News and Events

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]

Sam Altman, CEO of the tech company Open AI, talks with Reinhard Heckel, Professor of Machine Learning, about the development of the chatbot ChatGPT. Watch the recording of the event at Audimax Munich here. [read more]

TUM graduates have the best career opportunities – especially if they have a degree in electrical engineering or information systems. This is the result of this year's university ranking published by the business magazine WirtschaftsWoche. [read more]

Our students pursuing degrees in information systems are highly satisfied with teaching standards and study conditions. In the latest CHE University Rankings, they award excellent grades to the TUM – for digital teaching elements, the IT infrastructure and career orientation offers, among other… [read more]

Every year, the Bavarian State Ministry of Science and the Arts awards the Prize for Excellence in Teaching to outstanding teachers at universities in the state. The prize recognizes lecturers who are nominated by their home university together with the students on the basis of their special… [read more]

The Ferienakademie takes place every year at the end of September in Sarntal (South Tyrol) - this year from Sept. 17 to 29. This joint summer school of TUM, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg and the University of Stuttgart is coordinated by the Department of Computer Science of the School of Computation,… [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]

Prof. Eva Weig and Dr. Ahmed Barakat from the Chair of Nano and Quantum Sensors are investigating how the parametric amplification effect can significantly expand the functionality of sensors. Possible applications include improved location positioning with microelectromechanical sensors like those used in smartphones. [read more]