research & discover
University of Freiburg researchers transcend the traditional boundaries between the disciplines, working together to advance scientific knowledge and work out solutions to the great challenges of the future.
Freedom for research
How the law professor Silja Vöneky experiences the interdisciplinary collaboration at the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies
Control Instead of Catastrophe
There were devastating fires in every corner of the world in 2018 – Johann Georg Goldammer advises politicians worldwide on fire management
Controversial Helpers
What formalities need to be observed in interactions between humans and machines?
Green revolution for grains
Cell biologist Thomas Ott aims to make food supplies securer and farming more sustainable
A tuft of myrrh between the breasts
The ways in which the Song of Songs influenced and continues to inspire Jewish love literature over the centuries to this day
A Concert of Many Voices
Katharina Brizić talks about what society can learn from Nadia Murad receiving the Nobel Peace Prize
Braking and Accelerating
Maja Köhn uses biochemical tools to investigate how certain enzymes behave when the immune system meets invaders
Curving, not straight
The original course of the Rhine could remedy many environmental problems – can the waterway return to nature?
An exact date of burial?
Why researchers doubt the widely-accepted date of the destruction of Pompei
A Model for the Arab World
Islamic Studies researcher Simon Wolfgang Fuchs studies how the Iranian Revolution influenced other Muslim countries in the 1970s