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.

Dr. Suttiphong "Spot" Srigrarom, TUM Ambassador 2025

Bringing internationalization to life

TUM Ambassador Sutthiphong “Spot” Srigrarom

"This honor symbolizes not only our TUM-NUS connection, but also our larger Germany/Singapore cooperation!"

Leading researcher in robotics und biomedicine

TUM Ambassador Takao Someya

"This experience expanded my vision and remains one of the highlights of my academic career."

Leading brain researcher

TUM Ambassador Oren Schuldiner

"For my family, our year in Munich was unforgettable."

Ambassador for science and social justice

TUM Ambassador Jenny Reardon

“My time at TUM helped forge an international approach to Science and Justice and build ties across Germany".

Expert on tropical tree species

TUM Ambassador Jonathan Onyekwelu

"My time at TUM is filled with sweet memories."

Theorist focusing on modeling functional interfaces and nanostructures

TUM Ambassador Shobhana Narasimhan

Internationally recognized theorist committed to women in science

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”.

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