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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.

Excellence Strategy

As announced in July 2019, TUM has secured the title "University of Excellence" for the third time in succession. This makes it the only technical university in Germany to have held the title consecutively since 2006. Excellence Strategy

Nobel Prizes

Nobel Prize medal
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 20 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
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

Contact Office of the President

Dr. rer. nat. Stefanie Rohrer
Technical University of Munich
Arcisstraße 21
80333 München
Germany

Tel. +49 89 289 25529
Fax +49 89 289 23399
rohrer(at)zv.tum.de

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