The Leibniz Association Yearbook 2010
Contents
Contents
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Editorial, Ernst Th. Rietschel, President of the Leibniz Association (until June 30, 2010)
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Greeting, Karl Ulrich Mayer President of the Leibniz Association (as of July 1, 2010)
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Essay: Leibniz, Chemistry and Alchemy
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Hans Olaf Henkel Prize - Award for Science Policy: Professor Wolfgang Frühwald receives science policy award
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Promotion Prize: Malaria pathogen’s Trojan Horse and good news for democracy
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Facts and Figures
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Short profiles of all member institutions Section A - Humanities and Educational Research Section B - Economics, Social Sciences, Regional Infrastructure Research Section C - Life Sciences Section D - Mathematics, Natural Sciences, Engineering Section E - Environmental Research
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Imprint
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Annex: Organizational Structure Members of the Senate Presidial Board Contact The Presidents of the Leibniz Association Index Map with the locations of all Leibniz member institutions and associate members
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© Peter Himsel
Dear readers,
Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. mult. Ernst Th. Rietschel, President of the Leibniz Association (from November 2005 until June 2010)
In the last few years, the Leibniz Association has made huge strides in its development. It has not only become the science organisation with the largest number of member institutes in Germany – 86 members plus 4 associated institutes – but has also radically sharpened its profile. While still being firmly anchored in and associated with the Federal States, it has developed into a self-confident organisation with a strong political voice. Almost equally important is the high level of internal networking, which has been achieved by setting up theme-based collaboration. In accordance with one of the mottos of the Leibniz Association, this emphasises the added value of networking. Recalling one of the Leibniz Association’s former mottos, this demonstrates the added value of networking. The member institutes profit from the Leibniz Association in many ways, not only in networking but also by a model of scientific evaluation and competitive ressource allocation as well as joint representation of interest vis-à-vis third parties both at home and in Europe. Now the time has come to develop the Leibniz brand yet further, to ensure that it is firmly rooted within our association and beyond, and thus to convey the distinctiveness of the Leibniz Association. Two other targets are of great importance: Firstly, it is important to consolidate the excellent reputation of our institutes and, thus, the Association as a whole, and secondly, to enhance our creative potential – not for its own sake but in order to advance research in Germany and solve society’s most pressing problems. Policy-makers and society have a growing need for science-based advice. The institutes in the Leibniz Association are taking up the challenge by concentrating on themes which are both of socio-economic relevance and national importance. Characteristic for Leibniz institutes is the focus on themes of highly innovative research topics and of academic excellence (“signature”). The academic quality and the focus of every Leibniz institute are regularly subject to internal and external evaluation based on a transparent, rigorous, and internationally recognised procedure. The Leibniz Association is also characterised by the great variety of topics pursued at the institutes (“culture”) as well as its decentralised form of organisation, i.e. the academic and organisational independence of its institutes (“structure”). In terms of finances, the Leibniz institutes are jointly financed by central government and the Federal States. The current annual
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budget of the institutes is close to 1.2 billion EUR (of which some 350 million EUR come from research-grants and licences). We are proud of our almost 14,000 employees, of whom approximately 6,300 are academics (you will find more information on crucial facts about Leibniz Association on pages 20 to 23). Knowledge transfer, scientific infrastructures and research based services as well as the development of strategic partnerships, particularly with universities, are all facets of a comprehensive strategy to address the issues facing society. Furthermore, the Leibniz Association is pursuing the highest standards in research and research organisations these include the appointment of outstanding academics, evaluation procedures that conform to the standards of top-level international research as well as the promotion of junior researchers, gender equality and free access to information and knowledge. Finally, the Leibniz Association is relying on its decentralised organisation and its structures to improve general conditions in administration and extend its scope in policy matters – all with the aim of enhancing its competitive position as a whole. On the basis of our sharpened profile and its three constituent elements, “signature”, “culture” and “structure”, and in consultation with the universities and other major research organisations, we aim to assume an innovative lead in specific areas. This will enable the Leibniz Association and its institutes to address the research foci selected in dialogue with society. The innovation and excellence of this approach will empower them to convey the knowledge gained to academia, business and society, and to provide research-based policy advice, thus playing a major role in communicating science to society. In this way, the Association will fulfil its mission of “theoria cum praxi: science for the benefit and good of humankind” responsibly and sustainably. The groundwork for this has been completed and belongs to the guidelines of our member institutes. Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. mult. Ernst Th. Rietschel
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Dear readers,
© Leibniz-Gemeinschaft / David Ausserhofer
Starting in July 2010 I will have the honor to serve as the next President of the Leibniz Association. Giving up hands-on research and saying good bye to my students and research group at Yale University was not an easy step, but if there is one thing to be learned from the social sciences than it is the importance of welldesigned and well-run institutions. And the area of science is one where not only adequate funding, but also substantive and institutional change will be unavoidable, if Germany and Europe want to continue to be among the front runners internationally.
Prof. Dr. Karl Ulrich Mayer, President of the Leibniz Association (starting on July 1, 2010)
The Leibniz Association represents 86 extramural research institutes and 4 associated members in all areas of science which are located across all of the 16 Federal states of Germany. As a research umbrella organization we have a short history (founded after German reunification in 1995), but a very modern profile: Leibniz Institutes cover the whole spectrum from basic to applied science, provide important research infrastructure and are heavily engaged in policy advice and the transmission of science to the larger public. To give just a few examples our institutes are modeling changes in global climate, are engaged in longitudinal studies in the context of the multi-cohort studies of the National Educational Panel, they study evolution in our research museums of natural history, they apply nanophysics to applications in medicine and they open up new research frontiers on the role of media in knowledge creation. One of the recent Leibniz research networks focuses on the molecular bases of infectious diseases and their preventive potential. Another one comprises 28 institutes, one third of all Leibniz institutes, and bundles our expertise in the field of biodiversity. The Leibniz Network on Biodiversity is a showcase for modern science because it does not only cover plant and animal science. When we address biodiversity, we are also dealing with climate change and global change, with water, soil and air, with business and education as well as with new pathogens, urban planning and scientific collections. The Leibniz Association combines all these thematic fields in a unique way: our scientists and scholars do not investigate these themes in isolation but employ interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary as well as basic and applied research strategies. Over the last years the Leibniz Association experienced a formidable take-off. We expanded the number of institutes, developed new inter-institute fields of research (e.g. in education, health and biodiversity), developed new forms of cooperation with the uni-
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versities and engaged in a careful and sophisticated system of peer evaluation. As one of the responses to the recent economic crisis, the German Federal Government and the Federal States have decided to invest 18 billion Euros into research over the next 5 years. The Leibniz Institutes will be part of this initiative with a yearly 5% growth in our budget. This extended funding will allow us to pursue ambitious goals in the next years. Among else, we want to intensify international research cooperation both within Europe and beyond and to recruit a cosmopolitan group of young scientists as doctoral students, post-docs and junior staff. We also want to expand our lead in attracting top women scientists and to facilitate combining research and family lives especially in the early stages of academic careers. Pressing global problems of sustainable development, infectious diseases, population ageing, economic competitiveness and responsible financial integration require cutting-edge scientific answers which combine the persistence of disinterested research with the passion for feasible practical solutions. The Leibniz Association supports its member research institutes in taking up this challenge.
Karl Ulrich Mayer is a member of the Board of Scientific Advisors of NEPL. He is Stanley B. Resor Professor of Sociology at Yale University at Yale University and currently serves as Chair of its Department of Sociology. He is also Co-Director of the Yale Center for Research on Inequalities and the Life Course (CIQLE) and Professor of the Institution of Social and Policy Studies. From 1983 to 2005 he was Director at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin, Germany, and now Director Emeritus, and from 1979 to 1983 he was Director at the German National Survey Research Center (ZUMA). He is the principal investigator of the German Life History Study, which has collected representative samples of more than 10,000 women and men in both East and West Germany born between 1919 and 1971. From 1988 to 1998 he was co-principal investigator of the Berlin Aging Study. From 1993 to 1999 he was a member and vice-chair of the German National Science Council (Wissenschaftsrat). For the new International Encyclopedia of the Behavioral and Social Sciences (2002) he served as a sub-editor for the Biographies Section. Professor Mayer is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the British Academy of Sciences, the European Academy of Sociology, the Leopoldina - German Academy of Natural Scientists, and the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences.
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by Dr. sc. nat. Lothar Kuhnert
Leibniz, Chemistry and Alchemy
At around 10 o’clock in the evening of 14 November 1716, the man who gave his name to our scientific community closed his eyes for the very last time; he died at his house in Schmiedestraße in Hanover at the age of 70. Having been ill for a week, he had only decided to call a doctor the day before. The doctor later reported that even on his deathbed, Leibniz had talked about alchemy changing an iron nail into a golden one. One of the last people Leibniz corresponded with was Samuel Clarke in London, contradicting Newton’s dogmatic stance on space and time. Today, we know that this problem would only be solved by Albert Einstein, 200 years later. Even in his last days, Leibniz was still wrestling with scientific issues. Right up to the end, his coachman Henrich and his secretary Vogler took it in turns to stay with him. The moment Leibniz died, Vogler informed Johann Georg Eckart who “had already gone to bed.” But he came round the same night to seal everything up. The act of sealing Leibniz’ estate was repeated next morning by an official who also took all the keys with him.
The author: Dr. sc. nat. Lothar Kuhnert Studied chemistry at Humboldt University of Berlin, publications on photochemistry, colloid chemistry, chemical kinetics as well as on the history of chemistry, focusing on Friedlieb Ferdinand Runge (1794-1867) and Johann Kunckel. Visit www.lkuhnert.de for more information.
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Eckart had been assisting Leibniz with his historical studies in Hanover since 1694. In 1685, Leibniz had been charged by his employer, Ernst August, Duke of Brunswick, to write a history of the House of Guelph. This was not just an academic research project. The object was to trace the line of descent back from the House of Hanover to the Guelphs of the Middle Ages who had once vied with the Staufer for supremacy in the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation. If descent could be demonstrated, it would serve contemporary political objectives, one of which was to be declared an Electorate, a development which did, indeed, come about in 1692. In 1714, Georg Ludwig, who had been Elector since 1698, became King George I of England. The Court transferred from Hanover to London, and Leibniz would have liked to accompany them. He speculated on being appointed to a new post as historiographer to the English crown. However, London decreed that Leibniz should stay in Hanover in order, finally, to complete the history of the Guelphs which he had been working on for 30 years. He was actually forbidden to travel and his salary was withheld. There was a reason for this: Shortly
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Of course, this turn of events was extremely humiliating for Leibniz and meant that at the end of his life he was once more faced with his fatal dependence on serving the Court. All his life, he had hoped to find a comfortable position at a royal court where he could pursue his own intellectual interests. Given the number of intellectual interests he pursued this was bound to lead to repeated conflicts with his official tasks. Thus he had also tried to become financially independent by involving himself in various successful projects. Having been in the service of the House of Hanover for nearly 40 years, Leibniz had amassed an enormous archive of papers. His employer, now in London, suspected that it might include politically sensitive material. As a result, even before he died, the order had been given to keep his estate firmly sealed. And this is why one of the largest scholarly estates of all time has been preserved to this day. The correspondence alone comprises some 200,000 pages.
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beforehand, Leibniz, on a trip to Vienna, had blithely ignored all admonitions to return to Hanover and stayed away for a year and nine months. The Court’s patience was at an end – Leibniz was out of favour.
Dr. sc. nat. Lothar Kuhnert
In 2007, UNESCO included the estate in the Memory of the World, a programme to preserve valuable archive holdings. Since then, in a task of the century, approximately 60 volumes of Leibniz’ complete works have been published. But the task is far from complete, and those working on it will still have to spend a lot of time deciphering Leibniz’ handwriting.
