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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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3/12/2025
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QS World University Rankings by Subject

TUM among the top 20 worldwide in natural sciences and engineering

In the renowned QS World University Rankings by Subject, TUM is among the top 20 universities in the world for the first time in both natural sciences (18th place) and engineering & technology (19th place). In the rankings for six individual subjects, it ranks in the top 25. In six other subjects it places among the top 50 universities.

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3/12/2025
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Pioneering educational project by TUM and the Roland Berger Foundation

Supporting socially disadvantaged children with AI

Artificial intelligence (AI) will shape the future - but not all children have the same opportunities to learn how to use it. A unique educational project by the Technical University of Munich (TUM) and the Roland Berger Foundation (RBS) addresses precisely this issue: Socially disadvantaged schoolchildren are to develop AI skills at an early age in order to actively shape the digital future.

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3/10/2025

Wanted: Innovative projects for study and teaching

The TUM Future Learning Initiative 2025 starts

Dynamic, competence-oriented, and at the cutting edge – the teaching of the future is being shaped at TUM. Who knows better what it takes than our students, teaching staff, and alumns. The TUM Future Learning Initiative aims to support their projects and implement their ideas. The Freunde der TUM – Association of Alumni and Friends is providing a total of 20,000 euros for this purpose. Proposals can be submitted until 31 May.

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Start-up team at the Venture Lab Food Agro Biotech
2/27/2025
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Financial Times rankings

UnternehmerTUM again ranked as Europe’s best start-up hub

For the second consecutive year, the British business paper Financial Times has named UnternehmerTUM as the leading start-up hub in Europe. A decisive factor behind this success is the powerful network available to tech start-ups.

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2/26/2025
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Decision by the TUM Senate

Daniela Schwarz is the new Gender Equality Officer at TUM

The Technical University of Munich (TUM) has a new Gender Equality Officer. The TUM Senate, the university's academic supervisory body, elected Dr. Daniela Schwarz. She was previously the Gender Equality Officer of the former Department of Sport and Health Sciences and works at the Chair of Sport and Health Didactics in the TUM School for Medicine and Health.

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2/25/2025
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TUM researchers combine magnetic resonance spectroscopy with fluorescence microscopy

A completely new type of microscopy based on quantum sensors

Researchers at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) have invented an entirely new field of microscopy, nuclear spin microscopy. The team can visualize magnetic signals of nuclear magnetic resonance with a microscope. Quantum sensors convert the signals into light, enabling extremely high-resolution optical imaging.

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Federal Minister for Digital and Transport Volker Wissing takes a selfie with the finalists of the Digital Future Challenge 2025 in the room of the award ceremony in the ministry; in the foreground a standing desk with microphones, in the background on the right a screen with a projected slide of the Federal Ministry for Digital and Transport
2/24/2025
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TUM teams take first and third place in the Digital Future Challenge 2025

Digitization serving society

“Shaping the digital future” was the motto of the fifth Digital Future Challenge organized by Initiative D21 and the Deloitte Foundation. The student competition focused on innovative approaches for use cases in the areas of “Europe,” “Climate & Environment,” and “Inclusion.” More than 70 groups took part – and with their AI-supported approach to using district heating networks as energy storage systems, the joint TUM and LMU team “Gridnaition” won the final.

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Dr. Sarah Rachut, managing director of the TUM Center for Digital Public Services
2/21/2025
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TUM researcher receives award for interdisciplinary legal research

"Legal regulation as a factor in shaping the digital transformation"

Traditionally a subject of study in law departments, legal topics are becoming an increasingly focus of interdisciplinary activities at technical universities – especially in the context of shaping the digital transformation. This is the starting point for the research of Dr. Sarah Rachut, managing director of the TUM Center for Digital Public Services. She combines the legal aspects with technological and societal perspectives in pursuit of the goal of digitization processes that serve the common good. For her outstanding achievements, Sarah Rachut has now been honored as one of Germany’s best young scientists by the ZEIT Verlag publishing group and Academics, a careers portal for talented graduates and academics.

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Prof. Carina Baer de Oliveira Mann
2/20/2025
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NewIn: Carina Baer de Oliveira Mann

In search of molecular switches in the immune system

A decades-long search culminated in 2013 with the discovery of cGAS – a molecular switch that plays a key role in the human immune system. Carina Baer de Oliveira Mann was a doctoral student with the team that achieved this breakthrough. Now a professor at TUM, she is certain that there are more switches of this kind. She only has to prove it.

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