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.
"University of Excellence"
Since 2006, TUM has been one of Germany's “Universities of Excellence”. In 2012, TUM’s institutional strategy was awarded again in the German excellence initiative – this time with its Tenure Track career system for young scientists, the first of its kind in Germany. More on TUM's success in the excellence initiative
- 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
- Mathematician Prof. Barbara Wohlmuth is one of 18 recipients of the Leibniz Prize at TUM.Image: Andreas Heddergott
- Alexander von Humboldt Professor Matthias Tschöp focuses on molecular signaling pathways in the study of diabetes and insulin resistance.Image: Andreas Heddergott
- In 2013, Prof. Sandra Hirche received Europe’s foremost research prize, the ERC Grant, for her research in control engineering.Image: Astrid Eckert
- Communications engineer Prof. Gerhard Kramer was named a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in 2010.Image: Astrid Eckert
- 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
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