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News from TUM

News, research results and events: everything that enthuses people at our university.

Chip research in Singapore

First open-source system for post-quantum cryptography

The new international consortium QUASAR-CREATE aims to develop the world’s first fully open-source post-quantum-secure...

4/14/2026 Reading time 2 min.

Artificial Intelligence

Science Year – Medicine of the Future

How artificial intelligence is changing health care

The project “2036 – Healthy with AI?” explores how AI will shape health care in the future – from prevention and diagnosis...

4/14/2026 Reading time 2 min.

Mit lokalen Wasserstoffspeichern kann die Industrie, wie hier im südostbayerischen Chemiedreieck, sauberer werden.

Sustainability

Regional energy storage

Study shows high hydrogen storage potential in Bavaria

Geological formations in southern Bavaria offer a previously underestimated potential for storing large quantities of...

4/10/2026 Reading time 3 min.

Community

NewIn: Manon Westphal

Democratic innovation through political theory

Manon Westphal's research focuses on highly topical political issues, such as polarization, oligarchy and citizen...

4/9/2026 Reading time 3 min.

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Our upcoming event highlights

4/20

Munich Animal Rights Club Kick-off

Mon 4/20/2026, 6:30 pm – 10:30 pm

Munich

Get to know the club and get involved and start the semester with a potluck!

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4/21–6/23

From prompt to paper – Using AI smartly in your studies

Tue 4/21/2026 – Tue 6/23/2026

Online

Learn how AI can be effectively used in your studies in this online lecture series – register now!

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4/21

Community Clean Up

Tue 4/21/2026, 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm

Freising

The TUM Green Office Weihenstephan and the HSWST invite you to a joint clean-up campaign - register now!

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4/29

TUM Sustainability Day

Wed 4/29/2026

Garching

We invite you to experience the diversity of our sustainability topics at Sustainability Day 2026!

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Event Overview

Degree programs

What drives us: President Thomas F. Hofmann about TUM

Research and innovations for society, innovative teaching and continuing education: This is how we shape a sustainable future, relying on the intelligence of the entire university and working closely with global partners to do so.

TUM in figures

Students

ERC Grants for cutting-edge research

Nobel Prizes

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Our research goals

Understanding the essential foundations of life

We explore which fundamental forces and mechanisms shaped the universe and how its galaxies, stars and planets developed - and how life originated.

Maintaining health and targeting diseases

How will we treat serious illnesses in the future and how can we make reliable diagnoses more quickly? We address these questions with the latest technologies and methods.

Shaping a sustainable living environment

We combine all our expertise to slow down climate change and create sustainable places to live and work.

Creating new materials and manufacturing technologies

High-precision sensors on a quantum basis and new systems for storing energy - we develop digital manufacturing technologies and sustainable process engineering.

Pioneering digital transformation for a secure future

We develop secure digital technologies that make life and work easier. Our goal is to find solutions to questions of digital change and to constantly drive them forward.