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Focus on digitalization

The digital age is here. The technological developments of the last few years have been extensive and are changing the way people work, the way they communicate, the way they consume – in short, the way they live. As one of Europe’s leading technical universities, TUM and its alumni are actively shaping this new digital world.

TUM Ambassador Subhasis Chaudhuri

“I have gained both a research partner and a friend“

Subhasis Chaudhuri enjoys being a guest at TUM. Here, the top researcher in the field of image processing has been able to significantly expand the scope of his pioneering work. Thanks to his research, it will probably soon be possible to touch virtual objects.

TUM alumnus Dr. Jan Goetz in front of a quantum computer.

Gründer Jan Goetz

„Über Nacht tauschte ich meine wissenschaftliche Laufbahn gegen eine Start-up-Karriere“

Weltweit ist ein Wettlauf um die Zukunft des Höchstleistungsrechnens entbrannt. TUM Alumnus Jan Goetz ist ganz vorne mit dabei. In seinem Start-up hat er europaweit das größte und führende Team von Hardware-Experten für Quantencomputer vereint. Sein Studium an der TUM gab ihm das Fachwissen und die nötigen unternehmerischen Fähigkeiten mit auf den Weg.

TUM alumnus Javier Enciso with his daughter, Mariana Enciso.

Computer scientist Javier Enciso

“I’ve made my dreams a reality”

From Colombia to Shanghai to TUM and back: TUM alumnus and entrepreneur Javier Enciso has achieved things many people only dream of doing. He is now applying his expertise in space observation, gained through experience in many countries, in his home country.

TUM Ambassador Muriel Médard

“I am a pathological optimist”

TUM Ambassador Muriel Médard is a world-renowned network coding pioneer. By applying original algorithms, the Professor of Electrical Engineering at MIT has solved a fundamental problem in established decoding practice. The developed a chip capable of decoding any code.

TUM Alumni Fabiola Munguia and Grigory Emelianov.

Entrepreneur Fabiola Munguia

"Growing from challenges is what I love"

Fabiola Munguia always wanted to set up her own company. In her quest for entrepreneurship, TUM acted as a catalyst and door opener. With her start-up, the TUM Alumna is declaring war on the increase in cybercrime.

Executive Claudia Häpp

“Pioneering work in the energy sector”

TUM Alumna Claudia Häpp is actively shaping the energy supply of the future. At a major power supplier, she is rolling out smart energy solutions such as smart meters and flexible electricity tariffs.

In 2019 the first annual conference for the commercial use of open source software took place in San Francisco. As a proven expert, TUM Alumni Tobias Knaup was a speaker at the opening event of the Open Core Summit (photo: Open Core Summit).

Entrepreneur Tobias Knaup

“We knew that we had a solution that was way ahead of the market”

Even as a teenager, TUM Alumni Tobias Knaup was already programming websites and internet services. After finishing his studies, he started up his own business in Silicon Valley. Its cutting-edge technology and corporate culture is leaving the competition in the dust.

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TUM Community Group

Experts in Digitalization

A group for all TUM alumni who are active in the field of digitization in research or corporate functions. You can discuss interesting news and developments in this field or exchange ideas about career opportunities.

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How do you come up with the decisive idea? Three Nobel Prize winners from TUM tell us (Image: Pexels/Nikolai Ulltang).

Research an Creativity
AHA! Effect

Because an apple fell on his head, Isaac Newton discovered the Law of Gravity. At least that’s how legend has it. But how do the scientific innovations that rock the world actually come about?
We asked three TUM Nobel Prize laureates how important creativity is for their work.

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Successful around the world

Portrait photo of TUM alumna Snehat Munhol.

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Insights aus Mumbai

TUM Alumna Snehat Munhol wastes no time in her pursuit of a sustainable future

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Portrait photo of TUM alumna Diana Schneider.

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Insights aus Brüssel

TUM Alumna Diana Schneider brings Design Thinking to European companies

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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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Why we love Challenges

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The current KontakTUM devotes 68 pages to the topic of challenges.

We portray alumni from the TUM community, each of whom is mastering very different challenges: astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti, who is training for her second stay on the ISS, rainforest researcher David Lapola, who is working to protect this important ecosystem, and TUM students who are researching the technology of the future.

TUM President Thomas F. Hofmann visits the founders of the TUM start-up Isar Aerospace, who have developed a very successful company from a student project in a very short time and will soon launch the first German small rocket into space.