1. The alchemist’s secretary – Leibniz’ first salaried position After completing an outstanding doctorate in both laws at the University of Altdorf, near Nuremberg, Leibniz was invited to stay on at the university as a professor. Although he had no income (during this period he had to sign several promissory notes to his family’s financial administrator), he refused the offer. His uncle, Justus Jakob Leibniz, arranged a salaried position for him as “Ge-
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hülffe und Secretarius” (assistant and secretary) to a society of alchemists in Nuremberg. He recorded laboratory experiments and prepared excerpts from the works of famous alchemists. At the same time, he also translated a riddle by the alchemist known as Basilius Valentinus into Latin verse. An ADB article on Leibniz dating from 1883 notes “…entscheidend für sein ganzes Leben war eine andere Bekanntschaft, durch welche er auch alsbald jener unwürdigen Stellung entrissen wurde” (… another acquaintance, by whom he was soon torn away from this unworthy position, was decisive for his life). The fact that this position was considered to be “unworthy” of Leibniz does, of course, reflect the zeitgeist, and how we judge it depends on our attitude towards alchemy. If we subscribe to Liebig’s interpretation, alchemy is a natural precursor of modern chemistry: “Unter den Alchemisten befand sich stets ein Kern echter Naturforscher. Was Glauber, Böttger und Kunckel in dieser Richtung leisteten, kann kühn den größten Entdeckungen unseres Jahrhunderts an die Seite gestellt werden” (Amongst the alchemists there was always a nucleus of genuine natural scientists. What Glauber, Böttger and Kunckel achieved in this respect can boldly be described as some of the major discoveries of the century.). The concept of chemical elements was still unborn. People thought metals were composite entities that could be changed into each other. A particularly central role was played by the philosopher’s stone, also referred to as a tincture or elixir. It was thought to heal illness and ensure longevity. In the last resort, the objective was not to make gold, but to get complete control over nature, although the devotees of the art did not want to miss out on the gold either. Even researchers like Robert Boyle and Isaac Newton with a proven and recognised scientific record engaged in alchemy. Boyle was, furthermore, a wealthy man who was able to pursue his research without having to rely on royal beneficence. Newton’s work on alchemy only became respectable in the 20th century. Before that, it was considered “unworthy” and scandalous. There is, of course, also an element of natural philosophy in alchemy which still survives in certain forms of esotericism to this day; and there were a hoard of bogus adepts, some of whom ended up, as befitted their station, on gallows decorated with gold glitter. In the 17th century, the alchemistic preoccupation with making gold experienced a renaissance. A wealth of writings appeared,
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and there were dedicated laboratories at the Emperor’s Court and many other royal courts. And there were official success stories: The alchemist Richthausen was actually ennobled for his work by the Emperor and was henceforth known as “Freiherr von Chaos” (Baron Chaos). Using Richthausen’s recipe, the Elector of Mainz also managed to make gold. It can only be assumed that Richthausen had managed to find a particularly subtle way of smuggling gold into the other chemical ingredients. In the service of the Elector of Saxony, Johann Kunckel tried to rediscover the legendary “Sächsische Prozesse” for making gold. In Dresden, documentation in the official archives which dealt with invoices for deliveries of gold led people to believe that the alchemists Beuther and Schwertzer at the Court of Saxony had effectively understood how to produce gold in a manufacturing process. In Leibniz’ estate there is a manuscript entitled: “Alle Process und itz gantze buch, wie es von word zue worte gelautet, wie es Churfürst Augusto von Sebald Schwertzer unter eigener Hand geschrieben und laboriret worden und von Joh: Kunckel Ao 1668 den 26ten Marty abgeschrieben” (All the process and the entire book as written and worked in his own hand, word for word, by Elector Augusto von Sebald Schwertzer and copied by Joh. Kunckel, the 26th day of March in the year 1668.). This book was only published after Kunckel’s death in 1718, probably by his estate. When Leibniz received the manuscript it was strictly confidential. Crafft had managed to procure it in Dresden. Incidentally, the book not only contains obscure alchemistic processes, but also includes the first description of fulminating gold, the chemical structure of which has only recently been definitively characterised. Leibniz was fascinated by this story and other tales of the gold-makers, and his estate is a treasure trove for the study of alchemists’ activities at the time. 2. Leibniz at the Elector’s Court in Mainz – encounters with prominent entrepreneurs and journeys to Paris and London The “other acquaintance” mentioned above was Johann Christian von Boineburg, and it was in his service and entourage that Leibniz found himself at the Elector’s Court in Mainz in 1668. He was essentially there in a legal capacity. However, knowing about the Elector’s proclivities, in his application he also emphasised his knowledge of alchemy. “Bitte aber E.(eure) Churf.(ürstliche) Gn.(aden) unterthänigst, daß das jenige, so ich E. Churf. Gn. einsmahls unterthänigst offeriret, de vera materia tincturae, nicht etwa, wie ich verständigt worden bin, spargiret werden möge” (I
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appeal to your highness most humbly not to dispread, as I have heard said, that which I once humbly offered to you, de vera materia tincturae.). In Mainz, Leibniz also made the acquaintance of Johann Joachim Becher, Martin Elers and Johann Daniel Crafft, restless entrepreneurs with manifold interests. They undertook the most diverse and, in some cases, daring kinds of technical, economic and, of course, chemical/alchemistic projects. But their names are also associated with significant inventions in the fields of glass, porcelain/ceramics and coal tar. Crafft and Leibniz shared a life-long friendship and collaborated up until the former’s death in 1697. Some 150 of their letters have survived. It was Leibniz’ longest correspondence with any one person. However, Leibniz aspired to other things – his goal was Paris. It was there that he spent the years 1672-1676 at the behest of both his benefactor Boineburg and the Elector, and it was from there that he visited London where he was a guest in Robert Boyle’s laboratory. What he hoped for, however, was a salaried position at the academy in Paris. He had now become a mathematician. But all his Paris plans came to nought. His finances were exhausted and he had to ask his Leipzig relations to send him money. It was in this situation that he accepted a call from Duke Johann Friedrich to come to Hanover. He was offered the title of Councillor and an annual salary of 400 thalers. The position began in January 1676, but Leibniz only arrived in Hanover in December. He was hedging his bets until the very end, and his journey to Hanover took him via London and Amsterdam. 3. Leibniz’ involvement in the discovery of phosphorous In Hamburg the alchemist Henning Brand was busy searching for the philosopher’s stone. He evaporated urine and brought the residue to a red heat in a test-tube, upon which he observed something glowing. He had discovered the chemical element phosphorus, number 15 in the Periodic Table of chemical elements. Brand kept his discovery quiet, only telling a few insiders. In spring 1676, Johann Kunckel visited Hamburg and met Brand. Being a practising alchemist the latter was always short of money and only wanted to hand over a sample of his “fire” as he referred to the phosphorus for hard cash. But Kunckel was also hard-up. Strictly he should have had a good income as “Churfürstlich Sächsischer Geheimder Cammerdiener und Chymicus” (the Elector’s private valet and chemist) but his salary was never paid. He asked Crafft
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for help. He paid Brand 200 thalers and promptly left Kunckel out of the transaction altogether. Subsequently, in Wittenberg, Kunckel himself managed to produce phosphorus, and one of the most exciting discovery stories in the history of chemistry had begun. Leibniz soon got involved in the proceedings, too, and thus it was that Crafft spread the secret of this wondrous new material to the royal courts in Berlin and later, London. In spring 1677, he went to Hanover where he introduced Leibniz and the Duke to phosphorous. Leibniz travelled to Hamburg to negotiate with the discoverer personally. But Becher was already on the doorstep bearing a generous offer. However, Leibniz managed to find a way of trumping him “mit einer Intrige” (by intrigue). He signed an agreement with Brand in the Duke’s name to the effect that he would receive an annual stipend of 120 thalers for revealing the secret and producing phosphorus in Hanover. Production was carried out outside the town, the requisite amount of urine being provided by the soldiery. But the agreement did not only refer to phosphorus. Brand was able to convince Leibniz that he really did know the secret of making gold. In a letter to the Duke, Leibniz reported “Diese Geheimnis hat man für ungeheure Summen verkaufen wollen und es muss wirklich eine beträchtliche Menge Gold in der Silbermasse hervorbringe” (This secret was to be sold for prodigious sums, and it really must produce a considerable amount of gold amongst the silver.). The problem of phosphorus was to occupy Leibniz for the next 30 years, right up until his time in Berlin. The name phosphorus (phosphor mirabilis, wonderful phosphorescence) was ambiguous even at the time it was discovered and has remained so to this day. Brand simply referred to it as “fire” and assigned it the relevant alchemistic symbol. Leibniz used analogies like igneum (phosphorus igneus) or pyropum. Another name was noctiluca constans (eternal light). It was a mysterious luminous material; today, we know that what was being described was chemiluminescence. However, there were also other substances that emitted light (Bologna Stone). By being illuminated from the outside they then glowed in the dark. These phosphorescent minerals are still referred to as phosphors today. Leibniz was interested both in these and in other luminous effects and self-igniting, so-called pyrophorous materials. Of course, all the actors who knew about Brand’s phosphorus hoped to be able to market it. Leibniz involved his secretary Brandshagen who took the phosphorus to the Danish
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Court. All hopes of commercial success were disappointed, but scientifically, Boyle in London produced another weighty contribution to the chemistry of phosphorus. At this time, Leibniz had embarked on another technical project which he hoped would make him financially independent. It was “wind art”, designed to regulate the water course in the mines of the Harz area. He signed an agreement to this effect with the Mining Office in Clausthal which the Duke ratified on 25 October 1679. Leibniz had invested money of his own in the development and, if he was successful, he was due to receive an annuity of 1,200 thalers for the rest of his life. This was three times his original salary in Hanover. But at the end of 1679, his employer died. The new Duke Ernst August was not quite as well disposed towards him as his predecessor. Leibniz put all his energies into the mining project. From 1681 to 1686, he undertook 31 trips to the Harz and spent a total of 165 weeks there. And then the failed project was broken off and Leibniz had lost his personal financial stake as well. While this was going on, he still kept abreast of the alchemy scene. Crafft was his main informer. The two of them had previously been engaged in a project in Amsterdam with a certain Dr. Schuller. He put Leibniz in touch with the ageing Spinoza, so Leibniz did at least benefit from the whole undertaking to some extent. In the end, however, Crafft noted resignedly “Dr. Schuller ist todt, welcher mich und anderen mit falschen Processen sehr gequält und viel Schulden hinterlassen hat” (Dr. Schuller is dead, who tormented me and others with false processes and left many debts.). Having now gained a broad understanding of the gold-making scene Leibniz was forced to come to the conclusion that it was not the investors, i.e. the purchasers of “alchemistic processes” who cut the deal, but the sellers. He changed sides and tried to sell an “alchemistic process”. He kept himself in the background; Martin Elers did the selling. From Leibniz’ correspondence we know that he once entertained ideas of marriage. Elers’ daughter was the object of his affections, but it did not work out and Leibniz remained a bachelor all his life. Perhaps it was due to this potential relationship that Elers was entrusted with the task of selling the “process”. The course of the sale can be traced in the correspondence between Elers and Leibniz and Crafft and Leibniz. On 27
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June 1682, for example, Elers reported back from Berlin that he had had some success with the transaction but was rebuffed by Kunckel “Mons. Cunkel und noch einer hadt nicht connen aus der meinung gebracht werden das Ich nicht etwas rejales in der Alchimie sollte haben” (Mons. Cunkel and another were not to be convinced that I should have anything genuine in alchemy.). In the meantime, others had got involved in the proceedings and were trying out a “sample” of the procedure. In the same letter, Leibniz noted in his own hand “Daß er mit Kunkelius auff 8000 th. gehandelt” (that he had agreed with Kunckel 8,000 thalers). Two months later, Leibniz received a letter from Hamburg, from the discoverer of phosphorus, Brand, in which the latter made him an interesting offer: “Eß ist allhier Ein proces von Berlin an hir gesand … er ist zu Berlin probiret und nach der probe ist da vor 8000 rth. gegeben worden” (A process has been sent here from Berlin … it has been tried in Berlin and after the trial has been given for 8,000 thalers.). In this roundabout way Leibniz was being offered his own “process” – small wonder that this marked the end of his correspondence with Brand.
4. Leibniz in Berlin and the Prussian Academy of Sciences One of Leibniz’ successful projects was the foundation of the “Societät”, later known as the Prussian Academy of Sciences, in Berlin in 1700. He became its first President, an office for which he was paid 600 thalers a year. But he did not relinquish his position in Hanover. Ten years after its foundation, the Academy produced a publication, the “Miscellanea Berolinensia.” Leibniz himself had written 12 of the 60 articles, two of which addressed chemical problems. And this is where he published his version of the discovery of phosphorus. It did not completely coincide with the reports of others who had been involved and still provides food for discussion to this day, but it is an important historical document. Under the title “Oedipus Chymicus…” he published the early work, already mentioned: the translation of verses by the legendary Basilius Valentinus and the solution of the alchemistic riddle. The solution involves a mathematical process. The letters are assigned numbers and the verses are “calculated.” The answer is vitriol, known then as now as an important basic chemical. More interesting are his introductory remarks on alchemy in this article. Without explicitly mentioning his name, he refers to Böttger’s spectacular making of gold in Berlin in 1701. Leibniz had got closely involved in the affair at the time. In general, Leibniz is
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sceptical about alchemistic legends but he does not completely deny the possibility of producing a tincture. “Freylich kann ich was noch nicht gleich für unmöglich ausgeben, was ich für unwahrscheinlich halte. Kennten wir das Schießpulver noch nicht, so würden wir gewiß kaum glauben, daß so etwas in der Welt vorhanden sey” (Indeed, I cannot claim something to be impossible that I hold to be improbable. If we did not know about gunpowder, we would certainly think that nothing of this kind was to be found in the world.). In addition, this first publication by the Berlin Academy contained an article on an important chemical discovery of the period: an anonymous report was included on the pigment Prussian blue. In conclusion, any comprehensive portrayal of Leibniz should not ignore his intensive lifetime engagement with alchemy. His estate is a veritable treasure trove in this respect. But it did not help him to make chemical discoveries, which is not surprising because Leibniz spent more time working at his desk than he did in the laboratory. But he was in good company: alchemy was mainstream science. And one of his contributions to academic chemistry should not be forgotten: his development of differential and integral calculus. The laws of thermodynamics and kinetics, which determine the cycle of chemical reactions, were later formulated in this mathematical language employing the symbols introduced by Leibniz.
