Projects and Portraits

Prof. Jörg E. Drewes, Chair of Urban Water Systems Engineering at the TUM School of Engineering and Design, has been awarded the Willy Hager Medal 2025. Congratulations! [read more]

"Appointment with..." is a series of interviews introducing new professors at the TUM School of Engineering and Design (ED): In conversation with Prof. Marcello Romano, Chair of Astrodynamics. [read more]

The Cluster of Excellence TransforM aims to find new ways of conducting research into how transformative technologies shape societal change. In this interview, TransforM spokesperson Prof. Sebastian Pfotenhauer explains why it is essential for social… [read more]

Anne Pape studied civil engineering at the Technical University of Munich (TUM). She currently works at the Timber Testing Facility, part of the Testing Institute for Construction Engineering, where she tests structural and composite components made… [read more]

Mit einem eigenständigen städtebaulichen Entwurf für das Holsten-Areal in Hamburg haben die TUM Absolventinnen Julia Makowka und Sophie Lin nicht nur ihr Masterstudium der Architektur abgeschlossen – sie haben auch die öffentliche Debatte um das… [read more]

Prof. Boris Jutzi received a diploma in electrical engineering from the University of Kaiserslautern, a doctorate from the Technical University of Munich (TUM), and a venia legendi from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT). He is currently… [read more]

After three years, the twelve project partners from industry, science, software development and infrastructure have successfully completed the ATLAS-L4 research and development project (automated transport between logistics centres on level 4… [read more]

Prof. Christian Große has been awarded the Von Humboldt Prize by the Netherlands Research Foundation (NWO). Congratulations! [read more]

Die Publikation "NEBourhoods for Tomorrow" dokumentiert als Replication Handbook die im Leuchtturmprojekt "Creating NEBourhoods Together" entwickelten Methoden, Strategien und Prozesse und dient als praxisnaher Leitfaden für eine nachhaltige und… [read more]

Dr. Marcello Passaro has been awarded the Earth Observation Excellence Award 2025 by the European Space Agency (ESA). Congratulations! [read more]

TUM alumna Dr. Aledia Bilali came to Germany with no knowledge of the language and has had an exemplary career in the field of intelligent transportation systems. She studied and completed her doctorate in transportation with passion. An internship… [read more]

At the German Biotechnology Days in Heidelberg, the TUM start-up Lumatix Biotech received the BioRegions Innovation Award for its light-controlled antibody purification. The young company produces affinity matrices for the purification of monoclonal… [read more]

How do you get children and young people interested in renewable energies and the energy transition? A research group at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) has come up with a solution: a laboratory for sustainable energy systems. Here,… [read more]

The Technical University of Munich (TUM) is driving forward the industrialization of additive manufacturing and is founding the "Bavaria Makes" alliance with seven other partners. The association is based at the Advanced Manufacturing Campus in… [read more]

Third participation in the competition, third victory: the student tunnel boring team TUM Boring wins again at the international "Not-A-Boring Competition" in the USA. During the seven-day competition, the team from the Technical University of Munich… [read more]

What will future construction machinery look like? The Chair of Materials Handling, Material Flow, Logistics (fml) at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) presents its research from 7 to 13 April 2025 in the Science Hub at bauma, the world's… [read more]

As of April 1, 2025, Dr. Sebastian Esser will take over as acting head of the Chair of Computational Modeling and Simulation at the TUM School of Engineering and Design (ED) for a period of one year. In this role, he will be responsible for advancing… [read more]

Isar Aerospace, a spin-off of the Technical University of Munich (TUM), has conducted the first test flight of its rocket - and thus also the first launch of a carrier rocket designed to transport loads into orbit from Western Europe. In future, the… [read more]

How can geodata be used to sustainably shape the living space of the future? What role does data science play in analyzing geodata to find innovative solutions for urban spaces and climate change? In a three-part video series, the TUM School of… [read more]

After more than four years of development, a team around Prof. Thomas H. Kolbe from the Chair of Geoinformatics at TUM School of Engineering and Design has released the new 3D City Database (3DCityDB) version 5. It is a free 3D geo database designed… [read more]