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 School of Medicine and Health, the TUM University Hospital and the German Heart Centre Munich.
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
Dieter Schwarz Fellowship
three years for renowned international scientists from outside TUM who intend to explore innovative, high-risk topics in the key research areas researched at the TUM Campus Heilbronn.
Dieter Schwarz Courageous Research Grant
three years for outstanding international scientists from outside TUM who intend to use groundbreaking technology to propose a radical solution to a major challenge in the area of “Digitalization and Sustainability.”
Philosopher in Residence Fellowship
one year for internationally leading and emerging representatives of the fi eld of philosophy from outside TUM.
Carl von Linde Fellowship
two years for excellent TUM faculty members
Prof. Leyla Amiri (Université de Sherbrooke)
Fellowship
Hans Fischer Fellowship
Fellowship
Prof. Nikolaus Adams (TUM School of Engineering and Design)
Focus Group
Advancing Fluid Flow and Heat Transfer in Rock Thermal Energy Storage Systems
Research Area
Advanced Computation and Modeling
Prof. Jonathan Bamber (University of Bristol)
Fellowship
Hans Fischer Senior Fellowship
Hosts
Prof. Xiaoxiang Zhu (TUM School of Engineering and Design)
Focus Group
Earth Observation for Climate
Research Area
Environmental and Earth Sciences, Building Technology
Prof. Timothy Brodribb (University of Tasmania)
Fellowship
Dieter Schwarz Courageous Research Grant (funded by the Dieter Schwarz Foundation)
Host
Prof. Mutez Ahmed (TUM School of Life Sciences)
Focus Group
Plants Under Pressure
Research Area
Fundamental Natural and Life Sciences
Prof. Laura Cadonati (Georgia Institute of Technology)
Fellowship
Hans Fischer Senior Fellowship
Host
Prof. Elisa Resconi (TUM School of Natural Sciences)
Focus Group
Expanding Multi-Messenger Astrophysics
Research Area
Fundamental Natural and Life Sciences
Prof. Samarjit Chakraborty (The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
Fellowship
Dieter Schwarz Courageous Research Grant (funded by the Dieter Schwarz Foundation)
Hosts
Prof. Marco Caccamo (TUM School of Engineering and Design), Prof. Andreas Herkersdorf (TUM School of Computation, Information, and Technology)
Focus Group
Sustainable Cyber-Physical Systems
Research Area
Control Theory, Systems Engineering and Robotics
Prof. Sandra Cortesi (TUM School of Medicine and Health, TUM School of Social Science and Technology (secondary affiliation))
Fellowship
Rudolf Mößbauer Tenure Track Assistant Professorship
Focus Group
Participation and Diversity in Digital Societies
Research Area
Health, Prevention, Care
Prof. Gianluca Demartini (The University of Queensland)
Fellowship
Dieter Schwarz Fellowship (funded by the Dieter Schwarz Foundation)
Host
Prof. Maribel Acosta Deibe (TUM School of Computation, Information, and Technology)
Focus Group
Bias in Large Language Models
Research Area
Advanced Computation and Modeling
Ellen Fogh (TUM School of Natural Sciences)
Fellowship
Rudolf Mößbauer Tenure Track Professorship
Focus Group
Quantum Magnetism
Research Area
Surface, Interface, Nano- and Quantum Science
Prof. Yvonne Förster (Leuphana University Lüneburg)
Fellowship
Philosopher in Residence Fellowship (funded by the TÜV SÜD Foundation and as part of the Excellence Strategy of the federal and state governments)
Host
Prof. Dr. Klaus Bengler (TUM School of Engineering and Design)
Focus Group
Embodied Agents and the Quest for a Sustainable Technological Future
Research Area
Control Theory, Systems Engineering and Robotics
Prof. Angela M. Gronenborn (University of Pittsburgh, Medical School)
Fellowship
Hans Fischer Senior Fellowship
Hosts
Prof. Michael Sattler, Prof. Franz Hagn (TUM School of Natural Sciences)
Focus Group
In-cell 19F NMR of Protein Interactions
Research Area
Fundamental Natural and Life Sciences
Prof. Marina Hirota (Instituto Relva, Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC))
Fellowship
Hans Fischer Senior Fellowship
Host
Prof. Niklas Boers (TUM School of Engineering and Design)
Focus Group
Earth System Modeling
Research Area
Environmental and Earth Sciences, Building Technology
Prof. Aaron M. Johnson (Carnegie Mellon University)
Fellowship
Hans Fischer Senior Fellowship (funded by the Siemens AG)
Hosts
Prof. Majid Khadiv (TUM School of Computation, Information, and Technology)
Focus Group
Safe Contact in Autonomous Robots
Research Area
Control Theory, Systems Engineering, and Robotics
Prof. Maria Pina Limongelli (Politecnico di Milano)
Fellowship
Hans Fischer Senior Fellowship (funded by the TUM Georg Nemetschek Institute)
Host
Prof. Daniel Straub (TUM School of Engineering and Design)
Focus Group
Risk Management of Bridge Portfolios with Remote Sensing Data
Research Area
Environmental and Earth Sciences, Building Technology
Prof. Robert Mayer (TUM School of Natural Sciences)
Fellowship
Rudolf Mößbauer Tenure Track Professorship
Focus Group
Physical-organic Chemistry of Catalysis
Research Area
Fundamental Natural and Life Sciences
Dr. Cordelia Schmid (INRIA)
Fellowship
Hans Fischer Senior Fellowship (funded by the Siemens AG)
Host
Prof. Majid Khadiv (TUM School of Computation, Information, and Technology)
Focus Group
Autonomous Humanoid Workers
Research Area
Control Theory, Systems Engineering and Robotics
Prof. Raphael Stern (University of Minnesota)
Fellowship
Hans Fischer Fellowship
Host
Prof. Constantinos Antoniou (TUM School of Engineering and Design)
Focus Group
Transportation and Mobility Resilience
Research Area
Control Theory, Systems Engineering, and Robotics
Dr. Mathis Wackernagel (Global Footprint Network)
Fellowship
Rudolf Diesel Industry Fellowship
Host
Prof. Magnus Fröhling, Prof. Sebastian Goerg (TUM Campus Straubing)
Focus Group
Effectiveness of Metrics
Research Area
Environmental and Earth Sciences, Building Technology