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.

TUM Research Alumni in Action

Scientists Only

Mentoring for Scientists connects (international) Research Alumni and guest scientists to doctoral students and postdocs. The focus here is on the personal exchange between researchers at different career levels.

TUM Mentoring for Scientists

TUM Ambassador Amaresh Chakrabarti is involved in the TUM Mentoring for Scientists: He invited his mentee Paul Bockelmann for a research stay in India (Picture: Astrid Eckert/TUM).

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.

The Women at the Helm of EPFL

"Science is Highly International"

Studies in Barcelona, a doctorate from the École Polytechnique near Paris, postdoc at CalTech and Habilitation at the TUM Walter Schottky Institute: Anna Fontcuberta i Morral has seen the world in the course of her career. The physicist has been president of the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) since January 2025.

TUM Professor Carina Baer de Oliveira Mann

“I think to myself every day: I have no regrets”

Carina Baer de Oliveira Mann is the first person in her family to go to university. She moved to Germany from Portugal at the age of 19. The beginning was not easy, but her curiosity was great. The TUM alumna never gave up, completed her doctorate and is now a professor of biomolecular cryo-electron microscopy, working with the next generation of scientists.

Thought leader in the field of automation options in the construction industry

TUM Ambassador Iris Tommelein

“I enjoyed seeing TUM’s automation and robotics applications for manufacturing, logistics, and construction in action."

Internationally leading scientist in the interdisciplinary field of sustainability sciences

TUM Ambassador Noelle Selin

Professor Noelle Selin has established a fundamental understanding of atmospheric chemistry, the transport of toxic substances such as mercury, ozone and particulate matter, and their risks to human health.

Expert in policy-making in the field of climate change, hazardous substances and sustainable development

TUM Ambassador Henrik Selin

His current main research project is on the theory and practice of effectiveness evaluations of multilateral environmental agreements.

World-leading scientist in the field of mass spectrometry imaging

TUM Ambassador Ron M.A. Heeren

“Prof. Ron M.A. Heeren is a world-leading scientist in the field of mass spectrometry imaging. He is well known for both his excellence in research and his brilliant teaching capacities.”

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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Picture: Andreas Heddergott/TUM

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”.

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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

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Dr. Sabrina Eisele

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

Alumni & Career Team