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News, research results and events: everything that enthuses people at our university.

7-nm technology

New AI chip for secure and energy-efficient applications

Our university has unveiled the EU's first AI chip using modern 7-nanometre technology. The neuromorphic chip was designed...

2/4/2026 Reading time 3 min.

Rapeseed plants photographed from below with a view of the blue sky

Sustainability

Resource-efficient agriculture

Customized probiotics for plants

Researchers have identified a bacterial genus that promotes root growth and nitrogen uptake in plants. The findings open...

2/3/2026 Reading time 1 min.

Sustainability

Alpine forests and climate change

New research center for alpine forest management

Sixty percent of Bavaria’s alpine forests serve as protective forests that safeguard settlements and infrastructure from...

2/2/2026 Reading time 3 min.

Community

NewIn: Katharina Timper

"Obesity originates in the brain"

Katharina Timper investigates the neurobiological mechanisms of overweight and obesity. As an endocrinologist and Professor...

1/29/2026 Reading time 4 min.

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Our upcoming event highlights

2/7

TUM JazzBand annual concert ft. ETH/UZH Big Band

Sat 2/7/2026, 7:00 pm – 10:30 pm

Munich

Look forward to a lively exchange between students from Munich and Zurich. Free admission!

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2/10–12

Love Data Week: Webinars on research data

Tue 10 – Thu 2/12/2026

Online

Improve your data skills with four webinars from the University Library.

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2/11

Lecture: How computer games are changing our world

Wed 2/11/2026, 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm

Munich

Come to "Wissenschaft für jedermann" and find out why computer games can do more than just entertain.

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2/25

First Munich Longevity Symposium

Wed 2/25/2026, 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm

Munich

Find out everything you need to know about biological age and slowing down the ageing process. Register now!

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What drives us: President Thomas F. Hofmann about TUM

Research and innovations for society, innovative teaching and continuing education: This is how we shape a sustainable future, relying on the intelligence of the entire university and working closely with global partners to do so.

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Our research goals

Understanding the essential foundations of life

We explore which fundamental forces and mechanisms shaped the universe and how its galaxies, stars and planets developed - and how life originated.

Maintaining health and targeting diseases

How will we treat serious illnesses in the future and how can we make reliable diagnoses more quickly? We address these questions with the latest technologies and methods.

Shaping a sustainable living environment

We combine all our expertise to slow down climate change and create sustainable places to live and work.

Creating new materials and manufacturing technologies

High-precision sensors on a quantum basis and new systems for storing energy - we develop digital manufacturing technologies and sustainable process engineering.

Pioneering digital transformation for a secure future

We develop secure digital technologies that make life and work easier. Our goal is to find solutions to questions of digital change and to constantly drive them forward.