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TUM remains a University of Excellence! With a comprehensive reform package we have again been successful in the excellence competition of the German federal and state governments:
#ExcellenceStrategy
#Exzellenzstrategie
#ExStra
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In
#solidarity
with the people of
#Ukraine
, our Thiersch tower is lit up in the Ukrainian national colors.
#standwithukraine
#peace
Picture: Andreas Heddergott
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Today,
#SamAltman
, CEO of OpenAI, visited our university for a public discussion on
#AI
in our packed Audimax, moderated by Reinhard Heckel, our Professor of
#MachineLearning
. Watch the recap here:
#ChatGPT
@TUMSpeakers
📷L.Preiss
🎥
@ProLehre
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The latest edition of the
@timeshighered
World University Rankings once again rank us as the number one university in Germany and the EU, and among the TOP 30 worldwide: 🥳
#THEUniRankings
#unirankings
#researchenvironment
@THEworldunirank
📷S. Woidig
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The new Global
#University
#Employability
#Ranking
lists us 6th worldwide for the second time in a row!
#THEunirankings
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The new QS World
#University
#Ranking
has ranked TUM as the best German university for the sixth time in a row:
@worlduniranking
#QSWUR
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We will establish 14 new professorships in the fields of
#ArtificialInteligence
and
#MachineLearning
as part of the Bavarian government's
#HightechAgendaBayern
:
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The
#Global
#University
#Employability
#Ranking
2018 lists us 6th worldwide! This is again the top spot among the German universities in the ranking, for which
#HR
managers from 22 countries were asked to name the universities with the best
#graduates
:
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On May 25,
@HeckelReinhard
, Professor of
#MachineLearning
at the Department of
#ComputerEngineering
, will talk about
#AI
with Sam Altman, founder of
#ChatGPT
, in the Audimax. Register now (seats are limited!):
📷OpenAI
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The new
@timeshighered
ranking is the third major academic ranking in a year that lists us as No. 1 in Germany!🎉🥳Overall we climb to No. 30 worldwide and took the top spot in the EU:
@worlduniranking
@ShanghaiRanking
#highereducation
#WUR2023
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Congratulations to our professor
@UlrikeProtzer
for being awarded the Bavarian
#OrderofMerit
! 🎉The virologist received this order for her research and educational work on
#SARSCov2
:
#coronavirus
#COVID19
#virology
Picture: Bayerische Staatskanzlei
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Congratulations to our TUM Hyperloop team – winners of the 2019 SpaceX
#Hyperloop
#Pod
Competition with a top speed of 463 km/h!
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After 24 years, Wolfgang A. Herrmann just handed over the presidency of TUM to Thomas F. Hofmann. We thank him for one of the most successful presidencies in German university history:
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We wish all students, staff, alumni and friends of our university
#HappyHolidays
!
#SeasonsGreetings
from TUM:
📷A. Heddergott
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Our biomathematician
@fabian_theis
receives the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize 2023 from the
@dfg_public
for his work on
#GenomicData
.👏 Congratulations!
#Biomathematics
#AI
#LeibnizPreis
📷A. Eckert
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8
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Congratulations to our team WARR that just won the
@Hyperloop
#Pod
Competition at
@SpaceX
for the third time in a row. Here is their run with a with a peak speed of 467 km/h (290 mph)!
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Our student initiative
#WARRHyperloop
did it again! Congrats from Munich!!
#Hyperloop
#SpaceX
#HyperloopPodCompetition
Congratulations to WARR team from Tech Univ Munich for winning 2nd
@Hyperloop
competition! Peak speed of 324 km/h, which is over 200 mph!!
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1K
8K
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#Phosphorus
is a very important nutrient for plants.
@carogutj
and her team have now demonstrated how a
#RootSymbiosis
with fungi is driven at the
#MolecularLevel
by the plant’s phosphate status:
#sustainability
#AgriculturalCrops
#PlantGenetics
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On January 31, Caroline Gutjahr will talk about the interaction between microorganisms and plants in our
#onlinelecture
series TUM
@Freising
. The Zoom webinar starts at 7 pm:
#plantgenetics
#SustainableAgriculture
#ectomycorrhizalfungi
#lifesciences
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The
#QS
World University
#Rankings
once again rank us as the number one
#university
in Germany and among the top 40 universities worldwide: 🎉
#QSWUR
#HigherEducation
@worlduniranking
@TopUnis
📷S.Woidig
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Happy to welcome
@DanielRueckert
, our new
#Humboldtprofessor
for
#ArtificialInteligence
in
#Medicine
:
#AIinMedicine
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Our Thiersch Tower is shining green today!
