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Winners of TUM Global & Alumni Office's photo competition

Each year, we receive excellent submissions to TUM Global & Alumni Office's photo competition. Students and staff of TUM choose their favorites via an online vote and the most popular pictures are featured in our photo calendar. Take a look at the winning photos from recent G&A Office's photo competitions.

A man kneels in the dark in front of his yellow illuminated tent. In the background: a fascinating starry sky and green Northern Lights.
1st place: A glorious sky by Lukas Metzger
Students of TUM pose next to the ice sculpture of the TUM logo they created
2nd place: At the end of the world by Thomas Mascher
Three students enjoying the view of Barcelona at sunrise
3rd place: Sleeping beauty by Korbinian Perl
Antelope Canyon, USA
Change of perspective by Onur Gücükoğlu
A moss-covered plastic bottle at the beach
Glasklare Zukunft von Jonas Ballweg
Colorful hot-air balloon at the take-off site of the Chinese geopark
Up in the sky by Mathias Horsch
Buntes Leben in der Haji Lane by David Eickholt
Fußballteam in Tansania by Stefan Hillmann
Young woman and kangaroo watch the sea
Auf Du und Du mit Kängurus by Helena Steurer
Lila Stunde by Timo Scheidegger
Well-stocked and with flowers decorated ham and cheese booth
Living la dolce vita by Alessia Fratini
Local commuting on his way to work by boat
On the way to work by Alican Ay
A group of exchange students sitting on a fence, enjoying the view of the Erzberg
Auszeit am Erzberg by Martin Augenstein

A woman with her suitcase in front of a cloudy Shanghai skyline, mirrored in a huge puddle
1st place: The Bund
Konstantin Krämer, Shanghai, China
Mystical red and black escalators area of a Metro station in Stockholm
2nd place: Art in the underground
Franziska Zhu, Stockholm, Schweden
Three little girls in front of an azure blue wooden hut, where a barber does his magic
3rd place: Barbershop
Adrian-Petru Tanasescu, Kolkata, India
Two men greet each other in front of a fruit stand with a friendly handshake
Moroccan markets and squares
Michaela Burchard, Casablanca, Morocco
Panoramic view over the Bolivian capital La Paz
Over the mountains
Stefan Enßle, La Paz, Bolivien
New Yorkers doing sports under the picturesque Queensboro Bridge
Sports in New York
Fulvia Del Duca, New York, USA
Lively alley with sea-blue house facades and fruit stands
Blue-eyed medina
Marco Magliozzi, Chefchaouen, Morocco
Lively street with view of a SEGA store in Tokyo's Akihabara district
Akihabara, the electric town
Michelle Foo, Tokyo, Japan
Colorful car in front of a dainty, ageing house facade in the midst of Havana
Time flies
Maria Rau, Havana, Cuba
A group of gray langurs relaxing in the shade
Monkey siesta
Nikola Vekić, Pushkar Sarovar, Indien
Taxi driver wearing a face mask driving through a nightly, brightly lit Tokyo
Shibuya never sleeps
Duc Trung Daniel Tran, Tokyo, Japan
Passengers of all ages stroll with colorful, stretched umbrellas trough rainy Florence
Sunshine and rain
Mohit Gautam, Florence, Italy
Facsimile of Paris including the Eiffel Tower in a suburb of the Eastern Chinese metropolis Hangzhou
The Chinese Paris
Franziska Zhu, Hangzhou, China

Green Northern Lights in Norway
1st place: Aurora Borealis
Johannes Rößler, Tromsø, Norway
Mystic atmosphere around the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao
2nd place: Mystic Guggenheim Moment
Johannes Keppler, Bilbao, Spain
Picture of sunset taken through a hole in an ice crystal
3rd place: Endless Ice
Layla Martin, Vatnajökull glacier, Iceland
Radiant sunset behind Nymphenburg Palace in Munich
Sunset over Nymphenburg
Han Gao, Munich, Germany
A man with a blue trekking backpack is stunned by Icelands fascinating scenery
Exploring the Icelandic highlands
Yannick Rödel, Álftavatn, Iceland
Derelict building in a lake
Hidden Gems
Michael Schuler, Rummu, Estonia
Various people enjoy a beautiful summer night in terraced restaurants in Athens
Social Stairs in Athens
Sofia Pavlova, Athens, Greece
A group of students holding hands during their excursion to the Danish Wadden Sea Islands
Holding on
Michael Meier, Danske Vadehavsøer,
Denmark
TUM students sliding down the huge sand dune
Shared Joy at the Atlantic Coast
F. Wentz, Grande Dune du Pilat, France
Monochrome picture of several people with umbrellas standing in front of the Eiffel tower in the snow
Paris in the Snow
Pia Peitl, Paris, France
Incoming train at a London Underground station
The Underground
Joel Schreyer, London, UK
Two cross-country skiers going for a spin in Stockholm's Olympic Stadium during sunset
Public Cross-Country Skiing in the Old Olympic Stadium of Stockholm
Patrick Thorben Sieb
A light blue steel bridge connects poor and wealthy neighborhoods in Porto
Porto - Bridge Between Wealth and Decay
Johannes Keppler, Porto, Portugal

