invent & establish
Patents, licenses, startups: University of Freiburg researchers don't conduct research for the sake of accumulating knowledge alone; they also apply their findings and stimulate economic development – their ideas lead to innovative products and jobs in pioneering new fields.
A breath of fresh information
Can Dincer has developed a method for detecting molecules that are markers of disease in exhaled breath
Once more in the top 100
The University of Freiburg is no. 82 in Reuter’s international Most Innovative University Ranking 2019
Buckling as a technical revolution
A planned Freiburg startup has improved micropumps and linked them up with microvalves
Learning Through Play
With a new version of the classic game Jenga, children can learn about the conductivity of various materials
Saving lives and money
SpinDiag’s technology detects antibiotic resistance in just 30 minutes - and gives germs less time to spread
Power from next door’s garden
Digitization is upending the energy market; new software enables the electricity produced in thousands of small systems to be pooled into one big virtual power plant
Illuminating Cells, Instead of Cooking Them
The startup opto biolabs, a spinoff from the University of Freiburg, is taking optogenetics to the next level