@Seebruecke_intl
has called for this campaign to draw attention to the
#HumanitarianEmergency
on the Polish-Belarusian border. The light is originally a sign of the Polish citizens to show a
#safeharbor
to people seeking
#protection
.💚
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For the 7th time in a row, we made the 1st place in Germany in the new "QS World University Ranking"! 🎉 Internationally, we are among the best 50 universities:
@worlduniranking
#QSWUR
#rankings
#scienceranking
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Within the international
#KATRIN
experiment located at
@KITKarlsruhe
researchers discovered that a
#neutrino
is lighter than 0.8 electron volts. This world record presicion is relevant for both
#particlephysics
and
#cosmology
:
#neutrinomass
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Today, we welcome a total of 48,000 enrollees, 38% of whom are
#internationalstudents
- both new all-time highs! We are particularly happy that
#studying
can take place on
#campus
again!
#newsemester
#welcome
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We wish you and your families a happy and healthy new year! 🎇🥳 At the same time, we would like to thank everyone who has accompanied us through a challenging and successful year in 2022.
#HappyNewYear
#2023
📷A. Eckert
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Yesterday, the
#Hyperloop
test track at the
#Ottobrunn
campus was opened for the first passenger journeys by Bavaria's Minister President Markus Söder and Science Minister Markus Blume: 👏
#hightechagendabayern
#Mobility
📷A. Heddergott,
@TUM_Hyperloop
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Congratulations to our
@TUfast_eco
Team on the
#GuinnessWorldRecord
for the longest-range
#electriccar
in the world! 🥳The team drove more than 2,573 kilometers on a single
#batterycharge
:
#mobility
📷MCube/Viktoriya Zayika
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Congratulations to twelve of our
#researchers
who were awarded prestigious
#StartingGrants
worth up to 1.5 million euros each 🎉 :
#ERCStG
@ERC_Research
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Congratulations to our "TUM Autonomous Motorsport" team on the success in the
#AutonomousChallenge
@
#CES2022
in Las Vegas! 🏆Their
#AI
-controlled race car has won the second place and reached up to 270 kilometers per hour:
#autonomousdriving
#IAC2022
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Until 19 April 2020, we will not be holding any classroom courses at our university and the number of exams will be severely restricted. This is to stop the dynamic spread of the
#coronavirus
. Find current information here:
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The latest edition of the QS World University Rankings places us as number one among German universities for the eighth time in a row and among the top 50 universities in the world: 🥳
#QS
#QSWUR
#University
#HigherEducation
@topunis
@topuniranking
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"Mia san g'impft" and therefore we join the German campaign
#ZusammenGegenCorona
. Only together can we defeat the pandemic. Our appeal is: Get vaccinated! Learn more at
#covid19
#miasangimpft
#tumuenchen
#TogetherAgainstCorona
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The latest issue of the
#THEUniRankings
places TUM again among Europe's four best technical universities. Among German universities, we rank number 2 for the third time in a row. In the worldwide ranking we move up one spot on rank 43:
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For the fifth time in a row,
@worlduniranking
ranks TUM as the best German
#university
:
#QSWUR
#Ranking
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Congratulations to our Alumnus Prof. Dr. Joachim Frank on being awarded the
#NobelPrize
in
#chemistry
!
#cryoelectron
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Congratulations to
@EResconi
,
@fabian_theis
and
@LickertHeiko
, whose projects will be supported with ERC Advanced Grants - making it a total of 157
#ERCGrants
for researchers at our university:
#ERCAdG
#medicine
#astrophysics
#MachineLearning
@ERC_Research
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Congratulations to our team from
@TUM_Boring
who won the
#NotABoringCompetition
yesterday in Las Vegas.🏆 They managed to drill 22 of the total 30 meters necessary and came away the undisputed winner:
#innovation
#tunneling
#winner
#ElonMusk
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Microsoft CEO
@satyanadella
will visit our Munich School of
#Robotics
and
#MachineIntelligence
tomorrow during a virtual tour of Germany. Watch his talk with Director Sami Haddadin and students in the livestream starting 3.45 pm:
#MSRM
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Here are some of last year's tumstudentpics. If you also took a great photo at a campus, send your
#tumcampuspic
to social-media
@tum
.de! We always share one of them at the beginning of a month.
