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 ma

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, the AirportExpress takes just over 20 minutes to Dortmund's main train station, and from there, the S-Bahn takes you to the university. 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.

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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 ma

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, the AirportExpress takes just over 20 minutes to Dortmund's main train station, and from there, the S-Bahn takes you to the university. 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.

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Alumnus of the Department Receives the ACM SIGBED Paul Caspi Memorial Dissertation Award

10/22/2026

Mario Günzel receives the certificate of the Paul Caspi Memorial Dissertation Award.

International recognition for a Dortmund doctorate: Dr. Mario Günzel is honoured for his dissertation on distributed real-time systems.

Dr. Mario Günzel, an alumnus of the Department of Computer Science at TU Dortmund University, has received the ACM SIGBED Paul Caspi Memorial Dissertation Award 2024–2025. The ACM Special Interest Group on Embedded Systems (SIGBED) honours his dissertation “Property-based Timing Analysis of Distributed Real-Time Systems”, which he completed at the Department of Computer Science under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Jian-Jia Chen. The award was presented in early October at the IEEE/ACM Embedded Systems Week (ESWEEK) 2026 in Barcelona. Günzel is now a researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Software Systems (MPI-SWS) in Kaiserslautern. He brought with him the DFG project “Property-Based End-to-End Analysis of Cause-Effect Chains” (PEACH), which he had acquired while at the department.

In his work, Günzel investigates the timing behaviour of distributed real-time systems. His research addresses how to reliably guarantee that data is processed and passed on in time in systems made up of many interconnected components. Such guarantees are essential in fields including automotive engineering, medical technology and industrial manufacturing.

The Paul Caspi Memorial Dissertation Award was established in 2013. It recognises outstanding doctoral dissertations that significantly advance the science of embedded systems, carrying forward the scientific work and legacy of Dr. Paul Caspi. The award is presented at most once a year. An international committee chaired by Prof. Wanli Chang (Hunan University) selected two dissertations: Mario Günzel’s and that of Yuze He (The Chinese University of Hong Kong). The award comes with an honorarium of USD 2,000, and the recipients are invited to publish a summary of their dissertation in the ACM SIGBED Newsletter. Previous awardees include graduates of ETH Zurich, UC Berkeley and the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology.

The department warmly congratulates its alumnus Dr. Mario Günzel on this outstanding achievement.