The group works on the Melaten campus of RWTH Aachen, in the Center for Digital Medicine at Forckenbeckstr. 69. Post goes to the University Hospital at Pauwelsstr. 30.
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Forckenbeckstr. 69
52074 Aachen, Germany
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University Hospital RWTH Aachen
Pauwelsstr. 30
52074 Aachen, Germany
Center for Digital MedicineForckenbeckstr. 69
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Aachen Hauptbahnhof is on the Eurostar line from Paris Nord through Brussels-South and Liège to Cologne, 5 times a day, and on ICE 79 from Brussels to Frankfurt every 2 hours. Aachen West is the campus station.
The A4 runs west to east, the A44 north to south, and the A544 leads into the city. For the hospital, leave the motorway at exit 2, Aachen-Laurensberg. Paid parking and a garage are in front of the main building.
From the main station take bus 3B from stop H2, or bus 33 from Aachen West. Both stop at Uniklinik, a short walk from the Center for Digital Medicine.
Aachen is where Germany, Belgium, and the Netherlands meet, and the border is not an abstraction. Walk west out of the city and you are in the Netherlands, walk southwest and you are in Belgium, and the language, the shops, and the food change as you cross. Vaals, the first Dutch town, is 6 km from the center. On the Vaalserberg you can stand in all 3 countries at the same time, at a border post that has been there since 1926.
Photo: Steven Lek, public domain
Charlemagne made Aachen the main residence of the Frankish Empire, which is why the city is sometimes called the cradle of Europe. Its cathedral, begun in 796, was on the first UNESCO World Heritage list in 1978. The Charlemagne Prize has been awarded here every year since 1950.
Photo: CEphoto, Uwe Aranas, CC BY-SA 3.0
The city's club is Alemannia Aachen, founded in 1900, and its ground, the Tivoli, holds 32,960. It plays in the 3rd division, which nobody here raises first :D The state also has Bayer Leverkusen, FC Köln, Borussia Mönchengladbach, and Schalke, and internationally we follow Borussia Dortmund.
Photo: Peter Tritthart, CC BY 3.0
Aachen is in North Rhine-Westphalia, which has more than 18 million people and is the most densely populated German state outside the city-states. Cologne is the next stop on the Eurostar line, and the same line carries on to Düsseldorf, Duisburg, Essen, and Dortmund. Brussels and Paris are on it in the other direction.
Photo: Pedelecs, CC BY-SA 3.0
People settled here 5,000 years ago for the warm mineral springs, and more than 30 of them still rise along the fault lines under the city. The Carolus Thermen are built on them, and the Elisenbrunnen in the middle of town still pours one out for anyone who wants to taste it.
Photo: Dietmar Rabich, CC BY-SA 4.0
RWTH Aachen has 44,382 students in a city of 263,000, so in term time the old town is full, and you can cross it on foot. Printen arrive at Christmas, the CHIO runs in summer, and the FEI World Championships come here in 2026.
