Hannah Keese is a doctoral candidate at the Institute of Geotechnics. As part of her research project, she spent four weeks at the Department of Civil Engineering at Aalto University in Espoo, Finland, in 2024.

Continue reading ““It was worth not giving up right away!””

 

Madlen Grau is doing her doctorate at the Professorship for Entrepreneurship and Business Taxation. In August, she travelled to the TU Wien (Vienna, Austria) for a research stay with partners.

Continue reading ““I arrived with many questions. I returned with a much clearer orientation””

 

Nazia Zaffar is a doctoral candidate at the Biology/Ecology Research Group. In October, she had the opportunity to attend the Mining & Critical Minerals America Conference and Exhibition in Houston, Texas, USA as a speaker.

Continue reading ““Every new environment can help you grow if you let it””

 

Moritz Czyrnia is a doctoral candidate at the Professorship of Industrial Management, Production Management and Logistics. In June, he travelled to Bosnia -Herzegovina to attend the PRO-SLO PhD School 2025. The focus was on the so-called SLO – Social Licence to Operate, i.e. social acceptance of large projects.

Continue reading “‘Building bridges between all parties involved so that large projects can sustainably succeed’”

 

Sebastian Stahl is doing his doctorate at the MSE Lab (Professorship for Measurement, Sensor and Embedded Systems). In October, he spent three weeks at a summer school at the China University of Mining and Technology in Xuzhou.

Continue reading ““The way Chinese culture values science, university and learning in a social context in general gave me a new perspective on the workload””

 

Rayitray Althue Abello Barriga is a PhD student in the Biology/Ecology Working Group. As part of a double-degree PhD programme, she conducts her research at both TU Bergakademie Freiberg and the University of Santiago, Chile.  In September, she travelled to Portugal to attend the Plant Environmental Physiology Group Field Techniques Workshop.

Continue reading ““I learned to think beyond the individual plant””

 

Saif Hossain is a doctoral candidate at the Institute for Glass Science and Technology. This summer, he had the chance to attend the Summer School of the International Commission on Glass in Montpellier, France.

Continue reading ““Within a short time, we overcame the challenges””

 

Laura Hohlfeld, a doctoral candidate at the Institute for Nanoscale and Biobased Materials, on her experiences at the European School on Rheology 2025 in Leuven, Belgium.

Continue reading ““Taking my experiments to the next level””