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Locations
Munich
Population: 1.330.440
Founded: 1158
Area: 310.43km²
Elevation: 519m
- capital city of Bavaria in Germany
- on the river Isar in the northern alpine foreland
- continental climate modified by the proximity of the alps
- Germany's third largest city
- candidate for the 2018 winter olympics
- URL: http://www.muenchen.de
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Garching
Population: 15.451
Founded: first time mentioned in 915 as Gouvirihhinga
Area: 28.61km²
Elevation: 481m
- became a city on 1990-09-14
- Garching lies 10km to the north of Munich
- the municipal district Garching-Hochbrück is an important industrial center for the whole region
- in the north of Garching is the TU Munich
- URL: http://www.garching.de
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TU Munich
Founded: 1868 as polytechnical school by king Ludwig II. of bavaria
No. of Students: ~21,600
No. of professors: 395
- the only technical university in bavaria
- three main locations: Munich, Garching and Freising/Weihenstephan
- integrated in the bavarian elite network
- 2006 TU Munich became one of the successsful universities in Germanies excellence initiative
- to 16 members of the TU Munich the Nobel Prize has already been awarded
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Students
Haissi Cui
Age: 23
Studies: biochemistry
Hobbies: iGEM is my hobby right now
Favorite food: I like Jiaozi. With sauerkraut filling!
Favorite game: maybe Scrabble. But I lose quite often.
Favorite sport: I like to swim
Favorite bar: Bens, Clemenstraße 7, 80803 Munich
Favorite film: Kill Bill
Favorite book: I like the newspaper "DIE ZEIT" a lot, does this count?
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Sina Straub
Age: 25
Studies: Mathematics
Hobbies: sports, photography, languages, travelling
Favorite food: something asian, maybe curry
Favorite bar: hmm, I don't like pubs (?!), rather some ice cream parlors ;-)
Favorite film: Le fabuleux destin d'Amelie Poulain (english title: Amelie)
Favorite book: "Wie der Hunger in die Welt kam" (orginal: "La faim dans le monde expliquée à mon fils"), Jean Ziegler
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Sebastian Gude
Age: 25
Studies: physics
Hobbies: sailing
Favorite food: curd cheese
Favorite bar: Atzinger, Schellingstr. 9, 80799 Munich
Favorite sport: to go jogging
Favorite film: Sin City
Favorite book: "Less than Zero"
Favorite country for holiday: Cuba
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Jan Schüürmann
Age: 24
Studies: biochemistry
Hobbies: soccer, chess, reading, skiing, badminton
Favorite food: mousse au chocolat
Favorite drink: apple juice with sparkling mineral water
Favorite game: Scrabble
Favorite film: Lord of War
Favorite book: "König der purpurnen Stadt" (Rebecca Gablé)
Favorite country for holiday: Italy
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Tobias Wauer
Age: 24
Studies: biochemistry
Hobbies: Travelling, loving history, discussing, sports
Favorite food: after some time staying in Oxford, I gonna miss my bavarian „white sausages“…
Favorite drink: a tasty Franziskaner „wheat beer“
Favorite bar: Gerti’s Schoppenstüberl, Fraunhoferstrasse 41, 80469 Munich
Favorite film: Everything from Stanley Kubrick is simply amazing!
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Tilman Flock
Age: ’’’23’’’
Studies: ’’’biotechnology’’’
Favorite food: what I like most is chinese or indian food
Hobbies: sports: indoor and rock climbing, badminton, volleyball, and of course, to fit the cliché, soccer!
Favorite game: Risk (the board game)
Favorite bar: Oktoberfest :)
Favorite book: Peter Atkins "marvelous stories about physical chemistry"
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Philipp Wortmann
Age: 23
Studies: Biochemistry
Favorite sports: Handball, Tennis
Favorite food: curly kale with bacon, sausages and sweet fried potatoes. A culinary specialty from northern Germany.
Favorite drink: pils
Favorite bar: X-cess – closed at the moment :(
Favorite country for holiday: it has to be warm and sunny without any other tourists
Favorite film: Fight club, Lammbock
Favorite book: "Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy"
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Florian Praetorius
Age: 25
Studies: biochemistry
Hobbies: Soccer, Computer Games
Favorite food: Pretzels and Laugengebäck and Geschnetzeltes with Spätzle maybe?
Favorite drink: Beer - especially Tannenzäpfle
Favorite game: maybe Scrabble? And Sudokus, Riddles with numbers, oh, I like all games!<br
Favorite book: Terry Pratchett Books and many other
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Andrea Meyer
Age: 29
Studies: physics
Favorite sports: volleyball, badminton
Favorite food: pasta
Favorite drink: wine
Favorite bar: Substanz, Ruppertstr. 28, 80337 Munich
Favorite country for holiday: Italy
Favorite book: "Born on a blue day: Inside the extraordinary mind of an autistic savant", Daniel Tammet
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Advisors
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