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Tusindvis af spændte, nye studerende er startet på DTU, og klar til at modtage dem stod vores passionerede vektorer🎒Hver...
07/09/2026

Tusindvis af spændte, nye studerende er startet på DTU, og klar til at modtage dem stod vores passionerede vektorer🎒

Hvert år ansætter DTU op til studiestarten lige under 300 frivillige vektorer, som sammen tager imod årets nye studerende, der starter i slutningen af august.

Vektorer er selv studerende, og de erfaringer, de har gjort sig fra første gang de satte deres ben på campus, udgør omdrejningspunktet for, hvordan de bidrager til en tryg og sjov studiestart for nye studerende🎉

Men hvem er vektorerne? Hvad betragter de selv som deres vigtigste opgaver? Og hvorfor har de meldt sig som vektorer?🤔

Vi har snakket med Tobias, Gabriella, David og Sara, nogle af DTU Electros vektorer, for at blive klogere på dem.

Alle fire lægger vægt på, at det at starte på universitetet kan være forbundet med stor nervøsitet og frygt for det ukendte. Det er en følelse, de gerne vil gribe de nye studerende i – de har jo selv været der.

De sætter ord på alle de ting, man kan have brug for støtte i som ny studerende på DTU – såsom præstationsangst, ensomhed, og store opgaver. Det er alt sammen noget, vores vektorer betragter som deres fornemmeste opgaver✅

Vi ønsker de nye studerende en god studiestart – her er ret fedt at være, men tag ikke vores ord for det, tag vektorernes, når de siger, “at det positive altid opvejer det negative her”.

Læs hele artiklen om vores vektorer i linket i kommentarsporet👇

Senior Researcher Stela Canulescu warded AEG Elektronprisen 2026 for her research🏆The award aims to promote the technica...
03/09/2026

Senior Researcher Stela Canulescu warded AEG Elektronprisen 2026 for her research🏆

The award aims to promote the technical and scientific development within the electrotechnical field, this way contributing to giving Danish industry's current and future employees a constantly more complete and advanced education🎓

Stela was nominated for her groundbreaking research in thin-film materials for solar cells☀️

Her work falls within basic research but with many applications in real life and big impact.

She specializes in studying grain boundaries and optimizing band-gaps, reducing combination rates and losses, and thereby increasing the efficiency of thin-film solar cells.

Stela’s work can reduce the size and weight of solar cells and increase the efficiency, and they can be used indoors, as they’re able to produce energy from LED lights💡

Her research is characteristic of DTU; studying fundamental processes in nature with the aim of harnessing them to improve life and society🤝

Besides her research and teaching activities, Stela has the great quality of being able to attract other talented researchers to DTU.

Stela’s research has the potential to revolutionize solar power as we know it, and Elektronprisen will support her furthering her work, which will undoubtedly be of great importance to the future of green energy🌱

What if we could make robots think more like humans?💭Soft robots are designed to be flexible, adaptive and safe around p...
01/09/2026

What if we could make robots think more like humans?💭

Soft robots are designed to be flexible, adaptive and safe around people. But that very flexibility makes them notoriously difficult to control🤔

A research team led by Associate Professor Silvia Tolu is taking inspiration from the human brain to make soft robots safer around humans.

Supported by Independent Research Fund Denmark, the project is developing a new AI-based control architecture that brings together three different approaches:

🧠 Neuro-inspired models for fast, energy-efficient responses
🎯 Reinforcement learning so robots can learn from experience
⚙️ Control theory to keep their behaviour stable and safe

The result is a system designed to balance adaptability, stability and efficiency – allowing soft robots to respond quickly when needed, while also learning and making more complex decisions✅

Why does this matter?

Because soft robots could play an important role in environments where safety and adaptability are essential – from healthcare and rehabilitation to assistive technologies and robots working alongside people🤝

The goal isn't simply to make robots smarter.

It's to make them safer, so they can become a more natural part of our everyday lives.

Learn more in the article in the comment section 👇

Ready, set, study! New students have officially started their bachelors🎉Last week heads of studies Gabriel Zsurzsan, Hen...
31/08/2026

Ready, set, study! New students have officially started their bachelors🎉

Last week heads of studies Gabriel Zsurzsan, Henrik Wessing, and Per Lynggaard welcomed hundreds of new bachelor students, who will now be embarking on their engineering journey🚀

Our volunteer vectors – students themselves – were ready to greet the next generation. They had planned three days of activities and will be supporting the new students for their first year🤝

After being welcomed by their vectors and heads of studies, the new students on Cyber Technology and Electrical Engineering had both social and academic activities in store.

They got to know their new peers over human bingo and shared lunches, and of course they were offered a small taste of what their study programmes have in store🎒

Cyber Technology students went for a trip around campus testing and mapping the network connection in the area📶, and Electrical Engineering students got to try their hand at soldering in a crash course👩‍🏭

We wish the next generation of engineers a great start, and look forward to seeing them in the auditoriums.

