Join the interdisciplinary #innovation format Think.Make.Start in September for an opportunity to turn your ideas into real products and gain hands-on experience in building problem–solution fits in cross-functional teams. Apply by June 30: tms.tum.de #entrepreneurship #startup 📷Think.Make.Start

With these spring vibes from our Campus #Garching, we’d like to wish you a wonderful weekend! 🌼 ☀️Thanks to Philipp Sorembe for the campus photo of the month for April. If you took a great #campusphoto as well, send us your #tumcampuspic to [email protected] 📧

President Thomas F. Hofmann is the new Chair of the #BoardofTrustees of the #DeutschesMuseum! 👏 The Board of Trustees advises the museum, participates in its strategic development, and serves as a supervisory body: go.tum.de/155621 📷G. Faust

In the CHE #UniversityRanking 2026, our #university receives outstanding ratings from its #students for the quality of teaching and study conditions in #BusinessAdministration and #InformationSystems—this also applies to our Campus Heilbronn: go.tum.de/410504 👏 📷A.Gebert

A research project at our university investigates how #BrainSignals can be translated into digital commands, aiming to enable people with #paralysis to interact with computers or #RoboticSystems: go.tum.de/611249 #AI #Neuroscience 📷A. Eckert

Next up in our #ScienceGlossary on #agriculture: "soil health". 🌱 Protecting and restoring #SoilHealth is key to resilient #ecosystems, sustainable agriculture and #biodiversity: go.tum.de/674840 📷TUM CCC/ U. Weisz

Scientists developed a tool for better control of #stemcell development that repeatedly obtains up-to-date #geneticinformation from #livingcells. It will enable better monitoring of stem cells for e.g. therapies in the future: go.tum.de/881110 @helmholtzmunich.bsky.social 📷A.Heddergott

The fourth StudiTUM House opens at our #universityhospital! Located in a historic location on Trogerstraße, it is now available to all of our #students, creating space for creativity, collaboration, and concentration: go.tum.de/424718 #community 📷K. Czoppelt

Congrats to a team from our #university and a team from Université de Lorraine for winning first place at the Global #Sustainability Challenge, selected from more than 3,500 participants representing 91 countries: go.tum.de/466842 #ClimateAction 📷A. Eckert

As part of our #EuropeanUnion week, #EUcommissioner Jessika Roswall will explore how European policy is shaping the future of #sustainability, industry, and #innovation at the #TUMSpeakersSeries event on May 4. Get tickets now: t1p.de/TUMSpeakers 📷TUM Speakers Series

At this year's TUM #Sustainability Day on the Garching campus, our #community, international partners and guests showed how sustainability can be transferred from idea to practice through concrete solutions and concepts: go.tum.de/995778 #internationalization 📷A. Eckert

#Urbanbeekeeping is growing, but may affect #wildbees through competition and disease risks. Researchers helped develop the “Urban Bee Concept” to support coexistence in cities: go.tum.de/990628 🐝 #Biodiversity #UrbanEcology 📷A. Eckert

Join us today for the #Sustainability Day at our Campus #Garching (lecture free from 12 p.m)! You can find the full program and the livestreams for the main stage events here: tum.de/sustainabilityday 📷TUM

How can we make #agriculture more #sustainable while feeding the world and supporting ecosystems? Our next #ScienceGlossary entry introduces #agroforestry, which combines forestry with farming practices: go.tum.de/674840 #Munich 📷 TUM CCC / S. Asseng, TUM Life Sciences

A study shows that Amazon understory trees can temporarily store more CO₂ as atmospheric CO₂ levels rise. However, #soilnutrient limitations could restrict their capacity to sequester #carbon over the long term: go.tum.de/360558 #AmazonForest @univie.ac.at 📷iStock/ A. Oliveira

Do you want to learn more about the EU? Take part in the #EuropeanUnion Week 2026 from May 4-8 with an extensive program of keynote speeches, discussions, and more: go.tum.de/312125 #networking #internationalization 📷iStock/Dzika Mrowka

Gordon Cheng and his team won an award at the half-marathon race for #humanoidrobots in Beijing! The robot completed the 21-kilometer course in 3 hours and 35 minutes, making it the best international team: go.tum.de/501882 #robotics #cognitivesystems 📷TUM

