One of Europe's oldest and most decorated research universities, home to Nobel laureates in attosecond physics and a faculty spanning quantum optics to sociology.
12 professors and academic leaders celebrated so far, cited on every card. A small, growing selection, not a roster of the faculty. In pursuit of every professor, everywhere.
President of LMU Munich
Office of the President
Thank you for bringing a discoverer's record to the presidency: your work on the hunger hormone ghrelin and on polyagonists helped create the most effective medicines yet against obesity and type 2 diabetes, and now you lead the university you serve with the same ambition.
Professor of Experimental Physics (Laser Physics); Director, Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics
Faculty of Physics
Thank you for generating the shortest flashes of light humanity has ever made and using them to watch electrons move, and for now turning attosecond technology toward the early detection of disease.
Chair of Quantum Optics; Director, Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics
Faculty of Physics
Thank you for turning ultracold atoms in optical lattices into programmable model universes, letting physicists watch quantum many-body phenomena that no classical computer could simulate.
Professor and Head of the Computer Vision and Learning Group; LMU Chief AI Officer
Faculty of Mathematics, Informatics and Statistics
Thank you for leading the group that created Stable Diffusion and for insisting it be open, putting state-of-the-art image generation into the hands of the whole world rather than a single company.
Professor of Comparative Economics; Chair of the German Council of Economic Experts
Faculty of Economics
Thank you for pairing first-rate scholarship on innovation and competition with public service at the highest level, chairing the German Council of Economic Experts and co-chairing its Franco-German counterpart when clear economic thinking matters most.
Chair of Immunobiochemistry, Gene Center Munich
Gene Center Munich, Faculty of Chemistry and Pharmacy
Thank you for decoding how our innate immune system tells friend from foe at the molecular level, work that is quietly seeding new therapies for autoimmune disease.
Professor of Biochemistry; Director of the Gene Center Munich
Gene Center Munich, Faculty of Chemistry and Pharmacy
Thank you for revealing, atom by atom with cryo-EM and crystallography, how cells repair broken DNA and sense invading genomes, and for leading the Gene Center as a home where that science thrives.
Professor of Organic Chemistry
Faculty of Chemistry and Pharmacy
Thank you for asking chemistry's biggest question, how life began, and answering with experiments: simple reaction pathways to DNA subunits and mineral-catalyzed sugars that make the early Earth feel suddenly plausible.
Chair of General Sociology and Theory of Society
Institute of Sociology, Faculty of Social Sciences
Thank you for making sociological theory a public good, editing Kursbuch, serving on the German Ethics Council, and explaining in plain language how a complex society actually makes its decisions.
Professor of History of Science
Faculty of History and the Arts
Thank you for showing how science really gets made, together and over generations, from botanical illustration to photosynthesis research, and for leading your faculty while doing it.
Professor Emeritus of Physics; Director Emeritus, Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics
Faculty of Physics
Thank you for the optical frequency comb, the ruler of light that lets humanity measure frequency to breathtaking precision, and for a lifetime of curiosity that still animates Munich's quantum community.
Professor Emeritus of Economics and Public Finance; President Emeritus, ifo Institute
Faculty of Economics
Thank you for decades of fearless, argumentative economics, from Casino Capitalism to The Green Paradox, that forced Germany and Europe to debate their hardest policy questions honestly.
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