TUM Global Postdoc Fellowship
This attractive two-year fellowship program offers excellent researchers who have recently completed their PhD the chance to continue their academic career at TUM.
About the TUM Global Postdoc Fellowship
The TUM Global Postdoc Fellowship is a funding opportunity for external postdoctoral scientists who are currently residing abroad and would like to start their research at TUM. For 24 months, we will support fellows to diversify their research profile at a TUM department and to initiate new research projects together with TUM scientists.
The call is open to researchers who have completed their doctorate a maximum of three years ago or who will complete their doctorate within the next 12 months. Researchers must reside outside of Germany at the time of submission.
In each call, there are two phases. In Phase I, you do not require to submit a letter of support from a TUM host. However, you must identify a TUM host, who will support your application, during Phase II of the submission process. See below for further information on these two phases.
The TUM Global Postdoc Fellowship is open to all topics. Researchers are invited to apply with a project that matches the research of the chair/institute/lab of the respective host who supports the application.
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The TUM Global Postdoc Fellowship offers successful candidates a fellowship for 24 months. Fellows receive a monthly stipend of 2.670€ and one additional kick-off payment of 430€. Researchers residing in the Munich metropolitan area receive an additional monthly allowance of 350€. It is also possible to apply for family benefits. Please note that additional payments for consumables and conferences are not included and may be covered by the host subject to their agreement.
The TUM Global Postdoc Fellowship is a co-financed fellowship. This means that the TUM host needs to co-finance 20% of the fellowship costs. One TUM host can support up to two applicants per call.
- Call 5.1. (March 2025): Upon positive evaluation, you can commence the fellowship within a year from October 1, 2025 to October 1, 2026.
- Call 5.2. (September 2025): Upon positive evaluation, you can commence the fellowship within a year from April 1, 2026 to April 1, 2027.
Please keep the above in mind, when planning your fellowship. During the fellowship, you will have the support of central TUM services, e.g. TUM Talent Factory.
Candidates fulfilling the following criteria are eligible to apply for the TUM Global Postdoc Fellowship:
Mobility Rule
Early-career postdocs and doctoral researchers in their final year, residing outside of Germany at the time of submission, are eligible to apply for the TUM Global Postdoc Fellowship. Researchers who are already working at TUM or have received their doctorate at TUM are not eligible to apply.
Completion of PhD or letter of confirmation from PhD supervisor
You are eligible to apply for the fellowship if you have finished your PhD within the last three years at an institution other than TUM.
- Call 5.1.: Cut-off date is March 1, 2025, which means you can apply if you have completed your PhD on March 1, 2022 or later. The date on the doctoral certificate is binding.
- Call 5.2.: Cut-off date is September 1, 2025, which means you can apply if you have completed your PhD on September 1, 2022 or later. The date on the doctoral certificate is binding.
You are also eligible, if you have recently handed in your doctorate thesis or if you will complete your PhD within the next 12 months. In each case, you must submit an official letter of confirmation from your supervisor stating that you will complete your PhD within the next 12 months. A PhD certificate is mandatory to be able to start the fellowship.
Support of a TUM Host
For a successful application, you need the support of a TUM host.
In Phase I of the application, you name up to three potential TUM hosts you want to work with. On successful completion of Phase I, you will conduct a matchmaking session moderated by TUM with the potential TUM hosts you have named.
In Phase II of the application, your identified TUM host must support your application by providing a Letter of Support. The Letter of Support by the TUM host is mandatory, as it contains the confirmation of the 20% co-financing by the host.
Please note that you can only apply for the TUM Global Postdoc Fellowship once within a year.
If you have further questions concerning the application requirements, please check our FAQ document (PDF).
To apply for the TUM Global Postdoc Fellowship, you need the following documents in English:
Phase I
- Letter of Motivation (approx. 1 page)
Please tell us about your motivation to join TUM for your postdoctoral research. A well-crafted letter of motivation is crucial for the assessment of your application. Therefore, it is essential that you describe your professional goals with precision and explain your motivation thoroughly for pursuing a postdoc at TUM. Also, explain in detail how the TUM professor(s) you are interested to work with match your research interests and scope. Bear in mind that members of the selection committee might not be experts in your specific field of expertise, therefore, your letter of motivation should be clear and accessible to a broader audience. - CV, including list of publications (max. 5 pages)
- Copy of your best paper (max. 1 publication)
- PhD certificate or a confirmation of your PhD submission or a statement from your PhD supervisor that you have completed your PhD or that you will complete your PhD within the next 12 months.
- Reference Letter from your supervisor
There are two options to upload the Reference Letter: The applicant can directly upload the letter in the application portal and submit their application. Alternatively, if the referee wishes to upload the letter himself/herself, the applicant can send the referee an automated email from the application portal. The referee will receive an email with a link that allows them to upload the letter themselves. - Names of potential TUM hosts that are of interest to you
Please name up to three TUM Hosts who you want to work with. Please note that only active TUM Professors/Head of Institutes/Chairs/Junior Fellows can be hosts. It is not possible to name other scientists, including Honorary Professors, Distinguished Affiliated Professors, and retired professors including the TUM Emeriti of Excellence and TUM President Prof. Dr. Thomas F. Hofmann.
The following websites will enable you to find professors who fits your research profile: TUM Schools and Departments, TUM Clusters of Excellence or TUM Research Centers. You can also go through the list of TUM Professors or TUM Junior Fellows.
Phase II:
- Research Proposal (max. 4 pages). Please present the research project you plan to conduct at TUM in a comprehensible way so that reviewers who are not experts in your specific field can follow your argument. In your research proposal, you should also address synergies with the TUM host and your career plans: Why is TUM the best possible place to do your research project? Why is your TUM host the person with whom you want to conduct your research project? What are your future career plans? For which subsequent funding would you apply during the fellowship? Your proposal should not exceed four pages (including references and footnotes).
- Letter of Support from your TUM host (with signature and logo; for details on what the letter of support should entail, see Information for Hosts).
Please note that it is not possible to receive the fellowship without the support of a TUM host (i.e., a TUM professor or TUM Junior Fellow). As a host cannot support more than two applications per Call, we strongly recommend that you obtain the confirmation of TUM Host supporting your application before you prepare the documents. Since this is a relatively new program, note that potential hosts may not be aware of all the details of the TUM Global Postdoc Fellowship.
For questions, you may also refer to our FAQ document (PDF).
The Call is structured into two phases.
In Phase I, the Scientific Board will evaluate each application by the following criteria:
- Scientific excellence of the applicant
- Career perspectives of the applicant
- Quality of the motivation letter
- Synergies with the TUM host
The best applicants will be selected and a matchmaking process with the TUM Host/s (identified by the applicant in Phase I) will be initiated. Once a match is found, the selected applicants will proceed to Phase II. In this phase, the applicant has to submit a support letter from the TUM Host along with the research proposal. The Scientific Board will evaluate each application by the following criteria:
- Scientific excellence of the applicant
- Career perspectives of the applicant
- Relevance and originality of the proposed research project
- Synergies with the TUM host
The TUM Global Postdoc Fellowship is an important initiative of the TUM Agenda 2030. It offers talented, recently graduated postdocs an opportunity to continue their career at TUM. To attract global researchers, we therefore award a two-year fellowship . Postdocs with family are entitled to receive additional benefits for their partner and children should they reside in Munich. This fellowship may be considered as a startup fund, allowing postdocs a smooth start in research at TUM. The TUM Talent Factory will support the fellows with their applications for third party funding and offer advice on career planning.
