{"id":33164,"date":"2025-12-09T09:31:59","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T08:31:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highest-darmstadt.de\/news\/uncategorized\/forbes-30under-30\/"},"modified":"2025-12-10T13:32:34","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T12:32:34","slug":"forbes-30under-30","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highest-darmstadt.de\/en\/news\/news-en\/forbes-30under-30\/","title":{"rendered":"Forbes \u201e30under 30&#8243;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n\n    <section id=\"text-default-block-block_b71a0989e415992f5880ed2a280c53b7\" class=\"container-fluid text-default text-default-block\">\n        <div class=\"inner-container\">\n            <div class=\"container-fluid\">\n                <div class=\"container\">\n                    <div class=\"row\">\n                        <div class=\"col col-sm-10 offset-sm-1 offset-lg-2 col-lg-8\">\n\n                            \n                                \n                                \n                                \n                                    \n                                    <div class=\"row text-wrapper container-6a2d76bfd0124\">\n\n                                        \n                                                                                                                                                                                                <div class=\"col intro\">\n                                                        <p>Dr Sara Jourdan, researcher at Technische Universit\u00e4t Darmstadt and co-founder of the AI start-up Genow.ai, has been selected for the Forbes &#8220;30 Under 30 Europe 2025&#8221; list. The magazine recognises her conviction that &#8220;major projects can be realised through initiative and vision.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n                                                    <\/div>\n                                                                                            \n                                            \n                                            \n                                            \n                                            \n                                        \n                                            \n                                            \n                                            \n                                                                                                                                                                                                <div class=\"col text\">\n                                                        <p>Jourdan studied industrial engineering at TU Darmstadt and completed her PhD at the Chair of Information Systems | Software &amp; AI Business led by Professor Peter Buxmann, where she has been a research associate since 2021. Her research explores how artificial intelligence (AI) can support decision-making processes in companies, work for which she has already received several awards.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Alongside her academic role, Jourdan is CEO and co-founder of the start-up Genow.ai, which helps organisations systematically leverage their internal knowledge with the support of AI.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It feels somewhat surreal, and I am incredibly happy to be included in the Forbes 30 Under 30 list 2025,&#8221; says Sara Jourdan. &#8220;Moments like this are a reminder of how much can be achieved when you are surrounded by great people. My sincere thanks go to my co-founders, our Genow team and Technische Universit\u00e4t Darmstadt &#8211; this environment has opened many doors for us.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>For HIGHEST, the university&#8217;s innovation and start-up centre, this recognition highlights the potential of research-driven entrepreneurship at TU Darmstadt &#8211; and how closely excellent research, AI expertise and entrepreneurial spirit are intertwined here.<\/p>\n<p>Text: HIGHEST<\/p>\n                                                    <\/div>\n                                                                                            \n                                            \n                                        \n                                    <\/div>\n\n                                \n                                \n                            \n                        <\/div>\n                    <\/div>\n                <\/div>\n            <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n    <\/section>\n\n\n\n\n\n<section id=\"teaser-newsletter-block-block_a81c2c0328711b3a8cc1ebd627e5a4f1\" class=\"container-fluid outer teaser-newsletter teaser-newsletter-block\">\n    <div class=\"inner-container\">\n        <div class=\"container-fluid teaser-content\">\n            <div class=\"main-content \">\n                <div class=\"content bg-dark-blue\">\n                    <div class=\"row\">\n\n                                                    <div class=\"col-12 col-lg-5 headline-wrapper\">\n                                <p class=\"h3\">\n                                    Bleib auf dem Laufenden mit dem HIGHEST-Newsletter                                <\/p>\n                            <\/div>\n                        \n                        <div class=\"col-12 col-lg-6 offset-lg-1\">\n\n                            <form class=\"form-newsletter\">\n\n                                <div class=\"form-field\">\n                                    <label for=\"email\"> Your E-Mail<\/label>\n                                    <input type=\"email\" name=\"email\" placeholder=\"muster@gmail.com\">\n                                <\/div>\n\n                                <div class=\"container-checkbox dark\">\n                                    <input type=\"checkbox\">\n                                    <span class=\"checkmark\"><\/span>\n                                                                    <\/div>\n\n                                <div class=\"submit-field\">\n                                    <button type=\"submit\" class=\"button button-primary\">Subscribe<\/button>\n                                <\/div>\n\n                            <\/form>\n\n                        <\/div>\n                    <\/div>\n\n                <\/div>\n            <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TU Darmstadt researcher and founder honoured<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":33162,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highest-darmstadt.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highest-darmstadt.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highest-darmstadt.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highest-darmstadt.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highest-darmstadt.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33164"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/highest-darmstadt.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33164\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33205,"href":"https:\/\/highest-darmstadt.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33164\/revisions\/33205"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highest-darmstadt.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highest-darmstadt.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highest-darmstadt.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highest-darmstadt.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}