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LMU Spin-off Protects Digital Remembrance

LMU students founded the non-profit organization GAMI to safeguard historical records against falsification and deliberate delegitimization using blockchain technology.

Medical diagnoses: how AI explanations help doctors

A team led by LMU researcher Stefan Feuerriegel shows that AI models like ChatGPT can improve diagnostic accuracy in radiology.

LMU expands its international master’s program portfolio

Beginning in winter semester 2026/27, LMU launches new programs in law, medicine, politics, culture and geosciences, taught in English.

Erika Mann Lecture Series – engaging with society

Gabriele von Arnim is delivering this year’s Erika Mann Lecture on the topic of “response-ability”

Artificial intelligence analyzes whole mouse bodies down to cell level

A team led by LMU researcher Ali Ertürk finds evidence of previously unknown nerve damage in obesity.

Artist Javier Espinosa is working on a mural at the LMU Biocenter

A wall full of sea creatures: Art meets science

The artist Javier Espinosa has created an underwater mural at the Biocenter. Researchers and students from LMU contributed their ideas.

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Research Summary: new publications

Tuberculosis Risk: Promising Approaches for Screening and Prediction

Neurophysiology: How the brain recovers from noise-induced damage

LMU researchers improve perovskite solar cells with molecular interface tweak

Yasumasa Oguro: “Tonio Kröger is always a favorite in Japan”

German studies expert and LMU alumnus Yasumasa Oguro talks about why Thomas Mann is so well loved in Japan.

Anna Schaffelhuber in a red top proudly holding multiple gold medals in front of a modern background.

Anna Schaffelhuber: From school to soother to ski slopes

Para-athlete and LMU alumna Anna Schaffelhuber on the teaching profession and time with the family.

Businessman in navy suit with blue tie seated in bright, modern office.

Stephan Kothrade: From chemistry student to CTO at BASF

The chemistry PhD describes his journey from the lecture halls of LMU to the boardroom of BASF.

The focus: Rethink

The world is changing—major disruptions are looming, and new ideas are needed. This issue of the magazine is about rethinking: How is AI changing literature? Which new realities do we face as the climate tips? And could the universe itself be working quite differently than we thought?

Vikings: In the fog of history
Real utopias: wishes that can come true
From lecture hall … to the rice paddy
Cancer therapy made to measure

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Cracks in the foundations of cosmology

LMU's University Library over the course of time

500 years of change: How the university library today is a place of learning, a cultural asset and a meeting place all in one.

A student smiles into the camera in front of a mountain range

Studying abroad – a boundless adventure

How studying and internships abroad can change and enrich your life: Multimedia story with experience reports and tips.

Cultural Heritage: „We’re making time visible“

Drones over Heloros: Nicola Lercari investigates historical sites with state-of-the-art remote sensing methods.

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.

The off-road vehicles used by the researchers to drive through the desert

From lecture hall … to the desert!

Field research in the driest desert in the world: doctoral candidate Julia Simonis recounts her journey to the Atacama.

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.

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