The University of Stuttgart is one of the leading technically oriented universities in Germany with global significance. It sees itself as a center of university-based, non-university, and industrial research. Furthermore, it takes a role as a guarantor of research based teaching, focused on quality and holism. The ‘Stuttgart Way’ means an interdisciplinary integration of engineering, natural sciences, humanities, and social sciences based on the fundamentals of cutting-edge research at a disciplinary level.
The Institute of Interfacial Process Engineering and Plasma Technology IGVP at the University of Stuttgart is dedicated to interdisciplinary and cross-disciplinary research and teaching in the field of materials sciences, life sciences and process engineering.