For you as a host, the following information is particularly relevant:
- TUM Professors and TUM Junior Fellows can be hosts. Other researchers at TUM cannot become hosts (see also our FAQs).
- Successful applicants receive a fellowship for 24 months during which they conduct their own research project at a chair/institute/lab.
- Call 5.1. (March 2025): Upon positive evaluation, fellowship can be commenced within a year from October 1, 2025 to October 1, 2026.
- Call 5.2. (September 2025): Upon positive evaluation, fellowship can be commenced the fellowship within a year from April 1, 2026 to April 1, 2027.
Please keep this in mind when planning your support of an applicant.
- You can support no more than two applicants per call. If you support two applicants, at least one applicant must be female. Please bear this is mind when deciding on potential applicants.
- The fellowship requires the host to co-fund 20% of the fellowship. The exact amount of the fellowship depends on the fellow’s family situation and – in the case of a successful application – will be calculated based on the fellow’s current family situation. This implies, for a two year period, a host may have to cover total costs of approx. 14.500€ for a single fellow (~ 600€/month) and approx. 18.800€ for a fellow with a partner and two children (~780€/month).
Important note: You cannot use Haushaltsmittel or Planstellen for fellowship payment. Payment can come from e.g. overhead and free third-party funding.
- The fellowship only covers the researcher’s living costs. You will need to cover any additional payments for consumables, conferences and so forth.
- Letter of Support from TUM host must be in English language to aid reviewers who are not fluent in the German language. The applicant can upload the letter of support in the application portal. Alternatively, you can upload the letter of support yourself; the applicant can send you a link via the application portal. It is important to submit the letter before the application deadline. Otherwise, the application may not be considered.
- The letter of support must be on an official TUM letterhead with your signature. In addition to evaluating the candidate’s qualification and the project, you need to confirm the following:
- If the application is successful, you provide the fellow with sufficient working and laboratory place to conduct the project.
- If the application is successful, you agree to cover 20% of the costs of the fellowship.
- The Executive Vice President of Research and Innovation will sign the fellowship contract on behalf of TUM. From an administrative point of view, the fellows will receive a scholarship and will have the status of a “guest researcher” instead of an employee status.
For questions, you may also refer to our FAQ Document here (TUM ID required, PDF).
TUM Talent Factory will support the TUM Global Postdoc Fellows to apply for third party funding during the time of their fellowship. The support includes individual advice on funding possibilities or upskilling events to invited fellows.
During the first 12 months of the fellowship, the fellows should submit at least one application for third party funding at one of the main funding bodies for postdoc fellowships (e.g. AvH, MSCA, DFG). Due to mobility rules, many of these programs are only open to researchers during their first year in Germany.
At the onset of the fellowship, the host and fellow chart out a training plan to define the fellow’s steps and goal. Upon completion of first year, the fellow must submit an interim report detailing the progress and accomplishments.
Besides the TUM Talent Factory , there are other central services at TUM supporting postdocs during their time at TUM, such as TUM Welcome Services, TUM Gender and Diversity, TUM Family Service, or the TUM Institute for LongLife Learning.
Get to know our fellows
Who are the TUM Global Postdoc Fellows (TGPF) ? Find out more about the fellows and their projects, as well as the recipients of the TUM University Foundation Fellowship (TUFF; 2013–2020).
TUM Global Postdoc Fellows (4. Call / 2024)
TUM Chair: Simulation of Nanosystems for Energy Conversion, Prof. Dr. Alessio Gagliardi
TUM Department: School of Computation, Information and Technology, Department of Electrical Engineering
Academic career and research area:
Dr. Aykut Turfanda earned an M.Sc. degree in Physics from TUM.After spending a year as an experimental researcher at RWTH Aachen, he joined Istanbul Technical University in February 2020 as a Ph.D. student and graduated in March 2024. His current research interest lie in applied computational materials science and engineering for brain-inspired materials and devices. In this context, he designs and analyzes two-dimensional materials as candidates to mimic the characteristics of synapses using density functional theory. At TUM, he will introduce kinetic Monte Carlo methods to explore the relationship between nanostructured materials and the emulation of synapses’s basic characteristics in the age of artificial intelligence, aiming for a sustainable future in terms of energy consumption.
TUM Chair: Theoretische Elementarteilchenphysik, Prof. Dr. Alejandro Ibarra
TUM Department: School of Natural Sciences-NAT, Department of Physics
Academic career and research area:
Simon Cléry has received his doctoral degree in 2024 from Université Paris-Saclay (France). Under the supervision of Pr. Yann Mambrini, he developed and studied new Physics models for explaining the production of elementary particles in the very early Universe, after the phase of cosmic inflation. Before his doctoral research, he received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in fundamental Physics, Particle Physics and Cosmology from the Université Paris-Saclay (France). Simon Cléry research interests lie in the phenomenology of early Universe Particle Physics and Cosmology. At TUM, his efforts are directed at investigating novel scenarios of reheating after cosmic inflation, and the possibility of producing particles called axions during this early phase of the Universe evolution.
TUM Chair: Siliciumchemie, Prof. Dr. Shigeyoshi Inoue
TUM Department: School of Natural Sciences-NAT, Department Chemistry
Academic career and research area:
Dr. Priyanka Chakraborty earned her master’s degree in Chemistry from the National Institute of Technology (NIT) Tiruchirappalli, India, in 2017. She then pursued her doctoral studies at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kanpur under the guidance of Prof. Basker Sundararaju, graduating in June 2024. Her doctoral research focused on organometallic chemistry and catalysis, specifically exploring the catalytic activity and mechanistic pathways of 3d-metal complexes in sustainable hydrogen shuttle reactions, with an emphasis on high-valent cobalt and low-valent iron catalysts. At TUM, her research will primarily center on the synthesis of low-valent aluminium complexes and their application in developing redox catalytic methodologies.
TUM Chair: Industrial Chemistry and heterogeneous Catalysis, Prof. Dr. Jennifer Strunk
TUM Department: School of Natural Sciences-NAT, Department Chemistry
Academic career and research area:
Dr. Christine Khoury earned her doctoral degree in 2021 from Technion Israel Institute of Technology, in the field of cooperative catalysis. During her PhD studies, she gained experience in material preparation and surface characterization techniques and was actively involved in teaching. After her PhD, she joined the chemical refinery industry, but her strong motivation to investigate and develop sustainable processes has sparked her interest in an academic career. At the School of Natural Sciences at TUM, she will study the photocatalytic nitrogen fixation over modified layered-double-hydroxides-based materials. The goal of the proposed research is understanding the role of the chemical environment surrounding the surface defect in the photocatalytic activation of nitrogen towards ammonia using LDH-based materials as a tool for tailoring the defects concentration and environment.
