MDSI – Shaping the Future with Data

According to the prestigious Shanghai Rankings, TUM is a global leader in research in several fields. It ranks among the best 20 universities in agricultural sciences, medical technology, remote sensing and robotics. In four other subjects, it makes it into the top 50. In a Germany-wide comparison,… [read more]

At the TUM University Hospital Rechts der Isar, the Center for Digital Medicine and Health (ZDGM) is emerging as a new interdisciplinary research hub at the intersection of medicine, computer science, data science, and artificial intelligence. Under the direction of Munich’s State Building Authority… [read more]

According to the latest Academic Ranking of World Universities ("Shanghai Ranking"), the Technical University of Munich (TUM) is the top-ranked university in Germany. TUM ranks 45th worldwide in the prestigious university ranking, making it one of only two German universities in the top 50. [read more]

Using satellite data, researchers at TUM have identified an unprecedented loss of aboveground biomass in Europe’s forests since 2018. Forests in Central Europe, which have been heavily affected by drought and bark beetle outbreaks, have been particularly impacted. The study also shows that even… [read more]

On July 23, 2026, TUM Research Data Hub’s team joined researchers from across Munich at the ODSL Agentic AI Day, hosted by the ORIGINS Excellence Cluster in Garching. The program worked through the practical questions head-on: what an LLM actually is, how you turn one into an agent, where LLMs,… [read more]