DTU

The Technical University of Denmark was founded in 1829 to develop and create value using the natural sciences and technical sciences to benefit society. Today, DTU is ranked as one of the foremost technical universities in Europe and has more than 10,000 students and 5,800 employees. The main activities of the University comprise education, research, scientific advice, innovation and collaboration with industry, anchored in 19 institutes, a national laboratory for sustainable energy and 8 other university units.

Science and technology at DTU

DTU is an international research university with a first-class reputation. With a research profile characterised by depth, innovation, and impact, the University is at the academic forefront within the technical and the natural sciences. Special focus is dedicated to a number of internationally challenging research disciplines, including sustainable energy technologies and life sciences.

Technology transfer and collaboration are essential to DTU. The University collaborates extensively with industry partners and interact internationally with leading private and public research groups to move innovations and discoveries into the hands of the public.

DTU continuously invests heavily in state-of-the-art equipment and facilities, ensuring that its research, teaching, and learning environment is one of the best in the world.

The Imaging Industry Portal at DTU assists companies in using and implementing 3D imaging in research, development and production. Besides offering imaging services on local instruments, the Imaging Industry Portal works as a gateway to world-class large-scale facilities, including ESS and MAX IV. In addition, DTU is one of the investors in the DanMAX beamline at MAX IV, which will be used to make 3D images of materials, among other things.

The DTU Contribution to ESS

In BrightnESS, DTU is involved in Work Package 3, Organisational Innovation, specifically in terms of supporting the technology transfer capacity building process at ESS by organisation of training seminars, provision of expertise in selected cases, staff exchange, and TTO Conferences. DTU is also a part of the collaboration, communication and dissemination of BrightnESS, through WP6.

DTU collaborates with ESS within a broad spectrum of activities: ESS target design, Instrument design and simulations, education, PhD supervision, and research projects. DTU also focus on outreach to young people to create an interest in ESS and to the public in order to disseminate the potential and importance of ESS for the Danish society.

The University has entered regional, national, and EU-based projects to support the collaboration with ESS within research, industrial use, and industrial contributions to ESS. For example, DTU is part of the BigScience.dk with the general purpose of interfacing commercial interests in companies and large-scale research facilities, e.g. ESS.

DTU has made strategic investments to support activities with ESS over the last 5 years. The University will continue to ensure value creation in the Danish society by harvesting the advantages of proximity and a strong Danish neutron user community.

Overview of the main campus at the Technical University of Denmark, the Lyngby Campus.