The Research Alumni Network of TUM

TUM Research Alumni Yana Bromberg (Picture: Magdalena Jooß/TUM)

TUM Research Alumni: This refers to all the scientists who have been guests at TUM over the past decades and have enriched the university with their expertise and international experience.

Research Alumni in Portrait

Cancer Researcher Prof. Dr. Poul Sorensen

“What Has Always Driven Me Is the Urge to Make New and Impactful Discoveries”

TUM Ambassador Professor Dr. Poul Sorensen had already achieved significant breakthroughs in childhood cancer research when he came to Munich from Vancouver for a collaborative research project with TUM scientists. Since then, he has been collaborating with TUM researchers to develop more and better medications for children with cancer.

Research in digital communications engineering

TUM Ambassador A. Lee Swindlehurst

“As a Hans Fischer Senior Fellow at the TUM Institute for Advanced Study, he is held in the highest esteem at TUM as a colleague, advisor and friend."

Renowned Business Ethicists

TUM Ambassador Piet Naudé

“I spent a productive research sabbatical at the Peter Löscher Chair for Business Ethics at TUM during 2021."

Internationally highly recognized virologist

TUM Ambassador Jane McKeating

“During my many visits to TUM I learnt the complexities of hepatitis B virus"

Geotechnics, Engineering Geology and Fracture Mechanics

TUM Ambassador Hany Mahfouz Helal

"We formed a TUM-Cairo University joint to investigate some potential location in the Great Pyramid."

Expert in quantum and nanotechnologyand semiconductor materials

TUM Ambassador Heike E. Riel

"During my stay at TUM as an Rudolf Diesel Industry Fellow I met a lot of excellent researchers and experienced an excellent team spirit."

European traffic engineering scientist

TUM Ambassador Markos Papageorgiou

“I am an Alumnus of TUM at all levels: Student, PhD Thesis, Professor."

Brochure of Research Alumni

Thanks to an award from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, TUM has been able to invite research alumni to the TUM Network in a targeted way since 2013. To this date several hundreds have taken up the invitation. This initiative to expand the TUM Network was presented in the brochure “Once a Guest, Forever a Friend”.

Look into the book (PDF, 10 MB)

Services

Goldener Engel von Ludwig Dasio 1913 ; Kunst in der TU München im Thiersch Bau am Campus Innenstadt

Picture: Andreas Heddergott /TUM

Welcome Services for International Researchers

With its Welcome Services, the TUM Global & Alumni Office supports international postdocs, visiting professors and TUM hosts in all formalities related to relocating to Munich.

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Institute for Advanced Studies at TUM Campus Garching by night (Picture: Andreas Heddergott/TUM).

TUM Institute for Advanced Study (TUM-IAS)

True to the motto “risking creativity,” the IAS serves as a flagship institute for top-level international research at TUM, and has helped to drive the university’s development into one of Germany’s top academic institutions. The IAS Fellowship Programme offers excellent guest scientists from academia and industry the chance to conduct top-level, interdisciplinary research at TUM.

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TUM Global Visiting Professor Program

The TUM Global Visiting Professor Program offers the opportunity to recruit excellent professors from international partner universities for temporary teaching and research collaborations, thus further promoting the internationalization of TUM. Applications for the program can be submitted at any time.

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TUM Ambassadors

Since 2013, a few selected wolrd-class international researchers who have spent time at TUM as guest researchers have been awarded the honorary title of “TUM Ambassador”.

More information

In Dezember 2019 Prof. Dr. Subhasis Chaudhuri was awarded the honorary title TUM Ambassador by TUM President Thomas F. Hofmann (Photo: Astrid Eckert/TUM).

Contact

Picture: Magdalena Jooss / TUM

Jamie Gräfe

+49 89 289 22841
jamie.graefe@tum.de

Alumni & Career Team

Picture: Magdalena Jooss / TUM

Dr. Sabrina Eisele

+49 89 289 22563
sabrina.eisele@tum.de

Alumni & Career Team