The Versuchsanstalt Obernach marks 100 years of #WaterResearch since its founding by Oskar von Miller. 👏 The facility contributes to #hydropower, #ClimateResearch, and #FloodProtection: go.tum.de/481300 📷TUM ProLehre

Don’t miss the #TUMSpeakersSeries event at our #Sustainability Day on April 29 with Sara Nuru, model, activist & social entrepreneur, and Samantha Cristoforetti, TUM #alumna, ESA astronaut & ISS commander. 🤩 Get your free tickets now: t1p.de/TUMSpeakers 📷TUM Speakers Series

Watch the ZDF Moma Future report where Berna Özkale Edelmann and Chen Wang explain how laser-controlled #nanorobots mechanically stimulate #stemcells and support #boneformation (in German): go.tum.de/350963 #microrobotics 📷ZDF

Making scientific terms accessible is the goal of our science glossary. The next round begins with "#verticalfarming" and explores how innovative research at our university is advancing more #sustainableagriculture and #foodsystems: go.tum.de/674840 📷 TUM CCC / S. Asseng, TUM Life Sciences

Congrats to Alisa Machner and Georgia Samaras on winning the Prize for #ExcellenceinTeaching! In addition, six further #researchers will receive our Certificate of Honor for Excellence in Teaching this year: go.tum.de/310741 👏 #highereducation 📷A. König

We are cooperating with BGZ, the federal state-owned Gesellschaft für Zwischenlagerung, at our Campus Garching to conduct joint research on the safe interim #storage and #disposal of #RadioactiveWaste: go.tum.de/559951 #NuclearTechnology 📷BGZ

Join the #TUMSpeakersSeries event on April 21 with Jörg Kukies, Former German Minister of Finance, for an exclusive talk about the intersection of #highfinance and #Europeanpolitics: t1p.de/TUMSpeakers 📷TUM Speakers Series

On April 29, our #SustainabilityDay 2026 is taking place at our Campus #Garching! Come by and discover 120+ initiatives that showcase how #sustainability is put into practice at our #university and beyond. Check out the full program now: tum.de/sustainabilityday 📷TUM

Ayla Busch, of family-run Busch Vacuum Solutions, serves on the Advisory Board of the TUM #UniversityFoundation, which supports research, student initiatives, and infrastructure projects: go.tum.de/722020 #entrepreneurship #innovation 📷Busch Vacuum Solutions

A new German-Singaporean research consortium aims to develop an #OpenSource post-quantum-secure processor integrating #QuantumResistant #cryptography at the hardware level: go.tum.de/123688 #Cybersecurity #QuantumComputing 📷A.Eckert

Save the date! 🗓️ On October 3, we invite you to the #OpenHouse at the #Garching research campus. ⚗️🧬 Experience research up close with talks, hands-on activities, tours & more: www.tum.de/en/open-day #OpenCampus #HigherEducation 📹Forschungscampus Garching

"Science Year 2026 – Medicine of the Future" explores how #AI may shape #Healthcare. The project “2036 – Healthy with AI?”, by M1 Munich Medicine Alliance, invites public input, incl. a workshop in Munich on April 23. Register: go.tum.de/420160 @w-i-d.de @lmu.de @helmholtz.de 📷 M.Merget

Mark your calendars! 📅 #EuroTeQ Day 2026 on April 23 brings together #students, teachers, researchers, and staff across #partneruniversities to explore #innovation, creativity, and collaboration within the EuroTeQ network: go.tum.de/293681 #engineering

Welcome back to #campus! 🤩 We hope you have a great start to the #newsemester! #summersemester #munich #garching #heilbronn #weihenstephan #straubing 📷A. Heddergott

Are you passionate about research and thinking about pursuing a #doctoraldegree at our #university? The PrepDoc program of the TUM #GraduateSchool offers valuable insights to help you plan your doctorate. Register for the first event until April 16: go.tum.de/136257 📷TUM

A study finds that #GeologicalFormations in #SouthernBavaria offer an alternative to northern Germany’s salt caverns for large-scale #hydrogenstorage, contributing to a better geographical distribution of storage capacities: go.tum.de/559225 📷iStock/ Dirschl

Meet Manon Westphal, our newly appointed professor of #PoliticalTheory and #Philosophy, in the latest NewIn episode! She talks about her research on key political issues, productive conflict and technology’s impact on #democracy: go.tum.de/514567 ▶️ youtu.be/AoWO4iXttG0 📹 ProLehre 📷A. Eckert

