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Photo of a running video camera recording a lesson Astrid Eckert / TUM
3/14/2025
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idw award for the TUM Press Office

Best scientific press release of the year

The press office of the Technical University of Munich (TUM) has received the award for the best research press release of the year 2024. A jury of experts from Informationsdienst Wissenschaft (idw) awarded the prize to TUM's communication on a new ultrasound method for bridge testing. The author of the text, press officer Moritz Müller, accepted the award at a ceremony at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities.

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ARTE documentary series on modern architecture - Ciutat de les Arts i les Ciències - Valencia
3/14/2025
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Media tip: ARTE documentary series on architecture

Temples of Culture - How Cultural Buildings Enhance Cities

The four-part ARTE series "Temples of Culture - How Cultural Buildings Enhance Cities" examines how buildings, concert halls, museums, and opera houses can influence urban life and support urban revitalization processes. The former Chair of Urban Development, Prof. Alain Thierstein, and Dr. Nadia Alaily-Mattar from the Technical University of Munich (TUM) comment on the developments and explain the architectural connections.

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Prof. Bernhard Küster and a member of staff in the lab
1/24/2025
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Media Tip

Are proteins the key to a better future?

Can proteins revolutionize our understanding of health and medicine? The 3sat documentary “The Protein Revolution” sheds light on different perspectives on these building blocks of life and offers insights into the research of Prof. Bernhard Küster and Prof. Ute Weisz from the TUM School of Life Sciences.

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Prof. Markus Ploner (r.) and presenter Jasmina Neudecker
6/3/2024

ZDF Terra Xplore: TV program with Prof. Markus Ploner

How individual is pain?

"Pain – what it tells you about yourself" is the title of a recent episode of the science magazine Terra Xplore (ZDF, 27 min., in German). In the report, Markus Ploner, Professor of Human Pain Research, explains how pain is processed in the brain and why we feel it differently.

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Insights into the quantum world
5/23/2024
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Media tip: TV report on research in the field of quantum technology

Insights into the quantum world

Computers that solve complex problems in the shortest possible time, guaranteed tap-proof networks, and intelligent sensors: quantum technologies could radically change our world in the coming decades. At the same time, however, the new developments are raising more social questions. Researchers from the Technical University of Munich (TUM) provide insights into the current state of research in a report on SAT.1 Bayern.

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Start-up team building a prototype.
3/14/2024
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Financial Times ranking

UnternehmerTUM is Europe's best start-up hub

Award for TUM's entrepreneurship ecosystem: The Financial Times has named UnternehmerTUM as the best start-up hub in Europe, scoring particularly well with its strong network. Other international media have also drawn attention to TUM's entrepreneurship successes.

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2/9/2024
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Media tip: TV report on the work at the future location of TUM's young academy

New life for the Hans Albers Villa

The overgrown former estate of film star Hans Albers and his partner Hansi Burg on the shores of Lake Starnberg is currently being transformed into a new home for the Young Academy of the Technical University of Munich (TUM). It is to become a place of encounter and remembrance.

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Citizens Lab on Marienplatz
11/10/2023
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ZDF culture magazine Aspekte at TUM

What is Bavaria's culture of innovation like?

Jo Schück, presenter of the ZDF culture magazine Aspekte, explored the character of Bavaria on a long reporting trip. In Munich, he met with innovation researcher Prof. Sebastian Pfotenhauer, UnternehmerTUM CEO Prof. Helmut Schönenberger and Alona Kharchenko from robotics start-up Devanthro to discuss the state's culture of innovation.

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Entrepreneurship Research TUM in the media
6/9/2023
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SZ interview with Vice President for Sustainable Transformation Prof. Werner Lang

Students as pioneers of sustainability

Sustainability is one of the most important topics at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) - and one that affects almost all areas of research, teaching and operations. Since 2022, there has been the TUM Sustainable Futures Strategy 2030 and, since this year, the office of Vice President for Sustainable Transformation. Prof. Werner Lang, holder of the Chair for Energy Efficient and Sustainable Planning and Building, has taken on this role.

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A woman working with biotech equipment
3/17/2023
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BR presents bioengineering program

DNA analysis in schools

PCR equipment, genetic engineering, enzyme reactions – it is still extremely rare to see pupils carrying out biotechnology experiments in school classrooms. This is made possible under a program offered by TUM and the Amgen Foundation and by the school network of the Schülerforschungszentrum Berchtesgadener Land, a research center for pupils. The broadcaster BR was on hand as a school class carried out a DNA analysis experiment.

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