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.
In research and innovation, we work at the interface between technology, economics, politics, society and ecology. We want to launch trustworthy innovations that are accepted and needed in society. To this end, our scientists conduct interdisciplinary, operationally agile and creative research. “Society-centered research and innovation” is the goal we have set ourselves. We therefore pursue a holistic approach and take into account economic, ecological, social, political and ethical/moral consequences and risks.
Interview about society-centered research and innovation
"Making innovations trustworthy and socially acceptable"
What role can design play at a technical university? And how does the discipline help to make research and innovation more society-centered? President Prof. Thomas F. Hofmann and Prof. Annette Diefenthaler, founding director of the Munich Design Institute, discuss this in an interview.
Natural sciences, medicine and social sciences at the top
TUM to receive funding for seven Clusters of Excellence
TUM has once again made a successful start to the highly competitive Excellence Strategy of the German federal and state governments: In the future, seven Clusters of Excellence at TUM and its cooperation partners will be funded, as announced by the German Research Foundation (DFG). Four existing clusters were able to prove themselves in the international review process and will be funded for a further seven years. In addition, there are three new Clusters of Excellence.
A selection of key research areas
Inventions and discoveries
Rapid mobility after a stroke
Stroke victims can learn to move impaired limbs again using a system of electrical stimulation and an exoskeleton. TUM researchers developed and tested this application.
AI in medicine: Vasiliki Sideri-Lampretsa
In search of invisible patterns
In her doctoral thesis, Greek researcher Vasiliki Sideri-Lampretsa prepares clinical data from lung or brain images in such a way that algorithms can analyze them. With the help of artificial intelligence, possible disease-related changes in the images can be identified. Vasiliki is a researcher in the group of Daniel Rückert, Professor of AI in Healthcare and Medicine. He develops safe and reliable AI solutions in medicine.
Excellent infrastructure for research
Inventions and discoveries
Early warning system for forest fires
The warning app, developed by TUM founders, combines satellite heat measurements with local weather data and camera systems to search for sources of fire anywhere in the world.
Research goals
We explore the fundamentals of life and find solutions to major societal challenges. In doing so, we always put people at the center.
Schools and research centers
The foundation of our university is formed by seven Schools, which are linked at the interface of disciplines by integrative research institutes.
Faculty
At TUM, 698 professors research and teach. Get to know this international group of outstanding scientists.
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.
TUM magazine
Groundbreaking research, innovative start-up ideas, inspiring alumni, exciting news from studying, teaching and campus life - this is what our new TUM Magazine offers you every six months as a print edition and at any time online.
Inventions and discoveries
Using plants as substitutes for meat in megacity
The Proteins4Singapore research project uses vertical farming to produce protein-rich plants without pesticides or wasted resources in the megacity of Singapore.
