University of Freiburg

Esoteric attitudes – especially with regard to complementary and alternative medicine – have an influence on the willingness to be vaccinated. Dr. Sebastian Jäckle and Dr. James K. Timmis, both from the Department of Political Science…

Controlling prostheses with thoughts or making letters appear on a screen: neuroimplants are brain-computer interfaces – the tiny electrodes can read brain activity and thus help people with paralysis and neurological disorders, for…

SARS-CoV-2 rapid tests or pregnancy tests work on a similar principle. Depending on whether a specific protein or hormone is present, the test line changes the colour. In both cases, a lateral flow assay is used. This test works by…

The Nature Index 2024 Artificial Intelligence gauges the contribution of research institutions in the field of artificial intelligence on the basis of the contributions their researchers made to corresponding publications. Based…

The University of Freiburg marked the retirement of Prof. Dr. Dr. Andreas Barner from his post as the longest-ever serving University Council chair on 30 September 2024, after nine years and three terms of office. ‘With his…

The THE World University Rankings are based on 18 indicators from five areas: teaching, research environment, research quality, industry and international outlook. To calculate the rankings, statistical data submitted by the…

The University of Freiburg is putting four applications forward for the final round of the Clusters of Excellence funding line in the Excellence Strategy of the German federal and state governments. The two Cluster of Excellence…

The second QS World University Rankings: Europe compiled by the British company Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) has been published. This year, the University of Freiburg took 9th place among the 53 German universities. Ranked against all of…

The University of Freiburg is establishing a new tenure track professorship in Earth and Planetary Geodynamics at the Faculty of Environment and Natural Resources, made possible by a 1.71 million euro grant from the Volkswagen Foundation.…

A team of scientists led by Prof. Dr Ilka Diester, Professor of Optophysiology and spokesperson of the BrainLinks-BrainTools research centre at the University of Freiburg, has developed a formal description of internal world models and…