Key Research Areas of the faculties

Faculty of Natural Sciences

Complex Materials
- dealing with questions for the production, optimization and characterization of functional interface and volume phases
Molecular Systems
- considering aspects of chemical reactions, physical processes and material properties at the molecular level
Scientific Modelling & Simulation
- characterized by forward-looking physical-mathematical concepts and analytical and numerical methods based on them
Sensing and Cognition
- development of novel sensor systems; research on information acquisition and processing by humans and technological systems; design and optimization of human-machine interfaces

Faculty of Mathematics

Dynamic behavior of linear operators and operator semigroups
Geometry and spectral theory
Functional analytical methods for the solvability of scalar and vector valued partial differential equations
Algebraic aspects of singularities of systems of complex differential equation
Hodge theory, applications in theoretical physics, in particular string theory
Complex varieties with trivial canonical bundles, especially irreducible holomorphic symplectic varieties
Algebraic group effects and module spaces in classical and geometric invariant theory
Reconstruction and estimation of spatial functions based on partial data with uncertainty
Development and analysis of optimization models and methods for convex, discrete, or PDE-constrained optimization problems
Finite element methods for the solution of simulation and optimization problems from physics, mechanics and economics
Krylov method for solving linear equation systems and approximating matrix functions
Mathematical treatment of inverse problems with applications in natural sciences, technology and finance
Methods of image and signal processing
Mathematical methods for the quantification of uncertainties
Numerical linear algebra for high-dimensional problems and efficient algorithms in data science
Fractals, especially PDE and stochastic processes on fractals

Faculty of Mechanical Engineering

Resource-efficient and low-emission production
Production systems for metal and plastic components
Highly integrative process chains and production networks
New smart materials
Automobile production technologies
Lightweight construction and systems
Virtual design methods
Textile processing and preform technologies
Printed polymer electronics

Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology

Micro system technology and nano electronics
- Smart Systems Integration (Miniaturization of components and systems (sensors, actors, circuits…)
- Design, technology, testing and application of components and systems
- Intelligent sensors based on innovative technologies
- Interfaces between nano, micro and macro spheres
- Reliability of components and systems
Information and Communication Technology
- Circuit design
- Embedded Systems
- Network Optimization, Software Defined Networking (SDN), Network Security
- Wireless communication systems, antenna development
- Software Defined Radio
- Image processing and behavior detection with camera based sensor
- Driver assistant systems, precise localization
- High automatized driving, infotainment, mobile communication, automotive electronics
Energy and automation
- Electrical power and drive systems, electromagnetic fields
- Electric mobility
- Power semiconductor devices and their reliability
- Robotics and sensor-based robot systems
- Open-loop Control, closed-loop control, optimization of processes and equipment
- System theory, process automation, mechatronics

Faculty of Computer Science

Embedded self-organizing systems
- Design methodology for embedded self-organizing systems
- Reconfiguration of hardware, software and interfaces
- Hardware software codesign
- Robustness for embedded systems
- Real time operating systems; adapted, distributes operating systems
- Data management and stream analysis of sensor data
- Future Internet Enterprise Systems
- Modeling, simulation and verification
- Adaptive controls for micro air vehicles
- Driver assistance and autonomous drivers
Intelligent multimedia systems
- Virtual and augmented reality
- Virtual Humans
- Digital object reconstruction
- Interaction of humans and technologies
- Multimedia retrieval and processing of multimedia data
- Customization of software systems
- Computer Vision
- Ubiquitous mobile systems
- Neuro-cognitive mechanisms
- Robotic
Parallel, distributed Systems
- Software development for parallel and distributed systems
- Peer-to-Peer, Grid and Cloud Computing
- Energy-efficient algorithms and programs
- Scheduling, load balancing, compiler and library support for efficient parallel and distributed computing
- Algorithms for logical problems and their parallelizability
- Quantum algorithms
- Web Engineering
- Big data, open data, linked data, data infrastructures and data markets
- Information systems
- Blockchain, Distributed Ledger Technology
- Internet of Things, Internet of Services and Internet of Everything
- Security and Privacy
- Parallel Programming
- Parallel Scientific Computing
- Vectorization and SIMD Computing
- Programming of heterogeneous systems
- Tuning and self-adaptation of software
- Algorithms of approximation

