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DDc Lunch Retreats

DRESDEN-concept (DDc) started in 2021 the new format DDc Lunch Retreat.
Future-oriented topics with a high scientific potential that have been identified and proposed by the Scientific Area Committees (SACs) and/or the DDc Executive Board, will be shortly presented by key scientists to interested DDc members in order to get feedback and to sound out cooperation possibilities.

DDc Lunch Retreat

The DDc Lunch Retreats take place in 2025 once a quarter on a Friday at lunchtime from 12:00 to 13:00 pm:

  • 29th DDc Lunch Retreat with Prof. Dr.-Ing. Christina Scheffler on March 7, 2025, 12:00 to 1:00 pm
  • 30th DDc Lunch Retreat on June 6, 2025, 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
  • 31st DDc Lunch Retreat on September 5, 2025, 12:00 to 1:00 pm
  • 32nd DDc Lunch Retreat with JProf.in Dr. Dorit Brixius on December 5, 2025, 12:00 to 1:00 pm

Registration for the DDc Lunch Retreat with Prof. Dr.-Ing. Christina Scheffler on March 7 is now open:

The previous DDc Lunch Retreats addressed the following research areas:

  • 28th DDc Lunch Retreat „Exploring magnets in three dimensions“
    Key Speaker: Dr. Claire Donnelly
    November 7, 2024
  • 27th DDc Lunch Retreat “A Philosophical View on Guiding Principles in Physics“
    Key Speaker: Jun.-Prof. Dr. Enno Fischer
    August 21, 2024
  • 26th DDc Lunch Retreat “Inflammation-mediated Regulation of Myelopoiesis“
    Key Speaker: Dr. Lydia Kalafati
    April, 22 2024
  • 25th DDc Lunch Retreat “Biomedical Imaging beyond the Visible – Fluorescence Imaging in the Shortwave-Infrared”
    Key Speaker: Professor Dr. Oliver Bruns
    March 7, 2024
  • 24th DDc Lunch Retreat “Controlling the brain with light – organic LEDs as flexible brain interfaces?“
    Key Speaker: Dr. Caroline Murawski (KSI Meinsberg und TU Dresden)
    December 11, 2023
  • 23rd DDc Lunch Retreat “Data-driven Design of Novel Materials and Interfaces Enabling Future Technologies”
    Key Speaker: Dr. Rico Friedrich (TU Dresden and HZDR, head of the DRESDEN-concept Research Group “Autonomous Materials Thermodynamics – AutoMaT”)
    September 21, 2023
  • 22nd DDc Lunch Retreat “When and how to add social touch into digital interactions“
    Key Speaker: Prof. Dr. Merle Fairhurst (TU Dresden)
    June 22, 2023
  • 21st DDc Lunch Retreat: “Magnetically-driven microrobots for biomedical applications“
    Key Speaker: Dr. Mariana Medina-Sánchez (TU Dresden / IFW Dresden)
    March 16, 2023
  • 20th DDc Lunch Retreat: „Metabolic flexibility of the nervous system“
    Key Speaker: Prof. Stefanie Schirmeier (TU Dresden)
    November 23, 2022
  • 19th DDc Lunch Retreat: „Bio-Inspired AI from Edge to Cloud: SpiNNaker 2 and Beyond“
    Key Speaker: Prof. Dr. Christian Mayr (TU Dresden)
    October 12, 2022
  • 18th DDc Lunch Retreat: „Far-right parties against climate protection? Nationalist opposition in a transnational policy area“
    Key Speaker: Prof. Dr. Uwe Backes (HAIT) and Dr. Manès Weisskircher (University of Oslo)
    July 21, 2022
  • 17th DDc Lunch Retreat: “RTG proposal – The biological making of materials“
    Key speaker: Prof. Dr. Yael Politi (TU Dresden)
    May 19, 2022
  • 16th DDc Lunch Retreat: “Exploiting Deep Learning and Lensless Optics for Paradigm Shifts in Biomedicine“
    Key speaker: Prof. Jürgen Czarske (TU Dresden)
    April 14, 2022
  • 15th DDc Lunch Retreat: “DCIM – Dresden Center for Intelligent Materials– the DRESDEN-concept talent garden in materials research. A model also for other disciplines? Part of the next EXU proposal?”
    Key speakers: Prof. Gianaurelio Cuniberti (TU Dresden)