TUM Chair: Theoretische Teilchenphysik, Prof. Lorenzo Tancredi
TUM Department: School of Natural Sciences-NAT, Department Physics
Academic career and research area:
Andrea Ghira conducted his doctoral researches on theoretical particle physics at Università degli studi di Genova under supervision of Prof. S. Marzani and G. Ridolfi. The primary focus of his Ph.D. program was the exploration of heavy flavors physics, which involves the study of quarks with masses greater than the mass of the proton. Before starting his doctoral studies, he earned his master's degree in physics at the same university in 2021. At TUM, Andrea Ghira will explore the breakdown of factorization theorems in the presence of heavy quarks. His research also aims to evaluate the phenomenological impact of these effects.
TUM Chair: Biogenic Functional Materials, Prof. Dr. Rubén D. Costa
TUM Department: TUM Campus Straubing for Biotechnology and Sustainability, TUM Campus Straubing
Academic career and research area:
Ms. Yukta earned her M.Sc. in Physics from CCS University Campus in Meerut, India, in 2016. She then pursued her PhD in Physics at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Roorkee, completing it in June 2023. Following her doctoral studies, she worked as a Research Associate at IIT Roorkee until January 2024. Currently, Ms. Yukta is a WISE postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Chemistry at Lund University, Sweden, where she began her appointment in April 2024. Her research focuses on developing lead-based and lead-free perovskite materials for optoelectronic devices, including transparent perovskites for building-integrated photovoltaics and halide perovskite nanocrystals for efficient green energy applications.
TUM Chair: Experimental Semiconductor Physics, Prof. Dr. Ian D. Sharp
TUM Department: School of Natural Sciences, Department of Physics
Academic career and research area:
Dr. Bengisu Yilmaz completed her PhD at Koç University, Turkey, in 2023, focusing on 2D layered semiconductor materials for photocatalytic CO2 reduction and water splitting applications. Following her doctoral studies, she continued as a postdoctoral researcher at Koç University, investigating reaction mechanisms and kinetics of fundamental electrochemical reactions in clean energy-generating devices. At TUM, Dr. Yilmaz's research will center on synthesizing a novel photocatalyst with a heterojunction structure for photocatalytic CO2 reduction reactions. She plans to explore the effects of C-C coupling reactions and mechanisms on intermediates and reaction dynamics using this photocatalyst. Her expertise spans synthesis methods of layered materials, heterogeneous catalysis, artificial photosynthesis, electrocatalytic and photocatalytic reaction mechanisms, hydrogen production, and electrochemistry.
TUM Chair: Proteomics and Bioanalytics, Prof. Dr. Bernhard Küster
TUM Department: TUM School of Life Sciences, TUM School of Life Sciences
Academic career and research area:
Ms. Erin Humphries recently completed her PhD thesis on phosphoproteomics of formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded tissues at the Australian Cancer Research Foundation International Centre for the Proteome of Human Cancer (ProCan). She previously earned a BSc(Adv)(Hons) in chemistry from The University of Sydney. Throughout her academic journey, Erin gained diverse experience in both academic and industrial settings, including positions at the Children's Medical Research Institute, National Measurement Institute, University of Science and Technology China, Nanjing University, and Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization. Her research expertise spans liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry, drug analysis, proteomics, phosphoproteomics, and translational cancer studies. At TUM, Erin plans to investigate potential synergies between chemotherapy drugs with the aim of enhancing cancer therapy outcomes.
TUM Chair: Exercise, Nutrition and Health, Prof. Dr. Karsten Köhler
TUM Department: TUM School of Medicine and Health, TUM School of Medicine and Health
Academic career and research area:
Thorben Aussieker earned his BSc in Sport Science from the German Sports University Cologne and his MSc in Health Science Research from Maastricht University. He continued at Maastricht University to complete his PhD under the supervision of Prof. Luc van Loon, focusing on muscle metabolism. His research explores the effects of dietary collagen protein intake on muscle protein metabolism, utilizing stable isotope amino acid tracer methodology to measure muscle protein synthesis rates. He also has expertise in immunohistochemistry and fluorescence microscopy. At TUM, he aims to further investigate how dietary collagen protein affects various bodily tissues, contributing to a better understanding of its potential benefits for both patients and athletes.
TUM Chair: Electrical Energy Supply Networks, Prof. Dr. Reinaldo Tonkoski
TUM Department: School of Engineering and Design, Department of Energy and Process Engineering
Academic career and research area:
Dr. Mengfan Zhang earned his Ph.D. in Energy Technology from Aalborg University, Denmark, specializing in Artificial Intelligence-enabled stability analysis of grid-converter systems. Following his doctoral studies, he joined KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden as a postdoctoral researcher, where he focused on applying Artificial Intelligence to power electronics-dominated power systems. At TUM, Dr. Zhang will continue his research in AI-enabled modeling and stability evaluation for sustainable power systems. His work aims to enhance the integration of renewable energy sources into modern grids, addressing the challenges of increasing renewable penetration in power systems. Using advanced AI techniques, Dr. Zhang plans to develop innovative methods for modeling complex grid dynamics and evaluating system stability, ultimately contributing to the development of more resilient and sustainable power infrastructure.
TUM Global Postdoc Fellows (3. Call / 2024)
TUM Chair: Chair of Data Science in Earth Observation, Prof. Dr. Xiaoxiang Zhu
TUM Department: School of Engineering and Design, Department of Aerospace and Geodesy
Academic career and research areas:
Dr. Xizhe Xue earned her doctoral degree in 2024 from Northwestern Polytechnical University (NPU) in China, specializing in earth observation. During her Ph.D. studies, she was a visiting student at the National University of Singapore from 2021 to 2023 and also served as a research intern at TikTok in Singapore. At the School of Engineering and Design at TUM under the guidance of Professor Xiaoxiang Zhu, Dr. Xue's research will focus on the multi-scale analysis of landscape heterogeneity in global urbanization. Her work aims to deepen our understanding of how urbanization impacts climate change. Additionally, her research contributes to the development of sustainable urban planning and land management policies, ensuring the preservation of natural environments and ecosystems.
TUM Chair: Associate Professorship of Urban Design, Prof. Dr. Benedikt Boucsein
TUM Department: School of Engineering and Design, Department of Architecture
Academic career and research areas:
Maryam Khatibi is an architect who holds a PhD degree (2022) with honors in Architectural, Urban and Interior Design (AUID) from the Department of Architecture and Urban Studies (DAStU), Politecnico di Milano. She has been a postdoctoral researcher at the Université de Lyon (2022-2023) and holds a Master of Advanced Studies in Housing from ETH, Zürich. Her area of research portrays the landscape of collaborative-motivated housing cultures as an efficient way for urban habitation in the European context through which environmentally conscious and participatory process designs are tackled. At TUM, she will pursue her efforts in addressing the socio-ecological impacts of the cooperative housing models through their collective open spaces as an essential resource underpinning urban food gardens and biodiversity conservation.
