The Göttingen Campus

The Göttingen location has come to be synonymous with high-quality international research. To ensure that this remains the case in the future, the University of Göttingen, including the University Medical Center, and seven non-university local research centres have joined forces to form the Göttingen Campus.

By drawing on their joint strengths and potential, campus partners have created a unique and stimulating environment that encourages diversity and an active exchange between professors, researchers and doctoral students.

Across the Göttingen Campus, there are currently more than 5,900 researchers working in nearly every scientific discipline.

Within the Göttingen Campus, the quality of teaching and training of early career scientists is assured and continuously improved by joint graduate programmes and inter-institute junior research groups.

Science on campus benefits from excellent joint third-party funded projects and 23 joint professorships between the University and non-university institutions.

Latest news

  • Funding for training and research in biological complexity

    EU funds international partnership for network to understand biological systems
    Complex biological systems are more than the sum of their parts – their properties emerge from the dynamic interaction of their components, such as molecules or cells. PhD researchers now have the opportunity to develop their own theoretical perspective on these systems as part of an international Doctoral Network. A European consortium initiated by researchers from the University of Göttingen, the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and…

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  • Molten Planets and Early Atmospheres in the Laboratory

    Funded by an ERC Starting Grant, MPS researcher Christian Renggli investigates a crucial phase of planetary evolution.
    In the early days of our Solar System, huge oceans of red-hot magma covered each of the four inner planets Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars. The heat required to melt the rock came from the decay of radioactive elements or from violent impacts. Gases escaped from the magma, creating the first atmospheres. Such magma oceans and their pristine atmospheres are likely to still exist today on young, still hot exoplanets outside our Solar System. The…

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  • Microscale mixing without turbulence

    In turbulent fluids, mixing of the components happens easily. However, in more viscous fluids such as those enclosed within cellular compartments, the intermixing of particles and molecules is much more challenging. As time also plays a role in such systems, the slow mixing by molecular movement is typically not sufficient and efficient stirring strategies are thus required to maintain functionality.

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  • Lemurs in Madagascar: Diversity through repeated evolutionary bursts

    The diversity of lemurs did not come about through a one-off “explosion in the number of species”, also known as radiation, but dynamically through several radiations and hybridization.
    Lemurs are among the best-known representatives of Madagascar's animal kingdom. They make up more than 15 percent of all primate species living today – even though the island covers less than one percent of the earth's land surface. An international research team involving the German Primate Center – Leibniz Institute for Primate Research (DPZ) has now shown: The species diversity of lemurs is not the result of a single large radiation, as is…

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  • A century for science

    The MPI-DS celebrates its 100th anniversary on July 16th
    One hundred years ago, the institute invited guests in the auditorium on Wilhelmsplatz to celebrate the opening of the institute. A century later, Eberhard Bodenschatz, managing director of the MPI-DS, welcomed over 300 guests back to the same venue. Among them was Falko Mohrs, Minister for Science and Culture of Lower Saxony. “We are proud to have you here as a Max Planck Institute,” said Mohrs in his speech. Patrick Cramer, President of the Max…

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