Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft

On October 1, 2026, Franziska Boenisch took over as a director of the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied and Integrated Security AISEC. She has also been appointed to the Chair of Software and Systems Security at the Technical University of Munich (TUM). Georg Sigl, a director of the institute since 2010 and holder of the TUM Chair of Security in Information Technology, has assumed the role of executive director in the institute’s dual leadership team.

On October 1, 2026, Michael Sedlmair joined the leadership team at the Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics Research IGD. He will work with Matthias Unbescheiden to shape the institute’s scientific and strategic direction at its Darmstadt and Rostock locations. His work will focus on human-centered artificial intelligence and on how visual computing technologies can help people tackle complex cognitive and physical tasks. Sedlmair will also join the Technical University of Darmstadt as a professor and hold the Chair of Visual Computing, formerly the Interactive Graphics Systems Group.

Seawater and brackish water could serve as alternative water sources for hydrogen production. The challenge is that conventional electrolyzers require high-purity water that needs extensive treatment. In the SeaEly project, the Fraunhofer Institute for Wind Energy Systems IWES and the Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing Technology and Advanced Materials IFAM investigated how suitable seawater and brackish water are for hydrogen production and what testing and evaluation infrastructure is needed.

3D bioprinting opens up new possibilities for producing organs and tissues needed for applications such as organ transplants and drug development. However, while existing bioinks are cell-compatible and printable, they do not adequately replicate the physiological structure and composition of tissue. In the PhysioINK project, Fraunhofer researchers are developing bioinks from the most common tissue proteins to replicate physiological tissue structures without chemical modification.