Medical informatics is a key discipline for modern and high-quality healthcare. In the context of digitalization in healthcare, it combines computer science and engineering with medicine. In research, the Chair of Medical Informatics deals with intelligent and networked sensor technology for personalized digital medicine, with data-driven prevention, diagnostics, therapy and rehabilitation techniques and with bio-inspired information processing. To this end, it cooperates with the cross-department Institute for Life Science Technologies at TU Ilmenau and the Thuringian Innovation Center for Medical Technology Solutions.
The demand for medical informatics specialists is already greater than the supply, and it will increase significantly in the coming years due to digitization in the healthcare sector. The planned new bachelor's and master's degree courses in medical informatics will produce experts at the interface of informatics and biomedical technology. The medical informatics degree course with its broad theoretical basis and specialist specialisation will enable them to extend existing knowledge boundaries in theory and application with new methodological approaches. The focus is on information processing in biomedical device technology, covering medical informatics as well as medical information and communication systems and data science.
The new professorship Digital Materials Science
Materials from which components and constructions can be made are the basis for all engineering applications from mechanical engineering to electrical engineering, energy technology and electronics to computer technology and artificial intelligence. Research will focus on the development of so-called digital twins, i.e. one- to four-dimensional virtual images of real materials. These make data-based analysis methods such as pattern recognition, machine learning or simulations possible in the first place. Another focus is on linking digitized experimental results and ever-improving simulation tools in order to be able to compare empirically obtained material data and physical simulations.
The planned new english-language master's programme Digital Materials Science and Engineering builds the urgently needed bridge from materials science to data science and focuses on digital materials, the digital twin and Industry 4.0. Graduates with in-depth knowledge of the digitalisation of materials will be sought-after experts in industry, especially in digital manufacturing.
Based on excellent research and teaching, the new digitalization professorships will help to attract high-quality research projects in the field of digitalization and data-intensive sciences. Another important task will be to make the knowledge, content and methods developed usable for the Thuringian economy, in companies and institutions, and thus to accompany and support the digital transformation in Thuringia.
The professorships Mathematics of Data Science and Digital Materials Science are currently being advertised: www.tu-ilmenau.de/universitaet/karriere/stellenangebote