Four students sit on the Hackerbrücke with an "afterwork beer" and enjoy the sunset over Munich
1st place: The meaning of Münchner Gemütlichkeit
Thanak Utakapan, Institute of Machine
Elements
Heart-shaped fireworks in front of the nightly scenery of the Munich Olympic Park
City with a heart
Thanak Utakapan, Institute of Machine
Elements
Three TUM students holding the TUM flag together with their Zimbabwean project partners before it is installed on a wind gauge station.
TUM flag in Zimbabwean school
Christian Ender

Bird's-eye view of the green planted atrium of "The Hive", a building on the campus of Nanyang Technological University in Singapore.
The Hive
Tahnee Rehg,  Automotive Software
Engineering
Graduates of an international degree course leap for joy in their robes
The joy of achieving goals
Alexander Niederklapfer, Chair of Land Management and Land Tenure
Two students stand next to a red VW beetle in a colorful street in Mexico
Streets of Mexico
Markus Herdieckerhoff, Department of
Mechanical Engineering
A TUM student admires a large spider web bewundert ein großes Spinnennetz in the Amazon rainforest.
Beauties of the Amazon
Ines Hoffmann, Study Program Division Landscape Architecture and Landscape Planning
Tanzanian children play with wild pigs
Children playing in a field with pigs
Veronika Schmidt, School of Medicine

A little boy nibbles at a colored pencil
1st place: Children of the rising sun
Lara Huß, Department of Sport and Health Sciences
An elderly man with a walking stick stands at the jetty of Lake Tana.
2nd place: The multipurpose function of Lake Tana
Athanasia Stamou, Ingenieurfakultät Bau Geo Umwelt
A female TUM student plays frisbee with a small Tibetan boy
3rd place: Do you want to play with us?
Stefan Scholten, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Two members of the TUM project team in Nepal pose proudly in front of their self-built solar warm water collector
Solar power for the children of Lophelling School
Lukas Geß, Department of Mechanical
Engineering
Monochrome picture of a man making his boat ready to go fishing
Heading into incertainty
Lluis Daniel Dura, TUM Department of
Architecture
Curved wooden construction of the school's new assembly hall with the typical rhombus structure of the Zollinger system
School Assembly Hall in Kibwigwa
Matthias Kestel, Associate Professorship of Architectural Design and Timber
Construction
Three people walk along an otherwise empty road of red soil embedded in a lush green vegetation
The long way to education - education is the way
Jana Holler, TUM School of Life Sciences Weihenstephan
A house in the midst of Namibia serves as an international research station for students and researchers of TUM
The great void
Dr. Thomas Wagner, Chair of Restoration Ecology
A swarm of small blue-black-white birds sits in the fields on the campus of South-East Kenya University (SEKU).
Stop over for swallows
Wieland Feuerabendt, TUM School of Life Sciences Weihenstephan
A student of TUM plays soccer on a field of red soil with pupils from Marymount, Zimbabwe
Football: the global language
Dirk Steuerwald, Chair of Renewable and Sustainable Energy Systems


Zambian pupils in blue uniforms run happily across their newly built school yard
Prototype School in Lusaka
Kestel Matthias, Associate Professorship of Architectural Design and Timber
Construction

A team of TUM researchers in a swamp forest in South Africa
Field course in the swamp palm cathedral
Dr. Jan Sliva, Chair of Restoration Ecology

The snow-capped Mount Fiji photographed from the shores of a lake
Fuji, the perfect mountain
Pirmin Blanz, KEIO University, Japan
A farmer and his buffalo on their rice plantation in South Korea
Will the buffalo still be necessary for transportation in the future?
Michael Rößle, Korean Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, South Korea
Fishermen and rice farmers gather at flooded rice fields in Singapore
Fishery in the rice fields
Konstantin Ritt, National University of
Singapore, Singapore
Traditional and modern architecture in Taipei, China
The roof of Taipei
Daniel Zimmermann, BUAA Beijing, China
A crowd of people in front of the Shanghai skyline draped in fog
Misty Shanghai
Anna-Teresa Tesch, Siemens Healthcare China Ltd., China
Neon green gleaming Northern Lights over Murmansk
Russian polar light
Stefan Döge, Moskauer Staatliche Lomonossow-Universität, Russia
Huge steel sequoias are home to enclaves of exotic orchids, ferns and bromeliads in the midst of Singapore.
Tropical Trees
Tobias Schuh, Nanyang Technological
University, Singapore

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