Press releases
TUM student Nadine Abdelmalek receives DAAD Prize 2025
“Our internationality is both an asset and a responsibility”
For more than 25 years, the DAAD Prize has honored international students who excel academically and demonstrate exceptional commitment to volunteer work. This year’s recipient at TUM: Nadine Abdelmalek. The Egyptian student not only helps organize around 40 annual events for TUM’s Student Representation, but has also been active in the mentoring program for German schools abroad and participates in the German Model United Nations.
Most important German research award goes to TUM professor
Physicist Frank Pollmann receives Leibniz Prize
Prof. Frank Pollmann has been awarded the 2026 Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize. He conducts research at the Chair of Theoretical Solid State Physics at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) and is receiving the prize for his outstanding scientific work in theoretical quantum physics. The German Research Foundation (DFG) endows the prize with up to 2.5 million euros, which will be used to improve research.
Discovery by TUM Researchers at CERN Reveals Formation of Deuterons
Decades-old mystery in particle physics solved
Another long-standing mystery in particle physics has finally been solved. An international research team of the ALICE experiment at CERN’s particle accelerator, led by researchers from the Technical University of Munich (TUM), has for the first time directly observed how light atomic nuclei and their antiparticles – so-called deuterons and antideuterons – are formed in extremely high-energy particle collisions.
Podcast "We Are TUM"
Art and culture at our university
In this festive season episode, we explore art and culture at TUM. We are joined by Felix Mayer, conductor of the Advent Concerts and Artistic Director of the TUM Center for Culture and Arts; the artist Judith Neunhäuserer, presenting her installation 'Formation of a Quantum Henge' at the Garching campus; and Bastian Sinner, who recently performed with the TUM Jazz Band at our Dies Academicus.
New applications possible
Biosensor performance doubled
Biosensors are helping people with chronic conditions worldwide live better lives. However, their measurement accuracy has often been relatively low, limiting the range of possible applications. Researchers at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) have now discovered a way to boost the accuracy of common oxidase biosensors from 50% to 99%, paving the way for new uses.
EU funding for projects in biotechnology, medicine, and physics
Six ERC Consolidator Grants awarded to TUM researchers
How can the properties of slime molds help improve artificial organs? Why does pancreatic cancer form synapses? How can nuclear magnetic resonance measurements become more sensitive? Six research teams at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) aim to answer these and other questions with support from the prestigious ERC Consolidator Grants.
Giesecke+Devrient becomes platinum partner of TUM Venture Labs
Support for start-ups in the field of cybersecurity
The security tech company Giesecke+Devrient (G+D) will in future support start-ups and research teams from the ecosystem of the Technical University of Munich (TUM) and UnternehmerTUM. As a platinum partner of TUM Venture Labs, G+D will accompany start-up teams in the fields of security technology, post-quantum cryptography, and artificial intelligence over a period of five years.
Start-up Hula Earth is growing
Monitoring biodiversity in the long term
Using satellite data and bird calls to determine biodiversity: that was the idea behind the launch of start-up Hula Earth two years ago. Today more than 80 small high-tech boxes are installed in the outdoors, constantly collecting data and transmitting it to the company headquarters. Project developers for moorland restoration, solar parks and nature conservation associations are already using the service.
Three generations of the TUM Student Club in conversation
“Anything that carries the WARR name has turned out well.”
Broadening horizons, advancing technology, and finding a community of like-minded people – that’s not rocket science. Yet, sometimes it is. At a ceremony honoring TUM alumni, former and current members of the Scientific Workgroup for Rocketry and Spaceflight (WARR) share how their work in the TUM Student Club has shaped and influenced them and their careers.
Altered proteins trigger certain forms of dementia
Defective enzyme causes nerve cells to die
Why do nerve cells die in dementia - and can this process be slowed down? Researchers from the Technical University of Munich (TUM), the LMU Clinic and Helmholtz Munich have shown that the cell death program ferroptosis can trigger neurodegeneration in the human brain. At the same time, however, they also showed how nerve cells protect themselves against it. The results open up new approaches for future therapies - especially for severe early childhood dementia.