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Markus Breig, KIT

The KIT history highlight of April honours the achievements of engineer officer and spiritual father behind the Polytechnic School (later KIT). He wanted to expand the incomplete flood protection on the Rhine into a comprehensive system of river fortifications. Instead of excavating an entirely new course, Tulla cut narrow channels as shortcuts through the river’s wide bends and let the river do the work.

Benoît Linder

On February 28, 2025, the Chair of Water and Sustainability was inaugurated at the Université de Strasbourg, held by Professor Karl Matthias Wantzen. The professorship is one of the cross-border professorships of Eucor – The European Campus. It will involve teachers and researchers from the five universities in France, Germany and Switzerland, in particular from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT).

Gabriele Zachmann, KIT

Heavy rainfall and the resulting floods are among the greatest natural hazards with serious consequences for people, nature and infrastructure - especially in small river basins. In the KI-HopE-De project coordinated by KIT, researchers, weather services and flood centres aim to significantly improve the forecasting of such floods in Germany using machine learning methods. 

IAMT, KIT

Steroid hormones are among the most widespread aquatic micropollutants. They are harmful to human health, and they cause ecological imbalances in aquatic environments. At the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), researchers have investigated how steroid hormones are degraded in an electrochemical membrane reactor with carbon nanotube membranes.