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Tech Challenge, lectures by founders or Businessplan Basics - Europe's biggest center for entrepreneurship, UnternehmerTUM, offers programs for students in the winter semester. Register now! [read more]

Franconians together with Upper Bavarians, political scientists working with mathematicians, completely different socialization and professional cultures. Is that possible? Can it be fruitful? Students started the experiment. [read more]

Gabriele Schrag, Professor of Physics of Electrotechnology, has been awarded a 2021 "Prize for Excellence in Teaching" by the Bavarian State Ministry of Science and the Arts (StMWK). The prize recognizes outstanding teaching and is awarded annually. In 2021, 15 university lecturers across the state… [read more]

Jia Chen, Professor of Environmental Sensing and Modeling, has received a Consolidator Grant from the European Research Council (ERC) for her research project CoSense4Climate. New types of methods and models are developed to detect and reduce sources of greenhouse gases and air pollutants. In total,… [read more]

"The CIT brings together elements which fit together substantively." We officially opened the TUM School of Computation, Information and Technology (CIT) with a gala ceremony on January 24, 2023. Read the follow-up report on the founding ceremony! [read more]

To mark the founding of the TUM School of Computation, Information and Technology, an official ceremony was held on January 24, 2023, at the GALILEO Congress Center Garching. Watch the event in the stream! [read more]

Prof. Martin Bichler, Chair of Decision Sciences and Systems, and Prof. Helmut Krcmar, Emeritus Chair of Information Systems, receive top rankings. [read more]

Hussam Amrouch has developed an AI-ready architecture that is twice as powerful as comparable in-memory computing approaches. As reported in the journal Nature, the professor at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) applies a new computational paradigm using special circuits known as ferroelectric field effect transistors (FeFETs). Within a few… [read more]

The European Research Council (ERC) today awarded 37 particularly well-funded Synergy Grants across Europe. One of these interdisciplinary research awards went to Julien Gagneur, Professor of Computational Molecular Medicine, together with researchers from the VIB-KU Leuven Center for Microbiology (Belgium) and the Karolinska Institute (Sweden). In… [read more]

A research team working with Burkhard Rost, professor of bioinformatics, has investigated how the three-finger snake toxin emerged between 50 and 120 million years ago. The results could help with the development of better snakebite treatments and lead to new knowledge for the treatment of illnesses such as type 2 diabetes and hypertension. [read more]

Prof. Robert Wille and his team are already developing the quantum computing software of tomorrow today. In October, they are bringing the who is who of the software community together – for a forum to exchange ideas. In this interview, he explains what the forum is all about and what makes Munich such a unique research location. [read more]

The Technical University of Munich (TUM) is celebrating the official launch of the Munich Data Science Institute (MDSI). As an integrative research institute, MDSI will pool the expertise of more than 60 professors in the fields of data science, machine learning and artificial intelligence. [read more]