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: http://go.tum.de/367325
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TUM remains a University of Excellence for the fourth time in a row! 🎉 With our new TUM Agenda 2030+, we realign our strategy in the excellence competition of the German federal and state governments. Through society-centered research and innovation we aim to create impactful and trustworthy solutions for current global challenges: https://go.tum.de/662298
#ExcellenceStrategy #Exzellenzstrategie #ExStra
@WissRat@wisskomm.social @dfg_public@wisskomm.social @bmftr_bund@social.bund.de
📷A. Heddergott
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 social-media@tum.de 📧
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: http://t1p.de/TUMSpeakers
📷TUM Speakers Series
Yesterday, we celebrated our fourth title in a row as a #UniversityofExcellence together with the TUM #community. 👏 Thank you to everyone who made this outstanding achievement possible! Here are some impressions of this unforgettable moment! 🙌
#ExStra #ExcellenceStrategy
@dfg_public@wisskomm.social @WissRat@wisskomm.social
📷A. Eckert
In our interview, Kristin Knipfer explains how the TUM Institute for #LifelongLearning supports staff through practical workshops on #DigitalTools and #AI applications during the #LearningDays from July 8–10. TUM employees can register now: http://go.tum.de/563183
📷T.Linkel
The latest QS World #UniversityRankings by Subject place us among the world’s top 20 universities in #engineering & technology, as well as #NaturalSciences: http://go.tum.de/261445 👏
📷A.Heddergott
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: http://go.tum.de/722020
📷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: http://go.tum.de/123688
#Cybersecurity #QuantumComputing
📷A.Eckert
Mark your calendars! 📅 EuroTeQ Day 2026 on April 23 brings together students, teachers, researchers, and staff across partner universities to explore innovation, creativity, and collaboration within the EuroTeQ network. This year’s highlight is the Egg Drop Competition, where teams showcase their engineering skills and ingenuity to protect a raw egg from a multi-meter drop. Register by April 21: https://go.tum.de/293681
📷TUM
Welcome back to #campus! 🤩 We hope you have a great start to the #newsemester!
#summersemester #munich #garching #heilbronn #weihenstephan #straubing
📷A. Heddergott
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: http://go.tum.de/870085
📷ediundsepp
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: http://go.tum.de/954226
#RoadSafety #PublicHealth
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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: http://go.tum.de/878278
📷A.Heddergott
150 years ago, Wilhelm von Bezold delivered the first lecture on electrical telegraphy at our #university! This laid the foundation for a discipline that continues to shape our daily lives to this day: #electrical and #computerengineering: http://go.tum.de/187885
📷A. Heddergott
Scientists, including Johannes Knolle and Hongzheng Zhao, found a way to prevent heating in periodically shaken #quantumsystems, creating stable and long-lived exotic states—a key step for future #quantumtechnologies: http://go.tum.de/390724
📷R. Reich
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: http://go.tum.de/466842
📷A. Eckert
Making scientific terms and concepts 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: http://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: http://go.tum.de/310741 👏
📷A. König
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: https://www.tum.de/en/open-day
📹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: http://go.tum.de/420160
@wissenschaftimdialog@wisskomm.social @bmftr_bund@social.bund.de
📷 M.Merget
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: http://go.tum.de/559225
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Theater, dance, and interactive games bring research to life beyond our university’s lecture halls and labs. New formats connect science with the public and foster dialogue on #sciencecommunication, #energy, and #AI. Researchers and student groups can now apply to contribute to Zamanand, Munich’s largest street festival: http://go.tum.de/354672
@wissenschaftimdialog@wisskomm.social
📷A. Eckert
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: https://go.tum.de/687381
#DataPrivacy
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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: http://go.tum.de/722539
📷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: http://tms.tum.de
📷Think. Make. Start
Scientists created the first #globalatlas showing how tides affect #coastalrivers. These regions are especially prone to flooding, which is increasing with #climatechange. The free world map presents the impacts at a glance: http://go.tum.de/851202
📷T. Pavelsky
Researchers increased a standard #antibiotic’s effectiveness 60-fold through chemical modifications, enabling it to successfully combat #HelicobacterPylori, a bacterium linked to #StomachCancer, in lab and animal studies: http://go.tum.de/530525
📷R.Mejías Luque
On the occasion of our continued success in Germany's Excellence competition, software company SAP renews its status as "TUM Partner of Excellence" and provides the TUM #UniversityFoundation with a donation of one million euros: http://go.tum.de/191285
📷A. Heddergott
After many years of research, mathematicians found the first concrete example of a compact Bonnet pair. Two closed, donut-like surfaces share the same local #MeasurementData but do not determine a single global shape: http://go.tum.de/165037
📷A.Eckert
Our university and NEURA Robotics are establishing a large #robotics research and training center at the TUM Convergence Center. Scientists, including Lorenzo Masia and Achim Lilienthal, will develop #AI training methods for #HumanoidRobots: http://go.tum.de/527785
📷A.Schmitz
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, why conflicts can be productive and why technology companies challenge democracy to innovate: https://go.tum.de/514567
▶️ https://youtu.be/AoWO4iXttG0
📹 ProLehre
📷A. Eckert
NewIn: Prof. Manon Westphal
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: http://go.tum.de/559951
📷BGZ
Meet Johanna Pirker, our newly appointed professor of N-Dimensional User Experience in the latest NewIn episode. She researches how to design #ImmersiveEnvironments for learning, science, and industry: http://go.tum.de/704679
▶️ https://youtu.be/1wVVMqj_BCs
📷A. Eckert
📹 ProLehre
NewIn: Prof. Johanna Pirker
Do you have a technology with real market potential? Or an idea that adresses #societalchallenges and creates meaningful impact? Apply until June 30 for the TUM IDEAward 2026: http://go.tum.de/291332
#innovation #entrepreneurship #startup
📷TUM
Researchers, including Benjamin Bogenberger, developed a robot that combines #LanguageModels with #3Dvision to locate misplaced objects by building a spatial map and estimating likely locations: http://go.tum.de/730486
📷A. Schmitz
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: http://go.tum.de/136257
📷TUM
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: http://tum.de/sustainabilityday
📷TUM
Get to know the #StudentClub EI Girls, which connects and supports women studying #ElectricalEngineering and #InformationTechnology. In this interview, its leaders talk about their work in the areas of #mentoring, careers and community: http://go.tum.de/523297
📷TUM
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: http://go.tum.de/786235
#socialsciences #entrepreneurship
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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: http://go.tum.de/450857
#Neuroscience #VisualPerception
📷A.Eckert
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): http://go.tum.de/350963
📷ZDF
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: http://go.tum.de/258127
📷S. Beres
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: https://go.tum.de/195402
📷A. Eckert, E. Totoeva
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: http://go.tum.de/560958
📷TUMJA
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: http://t1p.de/TUMSpeakers
📷TUM Speakers Series
Our university has once again received the "#EngagedUniversity" certificate by the Association of German #StudentInitiatives (VDSI).👏It is awarded to universities that support #studentengagement and enable responsibility beyond their studies: http://go.tum.de/515317
📷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: http://go.tum.de/906954
📷 M. Qiuwu
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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: http://go.tum.de/431700 🌍
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