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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]

Kristen Kozielski researches how neuroelectrodes can be utilized in the treatment of illnesses such as Parkinson's disease and spinal cord injuries. For this project, she will receive an ERC Starting Grant from the European Research Council (ERC) in 2023. [read more]

For the ninth time in a row, the "QS World University Ranking" lists TUM as the best German university. Within the EU, it is ranked second, and in the overall ranking, it has moved up 12 places to position 37. [read more]

Angela Dai is an Assistant Professor within the Professorship for Machine Learning of 3D Scene Geometry and leads the 3D AI group. For her project entitled "Spatial 3D Semantic Understanding for Perception in the Wild" the scientist has now been awarded an ERC Starting Grant 2022 by the European… [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]

With the rollout of the 5G network still ongoing in Germany, researchers at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) are already conducting fundamental research for the next mobile communications generation. In the 6G Future Lab Bavaria, the team is developing and testing fundamental mechanisms to make communications more efficient, resilient and… [read more]

Through steady advances in the development of quantum computers and their ever-improving performance, it will be possible in the future to crack our current encryption processes. To address this challenge, researchers at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) are participating in an international research consortium to develop encryption methods… [read more]

The Technical University of Munich (TUM) and Google are driving forward research into cybersecurity and artificial intelligence (AI). Thanks to funding from Google, seven new research projects are being launched at TUM to investigate critical questions at the interface of cybersecurity and AI. [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]