The exclusive opportunity to apply for the one year TUM University Foundation Fellowship is given to participants of the "Research Opportunities Week" (ROW). Successful applicants receive a one-year funding by TUM and are integrated into a TUM institution of their research field. In this way, the TUM offers scholarship holders sufficient freedom to sharpen their research profile and to initiate new interdisciplinary research projects together with professors.
Fellow Anna-Maria Meister is a historian and theorist working in the intersection of architecture's histories and the histories of science and technology. Her work focuses on the production and dissemination of norms and normed objects as social desires in German modern architecture. Meister received a joint PhD degree in the History and Theory of Architecture and the Council of the Humanities from Princeton University, and holds degrees in architecture from Columbia University, New York, and the TU Munich. She was a fellow at the Max-Planck Institute for History of Science, Berlin, and her work has been supported by grants and fellowships from the Berlin Program for Advanced German and European Studies, DAAD, and Columbia University, among others. Her writing has been published in Harvard Design Magazine, Volume, Uncube, Baumeister, Arch+ and as book chapter in Architecture and the Paradox of Dissidence (Routledge, 2013). Her research was featured at the Lisbon Triennale 2013 and the 14th Venice Architecture Biennale 2014.