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This is the official account of the Technical University of Munich – Technische Universität München (TUM).

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Join the #TUMSpeakersSeries event on January 15 for a talk and discussion with Werner Vogels, Amazon's CTO and Vice President, who will speak about #datamapping in #AI: go.tum.de/800960

📷 TUM Speakers Series
Poster for a TUM Speakers Series event in collaboration with DLD and Amazon. Title: “Unmapped: No Data, No AI.” On the right, there is a man wearing a suit jacket. On the left, the event details are shown: January 15 at 5 PM at the TUM Main Campus, doors close at 4:55 PM. The text mentions the speaker as the Chief Technology Officer and Vice President at Amazon. Logos of TUM, DLD, and Amazon appear at the top.
January 13, 2026 at 11:55 AM
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With this picture of our #Munich main #campus, we want to wish you a great start to the week! 🌇 Thanks to Ece Atesoglu for the campus #photoofthemonth for December.

If you took a great campus photo as well, send us your #tumcampuspic to [email protected] 📧
Sunset over the Technical University of Munich campus, with the Thiersch Tower and its distinctive clock rising above historic university buildings.
January 5, 2026 at 3:22 PM
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We wish you and your families a healthy and happy 2026! 🎉 Thank you for accompanying us through a successful year 2025. 👏

#NewYearsEve #HappyNewYear2026

📷A. Eckert
View over the Technical University of Munich downtown campus featuring modern curved buildings and an open plaza in the foreground; Munich’s skyline with the Olympic Tower in the background under a pink evening sky.
December 31, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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#SeasonsGreetings to our students, staff, alumni, and friends! ✨ In the International Year of #QuantumScience, our picture features a beam splitter from the laboratory of the Semiconductor Nanostructures and #QuantumSystems group: go.tum.de/276363

📷 A. Eckert
Black beam splitter cube in a quantum optics lab with red, green, yellow, and blue reflections inside, surrounded by purple/magenta mounts, gold/brass and silver/gray components, against a dark blurred background.
December 24, 2025 at 10:05 AM
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Five research projects at our School of #SocialSciences and Technology have been awarded "Change! #Fellowships" funded by Volkswagen Stiftung. 🎉 The projects address societal challenges with partners from #CivilSociety & the #PublicSector: go.tum.de/357035

📷A.Heddergott
Interior view of the lobby at the School of Social Sciences and Technology at our university, with a glass roof, concrete walls, large windows, and a prominent red curved wall element on the right.
December 19, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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Our new We are TUM episode looks at the Advent concerts featuring Felix Mayer from the TUM Center for #CultureandArts. We also dive into TUM #JazzBand highlights and unique #campusartworks. Listen to the #podcast (in German): go.tum.de/123836 🎙️

📷A.Eckert
Felix Mayer, conductor of the TUM Advent concerts and Artistic Director of the TUM Center for Culture and Arts, addressing the audience on stage with an orchestra in the background during a concert at the Isarphilharmonie.
December 10, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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Yesterday, our TUM family celebrated the #DiesAcademicus, which was all about remaining excellent and relevant. We highlighted how a clear vision for the future is essential to meet today’s major challenges: go.tum.de/878510

#ExcellenceStrategy #innovation
📷A. Heddergott
Attendees gathered in the grand lecture hall of TUM during Dies Academicus 2025, with Executive Vice President for Research and Innovation Gerhard Kramer, TUM president Thomas F. Hofmann, student representative Paula Drobinski, Bavaria's Minister of Science Markus Blume and Executive Vice President for Talent Management and Diversity Claudia Peus, standing in the foreground and rows of seated guests visible in the background. Wide view of the grand lecture hall at TUM during Dies Academicus 2025, illuminated in blue lighting, showing a full audience and a speaker addressing the crowd from the stage. Group of Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Medal recipients holding certificates and medals on stage at the Technical University of Munich’s Dies Academicus 2025, with a large blue backdrop displaying the event name and campus images. TUM JazzBand performing live at Dies Academicus 2025, with musicians playing saxophones and other instruments in front of a blue stage backdrop featuring the event logo and projected visuals.
December 5, 2025 at 11:36 AM
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Look at this beautiful sunrise at our #Garching #campus! 🌅 Thanks to Mariola Nicpon-Stasch from the Graduate Center CIT for the campus #PhotoOfTheMonth for November.

