Centre for Science and Technology Transfer (ZWT)

Research areas

Our research is about future topics: sustainability, digitalization and social responsibility. Under these research areas you will find over 60 research fields.

Autonomous Systems, Visualization and Artificial Intelligence

  • Robotics
  • Automation / Remote Lab
  • Augmented Reality
  • Virtual Reality
  • 3D Interaction
  • Computer Vision
  • Realistic image synthesis
  • Scientific visualization and information visualization
  • Digital Storytelling
  • Deep Learning for Visual Computing
  • Intelligent Assistance Systems
  • Perception Research
  • Data Science and Data Literacy
  • Decision support systems in consumer informatics
  • Information Systems

Security Research

  • Cyber Security
  • Biometric Systems
  • Functional Security
  • Civil Security
  • Food Safety
  • Supply security, water purification and sensing
  • Detection and sensing
  • Trace analysis
  • Laser applications
  • Trace analysis and detection for forest and plant protection
  • Forensic analytics
  • Risks and resilience

Energy Systems and Mobility

  • Climate protection: Renewable energies and energy efficiency
  • Cross-sector energy grids and power-to-H2-to-X cycles
  • Power electronics for renewable energies, for electric vehicles and for sector coupling
  • User-centered mobility research
  • Interactions between institutional and technological change
  • Modeling and simulation of technical systems
  • Technology acceptance using the example of sustainable mobility concepts
  • Risks and resilience
  • Health and One Health

Climate and Environment

  • Sustainable and resilient cities – Urban Green
  • Biodiversity
  • Environmental and Soil Protection
  • Food of the future
  • Climate change and climate change adaptation
  • Risks and resilience
  • Green Economy
  • LCA and Life Cycle Assessment
  • Technology Acceptance with Environmental Relevance
  • Health and One Health
  • Social security and health systems from a global perspective
  • Trace analysis and detection for forest and plant protection

Resource Optimized Products and Processes

  • Sustainable materials
  • Materials analysis
  • Modeling and simulation of technical systems
  • Business process management
  • 3D printing and generative manufacturing
  • Digital Twin Lab

Social and Health

  • Social security and health care systems from a global perspective
  • Interactions between institutional and technological change
  • Disruptive social innovations
  • Orientation value of utopias for social policy design tasks
  • Making migration socially acceptable
  • Health and One Health
  • Health apps and solidarity acceptance
  • Rehabilitation and participation
  • Case management – professional cooperation and coordination
  • Risks and resilience

Communication and Media

  • Social science journalism
  • Media aesthetics and design research
  • Gender and Technology
  • Technology acceptance with environmental reference

Life Sciences

  • Biomedicine
  • Microbiome
  • Biomaterials and Sustainability
  • Molecular Modeling
  • Health and One Health
  • Health Management

You can find the corresponding institutes of the university here:

Status: 12.06.2023

Contact point

Centre for Science and Technology Transfer (ZWT)

Campus

Sankt Augustin

Room

F 405

Address

Grantham-Allee 20

53757, Sankt Augustin

Telephone

+49 2241 865 745