Notes: 1. The author hit upon the idea for this study of Leibniz whilst working on Johann Kunckel (1634-1703): L. Kunert, Johann Kunckel – Ritter von Löwenstein – die Erfindung der Nanotechnologie in Berlin, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-00-023379-1. 2. The biographical data on Leibniz were taken from the following works: - Leben und Werk von Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, eine Chronik, edited by K. Müller and G. Krönert, Frankfurt/M, 1969. - J. G. Eckart: Leibniz-Biographie von 1717, first printed in J. zur Kunstgeschichte und zur allgemeinen Literatur, Vol. 7, Nürnberg 1779, ed. C. G. von Murr. - P. Ritter, Bericht eines Augenzeugen über Leibnizens Tod und Begräbnis in Leibniz zum Gedächtnis seines zweihundertjährigen Todestages, Hanover 1916
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Hans Olaf Henkel Prize Award for Science Policy
Professor Wolfgang Frühwald receives science policy award
Dr. Wolfgang Frühwald is the recipient of the 2009 “Hans-Olaf Henkel Prize – Award for Science Policy”. The former President of the German Research Foundation (DFG) and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation was honoured for his contribution to integrating East and West German scientists and for his role as an ambassador for German science abroad. The prize was presented to Prof. Frühwald during the Leibniz Association’s annual meeting in Rostock on 26 November 2009 in the presence of the President of the Federal Republic of Germany. An independent jury of academics and public figures, chaired by Professor Dr. Joachim Treusch (President of Jacobs University Bremen), selected Frühwald from a list of eleven nominations. The jury emphasised Frühwald’s role as President of DFG from 1992 to 1997. After German reunification he had made a significant contribution to integrating academics from the new federal states. The Leibniz Association, which has more than 30 institutes in East Germany, had reaped the benefit of this as East German research was soon able to take its place in the German federal science system, the jury noted. Furthermore, in his role as President of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation from 1999 to 2007, Frühwald advanced Germany’s international profile as a location for research. Not least he was a succesful spokesperson for science, both nationally and internationally. Leibniz President Professor Dr. Ernst Rietschel considers Frühwald an excellent award winner. “Frühwald’s work as DFG President, which set the course after reunification, was of inestimable value to the Leibniz Association and the entire German science system”, Rietschel commented. “Frühwald was responsible for gaining international recognition for Germany as a location for research and thus upgrading the country’s appeal to international cutting-edge researchers at all stages of their careers. He particularly promoted the image of a Germany open to the world.” “The amalgamation and consolidation of the East and West German research landscapes was not only one of the most outstand-
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ing achievements of German science policy in the last century; it was also one of the greatest success stories of German reunification. It is, therefore, only logical that the Hans Olaf Henkel Prize should be awarded to a science leader who has distinguished himself so exceptionally in this field,” said Rietschel referring to the political dimension of Frühwald’s activities. The Hans-Olaf Henkel Prize – Award for Science Policy The “Hans-Olaf Henkel Prize – Award for Science Policy” bears the name of the former President of the Leibniz Association, Hans-Olaf Henkel, in memory both of his term of office from 2001 to 2005, as well as in recognition of his contribution for German science policy. Hans-Olaf Henkel has been a senator of the Max Planck Society (1990 to 2005), the Helmholtz Association (2001 to 2005) and the Leibniz Association (1998 to 2001) as well as serving on the board of the Stifterverband (1987 to 2000).
© Alexander von Humboldt-Stitfung / Lichtenscheidt
Hans Olaf Henkel Prize Award for Science Policy
Professor Dr. Wolfgang Frühwald
The Presidents and Chairpersons of the major German science organisations, the German Federation of Industrial Research Associations (AiF), the President of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, the President of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) as well as the Federal Minister of Education and Research and the Higher Education Ministers in the Federal States are eligible to nominate candidates for the prize. It is granted every two years and is valued at 20,000 EUR. The first award winner was Professor Dr. Benno Parthier, former President of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina.
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Malaria pathogen’s Trojan Horse and good news for democracy
Promotion Prize for Junior Scientists
Leibniz prizes for junior researchers Angelika Sturm (29) received the award in the natural science and technology category for her research into the malaria pathogens, plasmodia. She was the first to identify a completely new and previously unknown stage in the complex reproduction cycle of the malaria parasite.
© Leibniz-Gemeinschaft / David Ausserhofer
Junior researchers Dr. Angelika Sturm of the Bernhard Nocht Institute für Tropical Medicine (BNI) in Hamburg and Dr. Alexander Petring of the Social Science Research Centre Berlin (WZB) were the recipients of the 2009 Leibniz Prize for Junior Scientists and Scholars.
Angelika Sturm
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The protozoa transmitted by the Anopheles mosquito, or plasmodia, initially infect liver cells. In less than a few days, ten of thousands of merozoites can develop in a single liver cell. If they enter the bloodstream they infect the red blood corpuscles which leads to the erythrocytic reproduction cycle responsible for serious cases of malaria. Although a great deal of research had been carried out on the erythrocytic reproduction cycle, it was still unclear why the immune system was not able to identify and destroy the liver cell that had been invaded by thousands of parasites. It was also not known how the parasites managed to penetrate the walls of the blood vessels to get from the liver cells into the bloodstream. Angelika Sturm was the first to answer theses questions: The parasites deceive the immune system by intercepting the signals sent out by the dying cells and thus prevent them from being recognised and eliminated by the white blood corpuscles. At the same time, they prompt the liver cell to form membrane protrusions called merosomes which reach into the bloodstream. As though they were inside the Trojan Horse, the parasites then pass through the walls of the blood vessels. Here they finally detach from the mother cell and are released into the bloodstream where they immediately infect the red blood corpuscles. Angelika Sturm’s discovery of the parasite’s deception mechanism in the dying cell and the merozoite’s journey into the bloodstream provide a new starting-point for developing drugs and vaccines. The research results have been published in leading review journals like Science. Apart from the findings, an outstanding feature of Angelika Sturm’s doctoral dissertation is the scientific method she uses: she observed the processes described above in mice which were infected with genetically modified parasites giving off green fluorescence. Furthermore, by using so-called intravital microscopy she was also able to make observations in living organisms.
Alexander Petring (33) from the Social Science Research Centre Berlin completed the best dissertation in the humanities and social sciences category with his work on “Welfare states’ capacity to reform: actors, constellations, and institutions”. He developed a general theory of political reform in a form which did not exist previously. His description of state action on social policy is particularly innovative. Using complex interaction models he was able to show both analytically and empirically how reforms come about and which institutions (including federalism, majority democracy, consensus democracy) and actors (including government coalitions, governments) play a decisive role. To achieve this, he worked through 7,000 legal texts and reform packages in 18 OECD states which were generated by 20 years of reforms to pensions and unemployment welfare. Some of Alexander Petring’s surprising findings contradict widely-held views. It is often claimed, for example, that two-party democracies are the more active reformers. But Petring’s international comparison reveals that many countries which practice a form of government approximating to so-called consensus democracy achieve a similar level of reform. It is also often assumed that single-party governments are particularly reform-oriented. However, the results show that the chances that unpopular reforms are implemented are greater under coalition governments than under single-party governments. Another amazing finding is that reforms in unemployment welfare are undertaken especially frequently by coalitions comprising diverse ideological positions. The pattern of action underpinning this, so-called blame sharing, makes it possible to pull the carpet out from under public criticism by having ideologically heterogeneous advocates legitimising government action.
© Leibniz-Gemeinschaft / David Ausserhofer
Promotion Prize for Junior Scientists
Alexander Petring is continuing his work at WZB as a research fellow in the group investigating “Democracy: Structures, Performance, Challenges.”
Alexander Petring provides the evidence to show that the various models of democracy in the OECD states do not influence reform logic. Rather, it is the governments and government coalitions with the power to reform which are decisive as central determining factors, a conclusion the author describes as “good news for democracy.”
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Facts and Figures
Facts and Figures
In 2008 the Leibniz Association had a total budget of 1.2 billion euro. Third party funding amounted to 244 million euro and income from licences, services, etc. amounted to another 89 million euro. Leibniz Institutes are jointly funded by the Federal and Länder governments of Germany and have a public-service mission. The 86 (as of 2009) Leibniz Institutes maintain intensive links with partners at home and abroad. The Leibniz Association’s most important collaborative partners are universities, and Leibniz institutes already network with them to a high degree. One of the Leibniz Association’s crucial goals is to extend collaboration with universities for the benefit of both sides. Leibniz university professorships are one example of strategic collaboration between Leibniz institutes and universities, Science Campus is another example.
Total Budget of all Leibniz Institutes in million euro 2005 to 2008
Total budget
1200
of which public funded of which other public funded of which third-part funded
1000
other incomes
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400 1103 737 53 225
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1103 756 47 217
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1124 774 28 230
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Third-party funds (in million euro) from 2005 to 2008 by source Third party funds DFG Federal Governments
200
Länder Governments R&D EU 150
Endowments
225 44 65 15 46 38 14
217 41 72 12 46 34 12
230 45 78 14 59 26
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244 48 88 12 54 33
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0 2005
2006
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Science Campus was created as a new model of cooperation between Leibniz institutes and universities. It is also open to other non-university institutions, corporate research departments and technology centres. Institutes in the Leibniz Association already collaborate intensively and successfully with local universities. The first Science Campus was established between Tübingen University and Knowledge Media Research Center, a Leibniz Institute. The second Science Campus was created in Rostock where all five Leibniz Institutes of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern co-operate with Rostock University. In the German Government’s Excellence Initiative, 22 Leibniz Institutes and two associated members successfully participate in eight Clusters of Excellence and fourteen Graduate Schools. The IFM-GEOMAR is one such example, whose close cooperation with the University of Kiel in the area of marine research represents a model “science campus” – a model of cooperation between Leib-
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Joint appointments 2005 to 2008 250
200
150 216
225
246
247
2005
2006
2007
2008
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niz and university institutes that combines the strengths of publicservice research with the advantages of university institutes and optimally facilitates research and knowledge transfer. Research and teaching at universities benefit from collaboration with Leibniz Institutes in many ways. The number of joint appointments involving leading scientists and scholars from Leibniz Institutes teaching as professors at adjacent higher education institutions grew from 121 in 2000 to 247 in 2008. Leibniz Institutes offered 23 Graduate Schools, co-ordinated 41 EU projects and maintained 55 independent junior research groups in 2008. Many Leibniz Institutes maintain close collaborative links with industry and seek to support knowledge and technology transfer. To promote such transfer, the Leibniz Association established LeibnizX, funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), as an in-house consultancy to support start-ups. Since the advice centre was set up in March 2004, Leibniz X has ad-
Staff numbers 2005 to 2008 according to staff group 15000
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1468
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2006
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vised and supported approx. 50 projects, of which 13 resulted in the successful establishment of an enterprise. By the end of 2009, Leibniz Institutes had initiated more than 100 start-up companies.
© Photograph by David Ausserhofer
In order to draw on all the resources of the Leibniz Association, a special focus has been placed on promoting women in executive positions. In 2008, six of the then 83 Leibniz Institutes were headed by women directors. Leibniz Institutes also make an important contribution to society as places of training. A total of 429 trainees learnt their future trade in Leibniz Association institutions in 2008.
The President of the Federal Republic of Germany, Dr. Horst Köhler, attended the awarding of the Hans Olaf Henkel Prize and the Promotion Prizes in Rostock.
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Short profiles of all member institutions
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Deutsches Bergbau-Museum Bochum (DBM)
Section A
DMT-Research Institute for Mining History and Mining Museum
Established in 1930, the DBM – funded by DMT Gesellschaft für Lehre und Bildung mbH and the City of Bochum – is recognized as the most important mining museum worldwide. One of its unique features is that it maintains a high-calibre research unit alongside its extensive exhibition portfolio. The museum is a centre of research into the history of mining, the main emphasis being on the “evolution of mining and the use of technology” as well as the “management of cultural heritage”. As a part of interdisciplinary projects in Germany and abroad, the DBM conducts studies focusing on the conditions, methods and effects of mining activities as well as specific aspects associated with the processing and use of natural resources. Within this context, research into prehistoric and early historic mining is based on archaeological studies in conjunction with scientific analyses. Investigations into the exploitation of mineral resources in medieval times, as well as processing/smelting of such materials and trade within this area, are conducted on the basis of archaeological fieldwork as well as extensive studies of historical documents. The main focus of research into modern history is on the technical, economic and sociocultural effects of mining. The mining archive, a facility established in 1969, is the central archive of the German mining industry. The archive is now associated with the DBM library and the collections in what is known as the Montanhistorisches Dokumentationszentrum (montan. dok). The other focus of scientific activities is the preservation of objects, architectural heritage and landscapes of cultural importance (particularly within the area of engineering and technology). Geometric and semantic documentation is performed by means of state-of-the-art imaging technology and computer-aided tools that are designed to provide an accurate three-dimensional model of the object. This information, together with material testing, provides the basis for subsequent conservation projects. The DBM also offers a range of special services within this area. Finally, the DBM’s activities in the field of cultural heritage include developing tailor-made usage and presentation concepts.
Am Bergbaumuseum 28 44791 Bochum, Germany Phone +49 (0) 234-5877-0/ Infoline +49 (0) 180 58 77 234 Fax +49 (0) 234-5877-111 Email
[email protected] Internet www.bergbaumuseum.de
Director: Prof. Dr. Rainer Slotta Head of administration: Uwe Barthel Public relations: Eva Koch Staff: 74 Total budget: 12.9 million Euro Public funds: 6.2 million Euro Third-party funds: 1 million Euro Legal form: Legally dependent; Section of DMT-Gesellschaft für Lehre und Bildung mbH
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Heinemannstr. 12-14 53175 Bonn, Germany Phone + 49 (0) 2 28/32 94-0 Fax + 49 (0) 2 28/3294-399 Email
[email protected] Internet www.die-bonn.de
Scientific director: Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Ekkehard Nuissl von Rein Executive director: Hans-Joachim Schuldt Public relations: Sarah Maur Staff: 75 Total budget: 5.5 million Euro Public funds: 3.8 million Euro Third-party funds: 1.5 million Euro Legal form: Registered association (e.V.)
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German Institute for Adult Education – Leibniz Centre for Lifelong Learning (DIE) Bonn
The German Institute for Adult Education – Leibniz Centre for Lifelong Learning (DIE) is an independent academic institution. Founded in 1957, the DIE has served as a central forum for the fields of research and practice ever since. The Institute enhances the development and application of academic knowledge, thus establishing a systematic correlation between research, politics and practice in the area of continuing education. The “Centre for Research and Development“ is partitioned in two areas: “System and Organisation” focuses on structural data as well as on issues of cooperation and competition in adult and continuing education. The central issues in the area “Professional Development and Learning” are inclusion through continuing education and the development of professionalization. The “Centre for Information and Dokumentation” supplies and supports the fields of research, politics and practice with data and information and generates an infrastructure of continuing education based on research in forums for the professional public, counselling and events as well as in publications and publication series. The library contains about 96,000 publications and is the largest library in Germany in the field of continuing education. In providing online services, literature research and freely accessible texts on adult education, the Institute offers an internet service which supplies the professional public with documents on the current discussion and reflect trends in this field. Annually, the DIE collects and evaluates statistical data for large areas of publicly funded continuing education. The DIE is part of national and international network of universities, research institutions outside the university sector and institutions working in continuing education. It represents German continuing education abroad and also communicates international findings to the national education landscape. The DIE award “Innovation Prize in Continuing Education” is the most renowned prize for innovation in continuing education in Germany.