TUM Chair: Professorship of Ecoclimatology, Prof. Dr. Annette Menzel
TUM Department: School of Life Sciences, Department of Life Science Systems
Academic career and research areas:
Dr. İsmail Bekar received his master's degree from Hacettepe University, Türkiye. Towards the end of his master's studies, he received a Swiss Government Excellence Scholarship and started his PhD at ETH Zürich. His doctoral research aimed to enhance understanding of fire regimes using a modeling perspective with a particular emphasis on fire occurrence, fire weather, and large fires. At TUM, his research will focus on investigating fire seasons at a global scale. Using an interdisciplinary approach, he plans to identify the spatial and temporal variability and differences in fire seasons across ecosystems and investigate the role of climatic and anthropogenic factors. His research will be extended to project how climate change may further influence the dynamics of fire seasons.
TUM Chair: Public Policy for the Green Transition, Prof. Dr. Florian Egli
TUM Department: TUM School of Social Sciences and Technology
Academic career and research areas:
Malte Toetzke conducted his doctoral studies at ETH Zurich focusing on the global transition towards net-zero emissions. In his Ph.D., he developed natural language processing models to inform public policy with new evidence, monitoring different aspects of the transition such as the global provision of climate finance or the emergence of industrial clusters around clean energy technologies. His research has been published and presented in leading academic journals (Nature Sustainability, Nature Climate Change) and machine learning conferences (NeurIPS, ICLR). At TUM, Malte Toetzke will develop a comprehensive platform to inform green industrial policy with real-time evidence, mapping global innovation collaborations around clean energy technologies at the firm level.
TUM Chair: Professorship of Autonomous Vehicle Systems, Prof. Johannes Betz
TUM Department: School of Engineering and Design, Department of Mobility Systems Engineering
Academic career and research areas:
Dr. Mattia Piccinini received his doctoral degree from the Department of Industrial Engineering at the University of Trento (Italy) in 2024, specializing in minimum-time trajectory planning, control and state estimation for autonomous vehicles. In 2022, he was a visiting doctoral researcher at the Universität der Bundeswehr, in Munich. Before his doctoral research, he received his M.Sc. degree (cum laude) in mechatronics engineering from the University of Trento (Italy) in 2019. At the TUM Professorship of Autonomous Vehicle Systems, Dr. Piccinini will develop new methods for adaptive collision avoidance in uncertain dynamic environments.
TUM Chair: Professorship of Quantum Sensing, Prof. Dr. Dominik Bucher
TUM Department: School of Natural Sciences, Department of Chemistry
Academic career and research areas:
Dr.Linyan Nie has a master degree of Biological Engineering at Jilin University, China. After that, she completed her doctoral studies under the supervision of Prof.Romana Schirhagl at the Department of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Groningen, the Netherlands, graduating in October 2021. Her research focused on monitering cellular stress levels by tracking the generation of free radicals using a sensitive technique called diamond relaxometry. This technique allowed her to investigate whether single live cells or organelles were under stress. At TUM, her research focuses on addressing sensitivity issues in MRI imaging at the single cell level by using diamond quantum sensors.
TUM Chair: Chair of Traffic Engineering and Control, Prof. Klaus Bogenberger
TUM Department: School of Engineering and Design, Department of Mobility Systems Engineering
Dr. Milad Malekzadeh successfully obtained his doctoral degree in the field of control engineering, specializing in intelligent transportation applications from Technical University of Crete, Greece. His Ph.D. research primarily concentrated on Internal Boundary Control of Lane-free Automated Vehicle Traffic, supervised by Prof. Markos Papageorgiou and Prof. Ioannis Papamichail. Throughout his doctoral studies, he actively participated in the TrafficFluid project, dedicating his efforts to exploring the complexities of automated vehicle control in the context of lane-free traffic. His educational background includes the attainment of another Ph.D. degree in control engineering, with a focus on electrical engineering, from Babol Noshirvani University of Technology, Iran. His research interests encompass the domains of optimal control and nonlinear dynamics. The main objective of the research carried out at the Chair of Traffic Engineering and Control at TUM, under the supervision of Professor Klaus Bogenberger, is to evaluate the feasibility of lane-free movement at the designated test-site.
TUM Global Postdoc Fellows (2. Call / 2023)
TUM Chair: Applied Mechanics, Prof. Dr. Daniel J. Rixen
TUM Department: School of Engineering and Design, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Academic career and research areas:
Dr. Stefan Holzinger completed his doctorate at the Department of Mechatronics at the University of Innsbruck (Austria) in 2023. In his doctoral research, he developed novel formulations and methods for the efficient simulation of rigid and flexible multibody systems and methods for parameter identification. Besides his doctoral research, Dr. Holzinger is also active in teaching at the University of Innsbruck on multibody dynamics, robotics, and mechanical engineering fundamentals. Furthermore, he has been part of several third-party-funded research projects. Before his doctoral research, he received his master's degree in mechatronics in 2016 from the Management Center Innsbruck (MCI), Austria.
At TUM, Dr. Holzinger’s research will center on methods for efficient and accurate modeling of human soft tissue behavior within multibody formulations and on methods for developing computationally highly efficient multibody models capable of accurately predicting human movement.
TUM Chair: Electronic Design Automation, Prof. Dr.-Ing. Ulf Schlichtmann
TUM Department: School of Computation, Information and Technology, Department of Computer Engineering
Academic career and research areas:
Debraj Kundu pursued a Master of Technology (M.Tech) from Calcutta University, India, in 2016. After that, he started his research career as a Ph.D. scholar at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Roorkee, India, under the supervision of Prof. Sudip Roy. His doctoral research focuses on developing algorithms for the automation of various bioprotocols on programmable microfluidic biochips. Design automation problems related to sample preparation, module placement, and fluid routing have been the prime focus of Mr. Kundu’s research so far.
He will concentrate on creating new approaches at TUM to address various design automation issues with flow-based microfluidic biochips. Mr. Kundu will research how flow-based microfluidic biochips are made with the goal of creating an effective automation technique to implement some bio-applications on them.
TUM Chair: Proteomics and Bioanalytics, Prof. Dr. Bernhard Küster
TUM Department: School of Life Sciences, Department Molecular Life Sciences
Academic career and research areas:
Dr. Nazlı Ecem Dal-Bekar received her M.Sc. degree in Clinical Immunology from Ankara University, Türkiye. She then completed her Ph.D. in Molecular Medicine at Dokuz Eylül University, Türkiye in 2022. Her Ph.D. studies focused on understanding the association between vitamin D and oxidative DNA damage in scleroderma and developing chromatographic and mass spectrometric methods. In 2019, she received a grant from EMBO to visit Nicolaus Copernicus University, Poland, where she was able to develop new methods. From 2022 to 2023, she worked as a postdoctoral researcher at Izmir University of Economics, Faculty of Medicine. She conducted a research project funded by the National Science Foundation of Türkiye.
