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Locations
Munich
| Population: | 1.330.440
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| Founded: | 1158
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| Area: | 310.43km²
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| Elevation: | 519m
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- 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
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| Founded: | first time mentioned in 915 as Gouvirihhinga
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| Area: | 28.61km²
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| Elevation: | 481m
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- 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
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| No. of Students: | ~21,600
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| No. of professors: | 395
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- 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
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| Studies: | biochemistry
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| Hobbies: | iGEM is my hobby right now
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| Favorite food: | I like Jiaozi. With sauerkraut filling!
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| Favorite game: | maybe Scrabble. But I lose quite often.
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| Favorite sport: | I like to swim
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| Favorite bar: | Bens, Clemenstraße 7, 80803 Munich
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| Favorite film: | Kill Bill
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| Favorite book: | I like the newspaper "DIE ZEIT".
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Christoph Hartlmüller
| Age: | 24
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| Studies: | biochemistry
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| Hobbies: | skiing, playing soccer with friends or do some computer stuff
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| Favorite food: | every bavarian food from "Hendl" to "Schweinshaxn"
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| Favorite drink: | a bavarian beer, called "Augustiner"
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| Favorite country for holidays: | the philipines and vietnam
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| Favorite game: | "Nobody is perfect"
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| Hobbies: | Sailing
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| Favorite food: | Curd Cheese
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| Favorite bar: | Aumeister
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| Favorite sport: | Jogging
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| Favorite film: | Sin City
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| Favorite book: | "Less than Zero" by Bret Easton Ellis
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Jan Schüürmann
| Age: | 24
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| Studies: | biochemistry
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| Hobbies: | soccer, chess, reading, skiing, badminton
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| Favorite food: | mousse au chocolat
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| Favorite drink: | apple juice with sparkling water
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| Favorite game: | Scrabble
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| Favorite film: | Lord of War
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| Favorite book: | "König der purpurnen Stadt" (Rebecca Gablé)
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| Favorite country for holiday: | Italy
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Tobias Wauer
| Age: | 24
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| Studies: | biochemistry
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| Hobbies: | Travelling, loving history, discussing, sports
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| Favorite food: | after some time staying in Oxford, I gonna miss my bavarian „white sausages“…
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| Favorite drink: | a tasty Franziskaner „wheat beer“
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| Favorite bar: | Gerti’s Schoppenstüberl, Fraunhoferstrasse 41, 80469 Munich
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| Favorite film: | Everything from Stanley Kubrick is simply amazing!
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Tilman Flock
| Age: | 23
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| Studies: | biotechnology
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| Favorite food: | what I like most is chinese or indian food
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| Hobbies: | climbing, badminton, volleyball, and of course, to fit the cliché, soccer!
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| Favorite game: | Risk (the board game)
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| Favorite bar: | Oktoberfest :)
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| Favorite book: | Peter Atkins "marvelous stories about physical chemistry"
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Philipp Wortmann
| Age: | 23
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| Studies: | biochemistry
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| Favorite sports: | handball, tennis
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| Favorite food: | curly kale with bacon, sausages and sweet fried potatoes.
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| Favorite drink: | pils
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| Favorite bar: | X-cess – closed at the moment :(
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| Favorite country for holiday: | it has to be warm and sunny without any other tourists
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| Favorite film: | Fight club, Lammbock
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| Favorite book: | "Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy"
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Florian Praetorius
| Age: | 25
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| Studies: | biochemistry
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| Hobbies: | Soccer, Computer Games
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| Favorite food: | Pretzels and Laugengebäck and Geschnetzeltes with Spätzle maybe?
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| Favorite drink: | Beer - especially Tannenzäpfle
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| Favorite game: | maybe Scrabble? And Sudokus, Riddles with numbers, oh, I like all games!
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| Favorite book: | Terry Pratchett Books and many other
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E. coli
| Age: | 0.083
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| Studies: | Protein expression science
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| Favorite sports: | Swimming in LB
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| Favorite food: | LB
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| Favorite drink: | LB
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| Favorite country for holiday: | large intestine
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| Favorite game: | Pretending to be a computer using bioLOGICS
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Instructors
Friedrich Simmel
| Age: | 40
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| Occupation: | Full Professor, Biophysics
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| Hobbies: | science
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| Favorite food: | bavarian food
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| Favorite bar: | anything without dance music
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| Favorite film: | Blade Runner
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| Favorite book: | by Dostojewskij, Murakami, Neal Stephenson
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Sina Straub
| Age: | 25
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| Current position: | PhD-student in mathematics
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| Hobbies: | sports, photography, languages, travelling
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| Favorite food: | something asian, maybe curry
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| Favorite film: | Le fabuleux destin d'Amelie Poulain (english title: Amelie)
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| 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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Andrea Meyer
| Age: | 29
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| Current position: | PhD-student in biophysics
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| Favorite sports: | volleyball, badminton in the summer, skiing in the winter
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| Favorite food: | pasta
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| Favorite drink: | against the cliche of germans: wine
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| Favorite bar: | Substanz, Ruppertstr. 28, 80337 Munich
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| Favorite country for holiday: | Italy
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| Favorite book: | "Born on a blue day: Inside the extraordinary mind of an autistic savant", Daniel Tammet
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