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

  • How spontaneous asymmetry contributes to life

    Chemical microreactors create a new class of intelligent active matter systems
    In non-reciprocal active matter, agents act differently on each other, seemingly in violation of Newton’s Third Law. This principle can result in various active matter traits, such as and self-propulsion, molecular regulation, and collective motion. A new model now describes how such non-reciprocal interactions can emerge spontaneously between chemically active vesicles. The physicists from the Department of Living Matter Physics at the Max…

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  • ExoMars Mission: Training Run in the Desert

    Over the course of eight days, Mars rover Charlie explored Spain’s Desierto de Tabernas allowing the scientific and technical team at the control centre to practise for a real-world scenario.
    The Andalusian Desierto de Tabernas is a bizarre landscape of impassable sand and scree, steep slopes and dried-up riverbeds. As the only desert on the European mainland, the region provided a striking backdrop for the late 1980s Indiana Jones films and is considered by researchers to be particularly Mars-like: the perfect location for a Mars mission field test. In preparation for operating ESA’s Rosalind Franklin rover on Mars from 2030 onwards,…

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  • Trees: on your marks, get set, grow!

    Göttingen University researchers show size matters from the start for beech seedlings
    The fight for survival in the forest is fierce: light, water and nutrients are all limited. This is particularly true in “mast years” – times when trees and shrubs produce an unusually large crop of fruits, nuts, or seeds. Then the race for growth is really on. But can differences in height between trees in their first year of life make a difference to their future, even if these differences are just one or two centimetres? Researchers at the …

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  • 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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