News from the Life Sciences at TUM

Karevo can sort up to ten tonnes of potatoes per hour using AI-powered optical recognition with 95 percent accuracy. The founder’s journey took him from a potato farm via the TUM to founding… [read more]

Researchers at TUM’s Professorship of Earth Observation for Ecosystem Management have shown for the first time that Europe’s forests have experienced a major biomass loss since 2018. Carbon… [read more]

Mutez Ahmed, Professor of Root-Soil Interaction at the TUM School of Life Sciences, and his team have developed a 3D method that visualizes networks of roots and mycorrhizal fungi. [read more]

More than five decades of environmental change are documented in the Landsat satellite image archive. Researchers at the TUM School of Life Sciences and the German Aerospace Center (DLR) aim… [read more]

Chronic inflammatory bowel diseases such as Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis affect a growing number of people and also pose major challenges for the healthcare system. Prof. Dr. Ana… [read more]

At Science Snack, cooking meets science. This student-led project shares insights from nutrition research and explains why early colorectal cancer prevention is important. [read more]

Without pollinators, many things begin to falter: harvests, biodiversity, food security and entire supply chains. Yet wild bees, hoverflies, butterflies, moths and beetles are under… [read more]

How can we produce food that we enjoy, that is healthy, and that protects our planet at the same time? Guided by this overarching question, a delegation from the TUM School of Life Sciences… [read more]

The TUM School of Life Sciences celebrated its Master’s graduates during a festive graduation ceremony at the Weihenstephan campus. More than 170 students from across the globe gathered for… [read more]

At this year’s Forest Summer Festival of the TUM School of Life Sciences, the SRM Award 2025 was presented to Mandy Cummings. In her master’s thesis in the field of sustainable resource… [read more]