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We are shaping a sustainable future through responsible research, trustworthy innovations and farsighted concepts for teaching and continuing education. Learn more about the latest developments with current videos, speeches and publications from TUM President Thomas F. Hofmann.

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Personal exchange

12/11/2024
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Most important German research prize for TUM professor

Medical AI researcher Daniel Rückert receives Leibniz Prize

Computer scientist and AI researcher Prof. Daniel Rückert receives the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize 2025. The professor of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Medicine and Healthcare at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) is being honored 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).

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President Research Artificial Intelligence
12/6/2024
Reading time: 5 Min.

Dies Academicus under the motto "Facta non verba - deeds instead of words"

TUM celebrates a successful 2024

The Technical University of Munich (TUM) celebrated the end of an extraordinarily successful 2024 with the Dies Academicus. Students, employees, and partners of TUM gathered in the Audimax at the main campus in Munich under the motto "Facta non verba" - deeds instead of words.

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President Campus news Community Public Engagement
11/27/2024
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Strategic partnership on optoionics between TUM and Max Planck Society

World's first center for solar batteries

The world's first center for solar batteries and optoionic technologies is being established in Bavaria. The Technical University of Munich (TUM) and the Max Planck Society (MPG) have set the course for this with the support of the Bavarian Ministry of Economic Affairs. With the SolBat Center, a unique research ecosystem will be formed to research new types of energy storage systems and develop applications to use solar energy even more efficiently and flexibly.

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President Research Sustainability Artificial Intelligence Energy
11/8/2024
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TUM sends another signal against Anti-Semitism

Prof. Winfried Nerdinger appointed Anti-Semitism commissioner

The Technical University of Munich (TUM) has appointed Prof. Winfried Nerdinger as its Anti-Semitism commissioner. Nerdinger, professor emeritus of architectural history and founding director of the Munich Documentation Center for the History of National Socialism, will support and advise the university in preventing Anti-Semitism.

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Prof. Daniel Cremers, Christine Steger, Prof. Helmut Krcmar, Nicole Büttner und Dr. Gerald Karch (from left) discussing at the TUM Talk.
10/31/2024
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TUM Talk at the Campus Heilbronn

Confidence for mid-sized businesses

How can companies be confidently advanced despite all crises? Business and academia discussed this question at the fifth TUM Talk. As usual at the TUM Campus Heilbronn, the focus was on strategies for digitalization in medium-sized businesses.

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President Artificial Intelligence Community Public Engagement
10/24/2024
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TUM, TUM University Hospital, and ITM Isotope Technologies Munich SE Sign Research Framework Agreement

Uniting Forces for Precision Cancer Therapies

In an effort to provide more targeted therapies for cancer patients, the Technical University of Munich (TUM), the TUM University Hospital, and ITM Isotope Technologies Munich SE have signed a research framework agreement. Through this partnership, the institutions aim to enhance their collaboration and involvement of the FRM II research reactor in the fields of nuclear medicine, radiopharmacy, and medical isotope technology.

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President Research
10/15/2024
Reading time: 4 Min.

Freshman Welcome Event 2024 at the TUM Research Campus in Garching

A Celebration of Joy and Thirst for Knowledge

A sea of blue caps emblazoned with the white TUM logo – that’s what greeted everyone at the official start of the 2024/25 academic year at the Garching Research Campus. Thousands of freshmen, together with the university’s board of management and the deans of the TUM Schools, gathered at the traditional open-air festival to celebrate with free beer and live music.

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President Studies Campus news Community
10/14/2024
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Honoring Diplomas and Doctorates After 25, 50, or 60 Years

TUM Celebrates Alumni on Their Milestone Anniversaries

Around 200 alumni who earned their diplomas or doctorates at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) 25, 50, or even 60 years ago were recently honored with silver, gold, or diamond anniversary certificates. TUM President, Prof. Thomas F. Hofmann, highlighted the exceptional importance of alumni for both the university and society.

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David Baker at TUM
10/9/2024
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Award for protein researcher David Baker

Nobel Prize for TUM Distinguished Affiliated Professor

David Baker, professor at the University of Washington in Seattle, is to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. The biochemist has been a Distinguished Affiliated Professor at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) since 2017. He receives the prize for his work in the field of computational protein design.

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President Research Community
10/1/2024
Reading time: 4 Min.

TUM, Lufthansa Group, and Munich Airport Plan Joint Research Initiative

New TUM Location at Munich Airport

The Technical University of Munich (TUM) is establishing a new collaboration and innovation site at Munich Airport. Covering approximately 20,400 square meters within the LabCampus, the innovation hub at Munich Airport, the "TUM Convergence Center" will be created. The ceremonial handover of the keys to TUM President Prof. Thomas F. Hofmann and the signing of a Letter of Intent (LoI) took place in the presence of Bavaria’s Minister of Science, Markus Blume, Minister of Finance, Albert Füracker, and Dr. Florian Herrmann, Minister and Head of the Bavarian State Chancellery. The document was signed by TUM President Hofmann, Lufthansa Group Executive Vice President for Strategy & Organizational Development, Joerg Eberhart, and Munich Airport CEO, Jost Lammers.

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