Department of Informatics

In Germany, TUM Alumna Lachana Hada is a software engineer in a start-up. In Nepal she teaches women how to programme. In both countries she wants to prove that gender has nothing to do with what you can and cannot do.

Computers and informatics have been fascinating TUM Alumni Robin Sommer since he was a teenager. Today he is the co-founder of a highly successful software company that helps to uncover security vulnerabilities and prevent hacker attacks.

It would be possible to make a movie about her: born in Ukraine and raised in Brooklyn, Yana Bromberg worked her way up and today she is a globally successful professor. She also has strong ties to TUM.

With her algorithms TUM Ambassador Anca Muscholl wants to make software better and more secure. Thanks to the research experience she has gained at TUM, she feels well prepared for this future-oriented task.

Mentor and TUM Alumni Thomas Briegel and student and mentee Paul Kaiser are both bursting with energy and willingness to take risks. Both successfully run their own companies. In the mentorship they talk shop on equal terms.

Robots are cold, inanimate machines? No, says TUM Alumna Alona Kharchenko. She is conducting research on a robot that acts and feels like a human being. The place where she gained the necessary know-how for this visionary task is TUM.

TUM Alumna Mariana Avezum has lived on four continents and speaks three languages. For her master's thesis she set up an interdisciplinary team at TUM in order to make the Hyperloop high-speed train even faster.

TUM Alumni Felix Naser founded as a student together with MIT professors a million-euro company of his own. Today he researches intelligent vehicles in the field of urban mobility at BMW.

Bringing fresh perspectives into the world, exchanging ideas and meeting new people: TUM PhD candidate Dora Dzvonyar is a true all-rounder when it comes to bringing together research with industry or making it accessible to the general public.

Over half a century has passed since Dr. Yukou Mochida spent his days at the researchers’ desk at TUM. In all these years, he has never lost sight of his guest alma mater. On the contrary. Bavaria has also become a professional focus for the Japanese.

They studied at TUM at different times, but both have wonderful memories if their alma mater. Professor Gerald Thurner, his daughter Professor Veronika Thurner and her husband Michael Arbesmeier are a TUM family.

The wild dotcom era with its even wilder start-ups at the end of the 1990s: Markus Hartinger takes heart and founds his own company immediately after graduation. Today his company is the market leader in individual software solutions.

The enthusiasm for robots has snuck into Sami Haddadin's life through the back door. He studied electrical engineering and informatics at TUM, today he is one of the world's leading experts for robots and laureate of the Deutscher Zukunftspreis.