DIPF - German Institute for International Educational Research
The DIPF is a non-university institute delivering scientific infrastructure and research services to researchers, practitioners, administrators and policy-makers in the field of education. The DIPF makes a significant and up-to-date contribution to a comprehensive transfer of knowledge in education by its work in the areas of educational research and educational information. The DIPF … • co-ordinates and conducts national and international research projects; • assesses educational processes at an individual, institutional and systemic level; • prepares contributions to theoretical, empirical and methodological fundaments of national and international educational research in its own right; • evaluates educational programmes, institutions and systems; • prepares and delivers central scholarly information by means of modern information and communication procedures; • advises and supports educational researchers realising and conducting research projects; • assesses the design and use of information services and processes of knowledge transfer in education; • advises and accompanies initiatives aimed at quality development and quality assurance in education; • initiates, promotes and co-ordinates national and international networks and supports and trains younger generations in academic and non-academic careers. The tasks and activities are carried out by five closely co-operating centers. • Educational Research: Educational Governance Educational Quality and Evaluation Education and Human Development • Educational Information: Information Center for Education Library for Research on Educational History and Library for Educational Research
Section A
DIPF Frankfurt am Main Schloßstrasse 29 60486 Frankfurt am Main, Germany Phone +49 (0) 69.24708 - 0 Fax +49 (0) 69.24708 - 444 Email
[email protected] Internet www.dipf.de DIPF Berlin mit Bibliothek für Bildungsgeschichtliche Forschung Warschauer Straße 34-38 10243 Berlin, Germany Phone +49 (0) 30.293360 – 0 Fax+49 (0) 30.293360 – 25 Internet www.bbf.dipf.de
Director: Prof. Dr. Marc Rittberger Deputy director: Prof. Dr. Marcus Hasselhorn Managing director: Susanne Boomkamp-Dahmen Public relations: Stefanie Lotz Staff: 239 Total annual budget: 21.7 million Euro (2009) Public Funds: 0.7 million Euro (2009) Third-party Funds: 11.0 million Euro (2008) Legal form: Foundation under public law
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Section A
Museumsinsel 1 80538 München, Germany Phone + 49 (0) 89/21 79-1 Fax + 49 (0) 89/21 79-324 Email
[email protected] Internet www.deutsches-museum.de
Deutsches Museum (DM) Munich
The Deutsches Museum is a scientific-technological museum of international standing. When he founded the Deutsches Museum in 1903, Oskar von Miller’s basic idea was to achieve the comprehensive presentation of developments in science and technology from their beginnings through to the present day. Using “Masterpieces of Science and Technology” as well as working models and experiments, he wanted to promote knowledge of scientific phenomena and technical correlations – in a popularly accessible and educational way, but nevertheless on a sound scientific footing. This aspiration still stands today and is served by the collections of scientific instruments and equipment as well as technical pieces that the exhibition displays in Munich and at its branches (Flugwerft Schleissheim, Verkehrszentrum, Deutsches Museum Bonn), a public reference and research library (approx. 900,000 volumes), the archive, the educational work carried out by the departments, in particular the Kerchensteiner Kolleg, as well as the many conferences, talks, publications and curators’ projects.
General director: Prof. Dr. Wolfgang M. Heckl Head of administration: Heinrich Neß Head of Science Department : Prof. Dr. Helmuth Trischler Public relations: Bernhard Weidemann Staff: 443 Total budget: 52.7 million Euro Public funds: 31.1 million Euro Land: 19.19 million Euro Third-party funds: 13.1 million Euro Legal form: Incorporated public law institution
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The Deutsches Museum takes on a scientific responsibility in national political terms, particularly in its role as a forerunner of German science and technology museums, its research work at an international level, close working relations with universities and other museums on matters of research and theory, international partnerships and its offer of unique services and careers training facilities. The key areas of research combine the core functions of exhibition, education, research and scientific services. They include object-orientated research, international comparisons of innovation systems, science, technology and interaction with the public as well as museological research. Founded in 1997, the Munich Centre for the History of Science and Technology integrates study and research into the history of science and technology, further strengthening the Museum’s close links with the three Munich universities, the TU, LMU and the Federal Armed Forces University.
Georg Eckert Institute for International Textbook Research (GEI)
The Georg Eckert Institute is a modern academic institute with its own research library, which holds a unique collection of international school textbooks. The institute carries out research in the humanities, cultural studies and social sciences and transfers its findings into educational practice and policy. It provides the infrastructure for conducting as well as for promoting research and also carries out a variety of service projects for academic and political institutions. The main focus of the institute’s (primarily comparative) research projects is on the processes by which meaning is constructed with textbooks in relation to their specific sociocultural contexts. The institute currently has four research areas. New and innovative research approaches go beyond textbooks and focus on teachers and other educational media which are relevant to the interpretation and reception of textbook knowledge. The core topics dealt with at the institute are: • the debate about mediation via education in conflict and transformation societies, a debate which is closely connected to, but also goes well beyond, traditional textbook revision; • the discussion about a collective European identity, the definition of Europeanness and its historical roots; • the perceptions of Europe in Muslim societies and of Islam or being Muslim in European societies as they are represented in textbooks; and • ways of dealing with pluralism and ‘difference’, which relate to both the global context and conditions in specific societies. These topics form the footing on which the GEI has established itself as an internationally recognised and effective centre of competence for the comparative study of textbooks and their social contexts. Since 2007, the work of the institute has been conceived within the framework of a medium-term research and work programme which determines guidelines for the next five to eight years. This programme is called ‘Europe in the World – the World in Europe. Representations, Practices and Transfers in the Context of Schools and Teaching’.
Section A
Celler Straße 3 38114 Braunschweig, Germany Phone + 49 (0) 531 59099-0 Fax+ 49 (0) 531 59099-99 Email
[email protected] Internet www.gei.de
Director: Prof. Dr. Simone Lässig Deputy Director: Prof. Dr. Eckhardt Fuchs Head of Administration: Horst-Werner Müller Public Relations: Verena Radkau García Staff: 83 Total budget: 5 million Euro Public funds: 2.5 million Euro Third-party funds: 2.5 million Euro Legal form: Institution under public law
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Section A
Hans-Scharoun-Platz 1 27568 Bremerhaven, Berlin Phone + 49 (0) 471 482070 Fax + 49 (0) 471 4820755 Email
[email protected], Internet www.dsm.museum
Directorate: Prof. Dr. Lars U. Scholl (Managing Dir.) Dr. Ursula Warnke Head of administration: Beatrix Fromm Public relations: Marc Liedtke M.A. Staff: 46.5 Total budget: 7.2 million Euro Public funds: 4.5 million Euro Third-party funds: 2.7 million Euro Legal form: Foundation under the German Civil Code
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Deutsches Schiffahrtsmuseum, Bremerhaven (DSM)
The Deutsches Schiffahrtsmuseum (DSM)/ German Maritime Museum was established in Bremerhaven in 1971 as a successor institution to the Museum für Meereskunde (Museum of Oceanography) in Berlin, which had been destroyed in World War II. It is Germany’s national museum in the field of maritime history. The DSM’s remit encompasses the contextual study of German maritime history, the collection, recording and documentation of associated objects and the mediation of research results to the public. The remit also expressively states that German maritime history has to be examined and evaluated within an international maritime context. The main exhibit and attraction is, undoubtedly, the Hanse Cog of Bremen, a medieval shipwreck dating from 1380 AD, which was discovered and raised in 1962 and which is still being conserved, exhibited and studied today. It is the best preserved example of the “cog” ship type, which had been the predominant late medieval ship in northern Europe for over 200 years. The two most important publications on this shipwreck are a technical scientific volume, “Die Kogge von Bremen – The Hanse Cog of Bremen/Vol. 1: Bauteile und Bauablauf – Structural Members and Construction Process” (released in 1992), and a popular scientific volume, “Die Kogge: Sternstunde der deutschen Schiffsarchäologie” (released in 2003). The DSM houses a special competence in the conservation of water-logged wood and in the restoration of archaeological artefacts. Further research is undertaken on the following periods: preindustrial and medieval times, early modern time and the 19th to 21st centuries. The research results are regularly presented to the public by means of permanent and temporary exhibitions, publications and events, and all galleries are regularly redesigned. In the years 2010 to 2015 the DSM plans in accordance to a masterplan, accepted by the Governing Board in 2009, the restoration and modernization of its existing buildings, the addition of three new buildings and the total overhaul of the galleries.
Germanisches Nationalmuseum (GNM) Nuremberg
The Germanisches Nationalmuseum was established in 1852. As a national museum and as an internationally recognised research institution, its purpose is to collect, preserve, study and exhibit objects and documents pertaining to the culture and history of the German-speaking world. With current overall holdings of approx. 1.3 million objects, the Germanisches Nationalmuseum is Germany’s largest museum of cultural history.
Section A
Kartäusergasse 1 90402 Nürnberg, Germany Phone + 49 (0) 9 11/13 31-0 Fax + 49 (0) 9 11/13 31-200 Email
[email protected] Internet www.gnm.de
The architectural core of the museum is a late medieval monastery, of which the cloister, church and monastic apartments survive. Its external appearance is dominated by buildings designed by architect Sep Ruf during the 50s and 60s and the recently erected Museum Forum with Dani Karavan’s Way of Human Rights in the Kartäusergasse (1986-1996). The permanent exhibitions are arranged in 17 departments spanning the spectrum from prehistoric times to contemporary art and culture. A total of approx. 25,000 exhibits objects offer visitors a chronological panorama: from paleolithic hand-axes through the emperor portraits of Albrecht Dürer to contemporary art and design. Frequently changing exhibitions highlight specialized aspects of the art and social history of the German-speaking world. The Germanisches Nationalmuseum is more than just a museum. In addition to the individual collection departments, it houses the Historical Archives, the Deutsches Kunstarchiv, the Cabinet of Coins and Medals, the German Bell Archives, the Collection of Prints and Drawings and an Institute for Art Technology and Conservation. The specialized research library – the largest historico-cultural library in the Federal Republic of Germany, with more than 650,000 volumes on European art and cultural history – is accessible to the general public. The Germanisches Nationalmuseum has maintained a press of its own since 1854, making it the oldest museum press in Europe. Today, the publication list includes catalogues of exhibitions and collections, the annual “Anzeiger des Germanischen Nationalmuseum” and other serial publications.
General director: Prof. Dr. G. Ulrich Großmann Head of administration: Dr. Stefan Rosenberger Public Relations: Dr. Andrea Langer MBA, Marketing & Communication Dr. Christian Vogel (Press) Staff: 201 Total budget: 16.8 million Euro Public funds: 15.3 million Euro Third-party funds: 0.5 million Euro Legal form: Foundation under public law
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Gisonenweg 5-7 35037 Marburg, Germany Phone + 49 (0) 64 21/1 84-0 Fax + 49 (0) 64 21/1 84-139 Email
[email protected] Internet www.herder-institut.de
Director: Prof. Dr. Peter Haslinger Head of administration: Bernd Brandenstein Public relations: Dr. Anna Veronika Wendland Staff: 70 Total budget: 4 million Euro Third-party funds: 0.4 million Euro Legal form: Registered association
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Herder-Institut – Centre for Historical Research on East Central Europe (HI) Marburg
Since its foundation in April, 1950, the Herder-Institut has been one of Germany’s principal centres for historical research on East Central Europe. Sponsored by the Federal Government and all sixteen Federal States, this non-university institution (member of the Leibniz Association) operates as a centre for research and academic services by providing, with its collections, a supra-regional infrastructure not available elsewhere: • preparing basic aids and tools for research • acting as a forum of international academic discourse • offering user-oriented information and research services • conducting its own research. Its field of research comprises the history of the countries and nations of East Central Europe within the borders of the presentday states of Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. Its focus is on the cultural, ethnic and political relationships and processes of exchange which have shaped East Central Europe in a particular way from early medieval days into modern times. An important task is the comparative study of East Central European history and its integration into European history as a whole. The Institute’s activities are based on its collections. They comprise a library on the history and culture of East Central Europe with a current approximately 410,000 volumes, a collection of newspapers in which daily and weekly newspapers from East Central Europe have been archived and analyzed in a systematic collection of press clippings since 1952, a picture archive with all kinds of visual materials, especially on the topography as well as the art and cultural history of East Central Europe (currently about 550,000 items), a map collection with approximately 36,000 map sheets, about 1,300 old maps and 6,300 vertical aerial photographs from the years 1942-1945, and finally a collection of documents consisting of family archives, estates, individual archival items and microfilmed material from the archives of Riga, Reval/ Tallinn and Dorpat/Tartu.
Institute for the German Language (IDS), Mannheim
The IDS is the central state-aided institution for the study and documentation of the contemporary usage and recent history of the German language. The work of the IDS is divided into four departments and two central sections: • Department of Grammar • Department of Lexical Studies • Department of Pragmatics • Department of Central Research • Central Data Processing Section • Public Relations, Documentation, and Library Section
Section A
R 5, 6-13; Postfach 10 16 21 68161 Mannheim, Germany Phone + 49 (0) 6 21/15 81-0 Fax + 49 (0) 6 21/15 81-200 Email
[email protected] Internet www.ids-mannheim.de
In the Department of Grammar, the grammatical structures of German are identified and described, also including their comparison with other languages. The Department of Lexical Studies deals with lexicological, lexicographical, and corpus-based research in which specific lexical fields are studied, enabling a comprehensive documentation of the German vocabulary. The Department of Pragmatics researches language use and language variation. In particular, spoken language usage is considered. Research activities pursuing predominantly cross-departmental objectives are directly subordinate to the Director, for instance the programme areas Research Infrastructures and Corpus Linguistics belong to this unit. The Central Data Processing Section supports each department‘s computer-based research through the development and maintenance of the required software. The Public Relations Section manages the areas of public relations and the media, publications, documentation, and the library. Within the framework of its support services, the IDS maintains the German Language Archive, which is the largest collection of audio recordings of spoken German. Prospective users can order audio documentation and transcripts. In addition, the IDS provides online the archive corpora of written language (nine million book pages) as well as a specialized library that collects literature that encompasses all areas of present-day German linguistics.
