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.

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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.

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Chair members attended the CTAO school

06/27/2025 -

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Two members of our department participated in the CTAO school.

The Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory (CTAO) is currently under construction. It is planned to consist of two arrays of Cherenkov telescopes, located on the Canary Island of La Palma (CTAO-North) and in the Atacama Desert of Chile (CTAO-South), to cover the entire sky. Some parts of CTAO-North are already in their commissioning phase, during which the instruments and systems are being tested and prepared for full scientific operations.

From June 14 to June 25, 2025, the CTAO school took place, a two-week workshop that educated students, PhD students, and postdoctoral researchers about technologies and science used by CTAO. The first week was held in Bertinoro, Italy, and the second week on La Palma, where CTAO-North is based. Participants learned about current research topics in very high-energy astrophysics, writing scientific proposals, performing observations with CTAO, conducting data analyses, and presenting their scientific projects. They also visited several astrophysical facilities on La Palma.

This year, Luca Di Bella, a member of our department, attended the CTAO school, while our former chair member, Dr. Max Linhoff, served as a lecturer.