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Future Scouts of the Stifterverband

Students actively shape learning environments

Felix Jahn is an architecture student at TUM and a Future Scout for the Stifterverband. In this interview, he explains how...

2/27/2026 Reading time 4 min.

Sustainability

Coral die-off

Neutron measurements at FRM II explain coral bleaching

Rising sea temperatures are causing coral reefs around the world to bleach. For the first time, a research team at the...

2/25/2026 Reading time 2 min.

Community

NewIn: Thomas Schlichthärle

Designing proteins for targeted cell activation

Custom-designed proteins that can control cells and activate them in a targeted way: Thomas Schlichthärle wants to use them...

2/23/2026 Reading time 5 min.

TUM in Rankings

Financial Times Ranking 2026

UnternehmerTUM again named Europe’s top start-up hub

For the third consecutive year, the British business newspaper Financial Times has named UnternehmerTUM Europe’s leading...

2/19/2026 Reading time 2 min.

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Our upcoming event highlights

2/13–5/31

Exhibition: Reflexion - Light Mirrors Transparency

Fri 2/13/2026 – Sun 5/31/2026

Munich

Visit the exhibition at the Pinakothek der Moderne on the multifaceted concept of reflection.

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3/4–19

Event weeks celebrating International Women's Day

Wed 4 – Thu 3/19/2026

Munich, Garching, Freising, Online

Lectures, workshops and campus walks for gender equality, participation and empowerment. Register now!

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3/4

Off to the archive: Is this a man's world?

Wed 3/4/2026, 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm

Munich

Find out more about the beginnings of female higher education and the current state of equality.

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3/5

Data Talk - "Building for Quantum"

Thu 3/5/2026, 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm

Munich

Come to the film screening to mark the finissage of the "Data Talks" series in the Architecture museum!

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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.

TUM in figures

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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.