Further awards for members of the university
Besides such famous scientific awards as the Nobel Prize, members of the TUM regularly receive a number of other prestigious accolades. Many of the university's members are, furthermore, members of notable scientific associations.
Scientific Awards and Distinctions
- Alfried Krupp Prize for Young University Lecturers
Prize for exceptionally talented next-generation professors - Bavarian Maximilian Order
Award for Science and Art presented by the Bavarian Minister President - Erwin Schrödinger Prize
Prize for achievements at the interface between medicine, the natural sciences and engineering - Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von Schelling Prize
Prize for cutting-edge research awarded by the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities - Karl Heinz Beckurts Prize
Prize for scientific achievements in cooperation with business and industry - Konrad Zuse Medal (in German)
Award for accomplishments in computer science - Max Jakob Memorial Award
Prize for exceptional achievements in the field of heat transfer - Max Planck-Humboldt Research Award
Award for cutting-edge research in branches of science which are as yet less established in Germany - Otto Hahn Prize
Prize for outstanding achievements in Chemistry, Physics and Engineering - Pour le mérite for Sciences and Arts
Order for outstanding merits under the patronage of the German Federal President - Stockholm Water Prize
Prize for exceptional achievements in water management
Non-scientific awards
- Bavarian Order of Merit
Award for outstanding contributions to the Free State of Bavaria - Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
Highest German accolade for achievements that serve the country
Memberships in academies and societies
- Academia Europaea
European Community of Scholars - acatech
German Academy of Science and Engineering - Bavarian Academy of Fine Art (BAdSK)
Association of prominent personalities from the fields of literature, music and art - Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities (BAdW)
Multidisciplinary community of leading researchers in Bavaria
- Junges Kolleg of the BAdW
Forum for talented young scientists - German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
Oldest Academy of Sciences and Medicine world-wide - Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences
The oldest association of scholars of its type world-wide - US National Academy of Engineering
Distinguished specialist community for engineers - US National Academy of Sciences
Association charged with providing advice on science to the US government
Contact
Technical University of Munich
Henrike Kück
Presidential Office
Arcisstraße 21
D-80333 Munich
Tel. +49 89 289 22516
Fax +49 89 289 23399
kueck@zv.tum.de