The Göttingen Campus

The Göttingen location has come to be synonymous with high-quality international research. To ensure that this remains the case in the future, the University of Göttingen, including the University Medical Center, and seven non-university local research centres have joined forces to form the Göttingen Campus.

By drawing on their joint strengths and potential, campus partners have created a unique and stimulating environment that encourages diversity and an active exchange between professors, researchers and doctoral students.

Across the Göttingen Campus, there are currently more than 5,900 researchers working in nearly every scientific discipline.

Within the Göttingen Campus, the quality of teaching and training of early career scientists is assured and continuously improved by joint graduate programmes and inter-institute junior research groups.

Science on campus benefits from excellent joint third-party funded projects and 23 joint professorships between the University and non-university institutions.

Latest news

  • Junior researcher investigates the restoration of vision

    Patrick Jendritza from the Salk Institute for Biological Studies, USA, has been awarded a junior fellow position at the Else Kröner Fresenius Center for Optogenetic Therapies (EKFZ-OT) at Göttingen University Medical Center (UMG). Since January 1, 2026, the young scientist has been leading the “Visual Circuits” research group, which is working on the development of light-controlled brain-computer interfaces for restoring vision. The research…

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  • Kees de Jager Prize for Theodosios Chatzistergos

    Re-examining and improving a 33-year-old publication, the MPS researcher confirms that the Sun does not account for the increase in Earth’s temperature over the past century.
    How do fluctuations in the Sun's brightness affect the climate on Earth? And what role does our star play in current climate change? To answer these questions, a look into our star’s past is necessary. In this endeavor, the most meaningful parameter is the total solar irradiance. It indicates how much radiation from the Sun in all wavelengths reaches Earth’s atmosphere. The total solar irradiance can only be measured directly with the necessary…

    Awards

  • Faster, clearer, deeper 3D imaging

    Research team optimises microscope with innovative technology to benefit research and medicine
    Light sheet microscopy produces impressive 3D images of tissue and entire organs, such as the delicate cochlea in the inner ear or the complex brain of a mouse. A thin layer of light, the light sheet, moves through the sample and generates a three-dimensional image layer by layer. However, larger samples create problems for conventional microscopes: the process is slow and the images blurred. This led researchers in Göttingen to develop a…

    MBExC

  • How coordination emerges during real-time social interaction

    New study from the Cognition of Interaction Collaborative Research Consortium elucidates continuous dynamics of cooperation and competition
    When people reach for the same object, walk through a narrow doorway, forage for food, or work together on a shared task, they continuously negotiate—often without noticing—how much to cooperate or compete. Unlike classical laboratory games that force players to choose between fixed options in advance, real-life interactions unfold dynamically, with movement timing and subtle cues shaping social behavior from one moment to the next. A…

    DPZ

  • Controlling chemical reactions in enzymes

    “Investigating how enzymes, nature’s highly efficient catalysts, utilize electric fields to control chemical reactions rapidly, selectively, and under mild conditions was our goal”, explains project spokesperson Ricardo Mata from the University of Göttingen. While chemical synthetic processes often require extreme temperatures or pressures, enzymes work efficiently and sustainably in aqueous solutions at body temperature. The long-term goal of…

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