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Nine Freiburg scientists have been named Highly Cited Researchers 2025

Nine scientists from the University of Freiburg have been named Highly Cited Researchers 2025 in the ranking of the same name. They are among the authors who have been cited most frequently worldwide in their fields of research over the past eleven years.

Top funding for research on memory traces

Freiburg neuroscientist Prof. Dr. Marlene Bartos has been awarded a Reinhart Koselleck Project Grant for particularly innovative research projects worth €1.25 million.

Career paths in science in Freiburg: permanent positions alongside professorships

The University of Freiburg aims to make academic career paths sustainable and create permanent career options beyond the professorship. On 22 October 2025, the Senate passed a statement of voluntary commitment that shows how this can be realized at our University.

Four ERC Synergy Grants for University of Freiburg Researchers

University of Freiburg researchers are involved in four funded projects. The University will receive a total of more than nine million euros. The recipients of the grants are studying highly efficient solar cells, self-cleaning in body cells, the combination of diagnostics and therapy for cancer, and early medieval European communities.

Sustainable chemistry with the help of Artificial Intelligence

Freiburg-based chemist Dr Tobias Schnitzer is receiving €1.5 million from the Vector Foundation to develop sustainable amidation reactions. These reactions do not require toxic reagents and are highly energy-efficient.

Newly appointed: Prof. Dr. Jacqueline Klooster

Jacqueline Klooster has been Professor of Greek Studies at the Department of Greek and Latin Philology at the University of Freiburg since October 2025. In this interview, she explains why ancient texts are both foreign and familiar to us, what we can learn from them, how important openness and careful reading are.

Artificial Intelligence – Rethinking what thinking is

For Tobias Rees, AI represents a seismic shift for Europe’s philosophical project. However, this disruption also presents an opportunity to rethink thinking, according to a central thesis of his lecture at the FRIAS. Rector Krieglstein sees this as a mandate for the university to help shape this disruption.