Thomas F. Hofmann

At-a-Glance

President of the Technical University of Munich since 2019.
Served as Executive Vice President for Research and Innovation at the Technical University of Munich from 2009 to 2019.
Holds a PhD from the Technical University of Munich (1995) and is a German food chemist.
Held the Chair of Food Chemistry and Molecular Sensory Science at TUM and was a Professor at the University of Münster.
Member of the Board of Trustees for the Max Planck Institute for Biological Intelligence and the Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry.

Biography

Thomas F. Hofmann, born in 1968, is a German food chemist and academic administrator. Since 2019, he has served as the President of the Technical University of Munich (TUM). He earned his PhD from the Technical University of Munich in 1995, following his studies in food chemistry at the University of Erlangen–Nuremberg.

Hofmann's academic career includes teaching as a Privatdozent for Food Chemistry at the Technical University of Munich until 2002.