Press releases
Science & Study Center Raitenhaslach
The place where ideas fly
At the Science & Study Center Raitenhaslach, TUM promotes the creative exchange of students and researchers from all disciplines – a report from a visit to the site.
Global discourse series „One Topic, One Loop“: Alyssa Gilbert
Promoting climate innovation alone is not enough
How can universities integrate sustainability into their infrastructure and daily activities? In the global discourse series “One Topic, One Loop”, we present the perspectives of four universities from four different countries. Alyssa Gilbert, Director of Innovation at the Grantham Institute for Climate Change, Imperial College London, answers the question posed by Werner Lang, TUM's Vice President for Sustainable Transformation.
State Parliament celebrates of Europe's first "single organ hospital"
German Heart Center Munich turns 50
The German Heart Center Munich – Clinic at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) celebrates its 50th anniversary in 2024. At a ceremony in the Bavarian State Parliament, Minister President Dr. Markus Söder and Science Minister Markus Blume paid tribute to the clinic's achievements. As the first hospital in Europe to specialize in a single organ, the Heart Center was a role model for numerous hospitals in Germany and abroad.
TUM Entrepreneurship Day brings together Munich ecosystem
Presidential Award goes to energy start-up
For the development of its high-efficiency power plant, the start-up Reverion has received the TUM Presidential Entrepreneurship Award. In addition to generating electric power with biogas, the plant can also produce hydrogen from surplus energy. Finalists for the award included Planet A Foods, with a sustainable alternative to chocolate, and RobCo, with a robotics system for small and midsized enterprises. The TUM Entrepreneurship Day brought together attendees from the large and diverse Munich innovation ecosystem.
Interview with Prof. Martin Bichler on electricity pricing
“Splitting Germany into several price zones on the day-ahead power market might not achieve the intended goals”
The energy transition is a challenge for the power market: Temporal and locational variations in power generation result in relatively large fluctuations in the power supply and power prices. Grid infrastructure providers are increasingly forced to intervene in order to balance supply and demand and avoid power outages. Consequently, the EU Commission is assessing a possible split of the German uniform price zone and the day-ahead market into smaller price zones. Researchers have shown that smaller price zones would have little effects on the power price or re-dispatch measures. By contrast, the use of nodal pricing would reduce overall costs for providing energy by 9 percent.
NewIn: Allister Loder
“We don’t want to get rid of the car”
As a professor of mobility policy, Allister Loder is studying a topic of great current interest – but one that stirs up strong emotions. In the new issue of NewIn, he explains how an engineer ended up working in the social sciences, what Munich could learn from London, and how he plans to learn more about people’s everyday mobility needs.
TUM part of newest German Center for Health Research
Center for Child and Adolescent Health launched
The newly founded German Center for Child and Adolescent Health (DZKJ) will promote and network research on child and adolescent health throughout Germany. The Technical University of Munich (TUM) will be heavily involved at the DZKJ site in Munich. Julia Hauer, Professor of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, is the vice spokesperson. This makes TUM one of only two German universities involved in all German Centers for Health Research.
Compression standard for haptics published
Transmitting the sense of touch via the Internet
What JPEG, MP3 and MPEG are for images, audio and video, haptic codecs are for transmitting the sense of touch via the Internet. After eight years of standardization work under the consortium leadership of the Technical University of Munich (TUM), a standard for the compression and transmission of the sense of touch has been published for the first time under the name "Haptic Codecs for the Tactile Internet" (HCTI). It lays the foundation for tele-surgery, tele-driving and new online gaming experiences.
Newly discovered subtypes and sex differences create new approaches for drugs
Insight into the molecular mechanisms of ALS
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, ALS for short, is a mysterious neurodegenerative disease that is almost always fatal. A consortium of researchers led by the Technical University of Munich (TUM) has systematically investigated the underlying molecular mechanisms of ALS. Among other things, the team discovered that ALS can be divided into subtypes. Depending on the subtype, different drugs could be effective. There are also clear differences in the molecular processes when comparing men and women.
New, more precise 3D reconstructions for autonomous driving and preservation of cultural artefacts
From two images to a 3D object
Researchers at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) have succeeded in generating precise 3D reconstructions of objects using images from only two camera perspectives. Their method works even with images captured in their natural surroundings. Previously, such reconstructions were possible only with hundreds of perspectives or under laboratory conditions. Camera-based reconstructions are used in autonomous driving or when preserving historical monuments.