📷E.Kissel, H.Hahne, S.Ling, A.Prasad
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Congratulations to Julia Herzen, Karl Duderstadt and Job Boekhoven who receive the prestigious
#ERC
Consolidator Grants from
@ERC_Research
: 🥳
#xrayimaging
#dna
#SupramolecularChemistry
@MIBE_TUM
@DuderstadtLab
@BoekhovenLab
📷R.Lahn
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As a sign of its historical responsibility, our
#university
is removing the names of buildings and rooms that bear the names of personalities associated with Nazi history. Also, a new place of
#rememberance
will be opened in July:
#campus
📷A.Heddergott
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Congratulations to the new
#IEEEFellow
Nassir Navab! He was chosen for his outstanding achievements in
#AugmentedReality
-based applications in medicine and
#computeraided
interventions:
@IEEEorg
#fellowship
#medicalresearch
@MIRMI_TUM
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Researchers discovered a potentially promising link between persistent
#COVID19
symptoms and changes in the
#BloodVessels
of the eye. This standardized eye exam could e.g. help diagnose
#LongCovid
:
#Healthcare
#ChronicInflammation
📷Dept. of
#Nephrology
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We wish you and your families a happy and healthy new year! 🎉🎇
#HappyNewYear
#2024
📷L. Schmidt
This
#sunrise
was shot at the
#EnvironmentalResearch
Station Schneefernerhaus on
#Zugspitze
, where our scientists conduct research.
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Welcome
@TUM
! More than 6,000 of our new
#students
joined us at yesterday´s first-years’ event with live music in Garching! 🤩🎉The
#university
board with president Thomas F. Hofmann as well as student representatives greeted our newcomers:
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Twelve of our scientists were listed in the latest Highly Cited Researchers
#rankings
worldwide which analyzed
#publications
of the last 10 years. Congratulations 👏:
#HighlyCited2022
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We are happy to welcome Eleftheria Zeggini as
#LieselBeckmann
Professor at the new Chair of Translational
#Genomics
of our School of
#Medicine
!
@EleZeggini
#Genetics
#BigData
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On Friday we celebrated the foundation of our Munich School of
#Robotics
and
#MachineIntelligence
(
#MSRM
) in the
#PinakothekderModerne
:
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Outstanding new
#rankings
: The
@worlduniranking
again lists us as the best German
#university
and according to the
#NatureIndex
our
#scientists
nationwide publish the most in
#academic
#journals
of the publishing groups
@nature
and
@sciencemagazine
:
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The new "Academic Ranking of World Universities" ranks us first in Germany and 56th worldwide.🥳The annual
#ranking
evaluates the
#researchperformance
of the world´s
#universities
:
#research
#ARWU
@ShanghaiRanking
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The latest issue of the
#THEUniRankings
places TUM among the three best universities in the
#EU
. Among German universities, we again rank number 2, and in the worldwide ranking we move up two spots to rank 41:
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In a new
#massspectrometry
center we will work together with
@LMU_Muenchen
,
@HelmholtzMunich
and
@MPI_Biochem
on research into
#multiplesclerosis
,
#Alzheimers
,
#stroke
and
#braintumors
. The center will receive 6 million euros in federal funding:
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1st place for our university in the
#ImpactRanking
of the British "Times Higher Education" magazine. We scored highest in the categories of
#innovation
,
#infrastructure
and
#industry
:
#ranking
#THEglobalimpact
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It's great to welcome 14,500
#newstudents
at our
#university
! 🥳Yesterday, president Thomas F. Hofmann greeted the newcomers and introduced the board and some student clubs at our
#firstyears
' event in Garching:
📷A.Heddergott
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In the latest edition of the QS Best Student Cities
#Ranking
,
#Munich
placed second-best
#university
#city
in the world. A favorite with
#students
, excellent job opportunities for
#graduates
and outstanding quality of life:
#BestStudentCities
#StudentLife
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.
@Google
is new “TUM Partner of Excellence”! Furthermore we established a long-term partnership on
#research
and
#innovation
in the fields of
#ArtificialIntelligence
,
#MachineLearning
and
#Robotics
:
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Fall outside..🍂 Wishing you a great start to the week from our Munich campus!