Director: Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. mult. Ludwig M. Eichinger Head of administration: Harald Forschner Public relations: Dr. Annette Trabold Staff: 134 Total budget: 9.6 million EUR Third-party funds: 0.58 million EUR Legal form: Foundation under public law
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Section A
Konrad-Adenauer-Str. 40 72072 Tübingen, Germany Phone + 49 (0) 7071 979-0 Fax + 49 (0) 7071 979-100 Email
[email protected] Internet www.iwm-kmrc.de
Scientific director: Prof. Dr. Dr. Friedrich W. Hesse Head of administration: Klaus-Dieter Bastin Public relations: Tanja Vogel Staff: 120 Total budget: 6.457 million Euro Public funds: 5.019 million Euro Third-party funds: 1.150 million Euro Legal form: Foundation under private law
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Knowledge Media Research Center (KMRC) Tübingen
The Knowledge Media Research Center (KMRC) is one of the leading research institutions worldwide dealing with the acquisition, exchange and construction of knowledge with new educational and communication media. In its research, KMRC takes up questions such as: • How do people learn with new media? •H ow does social software facilitate cooperation and knowledge exchange? •H ow should new media be designed to enhance knowledge exchange and learning? As an interdisciplinary institute, KMRC integrates perspectives from cognitive science, educational science, social science, and media technology. Besides a knowledge-oriented basic research, KMRC also attaches great importance to a high relevance of its research for practitioners. The institute collaborates with universities, schools, museums, and educational institutions to facilitate the transfer of insights gained from basic and applied research. By means of this exchange, the KMRC makes a substantial contribution to enable innovative media-based teaching and learning scenarios. Since its foundation in 2001, KMRC has gained a key position in establishing national and international research networks addressing topics of technology-based learning and teaching. In 2009, KMRC has founded the first “ScienceCampus” in Germany. This research network, entitled “Education in Informational Environments”, brings together universities and extra-faculty research institutions to investigate successful educational and learning settings. For a closer look see: www.wissenschaftscampus-tuebingen.de
Institute of Contemporary History (IfZ) Munich-Berlin
Located in Munich, Germany, the Institute of Contemporary History (Institut für Zeitgeschichte, IfZ) is a national research institution having the legal status of a publicly endowed foundation. Although independent of the university system, the IfZ interacts significantly with the academic world, its own scholars holding appointments simultaneously at currently twelve universities in Germany. The Institute`s specialized library contains more than 205,000 volumes. Its archives store unpublished works by politicians, scholars and journalists, as well as records of political parties and private associations. Until the seventies, IfZ research dealt primarily with National Socialist dictatorship and its origins, the Weimar Republic, as well as the Allied period of occupation. Since then, new lines of study in the history of the Federal Republic of Germany and former East Germany have been found. The Institute responded to these new challenges with the opening of two extensions in Berlin. One extension, which was established in 1990, focuses its research on German international policy of the 1950s and 1960s and edits the Documents on the Foreign Policy of the Federal Republic of Germany. The other extension, established in 1994, continues with the research the IfZ initiated as early as 1980 on former East Germany and Soviet enterprise therein. Additionally, in 1999, the Documentation Obersalzberg was established near Berchtesgarden. This exhibition on the Nazi dictatorship was conceived and is still beeing supervized by researchers of the IfZ. The Institute, which was founded in 1949, has produced more than 500 titles, as well as microfiche, CD and DVD editions. Since 1953, the IfZ has published the world renowned quarterly “Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte”. The IfZ`s publications are works either produced by the Institute`s scholars or works submitted from outside under the aegis or direct sponsorship of the Institute. The publications cover all themes of research current in contemporary history and are considered exemplary in the field of contemporary history throughout Germany.
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Leonrodstr. 46b 80636 München, Germany Phone + 49 (0) 89/1 26 88 – 0 Fax + 49 (0) 89/1 23 17 27 Email
[email protected] Internet www.ifz-muenchen.de
Director: Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. mult. Horst Möller Deputy director: Prof. Dr. Udo Wengst Head of administration: Ingrid Morgen Staff: 131 Total budget: 7.99 million Euro Public funds: 5.1 million Euro Third-party funds: 1.68 million Euro Legal form: Publicly endowed foundation
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Olshausenstraße 62 24098 Kiel, Germany Phone + 49 (0) 4 31/8 80-50 84 Fax + 49 (0) 4 31/8 80-52 12 Email
[email protected] Internet www.ipn.uni-kiel.de
Leibniz Institute for Science and Mathematics Education at the University of Kiel (IPN)
The Leibniz Institute for Science and Mathematics Education (IPN) was established in 1966 as a research centre for science education. As an institute of the Leibniz Association, the IPN has a nationwide function. It is also affiliated to the University of Kiel. The department heads at the IPN hold professorships at the University of Kiel. The institute’s mission is to advance science and mathematics education through its research. So research deals with the full scope of issues concerning teaching and learning in the sciences and mathematics inside and outside schools. The IPN comprises five departments: Educational Science (including Research Methodology), Biology Education, Chemistry Education, Mathematics Education, and Physics Education. IPN’s tasks range across the entire field of science, mathematics, and technology education. The IPN concentrates on long-term and nationwide projects that cannot be covered by universities.
Managing director: Prof. Dr. Olaf Köller Head of administration Bent Hinrichsen Public relations: Dr. Ute Ringelband Staff: 143 Total Budget: 10.6 million. Euro Third-party funds: 3.8 million Euro Legal Form: Foundation under public law
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The IPN research programme focuses on the following areas: •R esearch on aims and perspectives of science and mathematics education (e.g. conceptions of scientific literacy, standards for science and mathematics education, and conceptions of the development of competencies); •R esearch on teaching-learning processes in science and mathematics education; • Implementation and evaluation of innovative concepts for science and mathematics teaching; • Research on computer-based assessment; • Educational monitoring (national surveys); •R esearch on out-of-school learning opportunities (e.g. Learning location lab: experimenting for acquiring, developing and consolidating mathematics and science knowledge. Besides its research activities, IPN offers different services (coordination of national and international student competitions in biology, chemistry, physics and environmental issues, programmes for teacher education, publications on science and mathematics education addressing teachers and scientists).
Römisch-Germanisches Zentralmuseum Mainz Forschungsinstitut für Vorund Frühgeschichte (RGZM) Founded in 1852, the institute conducts research into the Preand Early History of the Old World. Results of research are presented to the general public within the framework of materialbased permanent exhibitions. The institute is subdivided into three scientific departments covering Pre- and Protohistory, the Roman period and the early Middle Ages. Attached to these are three external research departments: • Palaeolithic research at Neuwied Monrepos • Ancient Shipping in Mainz-South • Volcanology and History of Technology at Mayen
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Ernst-Ludwig-Platz 2 55116 Mainz, Germany Phone +49 (0) 6131/9124-0 Fax +49 (0) 6131/9124-199 Email
[email protected] Internet www.rgzm.de
A permanent external branch is run in collaboration with the Archaeological Institute of Shaanxi Province in Xian (Peoples’ Republic of China). The Institute operates extensive restoration and conservation workshops and archaeometrical laboratories, in some cases in cooperation with the University of Mainz. It maintains a central library and an archaeological photographic archive, together with a scientific press. Research projects of the institute are carried out exclusively in international cooperation and deal with the expansion and way of life of early humans in Europe, the formation of elites in pre- and protohistoric societies, questions of economic history and interactive cultural relationships in the Ancient World. Integrated in these investigations are young academic researchers who are supported by doctoral and postdoctoral stipends. Interdisciplinary questions concerning archaeometry and archaeological remote survey and documentation are addressed in collaboration with two Centres of Competence, namely the Institute of Geosciences at the University of Mainz and the Institute for Surveying Technology at Mainz University of Applied Sciences. Research results are presented in scientific colloquia and publications or made available as Internet databases. The institute publishes two internationally distributed journals and two series of monographs. Results are regularly presented to a broader public in lectures and popular publications.
Director: Univ.-Doz. Dr. Falko Daim Head of administration: David Ch. Schott Public relations: Mag. Dominik Kimmel Staff: 156 Total budget: 8 million Euro Public funds: 7 million Euro Third-party funds: 1 million Euro Legal form: Foundation under public law
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Leibniz Institute for Psychology Information (ZPID) Trier
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ZPID is the documentation and information center for psychology in the German-speaking countries. As part of the national scientific and technical infrastructure, its main tasks are to provide academia, research, and practitioners with high-quality psychology information services and to support and improve scientific communication in these areas. Services include the documentation of psychology resources in the German-language countries, production and dissemination of information through databases and print products, provision of search and retrieval services, and information and documentation research. (c) Heidi Neyses, Universität Trier
Universitätsring 15, PO Box 54286 54296 Trier, Germany Phone +49 (0) 6 51 / 201 - 28 77 Fax +49 (0) 6 51 / 201 - 20 71 Email
[email protected] Internet www.zpid.de
Director: Prof. Dr. Günter Krampen Deputy Scientific Director: PD Dr. Erich Weichselgartner General Manager: Dipl.-Psych. Yrla M. Labouvie Public Relations: Dipl.-Soz. Bernd Preuss Staff: 22,5 Total budget : 2.2 million Euro Third-party funds: 0.12 million Euro Legal form: Central scientific institute of the University of Trier
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ZPID’s current services include: •P SYNDEX/PSYNDEXplus with TestFinder, the most comprehensive psychology database of literature, audiovisual media, tests, and intervention programs in the German-speaking countries; •W eb portal www.zpid.de with the psychology search engine PsychSpider, link catalogue PsychLinker, data archive PsychData, databases, and publications; • Print products (serials, monographs); •Z PID-Monitor on the internationality and internationalization of psychology in the German-speaking countries; • Scientometric analyses and surveys on information behaviour.
The Center of Contemporary History Potsdam (ZZF)
The Center of Contemporary History (Zentrum für Zeithistorische Forschung – ZZF) is an interdisciplinary institute, focusing on German and European contemporary history. The ZZF has an international visiting scholar program and works with numerous universities and other research institutions in Germany and abroad. Via joint appointments, it has close links and PhD programs with the University of Potsdam, the HumboldtUniversität zu Berlin and the Free University Berlin, and cooperates with numerous other German and European universities. The center also acts as an advisor to memorial centers and museums. The institute’s academic work is currently structured into five departments: • Communism and Society • Economic and Social Changes in the 20th Century • Changing Concepts of the Political • Regimes of the Social Sphere. Urban Society, Welfare State and Rationalization in the 20th Century • Contemporary History of the Media and Information Society The ZZF stresses the presentation of its research and findings to the academic community. It holds public lecture series, conferences and workshops and provides multimedia websites, all of which encourage historical and political education and public discussion of contemporary history. The ZZF publishes the monograph series Zeithistorische Studien with Böhlau-Verlag, now numbering more than 46 volumes. The almanac ZeitRäume has been published by Wallstein Verlag since 2006. The portal Zeitgeschichte-online has made the center Germany’s most important provider of academic information on contemporary history on the internet (www.zeitgeschichte-online. de). The ZZF also publishes the electronic journal Zeithistorische Forschungen (www.zeithistorische-forschungen.de), available in a parallel print version from Verlag Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht.
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Am Neuen Markt 1 14467 Potsdam, Germany Phone +49 (0) 331 289 91 57 Fax +49 (0)331 289 91 40 Email
[email protected] Internet www.zzf-pdm.de
Director: Prof. Dr. Martin Sabrow Deputy Director: Dr. Jürgen Danyel Head of Administration: Dipl. Vwl. u. Dipl.-Kauffr. Ursula Schulz Public relations: Dr. Hans-Hermann Hertle Staff: 77 Total budget: 4.1 million Euro Public funds: 2.5 million Euro Third-party funds: 1.6 million Euro Legal form: Registered association
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Hohenzollernstraße 11 30161 Hannover, Germany Phone + 49 (0) 5 11/3 48 42-0 Fax + 49 (0) 5 11/3 48 42-41 Email
[email protected] Internet www.ARL-net.de
President: Prof. Dr. Hans H. Blotevogel Vice president: Prof. Dr. Heinrich Mäding Dr. Bernhard Heinrichs Secretary-general: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Dietmar Scholich Public relations: Dr. Andreas Klee Staff: 34 Total budget: 2.3 million Euro Third-party funds: 0.2 million Euro Legal form: Institution under public law
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Academy for Spatial Research and Planning – Leibniz Forum for Spatial Sciences (ARL) Hannover The ARL, established in 1946, works within those fields particularly relevant to national and international spatial structure and development. Its principal tasks are: •b ringing together academics from various disciplines and promoting contact between academics, politicians and public officials (personal network), •p lanning, stimulating, coordinating and promoting both fundamental and applied research, which should be carried out primarily within interdisciplinary work groups (integrated research); and •m aking the results of its work available to the scientific community, public administration, politicians, the business community and the general public (transfer). The ARL is a non-university and independent research institute for the spatial sciences performing service functions in both fundamental and applied areas of research. It is a self-governing body under public law performing a role of supra-regional importance within Germany and of scientific value for the nation. It is funded jointly by the Federal and State governments. The ARL is a neutral forum for topics in the field of spatial research, planning and development. It draws together the knowledge and experience found in universities and other research establishments and in political and administrative practice. Within the ARL, such knowledge can be brought together and evaluated from a spatial-science perspective, and can be taken forward to generate new insights. Approximately 150 members, along with numerous additional experts in research and practice both from Germany and other countries, are working together within the ARL’s interdisciplinary staff network, producing a creative and integration-oriented research environment. Participation is on an honorary basis. The ARL’s Headquarters in Hannover is the centre of management and coordination, as well as a source of impulses for work in the network. It performs informational and advisory roles
German National Library of Economics (ZBW) – Leibniz Information Centre for Economics Kiel / Hamburg
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The ZBW is the world’s largest library for economics, with locations in Kiel and Hamburg. It provides literature and subjectspecific information from the fields of economics, business administration and business practice. Its associated services facilitate the efficient use of subject-specific information.
