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

  • 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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  • Restoring the web of life in farmland

    MSCA fellowship funds METAGROLAND project on optimising environmental farming schemes
    Dr Elena Velado-Alonso at the University of Göttingen has been awarded a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Postdoctoral Fellowship to launch “METAGROLAND: Understanding metacommunity dynamics through plant–pollinator interactions in agroecosystems to improve the efficiency of agri-environmental schemes.” Agri-environmental schemes (AES) are government-funded schemes set up to help farmers manage their land in an environmentally friendly way.…

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  • Magnetic Avalanche on the Sun

    At the end of 2024, ESA’s Solar Orbiter was lucky to witness a strong solar flare – and observed the events leading up to this firework with unprecedented precision.
    When Solar Orbiter looked at the Sun on September 30, the space probe captured a spectacular sight: our star hurled radiation and particles into space in a violent eruption. The observation conditions could not have been better. On that very day, ESA’s space probe had reached the point in its elliptical orbit closest to the Sun. Approximately 45 million kilometers—about a third of the distance between the Sun and Earth—separated it from the…

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  • Junior researcher investigates the restoration of vision

    Patrick Jendritza from the Salk Institute for Biological Studies, USA, has been awarded a junior fellow position at the Else Kröner Fresenius Center for Optogenetic Therapies (EKFZ-OT) at Göttingen University Medical Center (UMG). Since January 1, 2026, the young scientist has been leading the “Visual Circuits” research group, which is working on the development of light-controlled brain-computer interfaces for restoring vision. The research…

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  • Kees de Jager Prize for Theodosios Chatzistergos

    Re-examining and improving a 33-year-old publication, the MPS researcher confirms that the Sun does not account for the increase in Earth’s temperature over the past century.
    How do fluctuations in the Sun's brightness affect the climate on Earth? And what role does our star play in current climate change? To answer these questions, a look into our star’s past is necessary. In this endeavor, the most meaningful parameter is the total solar irradiance. It indicates how much radiation from the Sun in all wavelengths reaches Earth’s atmosphere. The total solar irradiance can only be measured directly with the necessary…

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