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This week's #WednesdayCoffeeTalk: Dominik Bucher on "Optical #MagneticResonance microscopy with #QuantumSensors in diamond”.

Join us tomorrow at 1 p.m. - it's online, so you can listen from wherever you are. DM us for Zoom info!

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December 2, 2025 at 9:52 AM
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Among these researchers: Dieter Schwarz Courageous Research Grant recipient Fikile Brushett from @mit.edu. He was awarded 1 Mio € to spend @tum.de on a radical solution to a major challenge in #Digitization and #Sustainability.

Apply for a Dieter Schwarz Courageous Research Grant until March 4:
November 26, 2025 at 12:39 PM
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On today's #InternationalDay for the Elimination of Violence against #Women, our Thiersch Tower shines in bright orange in support of the UNvWomen #OrangeTheWorld initiative: t1p.de/8k8nw 🧡

#OrangeDay #EndViolenceAgainstWomen

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The Thiersch Tower glowing orange on an overcast day, illuminated for the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, surrounded by the rooftops of nearby buildings.
November 25, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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This week's #WednesdayCoffeeTalk will again focus on the #NobelPrize2025: Benjamin Lienhard will talk about "2025 Nobel Prize in Physics: From Macroscopic Quantum Phenomena to Superconducting #QuantumComputing."

Join us tomorrow at 1 p.m. - DM us for Zoom info!

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Nobel Prize in Physics
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November 24, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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We strive to contribute to this!

#Apply now for collaborative #Fellowships @tum.de in a community with high-ranking scientists from all over the world:
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November 21, 2025 at 8:36 AM
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new preprint out in @chemrxiv.org on how fixate #porphyrin #atropisomers via metal coordination chemrxiv.org/engage/chemr...
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Porphyrin atropisomerism is an outstanding tool for the accessibility of shape specific molecules, yet over twenty years after the unusual rotational barriers of nonplanar porphyrins was observed, a quantitative relationship remains at large. There is a growing need to control this phenomenon in nonplanar porphyrin systems due to the mounting interest in these systems as enzyme-mimics and organocatalysts. Hence, in this work the influence of steric bulk on the stability of nonplanar 5,10,15,20-tetraaryl-2,3,7,8,12,13,17,18-octaethyl-porphyrin atropisomers was explored. The library of atropisomeric porphyrins synthesized herein emphasizes the delicate balance that must be achieved between steric bulk without inducing an undesired amount of macrocycle flexibility to obtain an atropisomer with a predictable rotational barrier. To overcome this challenge, a stabilization strategy was devised by exploiting metal coordination to the peripheral porphyrin functionalities, leading to an atroposelective superstructure formation.
November 20, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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This week's #WednesdayCoffeeTalk will be given by Hans Fischer Fellow Dennis Christensen from DTU: “#Nanoscale Visualization of Internal #Battery Processes using #QuantumSensing.”

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November 17, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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Congratulations to our Fellows Tim Brodribb of @utas.edu.au, Melanie Schirmer of @tum.de, Yang Shao-Horn of @mit.edu, and Tao Zhang from the Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, who all made it on the #HighlyCited2025 researchers list!
November 13, 2025 at 10:52 AM
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This week's #WednesdayCoffeeTalk will again focus on the #NobelPrize2025: Roland A. Fischer will talk about "Metal-Organic Frameworks have been knighted! The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2025”.

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November 11, 2025 at 10:44 AM
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Listen to Thomas Misgeld here - alumnus Fellow, host to a couple of Fellows and long-standing member of our Advisory Council. They do amazing work at the SyNergy #ClusterofExcellence!
November 7, 2025 at 12:38 PM
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If you wondered what was going on here today...
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#BNMRZ Symposium 2025
Ultra-Highfield NMR and 4D Structural Biology – From Mechanisms to Therapies

💻 Online attendance is still possible: t1p.de/zdr8j

👉 Further information: t1p.de/rjuz4

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#StructuralBiology #CryoEM #AI #TherapeuticInnovations
November 6, 2025 at 9:32 AM
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Our #university established a #commemorative space on the #Weihenstephan #campus that memorializes four professors who were forced into retirement or dismissed between 1934 and 1936 during the National Socialism regime: go.tum.de/422117

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Campus Weihenstephan commemorates persecuted university members
TUM has now established a commemorative space on the Weihenstephan campus. The site commemorates four persecuted professors
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November 4, 2025 at 11:21 AM
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This week's #WednesdayCoffeeTalk will be about the #NobelPrize2025 in Medicine and Physiology: Christian Peschel will talk to us about "The role of regulary T cells in #adaptiveimmunity."

