Research at THI

The THI is one of Germany's strongest research universities for applied sciences. The CARISSMA research building, which is the leading scientific centre for integral vehicle safety in Germany with around 110 scientists, plays a central role. Since 2019, THI has been home to the Bavarian AI Mobility Node with a total of 20 AI research professorships. With eight research institutes in the fields of mobility, artificial intelligence, renewable energies and sustainability, the Fraunhofer Application Centre for Networked Mobility and Infrastructure, the AI cooperation network of AININ eGmbH and other competence centres, more than 300 scientists conduct research at THI.

Research News

Professor Shane Xie, Marcel Kettelgerdes, and Professor Peter Xu at the prize-giving ceremony for the Best Paper Award (Photo: THI).

Best Paper Award for Marcel Kettelgerdes

At the 29th IEEE International Conference on Mechatronics and Machine Vision in Practice (M2VIP) in Queenstown, New Zealand, the THI employee was… more

06.12.2023

Michael Graf (centre) and participants from the THI (Photo: THI).

Best Paper Award for Michael Graf

At this year's VDI conference on vehicle safety, the CARISSMA test engineer and doctoral student impressed the audience with his presentation on tests… more

27.11.2023

InES – Participation at ISES Solar World Congress 2023

The International Solar Energy Society (ISES) is well-known among solar energy experts. This society hosts the esteemed Solar World Congress every two… more

08.11.2023

Focus areas in research

More than 70 professorships with 300 academic staff are currently conducting research, focussing on the areas of Mobility & Road Safety, Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning and Sustainability & Renewable Energies. THI is represented on the HRK research map with the three research specialisations "Vehicle Safety and Innovative Mobility", "Artificial Intelligence" and "Renewable Energies".

Kreuzungsszenario zwei Fahrzeuge und Fußgängerdummy in Testhalle

Mobility & Vehicle Safety

Roboter und menschliche Hand berühren sich mit den Fingerspitzen. Darüber eine Hologrammanzeige, die mit künstlicher Intelegenz zu tun hat.

Artificial Intelligence

Sustainability & Energy Systems

More Focus Areas

Research Institutes

The main aim of applied research and of THI is to bring findings from basic research into application. Therefore, about one third of the university’s total budget is invested in research. As a result, THI is one of the top research Universities for Applied Sciences in Germany.

Research at THI is organised in research institutes - CARISSMA (C-IAD, C-ISAFE, C-ECOS), AImotion Bavaria, Institute for Innovative Mobility (IIMo), Institute for New Energy Systems (InES), Sustainability in Research and Transfer Center Neuburg (ForTraNN) and the Bavarian Foresight Institute. In addition, the university works closely with the three AN-institutes AININ, Fraunhofer Anwendungszentrum and inas.

AImotion Bavaria

Bavarian Foresight Institute

Foresight in Technology and Business

CARISSMA

ForTraNN

Research and Transfer Center for Sustainability in Neuburg

IIMo

InES

Drone, die auf einem Hubschrauber-Landeplatz landet. Im Hintergrund sind Hochhäuser.

Technology Transfer Center Unmanned Flight Systems

Urban Air Mobility and Unmanned Aviation

AININ

Fraunhofer Anwendungszentrum

inas

Promoting research and young scientists

THI is strongly committed to young academics. For years, doctoral projects in the fields of technology and economics have been carried out very successfully with partner universities in Germany and abroad. Together with the TU Munich, THI is the sponsoring university of BayWISS in the "Mobility and Transport" collaborative research centre.

All of THI's current 140 doctoral students are supervised by the university's own Doctoral School. In the winter semester 2023/24, two doctoral centres were set up in the particularly research-intensive fields of artificial intelligence/computer science and engineering, for which THI is solely responsible. They enable early career researchers to complete a doctorate directly at THI.