The Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (FRIAS) is the University of Freiburg’s research college. It provides time, space, and funding for high-level research. FRIAS is dedicated to interdisciplinary research across a wide variety of topics and welcomes scholars from all countries and disciplines.
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Founded in 2007, FRIAS is a central academic institution of the University of Freiburg, deeply integrated into the university’s structure. FRIAS fosters connections between the University of Freiburg and the global academic community, encouraging partnerships and research collaborations that enhance the university’s international presence. With its funding programmes, FRIAS provides a space and forum for scholars from diverse fields to research and collaborate, promoting new perspectives on critical scientific and societal challenges.
FRIAS offers time-limited research residencies in Freiburg, welcoming both established researchers and promising early-career scholars (with a minimum of a completed PhD) from all disciplines, based in Freiburg, Europe, and beyond. To support collaborative initiatives, FRIAS also funds group research projects that bring together interdisciplinary teams, encouraging innovative approaches to research topics and questions across all fields.
Research at FRIAS is driven by funding programmes and is conducted on a temporary basis. Unrestricted by fixed themes or specific research fields, FRIAS is open to ideas from all academic disciplines. At its core are the individual research projects of FRIAS fellows, complemented by collaborative research group projects. Most recently, FRIAS launched the Freiburg Postdoctoral Academy, which focuses on supporting early-career researchers and is closely integrated with the University of Freiburg’s primary research areas.
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Elisabeth Piller (Internal Fellow 2024/25) has been honoured with the Synergy Grant by the European Research Council (ERC). Piller is investigating how the scarcity of resources affected the period during both World Wars.
Philipp Höfele (YAS Fellow 2024/27) has published a special issue on the topic “Societal implications of bioinspired technologies” in the journal “Technology in Society”, together with researchers from the University of Freiburg’s livMatS Cluster of Excellence.
Karsten Schubert (Junior Fellow 2022/23) has published a new book titled Lob der Identitätspolitik addressing the recurring critique that identity politics, despite its anti-discrimination aims, risks leading democracy into the confines of tribalism.
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