Faculty of Economics and Business Administration

Innovation and technology economy
- Sensory marketing and sensory product innovation research
- Innovation controlling for products, process chains and materials
- Energy efficient production
- Digital banking and FinTech
- Technology management, assessment and strategies
- Disruptive innovations, potentials and business models
- Innovation and change concepts to protect the environment and promote sustainable development
- Innovation Economics
- Energy regulation
- Innovation and technology law
- Digitized, connected, automated and sustainable mobility
- Data-driven innovation
- Industry 4.0 and digital twin
- Structural change
- Complex systems in economics
- Organizational learning and ambidexterity
Sustainability
- Tax morale
- Drivers for tax avoidance
- Sustainability assessment
- Municipal sustainable financing
- Resilience of hospitals
- Sustainability-oriented reporting
- Strategic environmental and sustainability management
- Inter- and transdisciplinary sustainability research
- Sustainable growth and environmental policies
- Europeanization of trade regulations
- Energy-oriented production management
- Resource efficiency in production and logistics
- Educational concepts in vocational teaching and learning
Digitization
- Digital transformation of tax consultancy
- Digital market research techniques
- Digitization of innovation processes and business models
- Digital resilience of hospitals
- Evaluation and mapping of intellectual capital
- Strategic environmental and sustainability management: business models as well as management and steering instruments
- Data management
- Analytics (machine learning, data mining)
- Business intelligence (data warehousing, reporting)
- E-Commerce
- Data governance
- Digitization from a socio-technical perspective
- Industry 4.0 in production and logistics
- Computational economics
- Information, communication and media law
Humans and labour
- Resilience of leaders
- Employment theory
- Employment and growth effects of public budget policy
- Transformation of work
- Economic inequality and social security
- Strategic personnel management and HRM-systems
- New forms of leadership

Consumer behavior and consumer protection
- Decision anomalies and personality traits in consumer behavior
- Consumer education: purchasing rationality, self-protection and accountability
- Macroeconomic effects of consumer decision making
- Consumer protection law

Faculty of Humanities

Key skills in information and knowledge societies 'New Media'
- New Media in Everyday Life, Communication Systems and Interaction Processes, Teaching-Learning Research, Virtual Environments, New Media and Digital Practices, Multimodality and Embodied Cognition
European culture and European history
- Digital History, History, Geography and Law in European Context, History and Society, Histo-ry and Tourism, Culture and History of the Technical and Scientific World, Reception History, Regional Development, Intercultural Communication, Interculturality, Migration, Transnational Practices, Language, Literature, Culture
Politics and society
- International politics, networked security, Domestic politics and governmental systems, Political culture and political ideas
Humans and technology
- Demography and diversity, knowledge and innovation management, science and technology history/science and technology reflection, human-machine interaction

Faculty of Behavioral and Social Sciences

Human
- Sensorimotor activity in complex human movement
- Development of social competences in childhood and adolescence
- Development, promotion and impact of cognitive competence
- Emotional competence
- Emergence and consequences of moral emotions
- Cognitive motivation as a resource for coping challenges across the lifespan
- Moral and responsible action in (hybrid) societies
- Psychosocial consequences of the transformation of work and enterprise
- Modern societies and global networking
- International comparative analyses of demography and migration
- Science research
- Teaching evaluation research
- Perception and attention
- Religious transformation
- Relationships and conflicts between social groups
- Social perception and stereotypes
- Subjective perception of time
- Effects of mediation
- Diversity at the workplace
- Technological change and digitization of the world of work
- School performance research
- Psychological processes of political action
Health
- Movement and load analyses in clinic and everyday life
- Mental health at the workplace
- Psychotherapy and health care research
- Coping with chronic diseases
- Epidemiology, etiology and treatment of mental and physical diseases
- Health promotion, prevention, curation, rehabilitation and nursing care
Technology
- Ergonomics in industrial production
- Human factors in technology
- Traffic psychology/e-mobility/usability
- Structural dynamics and behavioral requirements of complex social and technical systems ("Social and human competencies")
- Everyday and work-related usage of digital devices
- Human autonomy teaming