University of Freiburg

Prof. Dr. Laura Hartmann is becoming Professor of Macromolecular Chemistry at the University of Freiburg from March 1, 2023. A focus of her professorship will be on researching active soft materials, in particular those known as…

Strong electric fields can be used to create pores in biomembranes. The method is known as electroporation. Inducing such defects in membranes in a targeted manner is an important technique in medicine and biotechnology, but also in the…

Stadiums and other sport arenas are not merely functional spaces for athletic competitions – they are also spaces in which athletes and spectators interact, in which emotions, experiences, values, and ideas circulate. These dimensions are…

Steroid hormones, to which belong sex hormones like estrogen or testosterone, are important signaling molecules and are responsible among other things for controlling female and male phenotypic sex differentiation. They act by binding to…

A stem cell donation is a promising therapy for many leukemia patients. But the therapy has risks: It is not uncommon for leukemia to return, and in about half of those treated, the transferred immune cells attack the recipient’s tissue.…

Dr. Susana Minguet García will receive a Heisenberg Professorship from the German Research Foundation (DFG) for Synthetic Immunology on April 1, 2023. The Professorship is based at the Faculty of Biology at the University of Freiburg. The…

An interdisciplinary research team of the Institutes of Physical Chemistry and Physics of the University of Freiburg and the Max Planck Institute of Biophysics in Frankfurt-am-Main has discovered a new, direction-dependent friction in…

A study by an international and interdisciplinary team headed by Freiburg archaeologist Dr. Ralph Araque Gonzalez from the Faculty of Humanities has proven that steel tools were already in use in Europe around 2900 years ago. Using…

Prof. Dr. Laura Hartmann is becoming Professor of Macromolecular Chemistry at the University of Freiburg from March 1, 2023. A focus of her professorship will be on researching active soft materials, in particular those known as…

Sinologist PD Dr. Lena Henningsen from the University of Freiburg has been awarded a Consolidator Grant from the European Research Council (ERC) to fund her research project on comic culture in the People’s Republic of China. The European…