RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY

RWTH Aachen University is OGTech’s German partner university and one of the best universities in Germany. RWTH Aachen is a member of the prestigious IDEA League, an elite-university network comprising Imperial College London, Delft University in the Netherlands, ETH Zuerich University and ParisTech Institute in France. Founded in the 18^th century, RWTH Aachen University currently has over 30,000 students. In 2007, RWTH Aachen University reaffirmed its world-class position on two different occasions.

The first, on October 9, when the Nobel Prize 2007 was awarded to Albert Fert (Université Paris-Sud, France) and Peter Grünberg (Jülich Research Centre, Germany) for the discovery of Giant Magnetoresistance. The Jülich Research Centre and RWTH Aachen University have a long-standing research cooperation in many fields. Both Albert Fert and Peter Grünberg have recently been awarded honorary doctorates from RWTH Aachen University. In addition on October 19, RWTH Aachen University was conferred the title of “University of Excellence” by the German Research Foundation (DFG) and the German Science Council (WR), in recognition of the RWTH’s on-going research activities.