We are expanding our #collaboration with Shanghai Jiao Tong University as part of our excellence strategy, focusing on #dronedelivery services and intelligent manufacturing technologies, as well as #healthscience: go.tum.de/906954 📷 M. Qiuwu

Researchers examine #DigitalSafety for children and youth, suggesting optimized platform design and #AI-based tools instead of blanket bans. The study highlights #privacy-preserving interventions and youth participation: go.tum.de/687381 @hfp.tum.de 📷iStock/A. Buzunova

Lovely reflections in our campus #PhotooftheMonth for March, taken by Christoph Herget. We wish everyone a relaxing long weekend! 😊 If you’ve captured a special moment on campus, send us your #tumcampuspic to [email protected] 📧 #Garching #UniversityCampus

Researchers at our university observed visual signal flow in a specific thalamocortical pathway, supporting key aspects of the 1981 Nobel Prize model by Hubel and Wiesel and refining the understanding of cortical processing: go.tum.de/450857 #Neuroscience #VisualPerception 📷A.Eckert

Listen to the latest We are TUM episode (in German) on the TUM School of #Medicine and Health!🎙️ Stephanie E. Combs, Orkan Okan and Helena Engel discuss our school transformation, #healthliteracy and where science meets elite sports: go.tum.de/870085 #podcast @whocc-hl.bsky.social 📷ediundsepp

Researchers developed a #robot that detects and localizes ripe green asparagus while moving across uneven fields at commercially relevant speeds. Further tests will refine detection and #harvesting: go.tum.de/367325 #DigitalAgriculture #Robotics 📷iStock/w-ings

Discover the latest issue of TUM Magazine! Join three researchers developing #sustainable #spacetechnologies, explore the order of the #quantumworld, and learn more about our renewed success in the #ExcellenceStrategy competition: go.tum.de/195402 📷A. Eckert, E. Totoeva

Researchers, including Kun Sun, identify how temperature swings degrade #PerovskiteSolarCells and propose molecular “anchors” to improve stability. Findings support more durable #SolarCells for real-world conditions: go.tum.de/722539 #SolarEnergy @e-conversion.bsky.social 📷Y.Liang

Join Think. Make. Start. on March 27 for Demo Day Batch#22, where #student teams present the prototypes they’ve developed over the past two intensive weeks. Watch the presentations and vote for your favorites: tms.tum.de #entrepreneurship #innovation

A study from our #UniversityHospital reports a sharp rise in #ebike crashes since 2023, with older men at higher risk of severe injury. Results indicate that helmet use and health conditions influence outcomes: go.tum.de/954226 #PublicHealth #InjuryPrevention #RoadSafety 📷amriphoto/iStock

The latest QS World #UniversityRankings by Subject place us among the world’s top 20 universities in #engineering & technology, as well as #NaturalSciences: go.tum.de/261445 👏 #QSWUR 📷A.Heddergott

Sign up by March 31 for the EuroTeQ Collider project weeks. Join an #international challenge-based program and #collaborate with peers, researchers & industry on real-world #sustainability topics. Find the project week dates here: go.tum.de/560958 #Engineering 📷TUMJA

Researchers are developing technologies for more #sustainable #spaceflight, including #lowemission propulsion, servicing robots, and photobioreactors. Their goal is to enable responsible growth and ensure the long‑term use of Earth’s orbit: go.tum.de/431700 🌍 #HightechAgendaBayern 📷NASA/ ESA

Our university is participating in the new Catalyst GER program which supports research teams that aim to achieve sustainable #societalimpact through a spin-off or other forms of #knowledgetransfer: go.tum.de/786235 #socialsciences #entrepreneurship 📷iStock/ .shock

Health economist Leonie Sundmacher networks researchers from all over Bavaria at the #Munich Center for #HealthEconomics and Policy (M-CHEP). Discover what it means to help shape #healthpolicy as a researcher in our interview: go.tum.de/258127 📷S. Beres

Read our interview with #LeibnizPrize winner Frank Pollmann, in which he explains why matter sometimes follows its own laws, what that means for #quantumcomputers, and how #quantumresearch is perceived by the public: go.tum.de/878278 📷A.Heddergott