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From night shifts in a basement to the Nobel Prize

The man who snuck up on electrons: interview with freshly minted Nobel laureate Ferenc Krausz, pioneer of attosecond physics.

“When success dictates self-worth”

When does wanting to do well become unwell? Barbara Cludius researches the propensity for perfectionism.

Research on climate change

Researchers of various disciplines at LMU Munich are studying how to tackle the risks and challenges arising from global warming.

Harvesting more solar energy with supercrystals

Hydrogen is a building block for the energy transition. To obtain it with the help of solar energy, LMU researchers have developed new high-performance nanostructures.

Studying diseases and healing people

Germany Scholarship holder Tobias Ellinger spends his days researching new therapeutic methods for cardiovascular diseases in the laboratory.

Transplantation medicine: Hearts and minds

Pigs are used as model organisms for studying diseases, and they could also become organ donors for humans. We visit LMU’s Center for Innovative Medical Models to find out more.

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Research Summary: new publications

Artificial intelligence paves way for new medicines

Plant proteins: Influence by Imitation

Colliding ribosomes activate RNA repair

7 December 2023 | Climate Change, Conflict, and Cooperation

Lecture at the Center for Advanced Studies given by Professor Miranda Schreurs and Professor Vally Koubi.

until 4 December 2023 | Exhibition: Friends and Foes

Researchers from TRR356 at the Faculty of Biology use their photographs to provide a microscopic view of biological processes.

until 10 April 2024 | A visit to the Philologicum: TUM archive and collections

Some 30 selected exhibits depicting the history of the TUM plus items from its current and historical collections will be on display at the library.

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Working the land to save the climate

Reforestation and a new approach to land management will play a crucial role in efforts to mitigate climate change.

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Viruses: the invisible danger from the wilds

Monkeypox, COVID-19, Ebola: viruses that jump from animals to humans can cause pandemics. LMU scientists are studying the tricks of the pathogens and developing suitable vaccines.

Origin of life: Molecular gastronomy

What was the recipe for the "Ursuppe" from which life emerged? The early steps in the evolution of life some four billion years ago.

“There is no 100% protection”

LMU computer scientist Dieter Kranzlmüller, Managing Director of the Leibniz Supercomputing Centre, about cybersecurity in the era of the first quantum computers – a portrait

"Like a stage, platform by platform”

Railway stations symbolize the onset of modernity. They stand for connections and encounters. We join Margit Dirscherl, a Germanist who studies the fascination that railway stations have held for writers, on a whistle-stop tour through literary history.