Research Enabling Change
Exploring the origins of the universe and the foundations of life, seeking solutions to the major challenges of our time – from students to Nobel Prize laureates, our university community creates inspiration, new knowledge and innovation.
Following our guiding principle of "Human-centered Engineering", we align the development of technical solutions towards the functionality for people, the values and needs of society, and the requirements of a sustainable future. Our innovation-supportive matrix structure of TUM Schools and mission-driven Integrative Research Institutes creates an operatively agile and scientifically inspiring environment for interdisciplinary collaboration across TUM and beyond.
Using Big Data against mental disorders
How can physicians help patients suffering from mental health disorders like chronic pain, depression and stroke? An interdisciplinary team of researchers at TUM is developing new methods to investigate the neuronal patterns underlying these conditions. These results should then help to improve the treatment options available to stroke patients with cognitive loss or people suffering from depression or chronic pain.
Excellent infrastructure for research
Our schools and research centers
Our Schools form the academic foundation of our university, connected by integrative research institutes at the interfaces between disciplines. Through this kind of networking, we are building a matrix organization for innovation in research and teaching.
We develop innovative technologies not for the sake of it, but for people and nature.
President of Technical University of Munich
Experience research
We share our curiosity, knowledge and fascination with people from our university and beyond, and create new paths into the future.
150 Years of TUM – anniversary stories
Curiosity and an entrepreneurial spirit have been at the heart of TUM for more than 150 years. From the first viable refrigerator to robots capable of feeling to the sandwich molecule – researchers have made numerous inventions and discoveries during that period that still shape our lives today.
"Faszination Forschung" research magazine
Read about the latest scientific findings and the people behind them in our research magazine.