Dr. Dal-Bekar's research focuses on translational studies in development and application of chromatography-mass spectrometry methods for diagnosis/monitoring processes and determination of effective treatment strategies in autoimmunity and cancer. At TUM, her research will concentrate on a novel proteomic approach using mass spectrometry-based methods to decrypt the mechanisms of action of therapeutic antibodies.
TUM Chair: Information-Oriented Control, Prof. Dr.-Ing. Sandra Hirche
TUM Department: School of Computation, Information and Technology, Department of Computer Engineering
Academic career and research areas:
Dr. Dandan Zhang was a postdoctoral researcher in the Institute of Cyber-Systems and Control, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China, from 2022 to 2023, and pursued her Ph.D. degree in the School of Information Science and Engineering, East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai, China, between 2017 and 2022. From 2019 to 2021, she was a Ph.D. Visiting Student at University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, USA.
Her research interests include deterministic and stochastic hybrid systems and cyber-physical systems. At TUM, she will focus on stochastic hybrid systems, which may exhibit three sources of randomness: the Wiener process resulting from a stochastic disturbance, the jump times resulting from stochastic impulse, and the jump values resulting from stochastic reset rules.
TUM Global Postdocs Fellows (Alumni)
TUM Chair: Chair of Physics of Synthetic Biological Systems, Prof. Dr. Friedrich Simmel
TUM Department: School of Natural Sciences, Department of Bioscience
Academic career and research areas:
Dr. Ir. Bas Bögels completed both his bachelor's and master's degree at Eindhoven University of Technology (The Netherlands). He subsequently completed his PhD from the same university under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Ir. Tom de Greef. During his PhD he explored compartmentalization of DNA nanotechnology for computing purposes.
The research interests of Dr. Ir. Bögels are synthetic biology, nucleic acid nanotechnology, and molecular computing. He is currently working on developping RNA-based decission making circuits for use in mammalian cells. Such circuits are expected to allow for more complex yet predictable signalling networks in synthetic biology.
TUM Chair: Chair of Hydrology and River Basin Management, Prof. Dr.-Ing. Markus Disse
TUM Department: School of Engineering and Design, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Academic career and research areas:
Dr. Behnam Khorrami has an educational background in the field of Remote Sensing (RS), and Geographic Information Systems (GIS). He obtained a Master's degree from the University of Tabriz (Iran; 2016) and and a PhD from Dokuz Eylul University (Türkiye; 2022). As his PhD thesis, Dr. Khorrami worked on the evaluation of hydrological dynamics of groundwater storage over Türkiye's major watersheds using remotely sensed products, mainly the Gravity Recovery And Climate Experiment (GRACE) satellite observations, and some hydrological model outputs. Dr. Khorrami's thesis received the Best PhD Thesis Award of 2022 from the IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society (GRSS) Türkiye chapter. Dr. Khorrami's research area is purely multi-disciplinary encompassing environmental- and hydro-informatics. His research at TUM will mainly center around the analysis of hydrological dynamics of groundwater by integrating Machine Learning (ML), hydrological modelling and RS data / techniques.
TUM Chair: Chair of Energy Systems, Prof. Dr.-Ing. Hartmut Spliethoff
TUM Department: School of Engineering and Design, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Academic career and research areas:
Shruti Vikram completed her Master's degree in Thermal Engineering from Thapar University, India in 2017. After that, she received her doctoral degree from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay (Mumbai,India) in 2024. Her PhD research focused on experimental and modeling studies on pyrolysis and gasification of biomass in varying reactive media. As a researcher of bio-energy and sustainable technologies, she investigated the influence of reactive agents on the in-depth understanding of the thermo-chemical conversion routes; and biochar and biofuel generation for decentralized and downstream applications. At TUM, Dr. Shruti Vikram will focus on CO2-assisted pyrolysis of waste feedstock to achieve high gasification efficiency. The goal is to enhance hydrogen concentration in syngas, while ensuring circular economy, and net-zero carbon emissions. Her research will also be driven to scrutinize the environmental aspects and potential effects on carbon-efficient resource utilization and economic sustainability.
TUM Chair: Traffic Engineering and Control, Prof. Dr.-Ing. Klaus Bogenberger
TUM Department: TUM School of Engineering and Design, Department of Mobility Systems Engineering
Academic career and research areas:
Dr. Anna Takayasu received her doctoral degree in the civil engineering field in 2022 from Lyon University (ENTPE) in France and collaborated with EPFL in Switzerland. Her Ph.D. research focused on traffic and trip behavior characteristics simulation and application. Using real traffic data from loop detectors and GPS on cars and complete trajectory data from drones, she investigated the effect of data availability on traffic state estimation. Also, she assessed the macroscopic traffic state prediction accuracy depending on model settings. Prior to her Ph.D., she completed her Master's in information science from Tohoku University in Japan.
Her research activities at the Chair of Traffic Engineering and Control at TUM under professor Klaus Bogenberger aim to develop a multimodal road network design method considering traffic state, comfort, and safety in anticipation of future conditions. The insights of her research will also provide a science-based concept to local organizations for new traffic measures and policies to make sager and less congested transportation.
TUM Chair: Population genetics, Prof. Aurélien Tellier
TUM Department: School of Life Sicences, Department of Life Science Systems
Academic career and research areas:
Dr. Apolline Louvet has received her doctoral degree in 2022 from Ecole Polytechnique (France). Under the supervision of Amandine Véber and Nathalie Machon, she developed and studied new mathematical models for expanding populations and the dynamics of the spontaneous flora in an urban environment. She is currently a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Bath (United Kingdom). Prior to completing her PhD, she received an M.Sc in Mathematics for the Life Sciences from Université Paris Sud (France).
Her research focusses on the mathematical modeling of populations out of equilibrium, and the developement of associated statistical tools to be applied to real-world datasets. During her fellowship at TUM, she will use stochastic approaches to investigate the effect of dormancy on the stability of ecological communities, and the implications in term of genetic diversity.
TUM Chair: Clinical Chemistry and Pathobiochemistry, Prof. Dr. Jürgen Ruland
TUM Department: School of Medicine
Academic career and research areas:
Dr. Jing Zhang completed her PhD in the lab of Prof. Dr. Peter ten Dijke at the Leiden University Medical Center (Netherlands) in 2022. During her PhD, she has specialized towards cancer biology, focusing on understanding the changes of tumor microenvironment, tumor metastasis and the aberrant cellular processes in breast, lung and pancreatic cancer to improve treatment options for cancer patients. After her PhD, she continued as a post-doc in the same lab to work on the regulation of TGF-β signaling and EMT in various cancer types.
At TUM, Dr. Jing Zhang will focus on the aberrant signaling pathways during T cell l lymphomagenesis to offer novel insights for lymphoma-targeted therapies.
