Projects and Portraits

What does it take to live like an astronaut on Mars? For Dr. Sydney Dolan, Postdoctoral Research Associate with the Chair of Spacecraft Systems at the Technical University of Munich, the answer came during an unforgettable week at the Mars Desert… [read more]

Die Technische Universität München (TUM) und die Branddirektion München starten eine langfristige Forschungskooperation an der Schnittstelle von vorbeugendem und abwehrendem Brandschutz. Im Fokus stehen praxisrelevante Themen wie die Brandbekämpfung… [read more]

What motivates students to volunteer their free time on top of their studies? Melis Güler and Jonas Süß are Deutschlandstipendium recipients who, through Talente Spenden e.V., create real social impact. Here, they share what drives them — and what… [read more]

With the GlobalBuildingAtlas, a research team at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) has created the first high-resolution 3D map of all buildings worldwide. The open data provides a crucial basis for climate research and the implementation of… [read more]

The successful manufacturer of tunnel boring machines, Dr.-Ing E.h. Martin Herrenknecht, will support climate research at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) in the future. Through the TUM University Foundation, he is funding a five-year… [read more]

Carbon fiber has become indispensable in high-performance industries such as automotive engineering and aerospace. It’s lightweight, extremely durable, and can be shaped in almost any way. The start-up Blackwave, founded at the Technical University… [read more]

Research can develop sustainable solutions to global problems when different disciplines contribute their knowledge and perspectives. The Technical University of Munich (TUM) is particularly successful in this regard, as shown by the Times Higher… [read more]

The European Space Policy Institute’s (ESPI) latest report has identified Space-Based Data Centres (SBDCs) as a significant and rapidly emerging opportunity for Europe’s digital and space industries. Co-authors Prof. Alessandro Golkar, Lara… [read more]

The racing team from the Technical University of Munich (TUM) has impressively reaffirmed its leading position in autonomous motorsport: At the Abu Dhabi Autonomous Racing League (A2RL) on the Yas Marina Circuit Formula 1 track, TUM Autonomous… [read more]

With the new video series "Shaping the Future – Women Engineers Share Their Professional Experiences," the TUM School of Engineering and Design (ED) portrays women working in engineering and offers insights into their individual career paths. The… [read more]

Researchers from Cairo University and TUM, as part of the ScanPyramids research project, have identified two hidden air-filled anomalies in the third-largest pyramid of Giza. The hypothesis of a possible entrance at this point on the eastern side of… [read more]

Yujie Feng is a research associate at the Chair of Materials Handling, Material Flow, Logistics (fml), where she is conducting research on a tidal power plant. She and her research partners, Munich University of Applied Sciences and enrope GmbH, want… [read more]

Harnessing the potential of geothermal energy: That is the goal of Prof. Michael Drews, Professor of Geothermal Technologies at the Technical University of Munich (TUM). His research focuses on the analysis, prediction, and monitoring of pressures… [read more]

Prof. Reinaldo Tonkoski jr. joined the Technical University of Munich (TUM) in 2023 as head of the Chair of Power Transmission and Distribution. With a rich academic background from Brazil and Canada, and over a decade of experience in the United… [read more]

A student team from the Technical University of Munich (TUM) has developed an innovative machine learning model that predicts bark beetle outbreaks in Bavarian forests one week in advance with 86% accuracy – a breakthrough for forest protection in… [read more]

Die wissenschaftlichen Mitarbeitenden Valerie Kronauer, Dr. Christian Hepf, Dr. Jan Engelke und Jonas Pauli wurden für ihre Forschung zur nachhaltigen Transformation von Einfamilienhausgebieten im Cluster "our.house" mit dem Franz-Berberich-Preis… [read more]

As part of an interdisciplinary student project, architecture and civil engineering students from the TUM School of Engineering and Design have joined forces to explore the fascinating world of membrane structures. [read more]

Four of the most important interconnected parts of the Earth's climate system are losing stability. This is shown by an international scientific study based on observational data published in Nature Geoscience. The researchers succeeded in… [read more]

This is another milestone on the way to becoming the largest university campus for aerospace and geodesy in Europe: just in time for the new winter semester, the Technical University of Munich (TUM) has spacious lecture and seminar rooms with room… [read more]

Auf Initiative aus der Wissenschaft bekennen sich die deutsche Verkehrsbranche und die Politik zur Förderung des autonomen Fahrens im ÖPNV und Güterverkehr. MCube, der „Münchner Cluster für die Zukunft der Mobilität in Metropolregionen“ unter der… [read more]