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Institutional development · Facilities and campus development · Germany

TUM opens new Garching laboratory building housing physics and bioscience researchers

The Technical University of Munich has opened a new laboratory building on its Garching campus. Researchers from physics and the biosciences now share it.

Photo: Ernst A. Graf/ESO / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0

Why it matters: Physics and bioscience researchers at the Technical University of Munich now work under one roof in the new Garching laboratory building.

The Technical University of Munich (TUM) said it has opened a new laboratory building at its Garching campus.

According to the university, researchers from physics and the biosciences work together in the building.

TUM presented the building as creating more space for basic research. The university noted that fields such as laser physics and quantum mechanics produced practical uses that were not foreseen at first.

Editor’s view

Abigail Taylor, Leadership and Governance Editor

The new building directly affects TUM researchers in physics and the biosciences, who now share laboratory space at Garching. The university has framed the building as added space for basic research.

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