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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]

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) 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]

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]

The US federal agency NIST has announced a competition calling on developers to submit proposals for new, quantum-resistant encryption standards. Antonia Wachter-Zeh, a Professor of Coding and Cryptography, and other researchers at TUM have submitted two proposals to the competition and feel optimistic about their results. [read more]

A group of researchers led by Prof. Berna Özkale Edelmann has developed the world's first microrobot (“microbot”) capable of navigating within groups of cells and stimulating individual cells. The professor of Nano- and Microrobotics sees potential for new treatments of human diseases. [read more]

Kristen Kozielski researches how neuroelectrodes can be utilized in the treatment of illnesses such as Parkinson's disease and spinal cord injuries. For this project, she will receive an ERC Starting Grant from the European Research Council (ERC) in 2023. [read more]