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Made in Science – The official podcast of the University of Stuttgart Universität Stuttgart
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Dr. Wolfgang Holtkamp, Senior Advisor International Affairs, meets scientists, alumnae and alumni, employees and students from the University of Stuttgart. The conversations are not only about the interviewee’s current work, they also focus on their personality, what inspired them, and their career.
One thing that all of the guests have in common is that they have studied or worked at the University of Stuttgart, or are still doing so, i.e. they are "Made in Science". How did they become who they are? Looking back, what would they do differently? Which Swabian specialty do they prefer, Spätzle or Maultaschen? Holtkamp asks these and other exciting questions.
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"The humanities are actually about who we are" (#37)
Episode 37 of our podcast "Made in Science" is all about Shakespeare. We discuss this with our guest Professor Sybille Baumbach, who has been full Professor of English literature
at the Department of English Literatures and Cultures at the University of Stuttgart since 2018. She has just been awarded an ERC Advanced Grant by the European Research Council for her "LitAttention" project. Baumbach is also President of the renowned German Shakespeare Society, one of the oldest literary societies in Germany and the world. In any case, there were many interesting topics to discuss with her. -
"If you do cutting-edge research and development, you must fail sometimes" (#36)
Our interview partner is Prof. Dr. Michael Totzeck, ZEISS Fellow and Head of Corporate Research and Technology. His focus today is on quantum technology, artificial intelligence and additive manufacturing. The physicist set up his own working group at the Institute of Technical Optics at the University of Stuttgart in 1995, which he headed for seven years. Through his research activities at ZEISS, an honorary professorship at the University of Konstanz and as a member of the advisory board of the Stuttgart Research Center of Photonic Engineering (SCoPE), he actively contributes to the combination of academic research and industrial research.
We talk about success, how new ideas are created at ZEISS and how he brings the industrial perspective to the University of Stuttgart. -
"To solve technical problems it's a high amount of creativity that is required" (#35)
Our guest is Dr. Luiz Chamon from Brazil, who came to the University of Stuttgart in 2022. He heads is own research group at the at the Cluster of Excellence SimTech and ELLIS. His research areas covers optimization, signal processing, machine learning, and control, particularly in some intersection of these fields. In our conversation we hear about different forms of learning, some of his international expierences, music in his life and what it is all about "living next door to ELLIS".
More:
https://www.luizchamon.com/
https://www.simtech.uni-stuttgart.de/
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"This is a new level of interdisciplinary research" (#34)
Professor Sabine Ludwigs, who is our podcast guest today is heading an interdisciplinary and international research team of polymer chemists, physical chemists and material scientists who are developing functional and intelligent polymer materials and devices. We talk with her about chemistry at the University of Stuttgart and her research activities, about functional soft materials and Soft Robotics about the role of Music in her life and not to forget the new Center for Bionic Intelligence Tübingen Stuttgart (BITS).
More:
https://www.ipoc.uni-stuttgart.de/fp/team/Ludwigs-00001/
https://www.uni-stuttgart.de/en/university/news/all/The-new-Center-for-Bionic-Intelligence-Tuebingen-Stuttgart/
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"This is the time, when innovation happens" (#33)
We talk to Professor Katharina Hölzle, who has headed the Institute of Human Factors IAT at the University of Stuttgart and the Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Engineering IAO since 2022. Among other things, we talk about how the work of the future is being researched, what Hölzle advises the political level on and why the education system needs to be changed. Many inspiring statements can be heard in this interview.
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"Today startups want to create an impact, not only money" (#32)
Our guest is Rubina Zern-Breuer, who has headed the new Transfer Center at the University of Stuttgart since the beginning of 2023. This is where the transfer of knowledge and ideas is bundled and where the central career service for students is also located. We talk about collaboration between the university and external parties, innovation and the new start-up culture. But biographical topics, such as her stay at the Thomas Mann House in Los Angeles or decisive moments for her career path are also part of the conversation.
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