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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]

A team working with Prof. Oliver Hayden has developed a method for assessing the number and structure of aggregated blood platelets that can potentially help quantify the risk of a severe COVID-19 infection. They have thus identified a predictive biomarker for the seriousness of an infection. This will allow treatment adjustment at an early stage. [read more]

Eleven TUM researchers belong to the world's most frequently cited scientists – including Professor Fabian Theis, holder of the Chair of Mathematical Modelling of Biological Systems. Their names can be found in the latest "Highly Cited Researchers" rankings. [read more]

Hussam Amrouch has developed an AI-ready architecture that is twice as powerful as comparable in-memory computing approaches. As reported in the journal Nature, the professor at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) applies a new computational paradigm using special circuits known as ferroelectric field effect transistors (FeFETs). Within a few… [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]