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Epidemics have immediate and long-term effects on people worldwide. In March 2023, young researchers from Africa and Europe will deepen their understanding of the mathematical fundamentals of infectious disease modeling. [read more]

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]

Since 2024, the TUM School of Computation, Information and Technology (CIT) at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) has 14 new professors. Here you can find out who they are and what they are researching. [read more]

Computer scientist Professor Daniel Rückert receives the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize 2025 for his research on AI-assisted medical imaging. The most important German research prize is endowed with 2.5 million euros by the German Research Foundation (DFG). [read more]

The TUM School of Computation, Information and Technology (CIT) supports Bachelor, Master and PhD students of the CIT with the Women in CIT Travel Awards. In the second year of this project, the Talent Management & Diversity department is focusing on three areas. Find out more now! [read more]

The European Research Council (ERC) will be funding five researchers at the Technical University of Munich with a Consolidator Grant. Among them is Professor Matthias Nießner from the TUM School of Computation, Information and Technology with the project Gen3D: Learning to Create Virtual Worlds. [read more]

Professor Luise Pufahl is honored twice for the good supervision of her doctoral candidates in 2024: with the Supervisory Award of the Technical University of Munich (TUM) and the Supervisory Award of the TUM School of Computation, Information and Technology. [read more]

Major global challenges can only be mastered through collaboration between different disciplines. In the “Interdisciplinary Science Ranking” of the British magazine “Times Higher Education (THE)”, the Technical University of Munich (TUM) is at the top in Germany and in 12th place worldwide. [read more]

Fifteen researchers from the Technical University of Munich belong to the world's most frequently cited scientists. Their names can be found in the latest Highly Cited Researchers rankings. Among them is Professor Fabian Theis. [read more]

Humans and animals move - unconsciously - particularly economically by using the natural vibrations of their bodies. A new tool developed by researchers at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) is now able to use this knowledge for the first time to make robots move more efficiently. [read more]

Michael Jungmair from the TUM School of Computation, Information and Technology (CIT) has been awarded one of the coveted Google PhD Fellowships 2024 in the field of Software Systems. He wants to develop a new, powerful method to integrate and optimize user-defined code in database queries. [read more]

Researchers at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) have developed robotic trousers that enable people to walk more easily while expending measurably less energy. The aim is to keep frail individuals and in particular the elderly mobile and healthy for longer. “You can walk slowly with the shorts but you can also jog,” says TUM Professor… [read more]