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

  • Solar Prominences: Supply Mechanisms in the Sun’s Corona

    Large amounts of matter need to be lifted into the solar atmosphere to create and sustain the massive plasma structures. New calculations reveal how this is possible.
    At more than one million degrees, the Sun’s atmosphere, the corona, is incredibly hot. However, not everywhere. Time and again, huge structures of significantly cooler solar plasma - about 10,000 degrees - appear within the corona. These structures are known as prominences. They span up to several thousand kilometers and often resemble flickering flames that can take on a wide variety of shapes. Despite their delicate appearance, they are massive…

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  • Award for wood scientist

    Professor Holger Militz at Göttingen University receives Marcus Wallenberg Prize
    Professor Holger Militz at the University of Göttingen has been awarded the 2026 Marcus Wallenberg Prize. This honour, from the Marcus Wallenberg Foundation for International Scientific Collaboration, recognises Militz for his ground-breaking contributions to the research and industrial application of wood modification technologies. Considered the world’s most prestigious research award in this area, it recognizes scientific achievements which…

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  • More Immune Protection, Less Dominance: A New Phase in the Corona-Development?

    Over several years, SARS-CoV-2 produced new variants that spread rapidly worldwide and triggered waves of COVID-19 infections. This pattern may now be undergoing a lasting change.
    The WHO declared the global health emergency associated with the COVID-19 pandemic to be over in 2023, as most individuals had developed immune protection against the virus through vaccination and/or infection. However, even after 2023, the virus has continued to generate new variants that evade antibody responses and spread globally. This pattern may now be changing in a sustained way. Infection researchers at the German Primate Center – Leibniz…

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  • Why handedness helps in navigating

    Filamentous cyanobacteria exhibit a unique navigation strategy due to their chiral gliding
    Cyanobacteria are among the most significant life forms in the history of our planet. As one of the first organisms to produce oxygen through photosynthesis, they shaped the early Earth and created the atmosphere in which complex life could develop. A new study shows that filamentous cyanobacteria also developed a navigation mechanism to control their movement when gliding across surfaces. The bacterial filaments typically rotate clockwise…

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  • The evolution of the brain

    Using AI to track the evolution of genetic control elements in the cerebellum
    An international research team led by Henrik Kaessmann from Heidelberg University and Stein Aerts from Leuven University mapped the activity of genetic control elements in individual cells of the developing cerebellum of four primate species, mice, and marsupials. Based on this, advanced AI models were developed and validated to predict the activity of these control elements based solely on their DNA sequence. Genetic control elements determine…

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