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Congratulations to our VSR member Maik Benndorf for his successful PhD defense
We are happy to announce that our colleague Maik Benndorf successfully defended his PhD thesis "Towards Vibration-based Structural Health Monitoring using Mobile Android Devices" on 15 April 2025.
We congratulate Maik to his achievement and wish him the best for his future career.
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Congratulations to our VSR member Mahda Noura for her successful PhD defense
We are happy to announce that our colleague Mahda Noura successfully defended her PhD thesis "Goal-Oriented End User Development of Web of Things Compositions" on 16 January 2025.
We congratulate Mahda to her achievement and wish her the best for her future career.
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Looking for Student Assistants (APPLICATION DEADLINE EXTENDED!)
We are currently looking for motivated student assistants for two positions:
Teaching Materials Creation, Curation and Integration
We are seeking a student assistant to assist with the creation, curation, and integration of teaching materials.
Programming skills are strongly desired to help automate processes and manage technical content.
If you are interested, please send an email with a short application and your CV until 14.05.2025 to vsr-edu@informatik.tu-chemnitz.de

ACROSS European Cross-border University
We are happy to announce that we will help building the eCampus of ACROSS, the European Cross-border University, an alliance of TUC with 9 other European universities.
TUC as lead, represented by Prof. Martin Gaedke, and UNIUD as co-lead, represented by Prof. Christian Micheloni, will lead Task 2.1. This task focuses on building and integrating the digital infrastructure of ACROSS. The activities are supported by Dr. Daniel Pietschmann and Dr. Stefano Bonomi..

ENFIELD - Human Perception of Trustworthy AI Study
Our team member Dr. Sebastian Heil visited the centre of interdisciplinary cyber security research and education (CybSec) at University of Nottingham and worked on a study about human perception of trustworthy AI. He was invited by Prof. Steven Furnell as part of VSR's research in the European Network of Excellence (NoE) ENFIELD.
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