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Now online: the new digital research magazine from LMU
24 Jun 2025
Fully digital, fully bilingual: LMU Research and Innovation offers a contemporary look at top-level research.
A new digital era is dawning for research reporting at LMU: The first edition of the new magazine LMU Research and Innovation is now online. Taking account of changed reading habits, the magazine is fully situated in the digital world, with all editions appearing in German and English.
One magazine – one focus
LMU Research and Innovation will be reporting twice a year on excellent scientific endeavors at LMU with the goal of providing well-founded knowledge to a broad public. Various fresh editorial formats – reports, columns, portraits, interviews, and photo galleries – will showcase the variety of research at LMU and present high-caliber international researchers.
The trademark of the magazine will be its focus on a particular subject. Each edition of LMU Forschung und Innovation will choose one topic to illuminate from a variety of perspectives from the humanities and the social and natural sciences. This interdisciplinary approach reflects the spirit of LMU and offers a comprehensive view of current scientific topics.
© Mayla Joy Wind
Issue one is all about – heat
What turns cities into greenhouses and where will the effects of climate change be the strongest? Shrill debates and long smoldering conflicts are heating up our social discourse – what could bring some moderation? How are exoplanets created in cosmic forges? What secrets do magma chambers in Iceland hold for vulcanologists? The first edition of the new magazine is all about – HEAT.
Hot topics in this issue:
- Scorching asphalt – the climate crisis in cities: Heat islands, heatwaves, record temperatures: How climate change is heating up Europe’s cities – and where it is hitting hardest.. Read now!
- Heated debates – pamphlets and protest: Americanist Pierre-Héli Monot traces the intertwined history of pamphlets and social movements – and investigates how polemics blow up online today. Read now!
- 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. Read now!