COMPLEX CONNECTIONS

Complex Connections is a collection of DTU stories presented both online and on DTU's campus. Through history, we see how knowledge and technology are connected to politics, culture, environment, and people — from the first small chemistry laboratory in 1829 to today’s wide-ranging disciplines and facilities. Explore the stories here on the site and visit the exhibited objects on the Lyngby campus.

THEMES

Living tools

Can you use animals when developing technologies for humans? 

The numbers are alive

In bioinformatics, the numbers come to life and reveal the secrets of wastewater.

Cell factory

The cells do the work: Fermentation has long been a major industry in Denmark.

Student life

Student life at DTU has changed a lot over the past 200 years – but some things remain the same  

Complex connections

Almost 200 years ago, chemist S. M. Jørgensen laid important chemical foundations

From lab to shop

Since the factory engineers of industrialization, everyday technologies have concealed a great deal of engineering work

Behind the Nobel prize

The discovery of vitamin K is the story of the many people behind the great discoverer

Natural resources

DTU’s former rectors played a central role in the exploitation of natural resources during the colonial era. What can we learn from history today? 
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