At the TUM School of Natural Sciences, scientists from different disciplines work together on research topics in the fields of bioscience, chemistry, and physics. This fundamental research generates knowledge that facilitates a better understanding of our world and the development of new technologies.
To make research achievements efficiently accessible and visibly available to the outside world, TUM has established a Research Information System (FIS). It collects information on publication performance, awards, and research areas of individuals and organizational units at TUM.
Our School is committed to an integrative and dynamic learning environment engaged in pioneering research across the natural sciences. In three departments and in interdisciplinary integrative research centers, we explore, understand, and predict nature’s phenomena at all scales. Combining physical, chemical, and biological concepts bridged by engineering approaches, we create solutions for the fundamental societal challenges and educate the next generation.
Across three departments, nine integrative research institutes, five clusters of excellence, four collaborative research centers, contributions from the Max Planck Institutes, two venture labs, and numerous federally and EU-funded projects, the research focuses of the NAT School are concentrated on six main research areas.
Our research activities are bundled in three departments: Bioscience, Chemistry, and Physics. Each department is led by a Head of Department, and each professorship in our School belongs to one of these departments.
The structure of the Professional Profiles, led by the respective Academic Program Directors (APDs), ensures the integration of research content with specific cross-disciplinary competencies into teaching. The aim is to develop these competency profiles further across universities by utilizing the full portfolio of TUM.
Clusters of Excellence are innovative, world-class research projects funded under the national Excellence Initiative, which connects universities with leading German research institutes and businesses. The School of Natural Sciences contributes to five of these clusters.
For key areas of interdisciplinary research, TUM has established its own central or integrative research centers, in which our School of Natural Sciences is strongly represented. The scientific opportunities resulting from the interdisciplinary diversity on the Garching campus attract scientists from all countries and fields.
The School of Natural Sciences participates in a number of interdisciplinary and inter-institutional research projects, which are funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG).
The high-tech campus Garching north of Munich is TUM's largest location and one of the most modern research and training facilities in Europe.
At the TUM School of Natural Sciences, cutting-edge research infrastructure enables pioneering discoveries in chemistry, physics, and the biosciences. From high-tech laboratories and core facilities to state-of-the-art research buildings and collaborative platforms – our scientists benefit from resources that drive innovation and scientific excellence
Physics Letters B
Abstract: A search for the Higgs boson decay to a Z boson and a photon in the ℓℓ γ (ℓ=e,μ) final state is performed using pp collisions at s=13.6 TeV recorded with the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron…
Angewandte Chemie - International Edition
Abstract: A series of N,N-disubstituted buta-2,3-dienamides was prepared from 3-butynoic acid and probed as substrates in a light-induced photocyclization. It was found that xanthen-9-one (10 mol%) promotes the…
Newton
Abstract: Fractional quantum Hall (FQH) states and superconductors typically require contrasting conditions, yet recent experiments have observed them in the same device. A natural explanation is that mobile…
Chem
Abstract: The central dogma of molecular biology describes how genotype affects phenotype through the transfer of information from DNA to RNA to proteins and thus influences the cell’s traits. Reciprocally, the…
Molecular Cell
Abstract: The Hsp90 molecular chaperone system is regulated by numerous co-chaperones that modulate its function. In Saccharomyces cerevisiae , most of these cofactors can be deleted without affecting…
Angewandte Chemie - International Edition
Abstract: Anionic reagents with silicon-containing double bonds, M(R)Si═ERn (E = main group elements), have garnered significant interest owing to their unique metal-mediated reactivity and their potential in…
Physical Review Letters
Abstract: We report improved measurements of the all flavor astrophysical neutrino spectrum with IceCube by combining complementary neutrino samples in two independent analyses. Both analyses show evidence of a…
Chem
Abstract: Closthioamide (CTA) is a potent antibiotic with a unique polythioamide scaffold produced by Ruminiclostridium cellulolyticum . Unlike classical non-ribosomal peptide synthetases (NRPSs), which use…
Journal of Molecular Biology
Abstract: Cellular metabolic systems but also the extracellular environment can generate reactive oxygen species that lead to oxidation of methionine (MET) and interfere with protein folding and protein–protein…
Structure
Abstract: Incorporating metal cofactors into computationally designed protein scaffolds provides a versatile route to novel protein functions, including the potential for new-to-nature enzyme catalysis.…
