1 University of Kaiserslautern …always at the fore!

2 Campus in rural

3 Centrally located

4 History  1970: Foundation of the twin Universities of Trier and Kaiserslautern  1 st 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

5 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

6 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

7 Data, figures, facts  12 departments with more than 100 study programmes  Approximately students  employees  Professors: 157  Scientific staff: 811  Administration and technical staff: 631  Trainees: 116  Land area: 36 ha (approx. 94 acres)

8 Departments  Architecture  Biology  Chemistry  Civil Engineering  Computer Science  Electrical Engineering and Information Technology

9 Departments  Mathematics  Mechanical and Process Engineering  Physics  Social Sciences  Urban and Environmental Planning  Economics and School of Management

10  (CM)² – Centre for Mathematical and Computational Modelling  OPTIMAS – Centre for Optics and Material Sciences State Research Centres

11 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)”

12  State Focus “Region and Town”  State Technology Focus “Centre of Commercial Vehicle Technology” (ZNT) State Research Units

13  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

14  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

15  DFG Research Group 967: Ligands of ribosomal tunnel exit  DFG Research Group 1061: Dynamic storage functions of plant vacuoles DFG Research Groups

16 DFG Main Area of Research  DFG Main Area of Research 1172: Glya Synapses  DFG Main Area of Research 1133: Ultrafast Magnetization Process

17 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

18 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

19  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)

20 Fraunhofer - Institutes  Fraunhofer Institute for Experimental Software Engineering (IESE)  Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Mathematics (ITWM)

21 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)

22 Institutes  Institute for Biotechnology and Drug Research (IBWF)  Centre of Nanostructure Technology and Molecular Biological Technology (NBC)  Max-Planck-Institute for Software-Systems

23 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)

24 Service facilities  Material Testing Office (MPA)  Patent Information Centre (PIZ)  Student Union  Nano+BioCentre