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PhD candidate Yixiao Zhang
10/31/2025
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Career in science: Yixiao Zhang

New resources from waste products

Across the globe, researchers are striving to develop sustainable methods for cleaning contaminated wastewater. At the TUM School of Natural Sciences, doctoral researcher Yixiao Zhang is creating nanoparticles that act as highly efficient catalysts, transforming waste products into new and valuable resources like the fertilizer urea.

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Research Sustainability Community Energy
Oat plants in a field under a blue sky
10/29/2025
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Prospects for climate-resilient oats

Oat’s genetic diversity decoded

Oat is an important crop with many health benefits and diverse applications. An international research consortium involving the Technical University of Munich (TUM) and other institutions has decoded the pan-genome of 33 oat lines—mapping their full genetic diversity. This comprehensive overview provides leverage for breeding more resilient, higher-yielding plants, as oats, too, face mounting pressures from a changing climate.

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Research Sustainability
10/27/2025
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Sustainability in conjunction with entrepreneurship as a focus

TUM and Stanford University form strategic alliance on sustainability

Two global academic players are joining forces: The Technical University of Munich (TUM) and the Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability have formed a strategic alliance on sustainability. They will tackle pressing global challenges for the future of humanity together for more impact. The collaboration focuses on sustainability in connection with entrepreneurship.

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Start-up team planning a project
10/21/2025
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Viessmann Foundation partners with TUM Venture Labs

Fostering next-generation climate ventures

The Viessmann Foundation, which represents the core of the philanthropic activities of the Viessmann Generations Group, has committed a seven-digit Euro sum over three years to support TUM Venture Labs. The partnership has an ambitious goal: to increase climate-relevant impact tenfold over the next 10 years, with an emphasis on climate-relevant spin-outs.

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Entrepreneurship Sustainability Community
10/16/2025
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Awards presented to researchers and organizations from Germany, Canada, and Australia

Nobel Sustainability Trust Presents the Sustainability Awards 2025

This year, the prestigious Sustainability Awards, presented by the Nobel Sustainability Trust (NST) in cooperation with the Technical University of Munich (TUM), honor two distinguished researchers from Germany and Canada, as well as an international organization based in Australia.

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Research Sustainability
The Amazon rainforest is one of the four most important interconnected parts of the climate system.
10/1/2025
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Dependence of tipping points in the global system

Four central climate components are losing stability

Four of the most important interconnected parts of the Earth's climate system are losing stability. This is shown by an international scientific study based on observational data published in Nature Geoscience. The researchers succeeded in highlighting the warning signals for destabilization of the Greenland Ice Sheet, the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC), the Amazon rainforest, and the South American monsoon system.

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Research Sustainability
9/22/2025
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One year of electric practical testing completed: TUM plant fire department is a pioneer in Bavaria

Successful use of electric fire trucks

The fire department at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) is the only one in Bavaria that uses electric rescue and firefighting vehicles. After one year, it is clear that the two trucks are reliable and fully capable of meeting the considerable demands placed on them. Despite initial skepticism, they are now very popular with emergency services personnel.

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Storm damage in a forest
9/18/2025
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Need for strategic adjustments

The economic cost of climate change for Europe’s Forests

Wildfires, storms, and bark beetle are putting increasing pressure on Europe’s forests. Beyond their ecological toll, these events also carry major economic consequences. Researchers at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) have now quantified the potential financial losses climate change could cause for European forestry. Their findings reveal significant regional differences: while Northern Europe may even benefit, Central and Southern Europe will need to adapt quickly.

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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
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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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9/9/2025

Podcast "We Are TUM"

A visit to the Campus Straubing

In this episode of our podcast "We Are TUM", we visit the Campus Straubing for Biotechnology and Sustainability. Our guests are campus rector Volker Sieber, Entrepreneurship commissioner Claudia Doblinger, behavioural economist Stefan Goerg and alumna Maria Schießl.

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