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German L'Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science Award: Early-Career Researcher from TUMCS Receives Prestigious Research Grant
L'Oréal, the German Commission for UNESCO, and the German Humboldt Network are once again honoring four outstanding early-career women scientists for their exceptional research achievements with the For Women in Science Award. Among this year's…
Life-cycle assessment instead of tailpipe-only CO₂ measurement: TUM study reveals substantial misdirection in EU automotive regulation
CirculaTUM, the interdisciplinary research network of the Technical University of Munich (TUM), has been researching the decarbonization of the automotive sector since the beginning of the year. The findings of the most comprehensive study in this…
Car2Car Successfully Completed: New Impulses for Circular Material Loops in the Automotive Industry
The Car2Car research project has been successfully completed. Together with partners from academia and industry, the project investigated how materials from end-of-life vehicles can be recovered at high quality and reused in new vehicle applications.…
Successful Habilitation of Dr. Corinna Urmann: Natural Products for Drug Discovery
The Technical University of Munich (TUM) Campus Straubing for Biotechnology and Sustainability has reached another academic milestone: Dr. Corinna Urmann successfully completed her habilitation at Technical University of Munich (TUM) last week with…
Dr. Nikita Genze Awarded the Straubinger Hochschulpreis for His Thesis: Combating Weeds with Patience and AI
When people talk about artificial intelligence, many first think of ChatGPT, self-driving cars, and successful tech companies. AI has long been a part of the modern workplace and everyday life. It almost seems as if the technology provides us humans…
Sustainable protein supply: Turning solar power into protein
According to United Nations projections, global food demand could increase by around 60 percent by 2050, while only about two percent additional agricultural land is expected to become available. Researchers at the Technical University of Munich…
Students explore innovation landscape at the port of Straubing: Cycling to the bioeconomy of tomorrow
Last Friday, around 50 students and researchers from the TUM Campus Straubing (TUMCS) experienced how closely science, entrepreneurship and industrial application are connected in Straubing. The group cycled from the campus in Uferstraße to the…
Researchers Refute Decades-Old Assumption in Polymer Biotechnology: Rethinking Bioplastics
For decades, it was considered a given in research that microorganisms produce the bioplastic poly(3-hydroxybutyrate) (PHB for short) exclusively in a strictly regular molecular structure. However, it is precisely this order that makes the material…