Welcome!

Our mission: Connecting highly qualified international early career researchers to Freiburg scientists!

The Freiburg Rising Stars Academy is your gateway to excellence to the University of Freiburg. We invite early career researchers from a variety
of disciplines and research fields to apply as Rising Stars. Partner institutions and Principal Investigators serving as hosts come from all
parts of the university, thus making the academy a true gateway to the University of Freiburg.

Areas of inquiry have included Materials Science, Chemistry, Biology, Genetics, Informatics, Physics, Engineering, Microscopy, Medicine, Theology, Economics, Forestry and many other fields. These topics reflect the University of Freiburg’s research strengths and investment in interdisciplinary collaboration on the highest levels as well as its commitment to advancing and internationalizing academic careers.

This is what awaits our Rising Stars:

• International exchange with an interdisciplinary peer group
• Mentoring by established and leading researchers in a variety of fields
• Recruitment opportunities for early career researchers
• Networking with top-level collaborative research groups and Clusters of Excellence
• Sharing of ideas and development of new research projects within a support structure

The Rising Stars will gain access to the Freiburg research ecosystem and, ideally lay the foundation for future opportunities to collaborate, research and – perhaps – build their careers in Freiburg. Should a Rising Star be more advanced in his or her career, a Group Leader or even Tenure Track Position could be awaiting them in Freiburg.

Please note: Admission to the Freiburg Rising Stars Academy does not automatically lead to employment at the University of Freiburg. The Freiburg Rising Star Academy is not a PhD programme and does not automatically provide PhD or PostDoc positions.

Connecting with the Vibrant Research Community of Freiburg

Scientifically the FRSA draws on excellent research collaborations and institutes at the University of Freiburg as well as the research institutes within the city. Changing in each cohort, Host-PIs of the Rising Stars Academy have hailed from:

• ACT – Africa Centre for Transregional Research
• Centre for Biological Signalling Studies (BIOSS)
• Cluster of Excellence: CIBSS – Centre for Integrative Biological Signalling Studies
• Cluster of Excellence: livMatS – Living, Adaptive and Enerrgy-autonomous Materials Systems
• BrainLinks-BrainTools / Intelligent Machine-Brain Interfacing Technology (IMBIT)
• Freiburg Institute for Basic Income Studies (FRIBIS)
• Future Forests
• LZN / Sustainability Center Freiburg

In addition to its academic and scientific partners, the Academy has several supports and partners at the University, in the city and even on the state level:

• Young Academy for Sustainability at the FRIAS
• Baden-Württemberg International
• FWTM Freiburg

Without our regional partners and funders, the Freiburg Rising Stars Academy would not be what it is, we would therefore like to thank the neue universitätsstiftung freiburg for their particular support.