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

  • Eight Years of Cutting-Edge Research on the Heart and Brain — MBExC Continues to Make an Impact

    With the international symposium “Bioimaging across scales”, the Göttingen Cluster of Excellence Multiscale Bioimaging (MBExC) reflected on eight years of interdisciplinary cutting-edge research.
    With the international symposium “Bioimaging across scales”, the Göttingen Cluster of Excellence Multiscale Bioimaging (MBExC) reflected on eight years of interdisciplinary cutting-edge research. Groundbreaking imaging technologies were developed, molecular structures unveiled, and new insights into the function of the heart and brain achieved. Although the MBExC funding concludes at the end of 2027, the research infrastructure and scientific…

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  • Smooth Instead of Folded—Brain Development in Primates

    Researchers at the German Primate Center identify cellular processes that, using common marmosets as an example, demonstrate how differently brains develop
    Most primate species have a relatively large brain with a surface marked by pronounced bulges and furrows. This is not the case with common marmosets (Callithrix jacchus). The brains of these small monkeys are smooth and virtually unfolded. Researchers at the German Primate Center (DPZ) —the Leibniz Institute for Primate Research in Göttingen have investigated, in a recent study, which cellular processes during embryonic development cause the…

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  • Delaying cherry blossom to reduce frost damage

    Research team led by Göttingen University studies treatment to postpone flowering in sweet cherry
    Climate change is causing many fruit trees to flower earlier, increasing their exposure to damaging late spring frosts. A study led by the University of Göttingen shows that the plant growth regulator ethephon can delay flowering in Kordia – a variety of sweet cherry – potentially protecting blossoms and developing fruitlets from frost. The treatment did not significantly delay flowering in a second sweet cherry or two apple varieties,…

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  • 4,780 Rocks from Space

    The Max Planck Society’s meteorite collection has found a new home at the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research (MPS) in Göttingen.
    The new collection at the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research comprises 4,780 samples from more than 1,932 meteorites. As a research collection, it offers an extraordinary range of different meteorite classes and ranks among the most extensive and diverse in the world. The samples include large slices of iron meteorites weighing hundreds of kilograms, as well as highly porous specks barely a millimeter in size; unimposing chunks as…

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  • How nonreciprocity can influence collective motion

    Collective motion is commonly observed in nature, such as in groups of animals or also crowds of people. If all individuals follow exactly the same rules for movement, collective motion is quite robust. Yet, real collectives are rarely made of identical agents, as the individual behaviours can be different in strength or even intention. Scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization (MPI-DS) investigated how such…

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