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We are shaping a sustainable future through responsible research, trustworthy innovations and farsighted concepts for teaching and continuing education. Learn more about the latest developments with current videos, speeches and publications from TUM President Thomas F. Hofmann.

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Four people talking at the opening of the TUM Public Science Lab
10/10/2025
Reading time: 4 Min.

TUM launches Public Science Lab

Research becomes public

The Technical University of Munich (TUM) has founded the TUM Public Science Lab, which will involve people from all areas of society in research. It will thus incorporate previously unconsidered perspectives and expertise. In this way, the lab aims to identify issues that have a decisive influence on coexistence and to point out ways for public decision-making processes and sustainable innovations.

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President Research Community Public Engagement
10/10/2025
Reading time: 1 Min.

TUM Senate

Chiara Manfletti is the new Chair of the Senate

Prof. Chiara Manfletti is the new Chair of the Senate of the Technical University of Munich (TUM). She was elected to the body for the first time in the summer elections and was elected Chairwoman by the Senate members at its constituent meeting.

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President Community
10/8/2025
Reading time: 2 Min.

Award for research into organometallic framework compounds

Nobel Prize in Chemistry for TUM honorary doctor Kitagawa

The Japanese materials researcher and TUM honorary doctor Prof. Susumu Kitagawa has been awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. He is being honored for his research on organometallic framework compounds, as announced by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm.

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State Parliament President Ilse Aigner hosted the ceremony marking 75 years of HfP.
10/7/2025
Reading time: 4 Min.

Anniversary ceremony for the Munich School of Politics and Public Policy

75 years in the service of democracy

The Munich School of Politics and Public Policy (HfP) was founded 75 years ago with the aim of strengthening democracy. During this time, it has made a significant contribution to political education in Bavaria. For a good ten years now, the HfP, with TUM as its host university, has been investigating the interactions between politics and technology, thereby enabling society to meet the challenges facing democracy today. The anniversary was celebrated in the Bavarian State Parliament.

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President Campus news Community
10/1/2025
Reading time: 2 Min.

New TUM teaching building in Ottobrunn-Taufkirchen to go into operation in winter semester 2025

TUM Aerospace Campus grows rapidly

This is another milestone on the way to becoming the largest university campus for aerospace and geodesy in Europe: just in time for the new winter semester, the Technical University of Munich (TUM) has spacious lecture and seminar rooms with room for around 2500 students at its Ottobrunn-Taufkirchen site. The new buildings were presented to the public on Wednesday.

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President Teaching Studies Campus news
9/24/2025
Reading time: 3 Min.

Prototype workshop for students at the TUM Campus Garching

TUMorrow Factory creates space for big ideas

Pioneering ideas need space to develop - students at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) are being given a state-of-the-art workshop, the TUMorrow Factory, at the Garching campus to turn their avant-garde ideas into technical prototypes. The building is being financed for ten million euros thanks to the philanthropic commitment of far-sighted sponsors.

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President Studies Campus news Community Public Engagement
9/11/2025
Reading time: 3 Min.

Cross-generational sustainability

First TUM Alumni Chapter established in Singapore

With the opening of the first official TUM Alumni Chapter in Singapore, the Technical University of Munich (TUM) is further expanding the active integration of its international alumni community. The ceremonial opening on September 10 brought together committed alumni who want to keep their connection to TUM alive across continents and actively shape global cooperation.

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Teilnehmende des IAA Roundtable „Modellregionen für Autonomes Fahren im ÖPNV“ im Hof der Staatskanzlei vor autonom fahrenden Fahrzeugen
9/10/2025
Reading time: 5 Min.

IAA Roundtable: MCube launches initiative for autonomous mobility

Model regions for autonomous driving in public transport and freight transport decided

On the initiative of the research community, Germany's transport industry and politicians are committed to promoting autonomous driving in public transport and freight transport. MCube, the “Munich Cluster for the Future of Mobility in Metropolitan Regions” led by the Technical University of Munich (TUM), the Digital Hub Mobility of UnternehmerTUM, and the “Mobile Future Munich” (MZM) alliance have jointly executed a letter of intent to this effect.

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Prof. Annette Diefenthaler, Executive Director of the Munich Design Institute, and President Prof. Thomas Hofmann.
7/31/2025
Reading time: 9 Min.

Interview with President Prof. Thomas F. Hofmann and Prof. Annette Diefenthaler

"Making innovations trustworthy and socially acceptable"

As an Integrative Research Institute, the Munich Design Institute (MDI) brings together various academic disciplines and incorporates perspectives from the public through design and design research. In this interview, President Prof. Thomas F. Hofmann and Prof. Annette Diefenthaler, founding director of the MDI, discuss what design can achieve in the context of rapid social change and how society-centered research and innovation can succeed.

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President Studies Research Entrepreneurship Community Public Engagement
7/11/2025
Reading time: 2 Min.

TUM President elected head of the Bavarian University Conference

Thomas F. Hofmann is the new Chairman of the University of Bavaria

The President of the Technical University of Munich (TUM), Prof. Thomas F. Hofmann, was elected as the new Chairman of the Board of the University of Bavaria e.V. The University of Bavaria represents the common interests of 13 universities in the Free State of Bavaria vis-à-vis politics and society.

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