TUM Chair: Population genetics, Prof. Aurélien Tellier
TUM Department: School of Life Sicences, Department of Life Science Systems
Academic career and research areas:
Meline Saubin received her Master's degree in Biodiversity, ecology and evolution from Montpellier University and her Engineering degree from the French National Institute of Technology for Life, Food and Environmental Sciences (AgroParisTech) in 2019. Then, she completed her PhD degree in Biology and ecology of forests and agrosystems in 2023 at AgroParisTech (Nancy, France). At the French National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and Environment (INRAE), she investigated the influence of demographic variations on the genetic structure of populations in the context of emerging disease. Using population genetics and epidemiology, she developed demogenetic models to study rapidly evolving pathogen populations.
During her fellowship at TUM, she will use temporal genomic data to decipher the bases of host-parasite coevolution. She will develop a Bayesian method to analyse host-parasite coevolution, and apply this method to plant and parasite full genome data.
TUM Chair: Bioseparation Engineering, Prof. Dr. Sonja Berensmeier
TUM Department: School of Engineering and Design, Department of Energy and Process Engineering
Academic career and research areas:
Mr. Sandeep B. Somvanshi is currently pursuing Ph.D. as a DST-INSPIRE Fellow at the Department of Physics, Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Marathwada University, Aurangabad (M.S.), India. He has completed the master’s degree in Physics from the same department. The core activity of his Ph.D. research work is to design and develop multifunctional magnetic nanomaterials-based technologies for the potential benefits of their multimodal-functionality in biomedical applications which will strongly improve the performances of currently used diagnostic and therapeutic tools.
At TUM, Mr. Sandeep B. Somvanshi will conduct research on “Screening and Optimization of Selective Aptamer-Based Separation Processes for the Isolation of Asthma-Preventing Proteins”. This proposed research work intends to overcome the limitations of current protein separation technologies in proteins by testing the aptamer-based approach for the development of a specific separation process.
TUM Chair: Process Systems Engineering, Prof. Dr. Heiko Briesen
TUM Department: School of Life Sciences, Department of Life Science Engineering
Academic career and research areas:
Dr. Graziano Frungieri is a Chemical Engineer, graduated from Politecnico di Torino, Italy, in 2014. He obtained his PhD from Politecnico di Torino in 2018, with a thesis dealing with the numerical simulation of aggregation and breakup phenomena in sheared colloidal suspensions. During his PhD, he spent one year as a guest researcher at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm.
After his PhD, within the H2020 project VIMMP, he worked on the development of multiscale simulation strategies coupling CFD and DEM simulations to address industrially relevant modelling challenges.
At TUM, Dr. Graziano Frungieri will work on the development of novel computational techniques to study the production of Janus colloidal particles via Pickering emulsion and their exploitation as building blocks for supra-colloidal structures.
TUM Chair: Semiconductor Quantum Nanosystems, Prof. Dr. Jonathan Finley
TUM Department: School of Natural Sciences, Physics
Academic career and research areas:
Alex Delhomme received a PhD degree in Physics in 2022 from Université Grenoble Alpes (Grenoble, France). At the Laboratoire National des Champs Magnétiques Intense, the French continuous high magnetic field facility, he investigated the optical and magnetic properties of Van der Waals lamellar systems. His research focused on the recombination of interlayer excitons in transition metal dichalcogenide heterobilayers. Prior to completing his PhD, he received a M.Sc in Nanophysics and holds a B.Sc. in Physics from the same university.
Delhomme research interests lie in the experimental characterization of low dimensional quantum structures as well as the physics of systems in extreme environment. At TUM, his efforts are directed at investigating novel quantum phases created by a strain tunable moiré potential in two-dimensional quantum materials.
TUM Chair: Food Chemistry and Molecular Sensory Science, Prof. Dr. Corinna Dawid
TUM Department: TUM School of Life Sciences, Department Molecular Life Sciences
Academic career and research areas:
Dr. Maryam Hemmati graduated with a PhD in Applied/Analytical Chemistry from University of Semnan (Iran) in March 2019. In 2018, she got a nationally competitive fellowship to pursue more research opportunities on doctoral level at Granada University (Spain). Her research works have dealt with developing sample preparation techniques compatible with different samples followed by LC-DAD and LC-MS/MS analyses. In 2019, she awarded a grant to undertake postdoctoral research at the University of Liege (Belgium) on “LC‐MS for metabolomics in the context of fluxomics analysis”. She conducted an exercise-induced targeted metabolomics study on low-volumes of whole blood, which were collected by using microsampling techniques.
At TUM, she will develop an integrated Metabo-Lipid-Prote-omics approach to study the inflammation dependent and independent cancer models in collaboration with Prof. Dr. Corinna Dawid.
TUM Lehrstuhl: Chemie Biogener Rohstoffe, Prof. Dr. Volker Sieber
TUM Department: Campus Straubing
Akademische Laufbahn und Forschungsbereich:
Dr. Sara Arana Peña has completed her PhD under the direction of Prof. Dr. Roberto Fernández Lafuente in Optimization of Enzymatic Biocatalysts and Bioprocess group at the ICP-CSIC (Spain). Previously she has obtained her B.Sc. in Biology and a M.Sc. in Industrial and Environmental Biotechnology from the Complutense University of Madrid (Spain).
Dr. Arana Peña’s research is focused on the field of enzyme immobilization. The use of different immobilization strategies, the development and modification of supports and the characterization of biocatalysts were the main points to highlight out of it. At TUM, she will lead a project at Prof. Dr. Volker Sieber’s group to develop co-immobilization strategies for enzymes involved in cascades reactions for their application in sustainable chemistry processes. The preparation of optimal co-immobilized cascades will allow to reduce the cost of processes and improve reaction yields, providing a promising green alternative to the traditional chemical industry.
TUM Lehrstuhl: Inorganic and Metal-Organic Chemistry, Prof. Dr. Roland A. Fischer
TUM Department: School of Natural Sciences, Department of Chemistry
Academic career and research areas:
Sophie Thomas graduated with a Master of Chemistry at Cardiff University (UK) in 2017 before gaining a place on the EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Catalysis programme. In 2018, Sophie obtained a Master of Research in Catalysis and then began her PhD under the supervision of Prof. Angela Casini at Cardiff University. Her doctoral research focuses on the use of gold complexes as therapeutic agents, with a focus on achieving catalysis in living cells.
At TUM, she will focus on the use of water-soluble gold nanoparticles stabilized by N-heterocyclic carbenes for applications in catalysis and biomedicine, with potential to combine both applications for catalysis in cells for therapy.
TUM Chair: Applied Topology and Geometry, Prof. Dr. Ulrich Bauer
TUM Department: School of Computation, information and Technology, Department of Mathematics
Academic Career and Research Areas:
Dr. Alexander Rolle completed his PhD in Mathematics at the University of Western Ontario, Canada, in 2019. There, he studied applications of topological methods to algebraic geometry, and motivic cohomology in particular. From 2019 to 2021, he worked as a postdoctoral researcher at TU Graz, Austria, focusing on topological data analysis.
