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Documentation TUM Institute for Advanced Study
Founded in 2005, the "TUM Institute for Advanced Study" (TUM-IAS) occupies a central position in terms of both structure and content. Its purpose is to sharpen TUM's inimitable profile of Natural Sciences – Engineering Sciences – Medicine – Life Sciences on an international level. In the same way as the legendary IAS in Princeton, the TUM-IAS is based on the conviction that an atmosphere of creativity and inspiration, freedom and unbureaucratic support for excellent scientists is the most fertile ground for outstanding progress.
Liberated from the bureaucratic burden of traditional university routine, internationally acclaimed top researchers are given a working environment that enables completely new, high-risk research projects without the daily need for justification based on the promise of short-term success. Pioneering performances in science are often the result of "speculative trains of thought" fertilised by interdisciplinary dialogue. So the TUM-IAS is simultaneously a "knowledge exchange platform" for high-calibre scientists from TUM, companies engaged in industrial research and abroad (visiting scientists from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, for example).
New building for TUM-IAS
The TUM Institute for Advanced Study (TUM-IAS) building opened on the research campus in Garching in October 2010. BMW donated 10 million euros to the new building. To make the IAS a global networking and research hub for top-level scientists dedicated to excellence, the new building provides plenty of workspace as well as a top-floor function room modeled on the faculty clubs found at elite American universities, a café and an auditorium.
Annual Report 2011:
Further Information:
Contact:
Director: Prof. Dr. Patrick Dewilde
Humboldt Research Prize (2003)
dewilde@tum.de
Tel. +49.89.289.10555
Managing director: Dr. Ana Santos-Kühn
santos-kuehn@zv.tum.de
Tel. +49.89.289.10565
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