Sarah Ruepp has been appointed professor🙌We played 5 questions for the professor to learn about her career and what driv...
27/08/2026

Sarah Ruepp has been appointed professor🙌

We played 5 questions for the professor to learn about her career and what drives her – find her answers in these few slides.

It was really only a matter of time before Sarah became a professor. As she says herself, she’s curious and technologically inclined by nature, but hard work is what got her here💪

As a researcher she pushes the stability and reliability of communication technology as a critical part of society, and as head of study she inspires the next generation of engineers, driven by a want to create a real difference to regular people🤝

Join us in congratulating Professor Ruepp for this well-deserved milestone!👏

Interface engineering may offer a new way of turning light into electricity, supercharging solar power☀️Solar cells have...
26/08/2026

Interface engineering may offer a new way of turning light into electricity, supercharging solar power☀️

Solar cells have transformed our ability to generate clean electricity. Yet most solar-cell technologies still operate according to essentially the same principle:

Light generates electrical charges, which are then separated by a semiconductor junction and collected to produce electricity⚡

This process, however, is not free. It costs space, weight and energy🤔

So what if there was a shortcut?

Backed by a Novo Nordisk Foundation NERD grant, Senior Researcher Stela Canulescu and her team are exploring whether the interface itself between two materials could turn light into electricity.

Their work could potentially combine light detection, energy generation and information processing in a single material structure, where size and power consumption really matter💪

Rather than just making today’s solar cells better, the team is exploring whether we can build them in an entirely different way, making them ultrathin, lightweight and energy-efficient✅

Learn more about the project in the article in the comment section👇

Psychological safety was the theme of our annual summer seminar☀️Organizational psychologist Marie Kingston joined us fo...
24/08/2026

Psychological safety was the theme of our annual summer seminar☀️

Organizational psychologist Marie Kingston joined us for the day, to clarify the concept and its connection to both wellbeing and performance🤔

We believe that prevention is better than cure, and it’s important to have the conversation about how we can all contribute to ensuring this remains a safe workplace.

We covered trust as a foundation, constructive feedback, why conflicts are important, and asking for help.

We broke up the dialogue with group exercises for energy and teambuilding and of course a few competitions to keep the engineers engaged, and ended the day with discussions on our takeaways💭

Thank you to all of our passionate colleagues for their participation and to Marie for sharing her knowledge🤝

Enjoy these silly photos from an important day of learning.

Michael Galili has been appointed professor🙌We played 5 questions for the professor to learn about his career and what d...
21/08/2026

Michael Galili has been appointed professor🙌

We played 5 questions for the professor to learn about his career and what drives him – find his answers in these few slides.

Professor Galili is absorbed with how we can send information more efficiently and securely using light, excited by basic research turning into useful technology🌐

His work on quantum communication made him a key player in Denmark’s first field trial of quantum secure communication⚛️

Driven by his want to make the digitalisation safer and more gentle on the planet’s resources, and a hope to inspire the next generation of engineers, he develops communication technologies for the digital infrastructure of the future🌍

Join us in congratulating Professor Galili for this well-deserved milestone!👏

A tiny twist brings telecom light sources directly onto silicon chips🔦As computers become more powerful, we need faster ...
19/08/2026

A tiny twist brings telecom light sources directly onto silicon chips🔦

As computers become more powerful, we need faster and more energy-efficient ways to move increasingly enormous amounts of data around🌐

Today, optical communication systems often rely on separate light sources to send data through fibre.

Integrating the light source directly onto the silicon chip could help make future photonic systems smaller, more compact and potentially more energy-efficient✅

In a newly published paper in Science Advances, researchers combine materials that could put efficient light sources directly onto chips, operating at a wavelength already used for fibre-optic communications.

Generating light directly on a chip is difficult, but here’s the twist: Stacking two ultra-thin atomic layers with a slight twist creates a special pattern that helps the material emit light efficiently💡

Combined with a structure that traps light within an ultra-small space, the result is a bright, highly precise light source that works at room temperature and can be guided directly into the chip’s optical circuitry.

It’s a tiny change at the atomic scale, with potentially big implications for the future of optical communication.

Find both the research article and popular article in the comment section👇

What does it take to turn a good idea into a real business?💡Yesterday marked the start of our annual entrepreneurship su...
18/08/2026

What does it take to turn a good idea into a real business?💡

Yesterday marked the start of our annual entrepreneurship summer school, that’ll run the whole week.

Led by Christian Pedersen, we brought together aspiring entrepreneurs on all academic levels for a full day of learning, teamwork and pitching💼

We started out strong with Carina Lomborg presenting product, market and navigation, to Jes Broeng offering his insight on setting the right team, mindset and personal development.

Thomas Howard and Peter Skovgaard presented cases for inspiration and important lessons.

Groups prepared 5 minute pitches and presented their business proposals🎤

From first idea to first pitch – this week is about learning by doing, challenging assumptions and discovering what it takes to turn research and ideas into impact.

Later in the week we will cover interesting topics such as funding, budgeting, marketing and sales.

The week will end with an open pitch competition🏅

Good luck to all the future entrepreneurs!

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