DLR Graduate school GANDALF
Graduate School for "Awareness and Fighting of Pandemic Threats"
The GANDALF Graduate School for "Awareness and Fighting of Pandemic Threats" was formed as a collaborative hub for PhD students from various DLR institutes to strengthen the resilience of public transportation to pandemic threats.
Motivation and research objectives
Through interdisciplinary collaboration and the use of state-of-the-art infrastructure, technologies are being developed to detect, assess and reduce the risk of infection in public transportation. Among other things, the following questions are being addressed:
Interdisciplinary co-operation
"Diversity makes us strong" - DLR's motto is particularly emphasized within the DLR Graduate School GANDALF. The cooperation takes place between six DLR institutes from different research areas. The individual doctoral students work on their own projects and are experts in these fields. There is a regular exchange within the graduate school, in which the respective projects benefit from the different areas of expertise. This ensures that topics are examined from different angles. Interdisciplinary interaction between fields such as microbiology, fluid mechanics, information technology and vehicle concepts is essential to answer the complex questions.
For networking and validation of the research objectives and results, an intensive exchange with partners from research and industry takes place within the framework of workshops such as the GANDALF Mid-Term Workshop.
Publications
Here you can find our current publications in our DLR database eLib.
Duration
Participating institutes