If you took a great campus photo as well, send us your #tumcampuspic to [email protected] 📧
View into a large foyer with glass walls. Orange and pink sky colors from the sunrise reflect on the glass and metallic surfaces in the back.
December 3, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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Tomorrow, we celebrate our #DiesAcademicus under the motto “Remain excellent and relevant.” Together, we look back on a successful year and honor the achievements that have enabled our #university to continue evolving: go.tum.de/558363

#highereducation

📷A.Heddergott
Large lecture hall with blue and purple lighting during the Dies academicus 2024 event. President Thomas F. Hofmann stands at the podium on stage, accompanied by projected presentation slides. The audience is visible, and musical instruments are set up in the background.
December 3, 2025 at 10:01 AM
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Yesterday, we celebrated our festive #Adventconcerts, the Matinee and Vivat TUM, with our TUM family! 🎵🎶 The #Munich Symphony Orchestra and the TUMChor, performed works by Handel. Thanks to the TUM #UniversityFoundation and Freunde der TUM for supporting our concerts. 👏

📷A.Eckert
A speaker stands at a podium with the TUM logo during the Advent Matinee at Gasteig HP8 / Isarphilharmonie. Orchestra musicians are seated behind the podium with instruments, and audience members are visible in the foreground. A conductor leads an orchestra on stage at the TUM Advent Matinee in Gasteig HP8 / Isarphilharmonie. Behind the orchestra, a large choir performs, and audience members are visible in the upper seating area. Blue lighting accents the modern concert hall. A person in a formal suit speaks into a microphone on stage during the TUM Advent Matinee at Gasteig HP8 / Isarphilharmonie. Behind them, members of an orchestra are seated with string instruments and music stands, under blue stage lighting. A wide view of the concert hall during the TUM Advent Matinee at Gasteig HP8 / Isarphilharmonie. The stage features a speaker at a podium and orchestra musicians, while the audience fills the hall in multiple tiers.
December 1, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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On today's #InternationalDay for the Elimination of Violence against #Women, our Thiersch Tower shines in bright orange in support of the UNvWomen #OrangeTheWorld initiative: t1p.de/8k8nw 🧡

#OrangeDay #EndViolenceAgainstWomen

📷 A. Eckert
The Thiersch Tower glowing orange on an overcast day, illuminated for the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, surrounded by the rooftops of nearby buildings.
November 25, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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Congratulations to TUM #AutonomousMotorsport on defending their title at the Abu Dhabi #AutonomousRacing League! 🎉 Their #AIdriven #racecar secured pole position and won the 20-lap final, reaching speeds up to 250 km/h: go.tum.de/265326

#AI #A2RL
@tumed.bsky.social

📷S. Chaouch-Şimşek
A large group of TUM Autonomous Motorsport team members celebrates around their blue race car on the Yas Marina Circuit at night. They are smiling, cheering, and posing with the winning trophy, with the illuminated grandstands in the background.
November 16, 2025 at 11:49 AM
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The TUM #IDEAward 2025 is coming up! 🚀 Ten #startup teams, chosen from countless entries, will pitch their innovative ideas live on stage. Who will win? 🏆 Join us on November 27 at the Audimax, and get your free ticket now: go.tum.de/600782

#innovation #entrepreneurship

📷TUM ForTe
Graphic for the TUM IDEAward 2025 featuring a rocket shaped like a lightbulb launching into space. Text reads: “TUM IDEAward 2025 – We empower your ideas.” Event date: 27.11.25, Foyer TUM Audimax, Arcisstrasse 21, 80333 Munich. “Register now for free! www.tum.de/ideaward.” Logos of Zeidler Forschungsstiftung, UnternehmerTUM, and TUM are displayed. The background transitions from blue to purple with stars scattered across.
November 13, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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With the term #FinalEnergy, we conclude our #scienceglossary on #energy.⚡ Final energy marks the stage where energy reaches consumers — a key concept for analyzing efficiency, energy flows, and system performance: go.tum.de/917142

@researchinbavaria.bsky.social

📷 TUM CCC/ T. Hamacher
Image with the TUM logo and text: “TUM science glossary – Final energy. Final energy, such as electricity from a socket, is the amount of energy available to consumers after losses from transport or conversion.” The background is light green, and the TUM website www.tum.de/energy is shown at the bottom.
November 13, 2025 at 10:44 AM
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Golden hour by the water. 🍂 🍁 Check out this gorgeous picture from our #Weihenstephan #campus! Thanks to Jenny Müller for the campus #photoofthemonth for October.

If you took a great campus photo as well, send us your #tumcampuspic to [email protected] 📧
A calm lake surrounded by autumn-colored trees in vibrant shades of yellow, orange, and red. The clear water reflects the colorful foliage and the blue sky.
November 8, 2025 at 9:42 AM
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Dendrites can cause short circuits in #lithiumbatteries. Researchers, including Fabian Apfelbeck, found such structures may also form inside polymer-based #electrolytes, not only at electrodes. This finding could improve solid-state #batteries: go.tum.de/518497

📷V.Hiendl/ @e-conversion.bsky.social
Researcher Fabian Apfelbeck, wearing glasses and a beige sweater, works in a laboratory with electronic measurement equipment and monitoring devices.
November 5, 2025 at 12:35 PM
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Meet our #doctoralresearcher Yixiao Zhang who is creating #nanoparticles that act as highly efficient #catalysts, transforming waste products into new and valuable resources like the #fertilizer urea: go.tum.de/739603