#pictureperfect
#fall
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Congratulations to "TUM Autonomous Motorsport" who won the
#IndyAutonomousChallenge
in Indianapolis and received a cash price of one million US dollars. 🏆 The race car made fastest time with an average speed of 218 kilometers per hour:
#winner
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The new edition of QS World University Rankings lists us among the top 25 universities in five subjects. 🎉 We are rated particularly well in
#physics
,
#chemistry
,
#architecture
and
#engineering
:
#QSWUR
@TopUnis
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Our
#university
has again moved up in the renowned
@THEworldunirank
and now counts as one of the 10 best universities in
#Europe
. We're proud to have been ranked among the top 40 universities in the world:
#THEUniRankings
#ranking
#HigherEducation
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#ShanghaiRanking
2018 places TUM among
#Top50
universities worldwide & best technical university in
#Germany
#university
#ranking
#science
#research
#ARWU2018
#ARWU
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Today, Chancellor Angela
#Merkel
and a delegation of the Bavarian State Government visited our Munich School of
#Robotics
and
#MachineIntelligence
#MSRM
, had a look at research projects and discussed with our students and professors.
Kanzlerin
#Merkel
diskutiert mit Studenten der
@TU_Muenchen
über Künstliche Intelligenz und besichtigt zusammen mit Ministerpräsident
@Markus_Soeder
an der Munich School of Robotics and Machine Intelligence herausragende Beispiele aktueller Forschung und Wissenschaft.
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In the
#QS
Best Student Cities Rankings from
@TopUnis
, Munich once again ranked second place among university cities worldwide!🎉🥳From the
#internationality
of the universities to the quality of life, many factors were covered in the assessment:
#QSWUR
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An application developed by TUM students uses
#machinelearning
techniques to predict who will be left standing in
#GameofThrones
:
#Bioinformatics
#javascript
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@boringcompany
@TUM_Boring
Big shout out and congrats to our team from
@TUM_Boring
- your hard work has paid off! 🥳🎉
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The new "THE World University Rankings by Subject" list us among the Top50 worldwide in the subject groups
#ComputerScience
(14),
#Engineering
(24),
#PhysicalSciences
(25) and
#LifeSciences
(41), and three times among the Top10 in Europe:
#THEUniRankings
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Happy International
#WomeninScienceDay
! 🎉👩🔬 Today we want to introduce you to the female researchers in our Cluster of Excellence ORIGINS, which investigates the origin of the
#universe
and life:
#cosmos
#WomenInScience
#femaleempowerment
#WomenInSTEM
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We have founded the Munich Center for
#MachineLearning
(MCML) together with
@LMU_Muenchen
. Teams from
#DataScience
,
#ComputerScience
and
#Statistics
will work here on processing various types of data:
#DeepLearning
#ComputerVision
#PatternRecognition
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Researchers found a subset of
#Tcells
which are crucial for maintaining the immune response against
#chronicinfections
and
#cancer
. Their findings could lead to better targeted
#immunotherapies
:
#immunesystem
@VeitBuchholz
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The new TUM Institute for
#Ethics
in
#ArtificialIntelligence
at our
#MCTS
will be supported by
@facebook
with 6.5 million euros in the first five years:
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Sami Haddadin, Director of our
#Munich
School of
#Robotics
and
#MachineIntelligence
(
#MSRM
), has been appointed by the Bavarian State Government to chair the newly established Bavarian AI Council:
#AI
#MachineLearning
#Bavaria
#HightechAgendaBayern
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Our Institute for Advanced Study offers
#Fellowship
programs for international
#scientists
who would like to visit our university to collaborate with our researchers. Apply by January 31:
#PhD
#PostDoc
📷M. Buck
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Angela Casini's research group works on
#organometallic
#gold
complexes that open up a new approach to
#cancertherapy
and novel
#metallacages
for
#drugstransport
. Read more in the latest issue of our
#research
magazine "Faszination Forschung":
#chemistry
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#Happyholidays
to you and your families! The picture by Astrid Eckert shows a
#ChristmasTree
inside the faculty building of our Department of Mathematics and our Department of Informatics.
