Ambient Systems Technologies and
  Applications
• Membrane Transport (From Molecular Principles to
  Physiological Relevance
• NanoKat (Nanostructured Catalysts)
• RESCUE (Sustainable Resource conservation in
  Civil engineering, Urbanism an Economy)

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State Research Units

• State Focus Region and Town
• State Technology Focus Centre of Commercial
  Vehicle
• Technology (ZNT)

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Collaborative Research Centres

• SFB 530 (Participation) Spatial-chronological
  interactions of cellular signal molecules
• SFB Transregio 49 Condensed Matter Systems
  with Variable Many-Body Interactions
• SFB TRR 88 Cooperative Effects in homo- and
  heterometallic complexes (3MET)
• SFB 926 Microscale Morphology of Component
  Surfaces (MICOS)

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DFG Research Groups

• DFG Research Group 524
  Production, quality analysis and simulation of
  welded lightweight constructions made of metal /
  fiber synthetic materials compound
• DFG Research Group 559 Materials with high spin
  polarization

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DFG Research Groups

• DFG Research Group 967 Ligands of ribosomal
  tunnel exit
• DFG Research Group 1061 Dynamic storage
  functions of plant vacuoles

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DFG Main Area of Research

• DFG Main Area of Research 1172 Glya Synapses
• DFG Main Area of Research 1133 Ultrafast
• Magnetization Process

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DFG/BMBF Projects

• DFG-Project Plant flavonoids and polyphenols
• For a better understanding of molecular
  effective mechanisms focusing on the relation
  risk/ benefit
• BMBF-Project
• The effect of food on the genesis of bowell
  diseases
• and possible prevention by diet

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Research Training Groups of DFG (German Research
Foundation)

• DFG-RTG 753
  Mathematics and implementation
• DFG-RTG 814
  Engineering materials on varios scales
  experiment, modelling and simulation
• DFG-RTG 845
  Molecular, physiological and
  pharmacological analysis of cellular membrane
  transport

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Research Training Groups of DFG (German Research
Foundation)

• DFG-RTG 792
  Non-linear optics and ultra
  short-time physics
• DFG-RTG 1131
  Visualization of large-scale unstructured
  data
• PhD Programm Computer Science

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Fraunhofer - Institutes

• Fraunhofer Institute for Experimental Software
  Engineering (IESE)
• Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Mathematics
  (ITWM)

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Institutes

• German Research Centre for Artificial
• Intelligence (DFKI)
• Institute for Surface and Thin Film Analysis
  (IFOS)
• Institute for Composite Materials (IVW)
• Research Institute for Technology and Work
• (ITA)

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Institutes

• Institute for Biotechnology and Drug Research
  (IBWF)
• Centre of Nanostructure Technology and
• Molecular Biological Technology (NBC)
• Max-Planck-Institute for Software-Systems

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Service facilities

• Centre for Distance Learning and Further
  Education (ZFUW)
• Day nursery (KiTa)
• eTeaching Service Centre (eTSC)
• Innovational Management GmbH (IMG)
• KIT (Information and Technology Transfer Office)

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Service facilities

• Material Testing Office (MPA)
• Patent Information Centre (PIZ)
• Student Union
• NanoBioCentre