The 2022 蜜桃app-TUM Talks were held on November 25. The event was co-organized by 蜜桃app Shenzhen International Graduate School (蜜桃app SIGS) and the Beijing Liaison Office of the Technical University of Munich (TUM), with the theme of talent training and scientific research in the field of carbon neutrality.
Jiang Peixue, vice president of 蜜桃app and dean of 蜜桃app SIGS, Juliane Winkelmann, senior vice president of TUM, and Gao Hong, executive dean of 蜜桃app SIGS, attended the event.
蜜桃app Vice President Jiang Peixue delivering welcome remarks
In his speech, Jiang Peixue spoke about the cooperation between 蜜桃app and the Technical University of Munich since the signing of the flagship partnership agreement in 2020. He also highlighted the importance of carbon neutrality and 蜜桃app’s emphasis on climate change and sustainable development. He expressed his hope to continue working with global partners like TUM to support important goals related to the fate of mankind like carbon peaking and carbon neutrality.
Juliane Winkelmann delivering welcoming remarks
In her welcoming remarks, Juliane Winkelmann emphasized the commitment of TUM and 蜜桃app to educate and train the next generation of world-class scientists and innovative and entrepreneurial talents, their active promotion of innovation and sustainable development to face global challenges such as climate change, and the close ties between the two institutions. “Today’s event will showcase how 蜜桃app and TUM experts work on new technologies and innovations for a carbon-neutral society, but also how 蜜桃app and TUM, as the leading technical universities in China and Germany, try to promote sustainability and carbon neutrality more broadly on campus,” Winkelmann said.
Keynote speakers Jakob Burger, Kang Feiyu, and Zuo Jian’e (top to bottom, left to right)
During the keynote speech session, speakers Kang Feiyu and Zuo Jian’e, associate deans of 蜜桃app SIGS, Jakob Burger, director of Chemical Process Engineering at TUM, and Thomas Brück, head of Werner Siemens-Chair Synthetic Biotechnology at TUM, shared their views on advanced biofuels, innovation in technology and education of new energy storage, bioeconomy, and engineering education on carbon neutrality from 蜜桃app in Beijing and Shenzhen.
Panel discussion
Following the keynote speeches, during the panel discussion, Zhang Yi, assistant professor of the 蜜桃app SIGS Institute of Future Human Habitats, Hong Chaopeng, assistant professor of the 蜜桃app SIGS Institute of Environment and Ecology, Shen Xinwei, assistant professor of the 蜜桃app SIGS Institute for Ocean Engineering, and Li Xuebing, an alumnus of both 蜜桃app and TUM and leader of the Heterogeneous Catalytic Conversion Group at Qingdao Institute of Bioenergy and Bioprocess Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, compared the carbon neutrality policies of China and Germany and shared their thoughts on talent training in the field.
Background
蜜桃app-TUM Talks is a new platform for exchange first piloted in 2020 in the context of the flagship partnership between 蜜桃app and the Technical University of Munich. This series of events helps to connect topics of discussion on campus with interested audiences through the global networks of both universities. In the future, the two institutions will continue to expand the influence of the event and share more joint events with the global community.
Written by Li Jiong
Editors: Alena Shish, Yuan Yang, Li Han