Join us on Wednesday at 1 p.m. - it's online, so please send us a DM if you would like the Zoom access info.
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2025
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2025 was awarded jointly to Mary E. Brunkow, Frederick J. Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi "for their discoveries concerning peripheral immune tolerance"
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November 3, 2025 at 10:42 AM
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We are deeply saddened by this news. Alice Gast was a highly valued member of the @tum.de Institute for Advanced Study's Board of Trustees for many years.

Rest in Peace.
October 30, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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📣 Call for Applications 📣

Are you an international researcher eager to collaborate long-term with a TUM group? Our Fellowship programs offer multi-year opportunities to deepen scientific exchange and build lasting partnerships.

More information on individual programs below. Please share!
October 29, 2025 at 12:11 PM
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Our university and @stanforddoerr.bsky.social formed a strategic alliance on #sustainability. 👏 The collaboration focuses on sustainability in connection with #entrepreneurship: go.tum.de/311633

#InnovationTransfer #ResearchExcellence

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TUM and Stanford University form strategic alliance on sustainability
The Technical University of Munich (TUM) and Stanford University have formed a strategic alliance on sustainability.
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October 28, 2025 at 8:38 AM
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Scientists Meet Scientists - Wednesday Coffee Talk returns this week! The first talk will be by Rudolf Mößbauer Tenure Track Professor Dominik Bucher: “Optical #magneticresonance microscopy with #quantumsensors in diamond.”

Wednesdays at 1 pm - DM us for Zoom info!
October 27, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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This year's #SustainabilityAwards of the Nobel Sustainabilty Trust go to Dresden, Canada and Australia!

It was a pleasure to lead the selection of these outstanding candidates on behalf of @tum.de.
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Congrats to the recipients of the #SustainabilityAwards, presented by the Nobel Sustainability Trust and our #university! This year, the awards honor two distinguished researchers from Germany and Canada, and an organization based in Australia: go.tum.de/385175 👏

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Nachhaltigkeitspreise 2025 des Nobel Sustainability Trust verliehen
Sustainability Awards from the Nobel Sustainability Trust and TUM go to Germany, Canada, and Australia.
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October 17, 2025 at 9:18 AM
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Our #university launched the TUM #PublicScience Lab — a new platform where science engages with society. The lab brings together diverse perspectives to address major #societalchallenges and promote #sustainableinnovation: go.tum.de/583509

#publicengagement

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TUM launches Public Science Lab
The Technical University of Munich (TUM) has founded the TUM Public Science Lab, which will involve people from all areas of society in research.
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October 10, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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This could be the view from your office if you come to visit!
The next call for Fellowship nominations is opening soon.

#VisitingProfessorships
#Sabbatical
#FallFoliage
#LeafPeeping
#NoFilter
View of a research campus with grey concrete floor tiles and bright red fall foliage. Fall foliage
October 13, 2025 at 8:31 AM
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Congratulations to Susumu Kitagawa on being awarded the #NobelPrize in #Chemistry! 👏 The honorary doctor of our university is honored for his research on #organometallic framework compounds: go.tum.de/479463

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Nobel Prize in Chemistry for TUM Honorary Doctor Kitagawa
Japanese materials scientist and TUM honorary doctor Prof. Susumu Kitagawa has been awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
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October 8, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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Fascinating EXplained episode about the #ClusterofExcellence @e-conversion.bsky.social, which has hosted a number of international IAS Fellows over the past years!
October 10, 2025 at 11:04 AM
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After a year of testing, our university’s #firedepartment at the #Garching campus shows that #electric #firetrucks are not only feasible but reliable, cutting emissions and noise in daily operations: go.tum.de/362073 🚒

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Electric fire trucks successfully deployed at TUM
The TUM plant fire department is the only fire department in Bavaria to successfully use electrically powered rescue firefighting vehicles.
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September 22, 2025 at 10:03 AM
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Watch the first episode of our new "EXplained" series, introducing the seven #ClustersofExcellence with which we will enter the next funding phase of the #ExcellenceCompetition. First up is #BioSysteM, presented by speaker Friedrich Simmel: go.tum.de/925283

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An engineering approach to biology
In our "EXplained" video series, we introduce the seven Clusters of Excellence with which our university will enter the next funding phase of the Excellence Competition. First up is the new cluster Bi...
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September 19, 2025 at 9:45 AM
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Huge congratulations to Albrecht Struppler Clinician Scientist Fellow @bzottlab.bsky.social from @tum.de's university hospital Klinikum rechts der Isar, who won a prestigious #ERCStartingGrant for his work on why some neurons fall silent in #Alzheimer’s disease!

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September 8, 2025 at 1:36 PM