The Week at TU Braunschweig | 17.10.2025 Our Newsletter for all Employees
Topics: Electric Magnons + Self-Driving Tractors + Young Geniuses
Editor: Elisabeth Hahn
► Record spin waves thanks to flux quanta
Could electronics function using particles other than electrons? As part of the QuantumFrontiers Cluster of Excellence, Professor Oleksandr Dobrovolskiy is researching an alternative based on magnons. Yesterday, he published record-breaking findings on these particles’ fundamentals in the journal Nature Nanotechnology.
► Secure automation: Working together for the agricultural technology of the future
Secure, legal and practical automation of agricultural machinery: This is the focus of an interdisciplinary joint project involving researchers from Ostfalia University of Applied Sciences, TU Braunschweig and TU Clausthal. Together with industry partners, they are creating a development guideline that can be used throughout Europe.
►A visit from Canada
TU Braunschweig and Western University in London, Ontario, are expanding their collaboration in the field of battery and hydrogen technologies. The Institute for Particle Technology (iPAT) and Western University have been working together for years and now both universities have further strengthened their partnership with an official cooperation agreement. Among other things, a student exchange programme is also planned.
► 22 ideas for “Travelling light”
In May, more than 50 employees led by Dietmar Smyrek embarked on a mission to simplify everyday life at the university. At the interim event of the internal TU project “Travelling light”, nine teams presented 22 prototypes. A 7-week testing phase will now begin to determine which ideas offer the greatest potential for practical application.
► Invitation to the TU Teaching Award Ceremony 2025
This is the second year that students have had the opportunity to nominate outstanding courses from the last two semesters for the TU Teaching Award. The 2025 winners will be announced at the ceremony on 27 October. The event will begin at 18:30 in the auditorium of the Haus der Wissenschaft. We look forward to seeing you there!
► TU for Future: hybrid lecture series on the climate crisis
Next week marks the start of the 25/26 winter semester – and with it the hybrid lecture series ‘TU for Future’. Every Wednesday at 6:30 p.m., current research and sustainable solutions to the climate crisis will be examined from various perspectives. Anyone interested can register via StudIP.
► Knowledge Nugget #10: Thinking in stories – storytelling with Scenes as a teaching strategy
What stories do teachers tell, consciously or unconsciously? On 28 October, Sarah Zerwas will show how she uses storytelling in combination with the Scenes tool to make her courses more lively – and to engage students.
► Welcome meeting and baby bag for parents
On 12 November, President Prof. Angela Ittel invites you to a welcome meeting with the presentation of baby bags. All parents who had a baby at TU last year or who were unable to attend the last meeting are invited. Please register by 1 November by email.
► Joint company outing for the central administration
The central administration went on its first joint outing since the coronavirus pandemic on 7 October in Wolfenbüttel. 115 employees from 24 organisational units took the opportunity to network and promote exchange.
► Our darlings of the week
… can hardly wait to start their studies next week – even though they are still attending school! Alina Schindler and Ellen Stupar are two of ten young people who are getting their first taste of university life as part of an early study programme. We wish them lots of fun!
► Events
There is always something going on at TU Braunschweig. Discussions, information events, concerts and much more. Take a look at our calendar of events and get inspired.