Projects and Portraits

Researchers at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) have developed hollow microspheres made of mucus and polydopamine using a simple and scalable production method. These tiny spheres are intended to serve as packaging for therapeutic substances,… [read more]

As the Earth moves through space, it wobbles slightly. A team of researchers from the Technical University of Munich (TUM) and the University of Bonn has now succeeded in measuring these fluctuations in the Earth's axis using a completely new method… [read more]

In the Magdalen Chapel in Regensburg, centuries-old wall paintings meet cutting-edge research. As part of a DFG research project, an interdisciplinary team from the Chair of Conservation-Restoration, Art Technology and Conservation Science at the… [read more]

A straight wall is not necessarily a climate-optimized wall. Depending on the wall’s exposure to sun and shade, there is an ideal angle for individual bricks. The calculations come from a digital design configurator – and in the future, a robot will… [read more]

Climate change is making dry periods, droughts and heavy rains increasingly frequent. Brigitte Helmreich, professor at the TUM Chair of Urban Water Systems Engineering, explains how cities can better prepare for these events and manage local rainfall… [read more]

As an Integrative Research Institute, the Munich Design Institute (MDI) brings together various academic disciplines and incorporates perspectives from the public through design and design research. In this interview, President Prof. Thomas F.… [read more]

Three architecture students of the TUM School of Engineering and Design, Yuan Zhang, Ruoxi Yang and Ruijie Ma, were honoured with the New Realities Competition 2025 after presenting their project "Draw your City", developed at the Chair of… [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]

Sixfold increase in productivity, production costs halved, energy consumption and material wastage significantly reduced, component quality improved – the EU-funded research project InShaPe has published impressive numbers. [read more]

Heat, dry periods, torrential downpours, melting glaciers—in the Alps, climate change is already very clear to see. High time to adapt, warn TUM researchers. A matter for all disciplines. [read more]

Franziska Sorger und Öykü Tok, Architekturabsolventinnen der Technischen Universität München (TUM), haben den international renommierten iF DESIGN STUDENT AWARD 2025 gewonnen. Im Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao wurden sie für ihre herausragende… [read more]

For their outstanding master’s thesis in the Landscape Architecture program, Katharina von Unold and Vincent Wenk, graduates of the Technical University of Munich (TUM), have been awarded one of the top prizes of the prestigious 2025 Albert Speer… [read more]

With the TUM2TWIN data project, the campus of the Technical University of Munich (TUM) in Munich's city center is turning into an international benchmark data set. The Professorship of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, in cooperation with eleven… [read more]

Die Europäische Kommission und Europa Nostra zeichnen den Landschaftsarchitekten Prof. Peter Latz – Emeritus of Excellence der Technischen Universität München (TUM) und ehemaliger Ordinarius für Industrielle Landschaft am Department Architektur der… [read more]

Isar Aerospace, a space company spun off from the Technical University of Munich (TUM), has achieved a company valuation of over a billion dollars and thus unicorn status. This brings the number of TUM unicorns to 22. Isar Aerospace has developed and… [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. Dr.-Ing. Christina Reuter, Chair of Sustainable Production Systems. [read more]

When educational institutions in crisis regions are destroyed, children lose more than just their schools – they lose a part of their future. With the project “School of ReAssembling” (SORA), dedicated architecture and civil engineering students from… [read more]

Paul Kotyczka is a professor at the Chair of Automatic Control. In this interview, he explains how Port-Hamiltonian systems offer exciting opportunities for innovative research and practical applications. The 'Enabling technology' is capable of… [read more]

This year's 19th International Architecture Exhibition in Vernice, titled "Intelligens. Natural. Artificial. Collective.", features multiple (former) members and alumni of the Department of Architecture at the TUM School of Engineering and Design,… [read more]

Sophie Grabmann is a research associate at the Institute for Machine Tools and Industrial Management (iwb) at the Technical University of Munich (TUM). There, she works at the interface between research and industry, intending to make battery… [read more]