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Prize for Excellence in Teaching

Outstanding university teachers honored

The Prize for Excellence in Teaching awarded by the Free State of Bavaria and TUM’s Certificates of Honor for Excellence in...

4/3/2025 Reading time 3 min.

Research

Measurements at CERN

Using smartphone photo sensors for antimatter research

At CERN, scientists from the AEgIS collaboration led by a team of the Technical University of Munich (TUM) have repurposed...

4/3/2025 Reading time 1 min.

Research

Problems with health information

Health literacy in Germany continues to decline

The majority of people in Germany have problems understanding health-related information. This is shown by a representative...

4/2/2025 Reading time 5 min.

Luise Pufahl, Professorin für Information Systems am TUM Campus Heilbronn

Sustainability

New measures for business processes

Assessing corporate sustainability comprehensively

A new, comprehensive method for the holistic environmental assessment of business processes helps companies to uncover...

4/2/2025 Reading time 1 min.

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Our upcoming event highlights

4/9

Women of TUM Talk: Fierce & Fearless

Wed 4/9/2025, 5:45 pm – 9:00 pm

Munich

Successful TUM alumnae share their inspiring stories at this networking event. Register now!

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4/10

ESO Supernova: Kosmisches Kino

Thu 4/10/2025, 7:00 pm

Garching

Get to know more about the choreography of the stellar ballet in the centre of the Milky Way. Register now!

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4/23–30

Workshop: Presentation Skills

Wed 23 – Wed 4/30/2025

Munich, Online

In this workshop, students learn to transform anxiety into positive energy and remain confident under pressure

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5/5–27

PrepDoc program

Mon 5 – Tue 5/27/2025

Garching

Do want to do a doctorate? The PrepDoc workshops will help you with your planning. Register now!

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What drives us: President Thomas F. Hofmann about TUM

Research and innovations for society, innovative teaching and continuing education: This is how we shape a sustainable future, relying on the intelligence of the entire university and working closely with global partners to do so.

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Our research goals

Understanding the essential foundations of life

We explore which fundamental forces and mechanisms shaped the universe and how its galaxies, stars and planets developed - and how life originated.

Maintaining health and targeting diseases

How will we treat serious illnesses in the future and how can we make reliable diagnoses more quickly? We address these questions with the latest technologies and methods.

Shaping a sustainable living environment

We combine all our expertise to slow down climate change and create sustainable places to live and work.

Creating new materials and manufacturing technologies

High-precision sensors on a quantum basis and new systems for storing energy - we develop digital manufacturing technologies and sustainable process engineering.

Pioneering digital transformation for a secure future

We develop secure digital technologies that make life and work easier. Our goal is to find solutions to questions of digital change and to constantly drive them forward.