Standort Kiel: Düsternbrooker Weg 120 24105 Kiel, Germany Phone + 49 (0) 4 31/88 14-555 Fax + 49 (0) 4 31/88 14-520 Email
[email protected] Standort Hamburg: Jungfernstieg 21 20354 Hamburg, Germany Phone + 49 (0) 40/4 28 34-219 Fax + 49 (0) 40/4 28 34-450 Email
[email protected] Intenet www.zbw.eu
The ZBW’s information services comprise the online reference service “EconDesk“, the “ECONIS Select” literature select lists for current topics in economics, and online lists of new publications. EconBiz, the Virtual Library for Economics and Business Studies, makes printed and digital subject-specific information globally available via a central gateway. The ZBW participates in several nationally and internationally sponsored projects which aim to enlarge and improve the digital supply of publications from the field of economics. Within the Leibniz Library Network for Research Information “Goportis” the TIB, ZB MED and ZBW bundle their knowledge and initiate further developments in the following competence fields: Full text service, licences, non-textual materials, long-term preservation and Open Access.
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The library holds more than 5 million media units and subscribes to 27,300 journals. The complete holdings are recorded in the database ECONIS. The ZBW makes its literature available through the document delivery service Subito, the GBV Online Interlibrary Loan Service and through national and international interlending. Electronic full texts are made generally available through the ZBW document server (working papers) and Digi-Zeitschriften (called EconStor). The ZBW negotiates national licences for the field of economics within the framework of a DFG-sponsored project.
Director: Ekkehart Seusing Head of administration: RD Ralf Kopischke Public relations: Dr. Doreen Siegfried Staff: 224 Total budget: 19.7 million Euro Public funds: 17.4 million Euro Third-party funds: 1.4 million Euro Legal form: Foundation under public law
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Freiherr-vom-Stein-Straße 2 67324 Speyer, Germany Phone + 49 (0) 62 32/6 54-386 Fax + 49 (0) 62 32/6 54-290 Email
[email protected] Internet www.foev-speyer.de
German Research Institute for Public Administration (FÖV) Speyer
Established in 1976, the German Research Institute for Public Administration Speyer (FÖV) does application-oriented fundamental research in the field of administrative sciences. The Institute’s range of tasks relate to research in administrative science with specific regard to the public administration’s practical needs and functions (the motto being research in and for public administration). This commitment confirms the diversity of administrative research which is also reflected in the variety of disciplines found at the FÖV (such as: law, economics, social, political and historical sciences) and a multi- or interdisciplinary approach. Research in and for public administration is a concern of many disciplines. At the FÖV, the multidisciplinary approach means not just the coexistence of various subjects but the active synergy of neighbouring disciplines. From their very beginnings, research findings at Speyer have stood for research interests going beyond the mere disciplinary viewpoint.
Director: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Jan Ziekow General manager / Public relations: Dr. iur. Margrit Seckelmann, M.A. Staff: 40 Total budget: 2.7 million Euro Public funds: 2.2 million Euro Third-party funds: 0.5 million Euro Legal form: Institution under public law
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At present, the collegially structured institute has 28 orderly and 17 corresponding members from Germany and the international scientific community. Under the direction of one or more professors, approx. 35 junior and senior researchers carry out research projects (usually for two years). Coordinated and represented by ordinary members as their heads, these sections form the institutional framework for research at the institute. The FÖV’s research profile is arranged in three sections: Section I: Modernisation of state and administration Section II: Administration in a system of multi-level governance Section III: Administration between public and private actors Research activities are complemented by certain service elements closely related to FÖV research. These take into account the practitioners’ wishes for advice, put research findings to practical use and provide initiative for new research. These service elements include the “Agency for Administrative Surveys” and the “Scientific Documentation and Transfer Agency for Administrative Modernization in the German Länder” (WiDuT) and the Institute of Regulatory Impact Assessment and Evaluation (IUGFA).
German Institute for Economic Research (DIW) Berlin
The German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin) is one of the leading economic research institutes in Germany. Our two core mandates are applied economic research and economic policy advice. As an independent, non-profit academic institution, we are committed to serving the common good. Our institute consists of seven research departments: • The Department of Macro Analysis and Forecasting conducts theoretical and empirical analyses of economic developments and policies in Germany, the EU and the world. • The Department of International Economics undertakes leading applied economic research on Europe and the world economy and provides relevant public policy advice. • The research focus of the Department of Public Economics is how the various policy instruments of the welfare state affect the allocation of resources and the distribution of incomes. • The researchers of the Department of Information Society and Competition analyze how corporate strategies and competition patterns are changed by the growing importance of information and communication technologies. • The Department of Innovation, Manufacturing, Service analyzes the development of manufacturing and service industries and their respective markets in an international context. • The Department of Energy, Transportation and Environment focuses on two economic challenges, namely on environmentallyfriendly, sustainable development and on the regulation of infrastructure sectors. • The Department German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP) is a wide-ranging longitudinal survey that started in 1984 and currently covers more than 12,000 private households. Our institute houses a three-year Graduate Center for outstanding young doctoral students. The program offers high-level core and field courses, internships in Berlin and Washington DC, as well as on-the-job training in DIW research projects. A broad range of predominantly external research directors, research professors and research affiliates work along with the scientists of DIW Berlin.
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Mohrenstr. 58 10117 Berlin, Germany Phone + 49 (0) 30 / 8 97 89 – 0 Fax + 49 (0) 30 / 8 97 89 – 2 00 Email
[email protected] Internet www.diw.de
President: Prof. Dr. Klaus F. Zimmermann Executive Director: Dr. Alexander Fisher Head of Communication: Carel Mohn Staff: 180 Total Budget: 19.6 million Euro Public Funds: 13.6 million Euro SOEP Third-party Funds: 5.0 million Euro Legal Form: Registered association
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Institute address: Square B2, 1 68159 Mannheim, Germany Postal address: P.O.Box 12 21 55 68072 Mannheim, Germany Phone + 49 (0) 621 / 1246-0 Fax + 49 (0) 621 /1246- 100 Email
[email protected] Internet www.gesis.org
GESIS - Leibniz Institute for Social Sciences (GESIS)
GESIS Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences is an institution devoted to research in and service for the social sciences, which, by providing information, consultation, and data, supports and facilitates scientific work at every stage of the research process. Based upon extensive research programs GESIS provides services in data (archiving, provision, processing, research, social monitoring), methodology (consultation, developing complex methods, expert cluster for cross-cultural survey methodology), and specialized information (databases containing information on social science literature and research activities). Since November 2008 GESIS has assumed the name addition „Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences“ to emphasize its membership to the Leibniz Association. GESIS is divided in five departments at four local centers in Berlin, Bonn, Köln, and Mannheim • Data Archive for the Social Sciences • Center for survey design and methodology • Social Monitoring and Social Change • Specialized information for the Social Sciences • Information processes in the Social Sciences
President: Prof. Dr. York Sure Administrative director: Jost Henze Public relations: Kerstin Hollerbach, Sophie Zervos Staff: 236 Total budget: 18.3 million Euro Third-party funds: 4 million Euro Legal form: Registered association
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Our key activities are: • continuous monitoring of social development from a national and international comparative and historic perspective; • collecting and giving access to social scientific data, literature and research information • archiving and processing of national and international data for secondary analysis • the implementation of reference studies for the social sciences; • accompanying research particularly in survey methodology and data analysis; • advising scientists with methodological questions in quantitative and qualitative empirical social research; • providing further education in these areas, as well as the general advancement of methodical competence in data usage.
GIGA German Institute of Global and Area Studies
The GIGA German Institute of Global and Area Studies explores political, economic, and societal dynamics in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East. It also investigates globalizationinduced changes at the interregional and global level. The competitive advantage of the Hamburg-based institute is its unique combination of comparative and global studies and area studies.
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Neuer Jungfernstieg 21 20354 Hamburg, Germany Phone +49 (0)40 - 428 25-593 Fax +49 (0)40 - 428 25-547 Email
[email protected] Internet www.giga-hamburg.de
The GIGA’s scientific staff consists mainly of political scientists and economists, but sociologists, historians, and scholars of further disciplines are also among the researchers. They conduct empirically based and theory-guided research projects. The overall research agenda focuses on four thematic clusters: Legitimacy and Efficiency of Political Systems, Violence and Security, Socioeconomic Challenges in the Context of Globalisation, Power, Norms and Governance in International Relations. The GIGA cooperates closely with other prestigious academic institutions on many research projects and publishes its research findings primarily in internationally renowned refereed journals and edited volumes. The combination of regional expertise with systematic academic competence enables the institute to successfully meet the growing demands of political and economic decision makers for wellfounded scientific policy advice regarding the four world regions, overarching questions, and global issues. Along with research, knowledge transfer, both to decision makers and to the broader public, is a key priority for the GIGA. To facilitate knowledge transfer to business associations, private companies, nongovernmental organizations, the media, university students, etc., the GIGA organizes the GIGA Forum public lecture series and offers GIGA publications. The institute makes its own research findings as well as those of other institutions accessible through its Information Centre, Germany’s largest non-university library for area studies and comparative area studies.
President: Prof. Dr. Robert Kappel Head of finances and administration: Barbara Schömburg Public relations: Peter Peetz Staff: 125 Total budget: 7.2 million Euro Public funds: 5.2 million Euro Third-party funds: 2 million Euro Legal form: Foundation under civil law
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Baseler Str. 27-31 60329 Frankfurt/Main, Germany Phone + 49 (0) 69 / 95 91 04-0 Fax + 49 (0) 69 / 558481 Email
[email protected] Internet www.prif.org
Peace Research Institute Frankfurt (PRIF)
The Peace Research Institute Frankfurt (PRIF) was founded in 1970 by the government of the state of Hesse as an independent foundation. Its constitution guarantees PRIF full academic freedom. PRIF does not carry out any commissioned research. With more than 60 members of staff PRIF is to date the largest as well as the oldest peace research institute in Germany. PRIF´s work is directed towards identifying the causes of violent international and internal conflicts, carrying out research into the conditions necessary for peace, understood as a process of decreasing violence and increasing justice, and spreading the concepts of peace. Within the framework of its political consulting, research results are converted into practically orientated options for action that find their way into the public debate. PRIF works in a multi- and interdisciplinary way. Besides political scientists, it brings together sociologists, ethnologists, cultural and religious scientists, economists, philosophers and physicists.
Director: Prof. Dr. Harald Müller Head of administration: Britta Werner Public relations: N.N. Staff: 64 Total budget: 3.4 million Euro Public funds: 2.6 million Euro Third-party funds: 820.000 Euro Legal form: Foundation under public law
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Since 2009, PRIF has been a member of the Leibniz Association. Among others, PRIF holds cooperation agreements with Frankfurt University, Darmstadt University of Technology, and the Peace Studies Program of Cornell University, Ithaca (NY), USA. PRIF is a member of the of the Cluster of Excellence “The Formation of Normative Orders” of Frankfurt University, with Darmstadt University of Technology, Frobenius Institute, and Max Planck Institute for European Legal History.
Ifo Institute for Economic Research at the University of Munich (ifo)
Information and research: This is what the Ifo Institute has stood for since its foundation in January 1949. A cooperative agreement links Ifo closely with the Ludwig Maximilian University (LMU) in Munich, and in 2002 it was officially proclaimed an ‘Institute at the University of Munich’. Under the name CESifo, the Ifo Institute works closely with the Center for Economic Studies (CES), one of two institutes of the LMU Economics Faculty. CESifo is the name of a joint subsidiary of Ifo and the LMU, organized as a Limited Company, as well as the name under which the international activities of Ifo, CES and CESifo GmbH are combined. The CESifo Group is a unique research association that has made Munich a centre of economic and economic-policy discussion in Europe. The CESifo Research Network consists of nearly 600 economists from all over the world. The Ifo Institute is an independent and competent provider of data and information on the national and international economic situation and outlook. The most well-known service product of the Ifo Institute is the Ifo Business Climate Index based on the Ifo Business Survey (7,000 participants), a nationally and internationally respected leading indicator that is awaited with great anticipation each month by business leaders and receives wide media coverage. The Ifo Institute sees itself as an initiator and stimulator of the economy-policy discussion in Germany and Europe. It is also an internationally oriented centre for empirical economic research, all of whose activities are backed by its widely respected research output. It focuses on areas that are particularly relevant to economic policy consulting: Business Cycle Analyses and Surveys, Public Sector, Social Policy and Labour Markets, Human Capital and Innovation, Industry Branch Research, Environment, Regions and Transportation and International Institutional Comparisons. Transportation as well as International Institutional Comparisons.
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Poschingerstr. 5 81679 München, Germany Phone + 49 (0) 89 9224-0 Fax + 49 (0) 89 985369 Email
[email protected] Internet www.cesifo-group.de
President: Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Hans-Werner Sinn Head of administration: Ass. jur. Meinhard Knoche Press officer: Stefan Schott Staff: 170 Total budget: 13.4 million Euro Public funds: 8.7 million Euro Third-party funds: 4.7 million Euro Legal form: Registered association
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ILS - Institut für Landes- und Stadtentwicklungsforschung
Brüderweg 22-24 44135 Dortmund, Germany Phone + 49 (0) 231 9051 – 0 Fax + 49 (0) 231 9051 – 155 Postbox 101264 44017 Dortmund, Germany Email
[email protected] Internet www.ils-forschung.de www.ils-research.de
Managing director of research: Prof. Dr. Rainer Danielzyk Commercial managing director: Dr. Claudia Burger Press/Public relations: Gabriele Farr-Rolf Staff: 70 Total budget: 4.6 million Euro Public funds: 4 million Euro Third-party funds: 0.6 million Euro Legal form: gGmbH
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ILS - Research Institute for Regional and Urban Develop ment German Company [Associated member]
The ILS is a non-university research institute which is commited to excellence. Its activities cover the entire spectrum from theoryand concept-based to practitioner-oriented research in the fields of urban and regional development, mobility, spatial planning, architecture and building. The Federal State of North Rhine-Westphalia, represented by the Ministry for Building and Transport, is the single shareholder of the ILS. With the main issue of New Urbanisation Processes in the European Context – The Urban Future the ILS is committed to analysing the causes and consequences of new urbanisation processes and concepts for sustainable development, adopting an interdisciplinary and internationally comparative perspective. The Research Areas Metropolisation – Metropolitan places in the space of flows Regionalisation – Postsuburban differentiation of spatial structures and processes Mobility – Living in a mobile society: accessibilities and spatial interaction The City as Social Space – Social disparity, spatial fragmentation and social integration The Built City – Living in the city, building culture and urban planning Spatial Information and Communication – This Section includes the library, spatial observation and monitoring, cartography and transfer of knowledge The ILS sees its role as a node in research networks. In addition to both, university and non-university research institutes, the ILS cooperates with universities in Dortmund, Bochum, Münster and Aachen, as well as with the Academy for Spatial Research and Planning (ARL) and the Academy for Urban Development and Regional Planning (DASL). As the European dimension gains in significance, international co-operation within the framework of EU-sponsored projects and networks is becoming even more important. The main focus of international co-operation is northwest and central Europe.
Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW)
The Kiel Institute is one of the major centres for research in global economic affairs, economic policy advice, and economic education. The Institute regards research into potentially innovative solutions to urgent problems in global economic affairs as its main task.
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Hindenburgufer 66 24105 Kiel, Germany Phone + 49 (0) 4 31/88 14-1 Fax + 49 (0) 4 31/88 14-500 Email
[email protected] Internet www.ifw-kiel.de
On the basis of this research work, it advices decision-makers in politics, the economy and society, and keeps the interested public informed on important matters of economic policy. As a portal to research in global economic affairs, it manages a broadly cast network of national and international experts that supports the worldwide awareness of the Institute’s activities and gives additional research impulses in form of scientific advice, joint research, and teaching stays in Kiel. The Institute attaches particular value to economic education and cooperates closely with the world’s largest library in the economic and social sciences. The Institute was founded by Bernhard Harms in 1914. The Institute, which is an independent institution, is affiliated with Christian Albrechts University of Kiel. Since January 1st, 2007, the Kiel Institute for the World Economy has been an independent foundation under public law of the Federal State of Schleswig-Holstein.
President: Prof. Dennis Snower, Ph.D. Vice president: Prof. Dr. Rolf Langhammer Head of administration: Reg. Dir. Ralf Kopischke Public relations: Dr. Jürgen Stehn Staff: 133 Total budget: 9.6 million Euro Public funds: 7.7 million Euro Third-party funds: 1.9 million Euro Legal form: Independent foundation under public law of the Federal State of Schleswig-Holstein
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Kleine Märkerstraße 8 06108 Halle (Saale), Germany Phone + 49 (0) 345/7753-60 Fax + 49 (0) 345/7753-820 Email
[email protected] Internet www.iwh-halle.de
Halle Institute for Economic Research (IWH)
The Halle Institute for Economic Research was founded on January 1st 1992. The foundation of the IWH gave research on economic transformation processes a scientific home base in Germany. Initially, this related to the transformation from a centrally planned to a market economy. A special focus was given to the observation and scientific analysis of the transformation processes in the New Lander of Germany as well as in Central and Eastern Europe. Today, the institute’s research profile is focused on (post-) transition problems and their interaction with the European integration processes. A first research segment is concerned with Growth and Econo mic Integration. Macroeconomic forecasts and policy analyses, the analysis of financial markets and real economic activity as well as research on economic processes from a regional and a sectoral view are of interest in this segment. Special attention is given to economic integration and its fiscal and financial stability in Europe as well as to convergence in economic processes, including research on labour markets.
President: Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Ulrich Blum Managing director: Frowin Gensch Public relations: Tobias Henning Staff: 80 Total budget: 5.4 million Euro Public funds: 4.8 million Euro Third-party funds: 0.6 million Euro Legal form: Registered association
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The second research segment concentrates on the analysis of Transition Processes, i. e. on institutional reorganisation and economic assimilation processes of the former transition countries. The main emphasis is laid on economic convergence and divergence, on emerging innovation systems, and strategies for urban economic development, above all for post-socialist cities. The institute’s research projects are carried out within the three departments (macroeconomics, structural economics and urban economics) which split up into five main research topics. They combine specific knowledge and competences of the various departments. Research topics are home to scientific research as well as policy advices. Many research projects were and currently are conducted within the framework of international networks. The institute publishes the results of its scientific research in its own journal series as well as in external publications. Services are offered by the institute’s own library and public relations.
Leibniz Institute of Agricultural Development in Central and Eastern Europe (IAMO) Halle
Founded in 1994, IAMO focuses on the far-reaching economic, social and political processes of change in the agricultural and food sector, and in rural areas. Its geographical area of research extends across Central, Eastern and South-eastern Europe, including Turkey, and the transition countries of Central and Eastern Asia, especially China. In spite of great efforts and much success, the development of agriculture and the food economy in many of these regions is still far behind that of Western industrial nations; and some of them are following their own, very specific development paths. In addition, an enormous gap is emerging between successful and stagnating regions within individual countries and between countries.
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Theodor-Lieser-Straße 2 06120 Halle (Saale), Germany Phone + 49 (0) 3 45 / 29 28 – 0 Fax + 49 (0) 3 45 / 29 28 – 499 Email
[email protected] Internet www.iamo.de
IAMO’s work aims at helping to understand and to cope with the transition processes that are not yet complete, and to manage the far-reaching processes of change to reduce ongoing development deficits in the agricultural and food sector, as well as in the rural areas of the research regions. IAMO is divided into three academic departments: • External Environment for Agriculture and Policy Analysis • Agricultural Markets, Marketing, and World Agricultural Trade • Structural Development of Farms and Rural Areas. In close collaboration with partner institutions of the research regions IAMO pursues fundamental research as well as application-orientated studies. Quantitative and qualitative information on the agricultural sector of the countries mentioned is used as an empirical basis in order to enhance economic theories and models. Interdependencies regarding the agricultural specific aspects of transition are analysed. Research findings contribute to the solution of conflicts of interest by providing economic-politically grounded recommendations. Further core tasks of the institute are to advanced training for academic scholars particularly from the research countries, encouraging international scientific collaboration as well as the exchange of ideas between academic, business and political communities.
Director ATE: Prof. Dr. Alfons Balmann PD Dr. Gertrud Buchenrieder Prof. Dr. Thomas Glauben (Managing director) Hannelore Zerjeski (Head of Administration) Public relations: Britta Paasche Staff: 111 Total budget: 4.7million Euro Public funds: 3.9 million Euro Third-party funds: 0.8 million Euro Legal form: Foundation under public law
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Schongauerstraße 9 04329 Leipzig, Germany Phone + 49 (0) 3 41/2 55-65 00 Fax + 49 (0) 3 41/2 55-65 98 Email
[email protected] Internet www.ifl-leipzig.de
Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography (IfL) Leipzig
The Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography carries out original research on the regional geography of Europe and presents information for geographers and a broader public. Studies of the theoretical and historical foundations of regional geography constitute a further focus of the institute’s work. The IfL is the only non-university research institute for geography in Germany. The international studies of the IfL concentrate on Central and Eastern Europe, but also include a Europe-wide comparative perspective. To this end, spatially differentiating processes in society and the economy are identified and their effects on urban and rural spaces, centres and peripheries are analyzed. Under the central theme „New European Geographies“, current projects are grouped into three areas of research: Production of Space, Geo-Visualisations, and History of Geography. By rethinking and developing theories and concepts of traditional Regional Geography, IfL contributes to an enhanced understanding of spatial organisation and spatial practices of European societies.
Director: Prof. Dr. Sebastian Lentz Head of administration: Beata Kirchner Public relations: Dr. Peter Wittmann Staff: 68 Total budget: 4.3 million Euro Public funds: 3.5 million Euro Legal form: Registered association
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The Central Geographical Library (GZB) in the IfL is one of the largest specialized geographical libraries in Germany. The Archive for Geography at the IfL is unique in Germany with its collection of materials related to the history of geography, including more than one hundred sets of personal papers of geographers and explorers. Both library and archive are open to the public. The IfL is active in national and international research networks. An important element of this cooperation is the collaboration with other Leibniz institutions involved in spatial science (4RNetzwerk). The Institute also cooperates with numerous other German and foreign institutions and scientists. A scholarship programme provides opportunities for international young scientists in particular to research in Germany and take part in collaborations. Each summer, the organizes a six-week work experience programme in which students from German and international universities can take part.
Leibniz Institute of Ecological and Regional Development (IÖR) Dresden
The IOER is an interdisciplinary institution that implements research pertaining to fundamental issues of ecologically based spatial development research on national, European, and international levels. The overall focus of the IOER involves the comprehensive analysis of development requirements of regional, town and landscape development within the framework of sustainable development and related recent trends in building and housing. Of primary importance are the initial conditions and relative development perspectives of ecological spatial development, as well as strategies, methods and tools needed for its implementation. This provides the fundamentals necessary for planning policy.
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Weberplatz 1 01217 Dresden, Germany Phone + 49 (0) 351/46 79-0 Fax + 49 (0) 351/46 79-212 Email
[email protected] Internet www.ioer.de
Areas of research include: landscape change and management, resource efficiency of settlement structures, environmental risks in urban and regional development, as well as strategic issues and perspectives. Another activity of IOER is the internationally oriented Dresden Leibniz Graduate School which deals with demographic change, resilience as well as urban and regional development strategies. It is managed together with TU Dresden. In education and research the IOER cooperates closely with TU Dresden. It also works together with other universities in Germany and abroad such as Ohio State University (USA) and Chilean universities. The institute played a decisive role in the constitution of the Dresden Flood Research Centre. Furthermore, IOER maintains intensive working relationships with other member institutions of the Leibniz Association that are dealing with spatial development research issues (ARL, IfL, IRS, and ILS as associated member). Together, these institutions form the 4R+ network. The IOER is responsible for coordinating the Network of Spatial Research and Planning Institutions in Central and Eastern Europe (spa-ce.net). Altogether, it cooperates with partners in more than 20 European countries as well as in America, Asia and Africa. The IOER houses and maintains a comprehensive library with specialized materials and information in ecologically oriented spatial planning and urban development, building ecology and housing.
Executive board and director: Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Bernhard Müller Head of administration: Heike Bernhardt Public relations: Katlen Trautmann Staff: 120 Total budget: 6.7 million Euro Public funds: 4.7 million Euro Third-party funds: 2 million Euro Legal form: Registered association
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Flakenstraße 28-31 15537 Erkner, Germany Phone + 49 (0) 33 62/7 93-0 Fax + 49 (0) 33 62/7 93-111 Email
[email protected] Internet www.irs-net.de
Leibniz Institute for Regional Development and Structural Planning (IRS) Erkner
The IRS researches social, economic and spatial aspects of urban and regional development. It investigates the transformation and governance of cities and regions through a social sciences approach and interdisciplinary teams focusing on long-term research. With its research projects, the institute contributes actively to devising objectives and strategies for the development and stabilization of European subregions. The theoretically-founded and practice-oriented research targets the generation of knowledge in four fields: • Dynamics of Economic Space • Institutional Change and Regional Public Goods •D ynamics of Communication, Knowledge, and Spatial Development • Regeneration of Cities and Towns
Director: Prof. Dr. Heiderose Kilper Head of administration: Ass. jur. Franz Klitsche Public relations: Gregor Prinzensing Staff: 67 Total budget: 3.55 million Euro Public funds: 2.7 million Euro Third-party funds: 0.85 million Euro Legal form: Registered association
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The research area presently encompasses the new Federal States, the Federal Republic of Germany as a whole, Eastern Central Europe and other EU countries. The IRS cooperates at national and international levels with universities and extra-university research institutes. Cooperation agreements exist with the Brandenburg Technical University of Cottbus, Free University Berlin, and Potsdam University. The IRS currently (December 2008) employs a staff of 67. 15 out of the 44 scientists are working on externally funded projects, while 14 are doctoral candidates. The IRS has compiled its own archive of papers and planning documents relating to the history of architecture and urban planning in the GDR. The archive is founded on the records of the former GDR‘s Institute for Urban Planning and Architecture. This material continues to be stored, catalogued and occasionally published by the institute for scientific purposes.
Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für Wirtschafts forschung (RWI) Essen
RWI Essen is a modern centre for scientific research and evidence-based policy advice, competing internationally, but retaining its strong roots in the region. The institute pursues a coherent research programme following the Leitmotif: “Individual prosperity and economic policy in times of demographic and societal change.” Instead of static research groups, RWI Essen is organized in areas of competence, which are defined by their content. Three of these areas are: Labour Markets, Education, Population; Health; Data. Focal points of research include analyses of labour market policy, the hospital sector, the wealth position of immigrants, and German education policy. Due to the emphasis on microeconometric approaches, RWI Essen also contributes to (Econometric) literature on policy evaluation. Further areas of competence are: Enterprises and Innovation; Environment and Resources. Work in these areas addresses business startups and questions regarding small and medium enterprises as well as research and development and innovation. Among other topics, RWI researchers also analyze German climate policy and markets for fossil and renewable energy. Two more areas of competence: Growth and Cycles; Public Finance pay particular attention to the diagnosis and forecasting of the German economy and those of leading industrialized countries as well as to the sustainability of public budgets. Due to the location of the institute, analysis of the economy of North Rhine-Westphalia is also on the agenda. Research is based on the latest theoretical concepts, as well as scientific methods. Together with the Ruhr University Bochum, the University of Dortmund and the University of Duisburg-Essen RWI Essen has been running the Ruhr Graduate School of Economics (RGS Econ, www.ruhr-econ.de) since 2004. Combining the expertise of researchers from all four participating institutions, RGS Econ provides an ideal place for research and higher education in economics. Emphasis is on analytical theories and advanced empirical methods, the school’s Leitmotif is “Economic Analysis of Demographic Change”. During the three years of the programme, doctoral candidates gradually shift the emphasis of their work from lectures to research projects of their own, following the AngloSaxon model.
