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

  • ERC Advanced Grant for Laurent Gizon

    The project INSIDE will use newly discovered solar oscillations to reveal the Sun's hidden magnetic field and uncover how the solar dynamo works.
    The European Research Council (ERC) has awarded Prof. Dr. Laurent Gizon of the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research (MPS) and the Faculty of Physics at the University of Göttingen one of its prestigious ERC Advanced Grants. Over the next five years, the funding of 2.5 million euros will support the project INSIDE ("Mapping Magnetic Fields in the Solar Interior"), which seeks to answer one of the most important unresolved questions in…

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  • Vibrant environments: sonic agency in the Anthropocene

    Göttingen University Musicologist awarded ERC Advanced Grant of 2.6 million euros for VibE
    Birgit Abels, Professor of Cultural Musicology at the University of Göttingen, has been awarded an Advanced Grant by the European Research Council (ERC). The ERC has funded her project “Vibrant Environmentality: Sonic Agentivity in the Anthropocene” (VibE) with around 2.6 million euros over a period of five years. This award will allow Abels and her team to investigate how people co-create their world through interaction with sound and how making…

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  • Award for junior scientist from Göttingen

    Alexander Rotsch has been awarded the Otto Hahn Medal by the Max Planck Society (MPS) for outstanding achievements in his dissertation. The MPS presented him with the medal at its annual meeting on June 17 in Frankfurt am Main.
    For his doctoral thesis, Alexander Rotsch investigated a molecular biological “criminal case”: the theft of mRNA caps by influenza viruses. Caps mark mRNAs as cell-derived molecules and thus as harmless. If a cap is missing, the immune system recognizes the mRNA as foreign and potentially harmful – and triggers an antiviral response that degrades the RNA. The caps are therefore essential for the protection of mRNA molecules. To camouflage itself…

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  • Specialists at work – Nerve cells adapt their structure and function to their task

    Study sheds new light on the organization of nerve cells. It was conducted using common marmosets from the DPZ.
    Humans and other primates possess a highly developed and hierarchically organized visual processing system in the brain. The conscious processing of visual information begins in the primary visual cortex. Here, features such as edges, lines, motion, and color are detected and ultimately relayed to higher-level areas such as the lateral prefrontal cortex. This brain region plays a key role in working memory, which is also essential for processing…

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  • Attraction may cause running off

    Chemical condensates show non-reciprocal interactions and chasing also when only attraction is present
    Inside cells, certain functions are fulfilled by locally adjusting the molecular composition. This condensation of material results in the formation of dense droplets which can re-arrange dynamically. For this, particularly the interaction between such dense regions determines the shaping of condensates. Scientists from the department of Living Matter Physics at the MPI-DS recently developed a model that can describe such phase separation…

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