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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]

The European Research Council (ERC) awards a highly endowed ERC Advanced Grant to Prof. Gordon Cheng, Institute for Cognitive Systems, for the STROLL (SofT-exoskeleton to RestOre Locomotion) project. The goal of the project is to develop a soft exoskeleton that enables people with paralysis to walk… [read more]

In its latest rankings, the British higher education service provider QS Quacquarelli Symonds places TUM among the top 25 universities worldwide in five subjects: electrical engineering is ranked 18th. TUM's informatics and mathematics are among the top 50, ranked 29th and 43rd, respectively. [read more]

Vanessa Landgraf and Silke Karl are Math Makers of March and April. The German Mathematics Association (DMV) honored them for their commitment to the "Mathematics Day for Students" (TDMfS*S) program. Learn more in the interview! [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]

Prof. Angela Schoellig from the Technical University of Munich uses ChatGPT to develop choreographies for swarms of drones to perform along to music. AThe researchers' results demonstrate for the first time that large language models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT can be used in robotics. [read more]

At the new Siemens Technology Center on the TUM Campus Garching, 150 TUM staff and researchers will work with more than 450 Siemens specialists on new solutions related to digital twins, the industrial internet of things, robotics and automation. [read more]

With the rollout of the 5G network still ongoing in Germany, researchers at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) are already conducting fundamental research for the next mobile communications generation. In the 6G Future Lab Bavaria, the team is developing and testing fundamental mechanisms to make communications more efficient, resilient and… [read more]

Through steady advances in the development of quantum computers and their ever-improving performance, it will be possible in the future to crack our current encryption processes. To address this challenge, researchers at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) are participating in an international research consortium to develop encryption methods… [read more]

The Technical University of Munich (TUM) and Google are driving forward research into cybersecurity and artificial intelligence (AI). Thanks to funding from Google, seven new research projects are being launched at TUM to investigate critical questions at the interface of cybersecurity and AI. [read more]