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.
Network of Silk Roads
The historian Sitta von Reden explores trade and commerce in antiquity
Secret Recipe in the Genome
Asifa Akhtar demonstrates how epigenetics works: starting from the X chromosome of fruit flies, her results apply to humans as wells
Who ya gonna call?
Anna Lux has studied how public media presented Hans Bender and the highly-controversial subject of parapsychology
Where the Earth Shook and Rumbled
Thomas Kenkmann, a geologist from the University of Freiburg, describes all known craters on Earth in a new atlas
A Kaleidoscopic View of Corona
In a new series of video podcasts Freiburg researchers offer their perspectives on the effects of the pandemic
Sustainability: From Pioneer to Paradigm
Rainer Grießhammer is aiming to make development of new technologies more sustainable from the start
The freedom to experiment
A volume of essays offers a diverse look at research in the national park Northern Black Forest
A Kaleidoscopic View of Corona
In a new series of video podcasts Freiburg researchers offer their perspectives on the effects of the pandemic
Children of the Nuclear Disaster
After the reactor meltdown in Chernobyl, an international network formed to help the peo-ple who were affected. It was a chance to come together during the Cold War
The Power of Abbesses
Freiburg historians produce a historical anthology on all of Baden's abbeys in the medieval period