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News, research results and events: everything that enthuses people at our university.

Sustainable spaceflight technologies

Resource efficiency in space

From lower-emission propulsion systems and servicing robots to photobioreactors for autonomous life support, researchers at...

3/23/2026 Reading time 8 min.

Research

Research in health policy

New Munich Center for Health Economics and Policy

In this interview, Prof. Leonie Sundmacher talks about what it is like to help shape health policy as a researcher and...

3/19/2026 Reading time 4 min.

TUM in the media

Media tip: ZDF Moma Future

Nanorobots train stem cells

Researchers at TUM are using nanorobots to reliably and precisely transform stem cells into bone cells. Berna Özkale...

3/24/2026 Reading time 1 min.

TUM Magazine

Leibniz Prize winner Frank Pollmann

Understanding the order of the quantum world

Physicist Prof. Frank Pollmann was awarded the 2026 Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize on March 18. In this interview, he...

3/18/2026 Reading time 5 min.

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Our upcoming event highlights

2/13–5/31

Exhibition: Reflexion - Light Mirrors Transparency

Fri 2/13/2026 – Sun 5/31/2026

Munich

Visit the exhibition at the Pinakothek der Moderne on the multifaceted concept of reflection.

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3/23–27

TUM Master’s Days

Mon 23 – Fri 3/27/2026

Online

Everything you need to know about a TUM master’s: Explore programs online, ask questions, and gain insights!

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4/23

Girls' Day Campus Heilbronn

Thu 4/23/2026, 9:00 am – 3:00 pm

Heilbronn

We invite girls from the 5th grade onwards to get to know careers and study subjects in IT, technology and management.

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4/29

TUM Sustainability Day

Wed 4/29/2026

Garching

We invite you to experience the diversity of our sustainability topics at Sustainability Day 2026!

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Event Overview

Degree programs

What drives us: President Thomas F. Hofmann about TUM

Research and innovations for society, innovative teaching and continuing education: This is how we shape a sustainable future, relying on the intelligence of the entire university and working closely with global partners to do so.

TUM in figures

Students

ERC Grants for cutting-edge research

Nobel Prizes

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Our research goals

Understanding the essential foundations of life

We explore which fundamental forces and mechanisms shaped the universe and how its galaxies, stars and planets developed - and how life originated.

Maintaining health and targeting diseases

How will we treat serious illnesses in the future and how can we make reliable diagnoses more quickly? We address these questions with the latest technologies and methods.

Shaping a sustainable living environment

We combine all our expertise to slow down climate change and create sustainable places to live and work.

Creating new materials and manufacturing technologies

High-precision sensors on a quantum basis and new systems for storing energy - we develop digital manufacturing technologies and sustainable process engineering.

Pioneering digital transformation for a secure future

We develop secure digital technologies that make life and work easier. Our goal is to find solutions to questions of digital change and to constantly drive them forward.