Research on the Garching Campus
The School of Natural Sciences established the Garching campus, and it remains one of the flagships of the extensive science park. Newly founded institutes and companies from different fields have enriched campus Garching ever since, and this development will continue.
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From fundamental research to the development of modern high-tech applications: With more than 6000 employees and more than 13000 students, the research campus in Garching north of Munich is one of the biggest and most modern science and university centers in all of Europe. With the School of Natural Sciences and other TUM Schools, campus Garching is TUM's largest location. Also, research institutions of the Max Planck Society, the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities, the European Supernova Planetarium and Visitor Center (ESO), and Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (LMU) have settled at this site. Many scientists from all countries and all fields of research are attracted by the interdisciplinarity scientific potential at campus Garching.
Associated research institutions at the campus Garching
Our School keeps a lively scientific exchange with many institutes at the campus Garching:
- Walter Schottky Institute (WSI) - Center for Nanotechnology and Nanomaterials (ZNN)
- Research Neutron Source Heinz Maier-Leibnitz (FRM II)
- Munich Institute for Biomedical Engineering
- Catalysis Research Center (CRC)
- Center for Functional Protein Assemblies (CPA)
- Center for Advanced Laser Applications (CALA)
- Institute for Advanced Studies (IAS)
- TUM School of Computation, Information and Technology (Location Garching)
- TUM School of Engineering and Design (Location Garching)
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- Walther Meißner Institute (WMI)
- MPI for Astrophysics (MPA)
- MPI for Extraterrestrial Physics (MPE)
- MPI for Physics (MPP)
- MPI for Plasma Physics (IPP)
- MPI for Quantum Optics (MPQ)
- Laboratory for Extreme Photonics (LEX)
- Headquarters of European Southern Observatory (ESO) and Supernova
- Bavarian Center for Applied Energy Research (ZAE Bayern)
- Leibniz Supercomputing Center (LRZ)