Bild: Astrid Eckert/TUM.

TUM Alumni Maria and Dominik Sievert

have developed the world’s first automation system for tissue sample entering laboratories – thus solving a decades-old and worldwide problem in pathology.

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Interviews

Portrait of Alumnus Erwin Neher in a theatre hall.

Image: Irene Böttcher-Gajewski/Max-Planck-Institut für biophysikalische Chemie.

Nobel Prize Laureate Erwin Neher

„I thought I had missed my chance“

In this interview, Erwin Neher explains why he wanted to study Biophysics before the subject even existed, how he experienced the student movement in the USA in 1968 and how the Nobel Prize gave him freedom.

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Group photo of the participants of the table talk.

Image: Magdalena Jooß/TUM.

Four Experts, The President, One Topic

„Digitalization Requires Courage“

For the round table on digitalization, TUM President Thomas F. Hofmann was joined by four female innovators and stimulators who are tackling the challenges of the digital world on a daily basis.

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Cigar box with seals and hand-forged chemists' cutlery, Weihenstephan University of Applied Sciences, before 1923 (Image: Uli Benz/TUM.Archiv).

Objects from the TUM.Archive

If Things Could Speak

The TUM.Archiv presents selected objects from its holdings: Old and used, forgotten and dusty, restored and rescued items that illuminate a piece of TUM history. The wooden casket bearing two seals of the former Weihenstephan University of Agriculture and Brewery – a cigar box misappropriated for a specific purpose – came to the TUM.Archiv as a new addition in 2020. Together with a collection of coins and medals, it was given to the archive. It contains a nine-piece hand-forged chemist’s cutlery set.

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Alumni Magazine KontakTUM

KontakTUM Magazine is published twice annually and is available in both German and English as a download or in printed form. On about 70 pages, each issue of the alumni magazine is dedicated to a different topic – always focusing on the individual lives and achievements of our TUM Alumni.

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Digital.

Ideas for now from within the TUM Family

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On 68 pages, the current KontakTUM is dedicated to the topic of digitalization. The TUM Alumni Magazine introduces ten founders who influence the digital world with their visions and groundbreakingly shape the future. Moreover, the KontakTUM editorial team invited the president of TUM and four TUM alumnae to a round table to discuss digitalization – their conclusion: “Digitalization needs courage”.

In the programme section of the magazine you will find a variety of events – and of course also many webinars and online offers. As an alumni, you have plenty of opportunities to return to your alma mater digitally and benefit from the numerous offers at TUM.

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Alumni Stories

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Alumni Start-ups

Start-up Entrepreneur Hanno Renner

Hanno Renner paid for his studies by working as a skipper on sailing yachts. Today the TUM Alumni is the captain of a 500 million dollar start-up. TUM provided him with the necessary tailwind.