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The Nemetschek Institute is a globally unique research and teaching institute for artificial intelligence in the construction industry. Under the umbrella of the TUM School of Engineering and Design and the Munich Data Science Institute (MDSI), it serves as a central interface for research, teaching and innovation in the application of AI and machine learning in the interrelated sectors of design, construction and management, i.e. the entire life cycle of buildings and infrastructure.
The conception, design and preservation of the built environment are among the greatest challenges of the 21st century. The use of state-of-the-art computer technologies, artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning offer completely new possibilities for ecologically and economically sustainable solutions to this challenge. Thanks to a generous donation from the Nemetschek Innovation Foundation, TUM has established the "TUM Georg Nemetschek Institute Artificial Intelligence for the Built World" (TUM GNI) to conduct research on this forward-looking technology focus.
The implementation of joint research projects between scientists from computer science and scientists from fields related to the built environment is a focus of the TUM GNI, which is closely linked to the Munich Data Science Institute (MDSI) and the Leonhard Obermeyer Center (LOC).
Foundation founder and TUM alumnus Prof. Georg Nemetschek laid the foundation for his professional success with a degree in civil engineering at TUM and, after founding Nemetschek SE, developed it into a leading provider of construction software with a great deal of responsibility and entrepreneurial courage. Find out more about the TUM GNI here.
The BMW Group is supporting research into quantum computers at the Technical University of Munich with the help of a TUM endowed chair. With this step, the BMW Group and TUM are building a bridge between outstanding basic research in Germany and industrial application. The chair conducts application-oriented research on specific problems and issues in the field of quantum computing and establishes a continuous transfer of knowledge and insights between TUM and the BMW Group. Find out more about the Chair of Quantum Algorithms and Applications under the direction of Prof. Dr. Barbara Kraus.
Google and the Technical University of Munich (TUM) are further expanding their partnership. Google itself has located its global Safety Engineering Center in Munich.
A significant donation will be used to fund a new TUM Innovation Network on cybersecurity under the leadership of computer scientist Prof. Claudia Eckert. Transdisciplinary scientific teams in the so-called TUM Innovation Networks explore forward-looking research questions and open up high-potential fields of innovation at the interfaces of traditional disciplines.
Protecting society, individuals and institutions from cyber attacks - TUM wants to contribute to this through research on data protection, security and privacy.
With the new funding, Google and TUM are deepening their long-standing partnership. Both work together in the fields of artificial intelligence, machine learning, computer vision, robotics and quantum computing, among others. In 2018, Google became the first non-European company to become an Excellence Partner of the university. In addition, Google has been supporting TUM initiatives that support women on their career paths in the STEM subjects of mathematics, computer science, natural sciences and technology since 2022.
The chair is headed by Prof. Angela Schoellig and focuses on the seamless interaction of robotic systems with the physical world. Unstructured, uncertain and changing environments pose a challenge for today's robots, as they need to know the specifics of the environment and task in advance in order to work safely and efficiently. The research at this chair aims to help the next generation of robot algorithms to combine and process information about the robot itself and its environment - with data collected during operation. - The endowed chair is funded by Infineon Technologies AG.
The chair's research focuses on the development of reliable machine learning methods. The robustness of algorithms is crucial to ensure reliable and trustworthy results, as in many real-world applications the collected data is rarely of high quality, but often noisy, error-prone or susceptible to manipulation. The aim is to develop techniques that automatically handle various forms of error and corruption. - The endowed professorship is funded by Allianz SE.
This chair will not only research companies as such, but also their culture and ownership structures. These closely related areas will be researched in an interdisciplinary manner: economics, sociology, psychology and other sciences will jointly examine the topic of family businesses (The German Mittelstand). This is of particular relevance as family businesses are an important pillar of the German economy. We hope that this endowed chair will provide us with new research findings that will benefit family businesses and business families in practice and thus indirectly make an important contribution to the economy and society as a whole.
The professorship is located in Munich in the Department of Management Sciences (TUM School of Management) and is open to a wide range of cooperation opportunities with scientists at the TUM Campus Heilbronn, where TUM researches and teaches on the digital transformation of family businesses.
The Friedrich Schiedel Chair for the Sociology of Science focuses on the key question of how societies are shaped that are technologized in practically all areas of activity - and are constantly becoming more technologized. Of interest here are the interpenetration relationships between science, technology and society and their sociological description and classification. The presence and impact of modern technologies in increasingly mechanized worlds of knowledge lead to the emergence of the so-called techno-society. This is examined along the four parameters of "knowledge", "organization", "sociality" and "nature" using both innovative theoretical approaches and well-founded empirical research.
In addition to the research projects on university governance, robotics, citizen research, digital participation, biological production and sustainable consumption, the Friedrich Schiedel Chair of Sociology of Science is establishing a new research focus with the reflection of neurotechnologies.
The chair was funded by the Friedrich Schiedel Foundation.
In order to strengthen social acceptance for technical and scientific developments, the Technical University of Munich (TUM) is focusing on close integration with the social sciences. To this end, the TUM School of Social Sciences and Technology (SOT) was established in 2021. The TUM Friedrich Schiedel Fellowship for Social Sciences and Technology takes interdisciplinary collaboration between the social sciences and the natural sciences, engineering, life sciences and medicine at TUM to a new level.
The fellowship is aimed at young scientists at TUM and offers financial support for scientific work that is jointly supervised by experts from the social sciences and TUM's scientific and technical profile areas, such as robotics, quantum technologies or digital medicine.