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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]

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]

In its latest rankings, the British higher education service provider QS Quacquarelli Symonds places TUM among the top 25 universities worldwide in five subjects: electrical engineering is ranked 18th. TUM's informatics and mathematics are among the top 50, ranked 29th and 43rd, respectively. [read more]

Vanessa Landgraf and Silke Karl are Math Makers of March and April. The German Mathematics Association (DMV) honored them for their commitment to the "Mathematics Day for Students" (TDMfS*S) program. Learn more in the interview! [read more]

Gabriele Schrag, Professor of Physics of Electrotechnology, has been awarded a 2021 "Prize for Excellence in Teaching" by the Bavarian State Ministry of Science and the Arts (StMWK). The prize recognizes outstanding teaching and is awarded annually. In 2021, 15 university lecturers across the state… [read more]

Jia Chen, Professor of Environmental Sensing and Modeling, has received a Consolidator Grant from the European Research Council (ERC) for her research project CoSense4Climate. New types of methods and models are developed to detect and reduce sources of greenhouse gases and air pollutants. In total,… [read more]

Prof. Robert Wille and his team are already developing the quantum computing software of tomorrow today. In October, they are bringing the who is who of the software community together – for a forum to exchange ideas. In this interview, he explains what the forum is all about and what makes Munich such a unique research location. [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]