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MCube Mobilitätscluster auf der IAA Mobility in München (Bild: Viktoriya Zayika / MCube) MCube / Viktoriya Zayika
Beim Kunstarealfest 2025 ist die Licht- und Klanginstallation "Sonic Revolutions / Heaven's Caroussel" des Künstlers Tim Otto Roth vor der Alten Pinakothek zu sehen. Die Installation ist in Kooperation des TUM Center for Culture and Arts und der Professur für Audio-Signalverarbeitung an der TUM (Prof. Seeber) entstanden.
7/10/2025
Reading time: 5 Min.

Looking back on the Kunstareal Festival 2025

Science and arts in motion at the Kunstareal

TUM is located right in the heart of Munich's Kunstareal, one of Europe's most important arts and culture destinations. The 2025 edition of the Kunstareal Festival thus saw TUM researchers, students and staff join in with creative ideas and projects, making science, technology and social questions feel tangible in a new way.

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Participants taking part in a soundwalk at one of the listening stations
6/25/2025
Reading time: 2 Min.

Participatory Research

Exploring the urban soundscape

Take a walk through the city and contribute to research at the same time: Residents of Munich now have the opportunity to do just that through guided soundwalks in the neighborhoods of Au, Neuperlach, and Harlaching. CitySoundscapes, a joint project by the Technical University of Munich (TUM), LMU Munich, and other partners, is looking for curious citizens willing to explore their city in a new way — and help lay the groundwork for concrete ways to improve life in the city.

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Research Sustainability Public Engagement
6/20/2025
Reading time: 5 Min.

Prof. Friedrich Simmel on the new BioSysteM Cluster of Excellence

"Thinking of biology as technology"

The BioSysteM Cluster of Excellence aims to develop self-organizing molecular and cellular systems with programmable, life-like properties. The focus ranges from biomolecular machines for biosynthesis and intelligent materials to biomedical microrobots and pattern-based therapeutics to the control of cell differentiation and organ formation as the basis for a new generation of revolutionary applications in biomedicine. Spokesperson Prof. Friedrich Simmel explains in an interview why the involvement of society is crucial in this context.

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6/2/2025
Reading time: 1 Min.

Deutsches Museum continues its successful development under the leadership of a TUM professor

Michael Decker is the new Director General

The Deutsches Museum in Munich will be headed by Michael Decker as Director General in the future. Like his predecessor, Wolfgang M. Heckl, Decker is also a professor at the Technical University of Munich (TUM). On Monday, he was introduced to his new position by Bavaria's Minister of Science, Markus Blume, TUM President Thomas F. Hofmann, and the Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Deutsches Museum, Axel Cronauer.

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Portrait photo of Emmanuel Adjei, in the background an illuminated bicycle
6/2/2025
Reading time: 3 Min.

TUM alumnus embarks on charity ride from Munich to Accra

10,000 kilometers to promote educational equity

Emmanuel Adjei, a sports scientist at the TUM University Hospital, is cycling from Munich to Accra – 10,000 kilometers, 150 days, 15 countries. With his campaign “Bike2MyRoots,” he is aiming to raise funds for an educational NGO. His goal: to inspire children in Africa, improve access to education, and promote inclusion and equal opportunities. He sets off on 7 June.

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Professor Sebastian Pfotenhauer
5/26/2025
Reading time: 7 Min.

New Cluster of Excellence TransforM

“Studying socio-technical shocks in real time”

The Cluster of Excellence TransforM aims to find new ways of conducting research into how transformative technologies shape societal change. In this interview, TransforM spokesperson Prof. Sebastian Pfotenhauer explains why it is essential for social and engineering sciences to face highly speculative questions, discusses how the public can be involved, and how a cluster of this kind could have enabled a different response to the covid pandemic.

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A man is lying on a tree log and looks into the camera, through a magnifying glass. In the background is a forest.
5/14/2025
Reading time: 2 Min.

Moderator of "Willi wills wissen" in new discussion format with TUM participation

Forest knowledge with Willi Weitzel

Communicating science to specific target groups and strengthening trust in research: These are the goals of the new initiative "AHA - The Science Communication Hub". Universities such as the Technical University of Munich (TUM), museums, academies and research institutes are involved in the network. One of the first offers for the public is the "AHA Wirtshaus-Wissen" event series with Willi Weitzel and TUM Professor Ferdinand Ludwig on May 18 at the Hofbräukeller on Wiener Platz in Munich.

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Community Public Engagement
Trees on a densely populated street with apartment buildings on a sunny day
4/25/2025
Reading time: 2 Min.

Citizen Science project “Mein Baum”

Contributing to Sustainable Urban Planning via Smartphone App

Trees reduce heat pollution in cities, provide us with oxygen, and bind climate-damaging Carbon dioxide. However, it is currently unclear which and how many trees grow in urban areas and how much this stock can help with climate adaptation. In collaboration with the Technical University of Munich (TUM) and University of Applied Sciences Weihenstephan-Triesdorf (HSWT), BUND Naturschutz has launched the citizen science project “Mein Baum” ('My Tree'). With the help of a smartphone app, people can document local trees and play an active role in scientific research.

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Research Sustainability Public Engagement
4/24/2025
Reading time: 3 Min.

TUM and Akademie der Bildenden Künste launch a joint project with Haus der Kunst

Astrophysics and art cooperate on dark matter and neutrinos

Astroparticle physics researchers researchers from the Technical University of Munich (TUM) and artists from the Academy of Fine Arts Munich (AdBK) and the Haus der Kunst are working together on a cross-disciplinary project: TUM's Collaborative Research Center SFB 1258 "Neutrinos and Dark Matter in Astro- and Particle Physics", funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG), will be working with the photography class at the AdBK over the next few years to artistically reflect on its twelve years of research work. The results are to be presented at the Haus der Kunst in 2028.

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Eva Weig in front of the machine used to evaporate different metallic layers onto the chips via vapor deposition under ultrahigh vacuum.
4/14/2025
Reading time: 4 Min.

World Quantum Day on April 14

Current research on quantum technologies

Computers that solve complex problems in the shortest possible time, guaranteed tap-proof networks and intelligent sensors: quantum technologies will radically change the world in the coming decades. At our university and in the Cluster of Excellence Munich Center for Quantum Science and Technology (MCQST), scientists are researching various aspects of this future technology.

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