Last Thursday, a delegation from the University of Turin (UNITO) visited the TUM Campus Straubing (TUMCS). TUMCS Rector Prof. Dr. Volker Sieber welcomed the scientists led by Prof. Dr. Cristina Prandi (Department of Chemistry at UNITO) at the Campus for Biotechnology and Sustainability and emphasized the unique focus of TUMCS on bioeconomy.

Two of our team members, Katrin Brückner and Johannes Buchner, attended the Global Fellows Programme coordinated by the Technical University Munich, Imperial College London and Nanyang Technological University last month.

The Carmelite church in the Bavarian city of Straubing will be the official TUM university church. At a gala religious service on Saturday the Technical University of Munich (TUM) welcomed the dedication of the new university church. It is a part of Straubing’s historically very important Carmelite monastery, which became the property of the State of Bavaria in 2018 and was made available for academic use by TUM.

Green hydrogen is considered as one of the most important energy carriers of the future and a beacon of hope for achieving climate neutrality – without having to restrict the availability of energy for Germany as an industrial location. The question of where and how the necessary quantity of hydrogen can be supplied has not yet been fully resolved. Scientists at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) have now come up with a new approach.

In his research talk on social sustainability and team engagement at TUM Campus Straubing, Prof. Tan said that he collaborated with Girl Scouts of USA to examine team factors affecting engagement retention in their Cookie Program.

Ensuring the supply of food to the constantly growing world population and protecting the environment at the same time are often conflicting objectives. Now researchers at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) have successfully developed a method for the synthetic manufacture of nutritional protein using a type of artificial photosynthesis. The animal feed industry is the primary driver of high demand for large volumes of nutritional protein, which is also suitable for use in meat substitute products.

Lucía Lara Vargas is the first Bioeconomy M.Sc. graduate at TUM Campus Straubing. In this interview, she talks about the degree program, the Straubing campus and her plans for the future.

The ADDONISS (Ageing and Degenerative Diseases of Neurons on the ISS) project of the WARR student group was launched to the International Space Station ISS today. The winning team of the “Überflieger 2” competition of Deutsche Raumfahrtagentur (DLR) and Luxembourg Space Agency (LSA) conducts research of six neuronal cell cultures in microgravity.

A delegation from Waseda University in Japan recently visited the TUM Campus Straubing. The agenda included possible exchange programmes for professors from both universities and the expansion of joint cooperation.

The Selection Committee of the Global Young Academy (GYA) has finalised the selection of 41 new members to join the GYA in June 2023 for a tenure of five years. The GYA’s new member cohort includes representatives from 31 individual countries, covering all GYA general disciplines. One new member is Prof. Rubén Costa, head of the chair of Biogenic Functional Materials at TUM Campus Straubing.