Dr. Rolle’s research is aimed at the development of novel methods in data analysis and statistics that build on well-understood mathematical tools, and especially the tools of algebraic topology. At TUM, he will work on multi-parameter persistent homology and statistics.
TUM Chair: Building Technology and Climate Responsive Design, Prof. Thomas Auer
TUM Department: School of Engineering and Design, Department of Architecture
Academic career and research areas:
Muhammad Hegazy is an architect and researcher with strong research interests in sustainability, building simulation, and interactive immersive environments. His doctoral research in Architectural Engineering (Osaka University, Japan) focused on the assessment and spatial mapping of daylight perception in architectural spaces using virtual reality, as well as the relationship between such perceptions and physically based daylight metrics.
At TUM, he will pursue a research project on physiological and psychological reactions to daylighting in virtual built environments. This research will contribute to a better understanding of the interdependencies between perception, wellbeing, and daylighting attributes in the built environment.
TUM Chair: Phytopathology, Prof. Dr. Ralph Hückelhoven
TUM Department: TUM School of Life Sciences, Department of Molecular Life Sciences
Academic Career and Research Areas:
Dr. Anik Dutta has received his doctoral degree in 2021 from ETH Zurich, funded by Federal Office for Agriculture in Switzerland. His PhD research focused on understanding the principles of agricultural pathogen adaptation to biotic and abiotic environments. Using high throughput phenotypic and whole genome sequence data, he investigated mechanisms that maintain genetic diversity in pathogen life-history traits. He also conducted the large-scale genome wide association mapping to uncover sources of complex trait genetic variation. Prior to his PhD, he completed M.Sc. in Crop Sciences from the University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart.
His research activities at the Chair of Phytopathology at TUM in collaboration with Dr. Remco Stam are directed at studying the diversity and evolution of plant-pathogen interactions under variable climatic conditions. He will use precise phenotypic and genomic data to identify resistance and susceptibility genes in wild tomato plants to different pathogen. The knowledge derived from this research will be valuable for plant breeders to develop crop varieties with durable resistance to plant pathogens.
TUM Chair: Organic Chemistry, Prof. Dr. Thorsten Bach
TUM Department: School of Natural Sciences, Department of Chemistry
Academic career and research areas
Dr. Chao Zhou incepted his PhD degree in organic chemistry in 2020 from Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry (TIPC), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). There, he designed and developed a series of visible-light-catalyzed [2+2] cycloadditions of olefin and N-arylation reactions with high chemo and regioselectivity. From 2021 to 2023, he has worked as a postdoctoral researcher at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden, focusing on the construction of spiro-compounds via visible light-mediated radical dearomatization.
Dr. Chao’s research is aimed at the development of novel and practical methodologies for the efficient construction of biologically active and synthetically useful molecules, in particular by photocatalysis. At TUM, he will work on the enantioselective photocatalytic organic transformations with Prof. Thorsten Bach.
TUM Chair: Biogenic Functional Materials, Prof. Dr. Rubén D. Costa
TUM Department: TUM Campus Straubing
Akademische Laufbahn und Forschungsbereich:
Dr. Nesibe A. Dogan completed her PhD degree with full scholarship at Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) in 2019. Her research focused on synthesis of nanoporous polymers for capture of CO2 gas from industrial flue gas mixtures and precious metal capture from wastewaters. She developed nanoporous covalent organic polymers which were chemically tuned to have an affinity for the desired material in a liquid or gaseous mixture.
During her postdoctoral work at CNRS in collaboration with Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle (Paris, France), she worked in a Horizon2020 project and developed nanocellulose-metal organic framework composite thin films and built an adsorption chamber to operate tests on the artefacts.
Currently as a postdoctoral researcher in Aalto University (Finland), she is involved with synthesis and characterization of nanocellulose gels and cyanobacterial growth for photosynthetic cell factories with FET Open Horizon2020 project.
During her fellowship at TUM, she will combine nanocellulose derivatives and fluorescent proteins to develop color filters for bioLEDs. Hybrid optoelectronics is a newly emerging field which promises to incorporate biological materials to advance Green Photonics concept.
TUM Chair: Transportation Systems Engineering, Prof. Dr.Constantinos Antoniou
TUM Department: School of Engineering and Design, Department of Mobility Systems Engineering
Academic career and research areas:
Dr. Liang was a postdoctoral researcher in Traffic Information and Control Engineering at Tongji University, Shanghai, China, from 2019 to 2021, where he also pursued his doctoral degree between 2014 and 2019. From 2016 to 2018, he was a visiting Ph.D. student at University of Washington. His research focuses on data-driven optimization and control of transportation systems with connected autonomous vehicles, and machine learning. He is particularly interested in developing machine learning models, control models, optimization models and game theory to tackle research challenges.
At TUM, he will conduct research on “Personalized Cooperative Automated Platooning using Safe Reinforcement Learning”. In this research, he will develop a simulation platform which is capable of simulating human driving behaviours in a realistic traffic and vehicle-to-vehicle communication environment. Further, using safe reinforcement learning theory, he will develop a methodology for describing human driving styles in making decisions on platoon formation, platoon maintenance and platoon dissolution as well as in planning the corresponding trajectory, and a methodology for personalized decision making and trajectory planning for human-machine-collaboration-driven vehicles.
TUM University Foundation Fellows (awarded 2013-2021)
This is a non-exhaustive list and only includes persons who provided their consent to be added to the Alumni list.
