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University of Kaiserslautern…always 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

Germany’s 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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(CM)² – Centre for Mathematical and Computational Modelling

OPTIMAS – Centre for Optics and Material Sciences

State Research Centres

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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 Focus “Region and Town”

State Technology Focus “Centre of Commercial Vehicle

Technology” (ZNT)

State Research Units

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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)

Collaborative Research Centres

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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

DFG Research Groups

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DFG Research Group 967: Ligands of ribosomal tunnel exit

DFG Research Group 1061: Dynamic storage functions of plant vacuoles

DFG Research Groups

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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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DFG-RTG 792: Non-linear optics and ultra short-time physics

DFG-RTG 1131: Visualization of large-scale unstructured data

PhD Programm Computer Science

Research Training Groups of DFG (German Research Foundation)

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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

Nano+BioCentre