    March 24, 2022
  • 14th DDc Lunch Retreat: „CHANGE! – From resource efficiency towards neutrality“
    Key speakers: Prof. Maik Gude (TU Dresden), Prof. Ulrich Prahl (TUBA Freiberg) and Prof. Lothar Kroll (TU Chemnitz)
    February 10, 2022
  • 13th DDc Lunch Retreat: „Condensate biomedicine: Using the concept of biomolecular condensates to discover new biology and medicine“
    Key speakers: Prof. Simon Alberti (TU Dresden), Prof. Anthony Hyman (MPI-CBG) Prof.in Min Ae Lee-Kirsch (UKD / TU Dresden) and Dr. Jared Sterneckert (TU Dresden)
    January 19, 2022
  • 12th DDc Lunch Retreat: „Cellbots for therapy / Cellular Domestication – the Saxonian cell farming revolution / Vision: Create modular versatile cell systems for biological discovery and therapy“
    Key speakers: Prof. Ezio Bonifacio (TU Dresden), Prof. Martin Bornhäuser (UKD) and Prof. Frank Buchholz (TU Dresden)
    January 13, 2022
  • 11th DDc Lunch Retreat: Key speakers and their topics
    Prof. Frank Ellinger (TU Dresden) – Responsible Radio Frequency Circuits for Wireless Communications for ReC2
    Prof. Gerhard Fettweis (TU Dresden, Barkhausen Institut) – Digitization and Democracy – Bridging Engineering and Human Sciences
    Prof. Frank H.P. Fitzek (TUD Dresden) – CeTI 2.0
    December 16, 2022
  • 10th DDc Lunch Retreat: „NHR, NDFI, ScaDS.AI, CIDS: Important ingredients NOT only for the Emerging field Data-intensive Digital Science but for several other research activities“
    Key speakers: Prof. Wolfgang Nagel (TU Dresden) and Prof. Bjoern Andres (TU Dresden)
    November 11, 2021
  • 9th DDc Lunch Retreat: „Active back-end of line for in-memory computing / Responsible electronics in the climate change era“
    Key speakers: Prof. Thomas Mikolajick (TU Dresden) and Prof. Yana Vaynzof (TU Dresden)
    October 14, 2021
  • 8th DDc Lunch Retreat: “Taming WaterExtremes – Smart water systems in an extreme world“
    Key speakers: Prof. Peter Krebs (TU Dresden), Prof. Stefan Stolte (TU Dresden), Prof. Markus Weitere (TU Dresden/UFZ), Prof. Edeltraud Günther (UNU-FLORES) and Prof. Jochen Schanze (IÖR)
    September 24, 2021
  • 7th DDc Lunch Retreat: “Transitioning mobility into a digital, sustainable world”
    Key speakers: Prof. Regine Gerike (TU Dresden), Prof. Hartmut Fricke (TU Dresden), Prof. Marc Timme (TU Dresden) and Prof. Ostap Okhrin (TU Dresden)
    August 24, 2021
  • 6th DDc Lunch Retreat: “Context and Behaviour”
    Key speakers: Prof. Katharina von Kriegstein (TU Dresden), Prof. Tanja Endraß (TU Dresden) and Prof. Stefan Kiebel (TU Dresden)
    July 15, 2021
  • 5th DDc Lunch Retreat: “New insights from the interface between electronics and living nature“
    Key speakers: Prof. Karl Leo (TU Dresden) and Prof. Carsten Werner (IPF)
    June 2, 2021
  • 4th DDc Lunch Retreat: “21st Century Building: Towards a Climate and Resource Neutral Construction“
    Key speakers: Prof. Manfred Curbach (TU Dresden) and Prof. Victor Mechtcherine (TU Dresden)
    May 5, 2021
  • 3rd DDc Lunch Retreat: “Great topics, forbidden names: anti-aging, successful aging and rejuvenation“
    Key speakers: Prof. Henrik Bringmann (TU Dresden), Prof. Lorenz Hofbauer (UKD), Prof. Gerd Kempermann (DZNE) and Dr. Miranka Wirth (DZNE)
    April 8, 2021
  • 2nd DDc Lunch Retreat: “Precision Chemistry for Future Materials“
    Key speakers: Prof.  Xinliang Feng (TU Dresden) and Prof. Thomas Heine (TU Dresden)
    March 4, 2021
  • 1ts DDc Lunch Retreat: “Cellular Metabolism”
    Key speakers: Prof. Triantafyllos Chavakis (UKD), Prof. Ünal Coskun (PLID), Prof. Michele Solimena (PLID) and Prof. Marino Zerial (MPI-CBG)
    February 5, 2021