Honors for Dr. Lena Riesenegger and Niklas Niedermaier: Regional Added Value: IHK Awards Go to TUMCS
Shortly before Christmas last year, the IHK Niederbayern (Chamber of Industry and Commerce) presented the IHK Award in Passau for a total of seven theses from universities in Lower Bavaria. Two of the award winners studied at the Straubing Campus for…
Weeds in Focus: New Video Feature with TUMCS Involvement: Detecting Weeds with Drones
The research and innovation project “Development and Evaluation of Weed Application Maps for the Use of Robots in Mechanical Weed Control” (EWIS2) investigates new approaches to digitalization and artificial intelligence (AI) in agriculture. The aim…
TUM knowledge that grows: Green ideas for the Christmas season
In keeping with the Christmas season, Dr. Claudia Martin and doctoral student Josef Eiglsperger, both from TUM (Technical University of Munich, Straubing Campus), visited the Anton Bruckner Gymnasium in Straubing and brought gifts for the NawaRo…
New applications possible: Biosensor performance doubled
Biosensors are helping people with chronic conditions worldwide live better lives. However, their measurement accuracy has often been relatively low, limiting the range of possible applications. Researchers at the Technical University of Munich (TUM)…
Project with Prof. Menrad on alternatives to peat-based potting soil in hobby gardening funded: Peat-free gardening, protecting the climate
Although they make up only three percent of the land area, peatlands worldwide bind more carbon than all the forests on Earth combined. When peatlands are drained for peat extraction, this carbon is released into the atmosphere in the form of…
TUM IDEAward for team of Campus Straubing
What a great success! A research team of TUM Campus Straubing has been honored with the TUM IDEAward for a pioneering start-up idea. For the first time ever, a team from TUM Campus Straubing participated in the TUM IDEAward, and directly won. With…
Biodiversity to the rescue of “green” hydrogen for fuel cells
The development of hydrogen as an alternative to fossil fuels still faces a number of technological hurdles. In a new article, scientists from the Professorship of Electrobiotechnology at TUM Campus Straubing and from CNRS Marseille have developed an…
Bavarian Climate Protection Prize for Prof. Thielen and Dr. Boeckmann: New beacons for climate protection
On 28 November 2025 in Regensburg, Bavaria's Environment Minister Thorsten Glauber honoured this year's winners of the Bavarian Climate Protection Prize for their outstanding contributions to climate protection. Among the award winners is Prof.…
