TUM receives its sixth Humboldt Professorship

Campus news - The Technical University of Munich (TUM) is again celebrating its success as a recipient of Germany's best-endowed international research award: The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (AvH) has awarded a Humboldt Professorship to computer engineer, Prof. Marco Caccamo, to conduct research at TUM. The real-time computing expert is currently based at the renowned University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (USA). Caccamo will use his expertise to develop a new interdisciplinary institute for cyber-physical systems at TUM. The Humboldt Professorship is valued at up to EUR 5 million over a period of five years. With its sixth Humboldt Professorship TUM moves into top place as the German university with the most Humboldt Professorships. Nowadays, the operation of systems, processes and machines via digital communications networks happens in real time: for example, in power plants, aircraft and self-driving vehicles. Prof. Marco Caccamo is an internationally recognized expert working at the cutting edge of research into these safety-critical cyber-physical systems.