Subprojects

C Coordinate

Coordination, Central Support and Infrastructure

C coordinates the Research Unit, organises joint events and supports early-career researchers.

What we do

  1. Fall workshops

    Three-day workshops for doctoral researchers and principal investigators in 2023, 2024 and 2025.

  2. Guest lectures

    Lars Bittrich, Oliver Niggemann, Marco Huber and Sebastian Trimpe spoke to the Research Unit in 2025.

  3. Opening doors

    BOGY internships at FAST and wbk introduce school students to engineering in lightweight design.

About the subproject

C connects the seven scientific subprojects. It plans the joint work, runs the general assemblies and maintains the shared infrastructure.

Principal investigators
Host institute
Vision and Fusion Laboratory (IES), KIT
People in C

Events

  1. Event

    General assembly of the Research Unit

    Principal investigators and researchers met to coordinate work across the subprojects and to plan the remaining steps of the first funding phase.

  2. Event

    Third annual fall workshop

    From 17 to 19 November 2025, doctoral researchers and principal investigators from all subprojects reviewed their progress, worked in collaboration groups on joint publications and discussed shared methodological challenges.

  3. Guest lecture

    Guest lecture by Sebastian Trimpe

    Prof. Sebastian Trimpe (RWTH Aachen University) presented “Learning Controllers for Machines: Paradigms and Recent Results”.

  4. Guest lecture

    Guest lecture by Marco Huber

    Prof. Marco Huber (University of Stuttgart and Fraunhofer IPA) presented “Bayesian and Informed Machine Learning for Model-Based Control”.

  5. Guest lecture

    Guest lecture by Oliver Niggemann

    Prof. Oliver Niggemann (Helmut Schmidt University Hamburg) presented “Physics-inspired Machine Learning”.

  6. Guest lecture

    Guest lecture by Lars Bittrich

    Dr. Lars Bittrich (Leibniz-Institut für Polymerforschung Dresden) presented “Using Machine Learning to Increase Production Accuracy in Tailored Fiber Placement”.

  7. Event

    Second annual fall workshop

    From 18 to 20 November 2024, doctoral researchers and principal investigators met for three days to align ongoing collaborations across the subprojects.

  8. Event

    First annual fall workshop

    From 14 to 16 November 2023, doctoral researchers and principal investigators from all subprojects met for the first annual fall workshop of the Research Unit.