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Research Structures

The “heart” of the University of Freiburg beats in its faculties and research centers. They engage in both teaching and research.

However, research also takes place at the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (FRIAS), the University of Freiburg’s international research center.

The research infrastructures were extensively expanded as core facilities. Key research areas and clusters of excellence benefit from new research buildings and resource centers.

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Research at the Faculties

Das Siegel der Universität Freiburg

With its eleven faculties, around 240 degree programs, 440 full professorships and 32 junior professorships, the University of Freiburg has a broad, interdisciplinary spectrum with high-quality research and teaching.

Research Infrastructures

State-of-the-art technologies and their further development are of fundamental significance for top-level research. The University of Freiburg has thus given high priority to a continuous development of research infrastructures in the past years. In particular, this includes the establishment of core facilities designed to guarantee professional and efficient operations.

The University of Freiburg differentiates between three categories of facilities:

Major Instrumentation Database
Research Infrastructures of the Faculty of Medicine

Central Facility

  • Central Data Facility (under development)
    The Central Data Facility (CDF) is a central service and advice centre for all members of the University of Freiburg for the handling of research data.
    The facility
    • coordinates the University’s existing structures and services (particularly those of University IT Services and the University Library);
    • works across disciplinary boundaries;
    • promotes the use of modern approaches to data analysis;
    • supports the University’s connection with national and international projects, structures, and services, such as the German Network for Bioinformatics Infrastructure (de.NBI), the National Research Data Infrastructure (NFDI), or the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC).

Core Facility

Core facilities provide state-of-the-art large-scale research equipment for a large cross-faculty group of users. Core facilities are operated by qualified staff and offer users comprehensive services (e.g., analyses, methodology development, training courses, and access to equipment). They have their own user regulations and are generally located at a research centre.

Shared Facility

Shared facilities are operated by individual researchers or groups of researchers to guarantee access to state-of-the-art large-scale research equipment for a larger group of users. Shared facilities have their own user regulations and are generally located at a faculty.

Faculty of Biology:

Faculty of Chemistry and Pharmacy:

Faculty of Economics and Behavioural Sciences:

Faculty of Engineering:

Research Infrastructure Networks

The University of Freiburg also promotes the establishment of research infrastructure networks to support researchers in their work. The networks are not limited to Freiburg but also operate nationally and internationally:

International networks:

National Networks:

University-internal networks: