Location & approach

By car

The campus of the Technical University of Dortmund is located near the freeway junction Dortmund West, where the Sauerland line A45 crosses the Ruhr expressway B1/A40. The Dortmund-Eichlinghofen exit on the A45 leads to the South Campus, the Dortmund-Dorstfeld exit on the A40 leads to the North Campus. The university is signposted at both exits.

By bus and train

The "Dortmund Universität" S-Bahn station is located directly on the North Campus. From there, the S-Bahn line S1 runs every 20 or 30 minutes to Dortmund main station and in the opposite direction to Düsseldorf main station via Bochum, Essen and Duisburg. In addition, the university can be reached by bus lines 445, 447 and 462. Timetable information can be found on the homepage of the Rhine-Ruhr transport association, and DSW21 also offer an interactive route network map.

The H-Bahn

One of the landmarks of the TU Dortmund is the H-Bahn. Line 1 runs every 10 minutes between Dortmund Eichlinghofen and the Technology Center via Campus South and Dortmund University S, while Line 2 commutes every 5 minutes between Campus North and Campus South. It covers this distance in two minutes.

By plane

From Dortmund Airport, it takes just over 20 minutes to get to Dortmund Central Station by AirportExpress and from there to the university by S-Bahn. A wider range of international flight connections is offered by Düsseldorf Airport, about 60 kilometers away, which can be reached directly by S-Bahn from the university's train station.

Plan of site & interactive map

The facilities of TU Dortmund University are spread over two campuses, the larger Campus North and the smaller Campus South. Additionally, some areas of the university are located in the adjacent "Technologiepark".

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Campus Weather

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Calendar

01-07 – 01-07 | start 04:00 pm

Fundamentals and applications of single-molecule FRET in biophysical research

01-11 – 01-11 | start 10:30 am

Crystals, lenses, masterpieces - through art museums with a physicist's eye

01-14 – 01-14 | start 04:00 pm

Habilitation colloquium

01-28 – 01-28 | start 04:00 pm

Entangling spins and photons for quantum technologies

04-15 – 04-15 | start 04:00 pm

Colloquium of Dr. Xinyu Luo

04-22 – 04-22 | start 04:00 pm

Colloquium for the transfer of habilitation

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Campus Weather

Current weather

Weather forecast

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Location & approach

By car

By bus and train

The H-Bahn

By plane

Plan of site & interactive map

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About the origin of Life on Earth

Start: 05/07/2024, 4:00 PM End: 05/07/2024, 5:00 PM Location: Hörsaalgebäude II, Hörsaal 2

Event type:

Colloquium

Students sitting in a lecture in the lecture hall.

Lecture at the Colloquium by Dr. Hans Dembinski

Dr. Hans Dembinski

About the origin of Life on Earth

This talk is about fascinating facts and interesting theories about the puzzling origin of life on Earth. I will start with an overview how Earth geologically developed and trace the evolution of life on Earth. We will look into a few curious turns that Nature took along the way. Then, I will focus on the origin of life, the first reproductive biological systems. A puzzling fact is that life on Earth developed extremely quickly, although the step from non-living matter to living systems appears to be very improbable. We will look into potential solutions to this conundrum with surprising implications.