📷A.Eckert
A researcher standing in her lab smiling, wearing a white lab coat and pulling off her gloves. A researcher working at a computer station with multiple monitors and a microscope setup, analyzing high-resolution images of materials or samples in a laboratory environment. Close-up of a researcher’s gloved hands handling laboratory instruments connected to glassware and tubes. The setup appears to be part of an electrochemical or chemical experiment. A scientist wearing a lab coat stands in front of a laboratory fume hood with experimental equipment and chemical setups. Handwritten equations are visible on the glass, and various instruments and wires are arranged inside the hood.
October 31, 2025 at 10:45 AM
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TEDxTUM is back on November 8! 🤩 Join in to explore #boldideas and #inspiringstories that don’t just celebrate breakthroughs, but ask what happens after — when vision turns into action. Grab your tickets now: go.tum.de/922680

#TEDxTalks

📷 #TEDxTUM
Colorful poster for TEDxTUM 2025 featuring the theme “NOW WHAT.” The design shows four quadrants in bright colors with stylized hands holding question marks. Text includes “TUM Audimax,” “08.11.2025,” and the TEDxTUM logo.
October 27, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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Let’s take a closer look at our next #scienceglossary term for the research field #energy: “catalysis". #Catalysts can be metals, chemical compounds, or enzymes — they speed up reactions without being used up: go.tum.de/917142

📷TUM CCC/ T. Hamacher
Graphic from the Technical University of Munich (TUM) titled 'TUM science glossary – Catalysis.' The text explains that catalysis is a chemical process accelerated by a catalyst, which is not consumed or altered during the reaction and helps save time, energy, and costs. The image has a purple background with the TUM logo and the website www.tum.de/energy
October 23, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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hackaTUM is back for its 10th anniversary, this year on November 21-23! Don't miss this three-day event featuring exciting challenges, engaging workshops, and unlimited #hacking fun. Apply by November 1: go.tum.de/864842

#coding #AI

📷B. Willer
A large, modern university atrium filled with students sitting at long tables during a hackathon event. The space has multiple floors with glass-fronted rooms, colorful banners, international flags, and a large indoor slide cutting across the open hall
October 20, 2025 at 9:38 AM
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In our #scienceglossary for the research field #energy, today’s term is "sector coupling". #Energysectors are the different areas of the economy where energy is produced, converted, distributed, and used: go.tum.de/917142

📷TUM CCC/ T. Hamacher
Graphic from TUM explaining the term 'Sector coupling.' It describes how sector coupling connects different energy sectors such as heating, electricity, industry, and transportation. The approach integrates renewable energy sources to promote more sustainable energy use. The image features the TUM logo and the website www.tum.de/energy
October 16, 2025 at 8:35 AM
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Our next #Sustainability Day will take place on April 29, 2026! Join us in shaping this day and send us your suggestions for your own exhibition stands, workshops and much more. Submit your proposals by October 27: go.tum.de/411836

#community #climateaction

📷A. Eckert
A group of cheerful people wearing white TUM-logo shirts stand in front of large banners reading ‘Welcome to the TUM Sustainability Day,’ raising their arms and smiling at the camera
October 15, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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Welcome to our #university!🤩Yesterday at the #firstyears’ event in #Garching, President Thomas F. Hofmann, Bavaria’s Minister President Markus Söder, Science Minister Markus Blume, and the university board greeted our #newstudents: go.tum.de/915102

📷A.Heddergott
A view of the audience at the first-years’ event shows many students wearing blue TUM caps. Trees and modern buildings are visible in the background. President Thomas F. Hofmann is signing blue TUM caps for the front row of first-years‘. Bavaria’s Minister-President Markus Söder and Science Minister Markus Blume are speaking on stage in front of a large group of students wearing blue TUM caps. Trees and modern buildings are visible in the background. A view of the stage where the university board introduces themselves.
October 14, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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We wish all our #students a fantastic start to the #newsemester! 🤩 This afternoon at 4 pm, we’ll be greeting our first-year students at the Welcome@TUM event on the #Garching #campus: go.tum.de/567137

#wintersemester

📷M.Kastl
Interior view of a modern university building with a glass roof and multiple levels. Students are walking through the large hall or sitting at tables studying and chatting
October 13, 2025 at 9:16 AM
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Are you enjoying these beautiful #fallcolors? 😍🍂 Thanks to Theodor Sincu for the #campus #photoofthemonth! We are very excited to welcome you back for the new semester next week!

If you took a great campus photo as well, send us your #tumcampuspic to [email protected] 📧
Fall scene with rows of trees showing yellow and orange leaves along a cobblestone path. Bicycles are parked in bike racks, with a modern glass building in the background under a partly cloudy sky
October 9, 2025 at 2:16 PM