Projects and Portraits

"Appointment with..." is a series of interviews introducing new professors at the TUM School of Engineering and Design (ED): In conversation with Prof. Niklas Kochdumper, Professorship of Spacecraft Control. [read more]

Risk and Safety student Elly Reich shares what a typical day on campus is like, from studying in the library and attending a lecture on Bayesian Networks, to having lunch with friends at the Mensa. [read more]

From mechanical engineer to e-health pioneer: Carola Fuchs is helping shape the digital future of medicine at healthcare company PARI. The TUM Alumna shows that there are many paths that lead to the same goal. [read more]

A conversation with academic program advisor Felix Müller about the Bachelor’s degree program in Geodesy and Earth Observation at the TUM School of Engineering and Design (ED). [read more]

The student initiative EnHands develops low-cost hand prostheses for people in low-income countries. At a prosthetics camp in Bangladesh, organized in cooperation with the partner organization Naya Qadam, five members of the EnHands team adapted two… [read more]

For 100 years, the Versuchsanstalt Obernach of the Technical University of Munich (TUM) has been dedicated to water research. Founded by science pioneer Oskar von Miller, the test facility focuses on advancing hydropower and, increasingly, on… [read more]

Beim diesjährigen Wettbewerb „Auf IT gebaut – Bauberufe mit Zukunft“ wurden Arbeiten aus der TUM School of Engineering and Design (ED) für ihre digitalen Lösungen im Bauwesen ausgezeichnet. In den Kategorien Bauingenieurwesen und Architektur gingen… [read more]

The federal state-owned Gesellschaft für Zwischenlagerung (BGZ) and the Technical University of Munich (TUM) will in the future conduct joint research on the safe interim storage and disposal of radioactive waste. A corresponding "Joint Lab BGZ" was… [read more]

For ten years, Prof. Mark Michaeli played a key leadership role in shaping academic programs and teaching at the Technical University of Munich (TUM). He began in 2016 as Dean of Studies at the former Faculty of Architecture and, since 2021, has… [read more]

Geological formations in southern Bavaria offer a previously underestimated potential for storing large quantities of hydrogen. They could therefore be an alternative to salt caverns in northern Germany and thus contribute to a better geographical… [read more]

As an urban planner, TUM Alumna Sindi Haxhija builds bridges between research, climate‑neutral urban development, and civic engagement. Her doctoral degree from TUM forms the foundation of her work in the European context today. [read more]

Researchers from the Technical University of Munich (TUM) are developing a harvesting robot for asparagus. They programmed a prototype that detects and localizes ripe green asparagus, moving at a commercially attractive speed. Further testing is… [read more]

“How can a machine understand the world in 3D?” [read more]

TUM has once again been ranked among the top 20 universities in the QS World University Rankings by Subject, both in engineering (16th) and in natural sciences (19th). In the rankings for five individual subjects, it places among the top 25. In eight… [read more]

From lower-emission propulsion systems and servicing robots to photobioreactors for autonomous life support, researchers at TUM are developing technologies to make spaceflight more sustainable. They aim to balance growth with responsibility and… [read more]

Researchers led by the Technical University of Munich (TUM) have created the first global atlas of the influence of tides on coastal rivers. The regions surrounding these coastal rivers are particularly susceptible to flooding, especially with… [read more]

In the third episode of the video series "Shaping the Future – Female Engineers Report from the Field", TUM alumna Carla Matthäus shares insights into her work as a self-employed energy consultant. [read more]

From the lecture hall to the skies: TUM Alumna Isa Held learned analytical thinking, technical curiosity, and the ability to understand complex systems at TUM. She needs these skills today in her everyday work as a pilot with the German Federal… [read more]

Merlin Pott, Absolvent der Landschaftsarchitektur an der Technischen Universität München (TUM), wurde für seine hervorragende Bachelor-Thesis "Hydrate Backnang. Wasser für die Stadt" mit dem Nachwuchspreis 2025 des Bundes Deutscher… [read more]

Get exciting insights into studying at the Technical University of Munich with our video series “5 Questions @TUMED”, in which students from the TUM School of Engineering and Design tell us about their experiences during their studies. [read more]