Dr. Volker Hentschel, Head of Group Program Digital Rail Germany: “With the endowed professorship for digital rail systems, we are investing seven million euros in the future of rail transport and the performance of the railroads. Together with TU Dresden, we are securing urgently needed expertise in Germany to drive forward the expansion of digital infrastructure. We want to attract up to 1,000 academic specialists. With Digital Rail, we will create more space for trains on existing tracks and increase reliability for our passengers.”
Prof. Ursula M. Staudinger, Rector of TU Dresden: “Achieving the ambitious goals of Digital Rail Germany requires specific expertise. We want to develop this further at TU Dresden together with DB. The endowed professorship for digital rail systems underlines DB’s confidence in the excellent research and teaching at TU Dresden, particularly in the rail sector. Endowed professorships are bridges between business and research. The new professorship strengthens our potential area of ‘Automated and Networked Mobility’. The future research results and the trained young professionals are important factors for the development of future-proof and sustainable mobility systems. Rail plays an essential role in this.”
The position is initially for ten years. The funding includes a professorship, three research assistants, two research assistants as well as administration and secretarial services. Scholarships will also be awarded to students in order to attract new students to the degree courses. The position is due to be advertised in March.
The research activities at the new endowed professorship for Digital Railway Systems will focus in particular on digital control and safety technology. The aim is to advance the development of methods for analyzing and designing safe technical systems. The focus is on the areas of safety and risk assessment, end-to-end digital data management, technical analyses and approval procedures for railroad systems. Innovative methods from operations research, formal methods, artificial intelligence, modeling and simulation will be used.
The Faculty of Transport Sciences “Friedrich List” is looking forward to the new professorship and the new colleague with excitement and anticipation. Dean Prof. Regine Gerike comments: “As the only faculty in Germany dedicated to transport sciences, we are pioneers in research and teaching in the development of systemic solutions for the design of safe, efficient and sustainable transport systems. Our holistic research approach is based on technical, economic, ecological and social criteria. The rail system makes a particular contribution to these criteria. With the new endowed professorship, a total of 6 rail professorships at our faculty will be researching the rail transport of the future – from very different but wonderfully complementary perspectives. This is unique in Germany.”
Contact
Dr. Michael Krieg, Managing Director
Faculty of Transport Sciences
TU Dresden
Tel. 0351/463 36606
michael.krieg1@tu-dresden.de
Nicole Knapp
Head of Communications Infrastructure
Railways in Germany
Tel. +49 (0) 30 297-61030
presse@deutschebahn.com
About TU Dresden and its Faculty of Transport Sciences “Friedrich List”
As a University of Excellence, the Technische Universität Dresden (TUD) is one of the most powerful research institutions in Germany. With around 8,300 employees and around 29,000 students in 17 faculties, it is one of the largest technically-oriented universities. Founded in 1828, today it is a globally oriented, regionally anchored top university that aims to make innovative contributions to solving global challenges. In research and teaching, it combines engineering and natural sciences with the humanities, social sciences and medicine. This nationally outstanding diversity of subjects enables the university to promote interdisciplinarity and bring science into society.
The Faculty of Transport Sciences “Friedrich List” at the TUD is the only faculty in Germany dedicated to transport sciences and an internationally recognized competence for sustainable mobility. The faculty is a pioneer in the development of systemic solutions for the design of safe, efficient and sustainable transportation systems according to technical, economic, ecological and social criteria. For practical applications in research and teaching, around 200 researchers and 1,000 students have around 30 laboratories and experimental and test facilities at their disposal.
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