Research and Development is integral to the activities of VSB-TUO. The University’s science and research strategy is based on four fundamental pillars:

• Engineering and Technology
  Electrical / Mechanical / Materials / Civil / Safety and Security / Biomedical and Biomechanical / Environmental and Brownfields Management / Chemical / Geological / Geodesy and Geoinformatics / Automotive / Acoustical / Transport Technology and Technics / Nanotechnology / Additive Technology
• Computer Science and Cyber Physical Systems
  Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning / Computer Vision and Image Processing / Software and Process Engineering / High-Performance Computing / High-Performance Data Analysis / Computational and Applied Mathematics / Industry 4.0 / Robotics
• Energy and Raw Materials
  Renewable Energy / Energy Accumulation / High-Capacity Storage Systems / Artificial Intelligence in Energy Management / Energy Diagnostics / Electromobility / Energy Raw Materials and Their Processing
• Economic and Financial Processes
  Economics / Finance / Management Science / Business Administration