Academic Awards and Honors

Numerous Nobel Prizes, Leibniz Prizes and Humboldt Professorships: Academics of the Technical University of Munich (TUM) are regularly honored with major science awards. The university also confers some prestigious awards and honors of its own.

Nobel Prizes

To date, 17 TUM professors and alumni have received the Nobel Prize – the world’s most prestigious award for scientific achievement.Image: © ® The Nobel Foundation

Leibniz Prize

Mathematician and Leibniz awardee Prof. Barbara Wohlmuth

Mathematician Prof. Barbara Wohlmuth is one of 18 recipients of the Leibniz Prize at TUM.Image: Andreas Heddergott

Humboldt Professors

Prof. Matthias Tschöp with a working group in a laboratory

Alexander von Humboldt Professor Matthias Tschöp focuses on molecular signaling pathways in the study of diabetes and insulin resistance.Image: Andreas Heddergott

ERC Grants

Engineering scientist Prof. Sandra Hirche

In 2013, Prof. Sandra Hirche received Europe’s foremost research prize, the ERC Grant, for her research in control engineering.Image: Astrid Eckert

IEEE Fellows

Communications engineer Prof. Gerhard Kramer was named a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in 2010.Image: Astrid Eckert

Teaching Prizes

Engineering geologist Prof. Michael Krautblatter with students in a cave

Outstanding performance in teaching: Engineering geologist Prof. Michael Krautblatter is just one of a number of award-winning lecturers at the university.Image: Andreas Heddergott