#merrychristmas
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We celebrate the opening of the "Center for Functional
#Protein
Assemblies" (CPA), the new complex for
#interdisciplinary
research in
#biomedicine
, subsidized with 40 million euros from the federal and state governments: 👏
#molecules
#proteininteractions
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Congratulations to our TUM Autonomous
#Motorsport
team on winning first place at the
@IndyAChallenge
in Las Vegas! 🎉Since 2021, the team has been competing against other universities with fully automated
#racing
cars:
#AI
#autonomousdriving
📷TUM
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In a new research program our
@TUM_Hyperloop
team and scientists from our Department of Aerospace and Geodesy will work together on the realization of the
#Hyperloop
#transportation
system. This will involve an own test
#tube
and a full-size
#prototype
:
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TUM ranks number 44 worldwide in
#THEUniRankings
and is among top 4 European technical universities:
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With a
#fundraiser
for students and a
#fellowshipprogram
for researchers, we want to directly support people affected by the war in
#Ukraine
. Join us – every donation counts:
#StandWithUkraine
#HelpUkraine
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Today,
@angelaschoellig
and
@DanielRueckert
will receive
#Humboldt
Professorships for research in
#ArtificialIntelligence
. Read the interview about their work on making
#robotics
safer and using
#AI
against diseases:
#AvHProfessor
#MachineLearning
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Welcome back! We wish our students a good start into the
#SummerSemester
and lots of fun on
#Campus
! 👨🎓📚
#semesterstart
#lectureperiod
Image: Andreas Gebert
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To directly support students affected by the earthquakes, we launched an
#emergencyrelief
#scholarship
and exams can be postponed without bureaucratic complications:
#Turkey
#Syria
📷A. Heddergott
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This week we are welcoming 13,800 new students. These increase the total number to 42,000, of which one third comes from abroad:
#wintersemester
#studyingermany
#internationalstudents
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Spring has finally arrived on campus!🌸We wish everyone a wonderful and sunny holiday weekend! 🌞
#campus
#SpringGreetings
#HappyWeekend
📷E.Totoeva
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Welcome back to campus! 🤩 We hope you have a great start to the new semester!
📷M. Kastl
#newsemester
#campus
#students
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Newsweek's World's Best Hospitals 2023
#ranking
lists our university hospital Klinikum rechts der Isar 20th in the world 🥳:
#interdisciplinaryresearch
#medicine
#nature
#engineering
#lifesciences
📷A.Heddergott
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Today, Prof. Lothar H. Wieler, president of
@rki_de
, will speak at our Bavarian School of Public Policy's
#MunichTalks
on the fight against the
#COVID19
#pandemic
- follow the live stream from 9.30 am:
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Federal and state governments provide around 43.6 million euros in funding to support new
#healthcare
developments based on
#datascience
and
#ArtificialIntelligence
at the new Zentrum für Digitale Medizin und Gesundheit:
#digitalmedicine
#healthcenter
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Congrats to our student team
#WARR
, who brought the fastest pod on the
#SpaceX
#Hyperloop
test track!!!
#breakapod
Congrats to WARR Hyperloop team for fastest pod--flew down entire length of track at the world's first Hyperloop competition!
#breakapod
49
775
3K
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Five of our researchers receive the prestigious
#ERC
Consolidator Grants by
@ERC_Research
for projects on
#GreenhouseGas
,
#ProteinBiochemistry
,
#lncRNA
,
#neutrinos
and
#metabolism
! Congrats 🎉 :
#ERCCoG
#ResearchFunding
📷A. Eckert
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A new record semester begins: Welcome to 13,800 new and a total of 41,500 students, of whom 30% now come from abroad:
#semesterstart
#students
#internationalization
#studying
#wintersemester
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We have been successful in the “International Future Labs for
#ArtificialIntelligence
” competition of
@BMBF_Bund
and will receive funding for the new
#AI4EO
lab dedicated to the analysis of
#satellitedata
:
@DLR_en
#bigdata
#earthobservation
#remotesensing
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We will be a founding member of the Network of Innovative Higher Education Institutions, appointed by Mariya Gabriel of the
@EU_Commission
.🎉This alliance wants to shape the future of
#research
,
#teaching
and
#innovation
:
#Education4Innovation
0
8
40
The molecular processes of the
#karrikinsignaling
pathway, regulating root growth in
#plants
, have been described for the first time:
#SMAX1
#ethylene
#lotusjaponicus
#roothairs
2
14
41