TUFF Round 1
- Dr. Joanna Deek – Professorship of Molecular and Cellular Biophysics, Department of Physics
- Dr. Satoshi Endo – Chair of Information-oriented Control, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
- Dr. Cristian Gutierrez Ibanez – Chair of Zoology, TUM School of Life Sciences Weihenstephan
- Dr. Juan Leonardo Martinez-Hurtado – Center for Nontechnology and Nanomaterials, Department of Physics
- Dr. Genny Pang – Chair for Biological Imaging, TUM School of Medicine
- Dr. Thomas Stecher – Chair of Theoretical Chemistry, Department of Chemistry
TUFF Round 2
- Dr. Roberta Fonti – Chair of Structural Design, Department of Architecture
- Dr. Sijie Hao – Professorship of Experimental Semiconductor Physics, Department of Physics
- Dr. Paul Albert König – Chair of Clinical Chemistry, TUM School of Medicine
- Dr. Hesam Sagha – Chair of Human-Machine Communication, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
- Dr. Annelies Vandersickel – Chair of Energy Systems, Department of Mechanical Engineering
TUFF Round 3
- Dr. Siwei Bai – Professorship of Bio-inspired Information Processing, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
- Dr. Karin Kleigrewe – Chair of Food Chemistry and Molecular Sensory Science, TUM School of Life Sciences Weihenstephan
- Dr. Jürgen Rauleder – Chair of Helicopter Technology, Department of Mechanical Engineering
- Dr. Simone Scilabra – Chair of Neuroproteomics, TUM School of Medicine
- Dr. Weiwei Xie – Chair of Theoretical Chemistry, Department of Chemistry
- Dr. Goutam Tanti – Department of Neurology, TUM School of Medicine
TUFF Round 4
- Dr. Ina Bisha – Theoretical Chemical Biology and Protein Modelling Group, TUM School of Life Sciences Weihenstephan
- Dr. Alejandro Cosimo – Chair of Applied Mechanics, Department of Mechanical Engineering
- Dr. Paul D'Agostino – Professorship of Biosystems Chemistry, Department of Chemistry
- Dr. Bhupal Dev – Chair of Theoretical Elementary Particle Physics, Department of Physics
- Dr. Kiwon Um – Chair of Computer Graphics and Visualization, Department of Informatics
- Dr. Bin Zou – Chair of Mathematical Finance, Department of Mathematics
TUFF Round 5
- Dr. Giorgia Aquilar – Chair for Urban Development and Regional Planning, Department of Architecture
- Dr. Astrid De Clercq – Chair of Physical Chemistry, Department of Chemistry
- Dr. Pablo Lanillos – Chair of Cognitive Systems, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
- Dr. Nicolás M. Ortega – Chair of Livestock Biotechnology, TUM School of Life Sciences Weihenstephan
- Dr. Pablo Albertos Arranz – Professorship for Biotechnology of Horticultural Crops, TUM School of Life Sciences Weihenstephan
TUFF Round 6
- Dr. Gulen Burak – Professorship of Protein Chemistry, Department of Chemistry
- Dr. Alessandro Cattabiani – Chair of Computational Mechanics, Department of Mechanical Engineering
- Dr. Laura Hoodless – Institute of Neuronal Cell Biology, TUM School of Medicine
TUFF Round 7
- Dr. Batyr Garlyyev – Professorship of Physics of Energy Conversion and Storage, Department of Physics
- Dr. Abdulla Ghani – Professorship of Thermo-Fluid Dynamics, Department of Mechanical Engineering
- Dr. Zhi Jin – Chair of Media Technology, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
- Dr. Tahoora Narany – Chair of Hydrology and River Basin Management, Department of Civil, Geo and Environmental Engineering
- Dr. Gianluca Orlando – Chair for Analysis, Department of Mathematics
- Dr. Yongpeng Wu – Institute for Communications Engineering, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
TUFF Round 8
- Dr. Diala Abu Awad – Section of Population Genetics, TUM School of Life Sciences Weihenstephan
- Dr. Kausik Basak – Chair of Molecular Imaging Engineering, TUM School of Medicine
- Dr. Jordi Cotela Dalmau – Chair of Structural Analysis, Department of Civil, Geo and Environmental Engineering
- Dr. Hildeberto Jardón Kojakhmetov – Chair of Multiscale and Stochastic Dynamics, Department of Mathematics
- Dr. Shobin Loukkose Rosemary – Chair of Semiconductor Nanostructures and Quantum Systems, Department of Physics
- Dr. Johannes Margraf – Chair of Theoretical Chemistry, Department of Chemistry
- Dr. Jamie McDonald – Professorship of Theoretical Physics of the Early Universe, Department of Physics
- Dr. Gustavo Adolfo Silva Arias – Section of Population Genetics, TUM School of Life Sciences Weihenstephan
- Dr. Magdalena Wagner – Centre of Land, Water and Environmental Risk Management, TUM Department of Civil, Geo and Environmental Engineering
- Dr. Catherine Weetmann – Professorship of Silicon Chemistry, Department of Chemistry
TUFF Round 9
- Dr. Ana M. Ferreira – Professorship of Biothermodynamics, TUM School of Life Sciences Weihenstephan
- Dr. Biao Yang – Chair of Surface and Interface Physics (E20), Department of Physics
- Dr. Ibon Santiago González – Chair of Physics of Synthetic Biological Systems (E14), Department of Physics
- Dr. Adam Papp – Chair of Nanoelectronics, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
- Dr. Linda Giresini – Chair of Structural Mechanics, Department of Civil, Geo and Environmental Engineering
- Dr. Tianzhe Liu – Chair of Biosystems Chemistry, Department of Chemistry
- Dr. Chien-Yun Lee – Chair of Proteomics and Bioanalytics, TUM School of Life Sciences Weihenstephan
- Dr. Jong-Seob Han – Chair of Aerodynamics and Fluid Mechanics, Department of Mechanical Engineering
- Dr. Liang Dong – Chair of Food Chemistry and Molecular Sensory Science, TUM School of Life Sciences Weihenstephan
- Dr. Philipp Baumert – Chair of Exercise Biology, TUM Department of Sport and Health Sciences
- Dr. Sandra G. L. Persiani – Chair of Building Technology and Climate Responsive Design, TUM Department of Architecture
- Dr. Cambyse Rouzé – Chair of Theory of Complex Quantum Systems, TUM Department of Mathematics
- Dr. Samuel Weber – Chair of Landslide Research, TUM Department of Civil, Geo and Environmental Engineering
- Dr. Burak Özbey – Chair of High-Frequency Engineering, TUM Department Electrical and Computer Engineering
TUFF Round 10
- Dr. Needhi Kotoky – Chair of Computational Mechanics, TUM Department of Civil, Geo and Environmental Engineering
- Dr. Haichao Hong – Institute of Flight System Dynamics,TUM Department of Aerospace and Geodesy
- Fadhilah Muslim, PhD – Chair of Materials Science and Testing,TUM Department of Civil, Geo and Environmental Engineering
- Dr. Bhavya S. – Chair of Aquatic Systems Biology, TUM School of Life Sciences Weihenstephan
- Dr. Gaurav Tomar – Theoretical Elementary Particle Physics, Department of Physics
- Dr. Ali Khansefid – Chair of Structural Mechanics, TUM Department of Civil, Geo and Environmental Engineering
- Dr. Mohanned Alhussien – Chair of Reproductive Biotechnology, TUM School of Life Sciences
- Dr. Chuang Xu – Multiscale and Stochastic Dynamics, TUM Department of Mathematics
- Dr. Naveen Tripathi – Chair of Process System Engineering, TUM School of Life Sciences
- Dr. Jingshui Huang – Chair of Hydrology and River Basin Management, TUM Department of Civil, Geo and Environmental Engineering
- Dr. Xing Huang – Chair of Electronic Design Automation, TUM Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
- Dr. Luisa Roeder – Chair of Human Movement Science, TUM Department of Sport and Health Sciences
TUFF Round 11
- Dr. Tess Doezema – Chair of Innovation Society and Public Policy (Innovation Research), Munich Center for Technology in Society
- Dr. Thomas Rigotti – Chair of Organic Chemistry I, Department of Chemistry
- Dr. Teresa Pérez Ciria – Chair of Hydrology and River Basin Management, Department of Civil, Geo and Environmental Engineering
- Dr. Ryan Kisslinger – Chair of Experimental Semiconductor Physics, Department of Physics
- Dr. Janio Venturini – Chair of Synthesis and Characterization of Innovative Materials, Department of Chemistry
- Adeyinka Adetula, PhD – Chair of Reproductive Biotechnology, TUM School of Life Sciences
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