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

  • Sunrise III launches successfully

    The balloon-borne solar observatory is now flying westwards along the Arctic Circle. From the stratosphere, it has an incomparable view of the Sun.
    The balloon-borne solar observatory Sunrise III has embarked on its research flight: at 6.24 AM (CEST) this morning, the observatory lifted off safely from Esrange Space Center near the small town of Kiruna in northern Sweden. Carried by a giant helium balloon, the stratospheric flight of several days now leads westwards along the Arctic Circle across the Atlantic to Canada. During the journey, Sunrise III will peer into a layer of the Sun that…

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  • DLR and Rolls-Royce Deutschland develop more climate-compatible aircraft engines

    Putting research findings into practice
    The German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR) has made significant progress in developing turbines for efficient and climate-compatible aircraft engines in collaboration with Rolls-Royce Deutschland. Researchers have deployed a trick carried over from many modern aircraft wings: attaching 'winglets' to the tips of the turbine blades to increase engine efficiency. Winglets and other technologies are already being…

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  • HIV research: viral origin influences infectivity

    Infection biologists show that HI viruses from different host cells vary in their infectivity and resistance
    A research team led by Stefan Pöhlmann from the German Primate Center (DPZ) and Christina Karsten from the University of Duisburg-Essen has discovered that the type of cells in which a virus originates can influence its infectivity. The cells of origin also influence resistance to antibodies and lectins, sugar-binding proteins with potential therapeutic benefits. In cell culture experiments with the SI virus – a model virus for HIV – the team has…

    DPZ

  • Enormous diversity from evolutionary explosion of flowering plants

    International team use 1.8 billion letters of genetic code to build ground-breaking tree of life
    An international study involving researchers from the University of Göttingen investigated the evolution of flowering plants in extraordinary detail using advanced DNA sequencing technology. The researchers discovered that there was an evolutionary explosive development of flowering plants producing enormous diversity. Over 130 million years ago, this explosion in diversity gave rise to more than 80 per cent of the major lineages of flowering…

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  • How SARS-CoV-2 affects our immune system

    Researchers at the German Primate Center show how the virus alters the function of natural killer cells
    After more than three years of pandemic with around 20 million deaths, it is common knowledge that COVID-19 is an insidious disease. The causing virus, SARS-CoV-2, literally kept the world on tenterhooks for a long time. It mainly infects the lung cells and triggers a wide range of symptoms with an often uncertain course of the disease. Thanks to vaccination, the pandemic is largely over, but there are still unanswered questions, such as what the…

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