Projects and Portraits

The CirculaTUM research network is dedicated to a resource-efficient circular economy - a regenerative economic model in which material flows are transformed into cycles and waste no longer has a place. For the upcoming launch as a TUM Mission… [read more]

Prof. H. Albert Gilg is a globally renowned expert on identifying precious stones in historic objects and determining their origin. The economic geologist works at the Chair of Engineering Geology at Technical University of Munich (TUM). This year he… [read more]

A team from Prof. Thomas H. Kolbe's Department of Geoinformatics at the TUM School of Engineering and Design is helping cities to develop sustainably, inclusively and efficiently by creating digital urban twins. Based on the virtual images of real,… [read more]

Accurately modeling extreme precipitation events remains a major challenge for climate models. These models predict how the earth's climate may change over the course of decades and even centuries. To improve them especially with regard to extreme… [read more]

For six months, seven households in Dietfurt, Bavaria, traded self-generated solar power among themselves. The results of the BASE.V project at the Chair of Electrical Energy Storage Technology and the Professorship for Power Transmission Systems at… [read more]

What does diversity, equality and inclusion mean to you? "Diversity, equality and inclusion (EDI) is the direction that all sectors need to pursue. In particular, in the field of manufacturing where the 4th industrial revolution has arrived, EDI… [read more]

How can humans and autonomous vehicles communicate with each other when eye contact or hand signals are not possible? How can cyclists move safely in urban traffic when autonomous vehicles are on the road? The Chairs of Ergonomics and Traffic… [read more]

The Collaborative Research Centre Transregio TRR 277 Additive Manufacturing in Construction (AMC) met at the end of July for an intensive research exchange at Lake Ammersee. For one week, the Haus der Bayerischen Landwirtschaft was home to 80 AMC… [read more]

Zum Ende des Sommersemesters 2022 fand im Innenhof am TUM Stammgelände die Brückenprüfung der Zweitsemester Bachelor Bauingenieurwesen statt.  [read more]

From the Schneefernerhaus, one can look down on the remnants of the Zugspitze glacier, which no longer has any snow cover. Riccardo Scandroglio is conducting research there together with colleagues and students from the Chair of Landslide Research… [read more]

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Philipp Reiss was appointed to the professorship of Lunar and Planetary Exploration Technologies at TUM in March 2022. He studied aerospace engineering at the Bremen University of Applied Sciences and the Technical University of… [read more]

Developing a fully actuated lower limb exoskeleton with a students team to remobilize gait impaired patients - that's what the project seminar ExoskeleTUM and the student initiative DASH are about. The long term project goal is the participation at… [read more]

In many industrial sectors, such as in the automotive industry, in aerospace or in the energy sector, the demand for special metal components that are light and have a high strength is increasing. Modern gas turbines, for example, require extremely… [read more]

The project "Competence and Demand optimized Teaching Strategy" is being carried out as a pilot at the Chair of Machine Elements of Prof. Stahl for the first time. It offers a criteria-based guideline for analog, digital, and synchronous or… [read more]

The Transportation Science Promotion Prize "Henry Lampe" of the Deutsche Verkehrswissenschaftliche Gesellschaft (DVWG) e.V. was awarded to Johannes Lindner on June 23, 2022. His master's thesis examines the encounters between automated vehicles and… [read more]

"You are discoverers: Your research work creates new technical solutions, which in turn will be innovative starting points for subsequent developments." With these words, Dean Prof. Dr.-Ing. Christoph Gehlen paid tribute to the doctoral graduates in… [read more]

The Bertha Benz Prize of the Daimler and Benz Foundation, endowed with 10,000 euros, was awarded to Dr.-Ing. Renate Sachse on June 27, 2022. The findings from her dissertation can be used to easily calculate movements of mutable structures that… [read more]

Last year in June, the KI.Fabrik project celebrated its launch together with high-ranking representatives from politics, science and industry. One year later, selected project partners very successfully presented themselves with eight demos to a… [read more]

Impressionen vom Aktionstag zum Thema Nachhaltige Stadt, initiiert und realisiert vom Referat für Stadtverbesserung* und dem Umweltreferat in Kooperation mit der Professur für Urban Design und dem Sustainability Office der TUM. [read more]

Researchers at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) have built a tower made of tubes and cables that appears to float in space. Commissioned by the Deutsches Museum of Science and Technology in Munich, the five-meter “tensegrity tower” can be… [read more]