Welcoming Our New Fellows

Meet our new Fellows and get inspired by their research projects.

Fellowship Programs

Anna Boyksen Fellowship

two years for oustanding top-level female professors who intend to explore gender- and diversity-­relevant themes in the context ­of the TUM subject portfolio

Rudolf Mößbauer
Tenure Track Assistant Professorship

six years for outstanding, high-­potential early-career scientists

Rudolf Diesel
Industry Fellowship

three years for highly qualified researchers from industry

Albrecht Struppler Clinician Scientist Fellowship

three years for excellent senior physicians working at the TUM University Hospital rechts der Isar

Hans Fischer Fellowship

three years for outstanding ­early-career scientists from ­outside TUM

Hans Fischer Senior Fellowship

three years for renowned international scientists from outside TUM

Carl von Linde Fellowship

two years for excellent TUM ­faculty members

Philosopher in Residence Fellowship

one year for internationally leading and emerging representatives of the fi eld of philosophy from outside TUM.



Prof. Olga Boudker (Weill Cornell Medicine)

Fellowship
Hans Fischer Senior Fellowship

Host
Prof. Claus Schwechheimer (TUM School of Life Sciences)

TUM-IAS Focus Group
Toward Improved Nitrogen Efficiency – Amino Acid Transporters Take the Stage

TUM-IAS ­Research Area
Fundamental Natural and Life Sciences

Fellow-Profile

Prof. Nathalie Bredella (Leibniz University Hannover)

Fellowship
Anna Boyksen Fellowship

Host
Prof. Dietrich Erben (TUM School of Engineering and Design)

TUM-IAS Focus Group
Feminism and Digital Cultures in Architecture

TUM-IAS Research Area
Gender and Diversity in Science and Engineering

Fellow-Profile



Prof. Priscilla A. Furth (Georgetown University)

Fellowship
Anna Boyksen Fellowship

Host
Prof. Bernhard Küster, Prof. Markus List (TUM School of Life Sciences)

TUM-IAS Focus Group
Gene-Regulatory Mechanisms

TUM-IAS Research Area
Gender and Diversity in Science and Engineering

Fellow-Profile

Prof. Roberto Giuntini (University of Cagliari)

Fellowship
Philosopher in Residence Fellowship
(supported by the TÜV SÜD Foundation)

Host
Prof. Hans-Joachim Bungartz (TUM School of Computation, Information and Technology), Prof. Stefania Centrone (TUM School of Social Sciences and Technology), Prof. Klaus Mainzer (TUM Senior Excellence Faculty)

TUM-IAS Focus Group
Quantum Logic and the Second Quantum Revolution

TUM-IAS Research Area
Advanced Computation and Modeling

Fellow-Profile



PD Dr. Rico Gutschmidt (University of Konstanz / ETH Zurich)

Fellowship
Philosopher in Residence Fellowship
(supported by the TÜV SÜD Foundation)

Hosts
Prof. Eckhard Frick (TUM School of Medicine and Health / TUM University Hospital rechts der Isar)

TUM-IAS Focus Group
Boundary Situations and Spiritual Care

TUM-IAS Research Area
Health, Prevention, Care

Fellow-Profile

Prof. Jiang Hu (Texas A&M University)

Fellowship
Hans Fischer Senior Fellowship

Host
Prof. Ulf Schlichtmann (TUM School of Computation, Information and Technology)

TUM-IAS Focus Group
A New and Scalable Methodology for Fast Machine Learning Accelerator Design

TUM-IAS Research Area
Advanced Computation and Modeling

Fellow-Profile



Prof. Heather J. Kulik (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Fellowship
Hans Fischer Senior Fellowship

Host
Prof. Christopher J. Stein, Prof. Jennifer L.M. Rupp (TUM School of Natural Sciences)

TUM-IAS Focus Group
Systematically Improvable Modeling of Electrochemical Processes

TUM-IAS Research Area
Advanced Computation and Modeling

Fellow-Profile

Prof. Chenchen Liu (University of Maryland)

Fellowship
Hans Fischer Fellowship

Host
Prof. Ulf Schlichtmann (School of Computation, Information and Technology)

TUM-IAS Focus Group
Enabling Neuromorphic Computing for Multi-tenant Artificial Intelligence

TUM-IAS Research Area
Advanced Computation and Modeling

Fellow-Profile



Prof. Rainald Loehner (George Mason University)

Fellowship
Hans Fischer Senior Fellowship
(funded by the Siemens AG)

Host
Prof. Kai-Uwe Bletzinger (TUM School of Engineering and Design)

TUM-IAS Focus Group
Adjoint-Based System Identifi cation of Large-Scale Structures

TUM-IAS Research Area
Advanced Computation and Modeling

Fellow-Profile

Prof. Lorenz Panny (TUM School of Computation, Information and Technology)

Fellowship
Rudolf Mößbauer Tenure Track Assistant Professorship

TUM-IAS Focus Group
Cryptography

TUM-IAS Research Area
Communication and Information

Fellow-Profile



Prof. Bjørn Panyella Pedersen (Aarhus University)

Fellowship
Hans Fischer Senior Fellowship

Host
Prof. Claus Schwechheimer (TUM School of Life Sciences)

TUM-IAS Focus Group
Auxin Exporters as Targets for Herbicide Resistance

TUM-IAS Research Area
Fundamental Natural and Life Sciences

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Prof. Elizabeth Qian (Georgia Institute of Technology)

Fellowship
Hans Fischer Fellowship (funded by the TUM Georg Nemetschek Institute)

Host
Prof. Daniel Straub, Dr. Iason Papaioannou (TUM School of Engineering and Design), Prof. Elisabeth Ullmann (TUM School of Computation, Information and Technology)

TUM-IAS Focus Group
Model Reduction for Structural Reliability Analysis

TUM-IAS Research Area
Advanced Computation and Modeling

Fellow-Profile



Prof. Melanie Schirmer (TUM School of Life Sciences)

Fellowship
Rudolf Mößbauer Tenure Track Assistant Professorship

TUM-IAS Focus Group
Translational Microbiome Data Integration

TUM-IAS Research Area
Medical Natural Sciences

Fellow-Profile

Prof. Elena Simperl (King’s College London)

Fellowship
Hans Fischer Senior Fellowship (funded by the Siemens AG)

Host
Prof. Klaus Diepold (TUM School of Computation, Information and Technology)

TUM-IAS Focus Group
Trustworthy Knowledge Graphs

TUM-IAS Research Area
Advanced Computation and Modeling

Fellow-Profile



Prof. Agnieszka Wykowska (Italian Institute of Technology)

Fellowship
Hans Fischer Senior Fellowship

Host
Prof. Gordon Cheng (TUM School of Computation, Information and Technology)

TUM-IAS Focus Group
Human Cognition in Neuroengineering

TUM-IAS Research Area
Neuroengineering

Fellow-Profile

PD Dr. Michael Zech (TUM University Hospital rechts der Isar | TUM School of Medicine and Health)

Fellowship
Albrecht Struppler Clinician Scientist Fellowship

TUM-IAS Focus Group
Linking Genomics with Computational Science

TUM-IAS Research Area
Medical Natural Sciences

Fellow-Profile