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Hohenzollernstraße 1-3 45128 Essen, Germany Phone + 49 (0) 201/81 49-0 Fax + 49 (0) 201/81 49-200 Email
[email protected] Internet www.rwi-essen.de
President: Prof. Dr. Christoph M. Schmidt, Ph.D. Head of Administration: Sabine Reinhard Head of Finances: Barbara Siemons Public Relations: Joachim Schmidt Staff: 105 Total budget: 8.4 million Euro Third-party funds: 2.8 million Euro Legal form: Registered association
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Reichpietschufer 50 10785 Berlin, Germany Phone + 49 (0) 30/2 54 91-0 Fax + 49 (0) 30/2 54 91-684 Email
[email protected] Internet www.wzb.eu
Social Science Research Center Berlin (WZB)
WZB scholars are engaged in problem-oriented basic research. With this approach, we focus on subjects that have a particular impact on society and ask how state, private, and civil institutions can solve the problems facing the economy, society and politics. ‘Basic research’ means that our questioning and methods are developed through scholarly discourse, independent of political or economic directives. At the WZB, about 150 German and international sociologists, political scientists, economists, legal experts and historians work side by side, conducting long-term, theory-based empirical research. Many of our research projects take an interdisciplinary and internationally comparative approach.
President: Prof. Jutta Allmendinger, Ph.D. Managing director: Heinrich Baßler Public relations: Dr. Paul Stoop Staff: 300 Total budget: 16.7 million Euro Third-party funds: 4.6 million Euro Legal form: Charitable limited company
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Our main fields of research are: • Labor market and economic dynamics • Social inequality and problems of the welfare state •D emocracy and civil society - Competition, regulation and the state • Education, innovation and science policy • Intercultural and international conflicts • Public health. We work in close cooperation with the Berlin universities and other German and international research institutions. The WZB was founded in 1969 on the initiative of German members of parliament, representing all major political parties.
Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW) Mannheim
ZEW Mannheim was established in 1990 as a non-profit research institute. It operates in the field of applied empirical economic research with some emphasis on a microeconomic and microeconometric research approach. The ZEW‘s research focuses on the following areas: International Finance and Financial Management; Labour Markets, Human Resources and Social Policy; Industrial Economics and International Management; Corporate Taxation and Public Finance; Environmental and Resource Economics, Environmental Management; Information and Communication Technologies; Analysis of Growth and Business Cycles. High-profile research work on these subjects sets the foundations for the ZEW’s economic policy advising objectives. Since highly qualified staff is a prerequisite to excellent research, the ZEW holds a substantive interest in the professional development of young researchers. The ZEW provides sabbaticals for the researchers and closely cooperates with the doctoral programmes of various (foreign) universities in the ZEW Doctoral Studies Network. Furthermore, by means of the ZEW Visiting Researchers Programme, the ZEW intensifies cooperation with internationally renowned researchers. The ZEW has established its profile in particular by tackling international comparative questions in the European context as well as by implementing scientifically important databases such as the ZEW Start-Up Panel, the Mannheim Innovation Panel (MIP) and the European Tax Analyzer among others. National as well as international attention is also very much drawn to the monthly ZEW Indicator of Economic Sentiment, providing early indication of economic trends. The ZEW considers the dissemination of its research results to be of vital importance. Therefore, each year, quite a number of scientific conferences as well as events and seminars for executives of firms and organisations as well as political leaders are hosted at the ZEW. Moreover, the ZEW uses publication series, discussion papers, regularly published white papers, press releases and the internet to share its scientific findings with the public.
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L 7,1 68161 Mannheim, Germany Phone +49 (0) 6 21/12 35-01 Fax +49 (0) 6 21/12 35-222 Email
[email protected] Internet www.zew.de/eu
President and director science and research: Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. mult. Wolfgang Franz Director business and administration: Thomas Kohl Public relations: Gunter Grittmann Staff: 181 Total budget: 16 million Euro Third-party funds: 5.8 million Euro Legal form: Limited company (GmbH)
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Bernhard-Nocht-Str. 74 20359 Hamburg, Germany Phone +49 (0) 40/4 28 18-0 Fax +49 (0) 40/4 28 18-265 Email
[email protected] Internet www.bnitm.de
Board of Directors: Prof. Dr. med. Rolf Horstmann (Chair) Prof. Dr. med. Bernhard Fleischer Prof. Dr. med. Egbert Tannich Udo Gawenda (Business managing director) Public relations: Dr. Eleonora Setiadi Staff: 211 Total budget: 15.8 million Euro Third-party funds: 2.6 million Euro Legal form: Foundation under public law
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Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine, Hamburg (BNI)
The Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine is Germany’s largest institution for research, services and training in the field of tropical diseases and emerging infections. Research topics include clinical studies, epidemiology and disease control as well as the biology of the respective pathogens, their reservoirs and vectors. The current focus is on malaria, haemorrhagic fevers, tuberculosis and tissue nematodes. To study highly pathogenic organisms such as Lassa and Ebola viruses, the institute is equipped with laboratories of the highest biosafety level (BSL4). Outstanding scientific achievements in the recent past include the identification of the SARS coronavirus and the discovery of a previously unknown developmental stage of malaria parasites in humans. Services of the institute include specific laboratory diagnostics of tropical diseases, emerging and other rare infections, a close co-operation with the German army as well as consultation of the scientific community, industry, politics and the public, which greatly contribute to the national standing of the institute. The institute serves as the German National Reference Centre for all tropical pathogens, reference laboratory for SARS and the WHO Collaborating Centre for haemorrhagic fever viruses. Teaching activities include a 3-months, full-time course on all aspects of tropical medicine for physicians, further a training programme for in-house PhD students and a number of activities of continuing education in topics related to travel medicine and international health. In co-operation with the Ghanaian Ministry of Health and Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in Kumasi, the institute since more than ten year runs the Kumasi Centre for Collaborative Research in Tropical Medicine (KCCR), a modern research and training centre in Ghana, which is also available to external research groups.
Bremen Institute for Prevention Research and Social Medicine (BIPS) [Associated member]
The population takes center stage in our research. Being an interdisciplinary epidemiological research institute it is our mission to detect causes of ill health in the population, to develop, implement and evaluate prevention strategies and to provide the respective scientific methods. Complementary to our research activities in epidemiology, we have a strong focus on translating our research results into public health strategies, such as developing prevention programmes for individuals and settings, and on counselling stakeholders, political actors and the community. BIPS is a competence centre for statistics, data management, standardisation and quality control and has longstanding expertise in planning, co-ordinating and conducting multi-centre, large-scale epidemiological studies at the European level. Prevention programmes are designed for individuals (e.g. the multi-centre German Cardiovascular Prevention Study) and channels (e.g., the EURO-scip-Projects), in addition to counselling of the local community in public health issues. BIPS co-ordinates the largest European intervention study on overweight, obesity and related health effects in children induced by diet, lifestyle and social factors called IDEFICS. Our pharmacoepidemiolgocial research is based on a large pharmacoepidemiological database including 14 million insurants which is currently being established. An important field of research is the investigation of the quality of treatment with pharmaceuticals regarding observance of therapeutic guidelines, licensed indications, recommended dosage, contraindications, warnings, and interactions. Another essential field of research is the investigation of risks of pharmaceuticals, carried out partly in the framework of governmentally required risk management plans after drug approval. BIPS is one of the oldest epidemiological research institutes in Germany and has been founded in 1981. Since 2007 BIPS forms a central unit of the University of Bremen. It is organised in four departments (Biometry and Data Management, Clinical Epidemiology, Epidemiological Methods and Etiologic Research, Prevention and Evaluation) each chaired by a professor of the university. The quality of research is controlled by a research steering committee.
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Linzer Str. 10 28359 Bremen, Germany Phone +49 (0)421 59596-0 Fax +49 (0)421 59596-68 Internet www.bips.uni-bremen.de
Scientific director: Prof. Dr. Iris Pigeot-Kübler Administration: Michael Schmid Public relations: N.N. Staff: 70 plus 40 student workers Budget: 4.63 million Euro Third-party funds: 60 percent Legal form: Central Scientific Unit of the University of Bremen
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Lichtenbergstraße 4 85748 Garching, Germany Phone + 49 (0) 89/2 89-1 41 70 Fax + 49 (0) 89/2 89-1 41 83 Email
[email protected] Internet www.dfal.de
German Research Centre for Food Chemistry (DFA) Garching
The DFA was founded in Munich in 1918. Research focuses on the chemical composition of foodstuffs, their evaluation with regard to their toxicological and dietary properties as well as current national and international food legislation. This work is carried out in close collaboration with the universities of Munich. The current scientific projects can be described by the following five general subjects. Identification of ligands for olfactory receptors, flavour and taste active compounds as well as colourings: Formation and degradation processes, isolation and structure determination as well as the evaluation of the quantitative contribution of food consitutents to the “hedonic value” of foods; clarification of physiological processes of aroma perception during food consumption.
Director: Prof. Dr. Peter Schieberle Vice director: Prof. Dr. Peter Köhler Public relations: Dr. Gaby Andersen Staff: 30.5 Total budget: 4.5 million Euro Public funds: 2.9 million Euro Third-party funds: 1.6 million Euro Legal form: Foundation under public law
Structure/function relationships of food constituents/additives: • Clarification of the correlations between the chemical structure and the techno-functional and toxicological properties aimed at improving food quality and providing health care • Further development of physico-chemical methods for the optimization of food texture with macromolecules • Mechanisms of action of ingredients used for the improvement of food properties and optimisation of food technology. Development of analytical methodologies for foods: Identification and quantification of relevant food constituents by developing suitable chemical instrumental analysis. Physiological properties of food constituents: Clarification of structure/function relationships of isolated and matrixbound food constituents by means of bio-chemical and bio-molecular methods in different physiological test systems. Experimental studies on the metabolism of physiologically active structures. Publication of food composition tables: The international standard work founded by Souci, Fachmann and Kraut at the DFA is updated by the evaluation of the current scientific literature and internal analytical studies and is published regularly.
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German Collection of Microorganisms and Cell Cultures (DSMZ) Brunswick
The DSMZ – Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen (German Collection of Microorganisms and Cell Cultures) GmbH was founded 1969 as the national culture collection in Germany. The independent, non-profit organization is dedicated to the acquisition, characterization and identification, and preservation and distribution of Bacteria, Archea, fungi, plasmids, bacteriophages, human and animal cell lines, plant cell cultures and plant viruses. Since 2004, the DSMZ is certified by DIN EN ISO 9001-2000. The DSMZ is the most comprehensive resource centre of microorganisms, cell lines and plant viruses in Europe, offering industry and academic research authentic biological material, preserved to maintain the highest level of genomic stability. The DSMZ has, at present, about 30,000 cultures, including 19,000 different cultures of microorganisms, 750 plant cell cultures, 550 plant viruses and 700 antisera, 600 human and animal cell lines, and 6,700 patent- and safe deposits. Only biological material of risk group 1 and 2 is housed. Internationally renowned scientific services are offered to support fundamental research and processes of industrial production. The DSMZ is recognized as an International Deposit Authority (IDA) for the deposit of biological material under the Budapest Treaty. The research activities are focused on collection-related fields, including microbial taxonomy, bioinformatics, evolution, molecular biodiversity studies, development of preservation methods for biological material, cell line characterization and identification as well as detection and elimination of mycoplasms and viruses from human and animal cell lines. Information on cultures, services and catalogues is available online.
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Inhoffenstr. 7B 38124 Braunschweig, Germany Phone + 49 (0) 5 31/26 16-0 Fax + 49 (0) 5 31/26 16-418 Email
[email protected] Internet www.dsmz.de
Director: Prof. Dr. Jörg Overmann Administration: Bettina Fischer Public relations: Milena Wozniczka Staff: 120 Total budget: 7.2 million Euro Legal form: Limited Company
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Gleueler Str. 60 50931 Köln, Germany Phone + 49 (0) 2 21/4 78-56 00 Fax + 49 (0) 2 21/4 78-71 02 Email
[email protected] Internet www.zbmed.de www.medpilot.de, www.greenpilot.de www.egms.de
German National Library of Medicine (ZB MED) Cologne and Bonn
Germany’s central library for Medicine, Health, Nutrition, Environmental and Agricultural Science. ZB MED collects scientific literature of all publication forms. It provides access to the public via e-mail, internet, fax, post or on its own premises. ZB MED holds over 1.15 million volumes and approximately 27.517 journal titles, of which 7287 are running titles. About 6947 journal-titles are electronically stored and free of licensing fees worldwide. Locating and ordering of desired literature is possible with the Online Catalogue (OPAC). In 2009, ZB MED received 275.000 orders, 87% of which could be fulfilled. ZB MED is a national and supranational service centre supporting science and research, professional practice and industry. Within the Leibniz Library Network for Research Information “Goportis”, ZB MED along with its partner libraries TIB and ZBW bundle their knowledge and initiate further developments in the following competence fields: Full text service, licences, non-textual materials, long-term preservation and Open Access.
Director: Ulrich Korwitz Administration: Jürgen Gärtner Public relations: Elke Roesner Staff: 81 Total budget: 12.4 million Euro Public funds: 9.5 million Euro Third-party funds: 2.9 million Euro Legal form: Institution of North Rhine-Westphalia
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To further enhance and develop new services, ZB MED is engaged in several projects, three of which are specially mentioned here: •M EDPILOT is the virtual library for medicine and health with an integrated ordering component. The portal enables fast, user-oriented, cross-database access to specialist medical information. The primary target groups of MEDPILOT are doctors, students and scientists. • GREENPILOT is the virtual library for nutrition, the environment and agriculture. GREENPILOT combines different valuable information resources into a single portal to search, find and retrieve relevant scientific information from one source. • German Medical Science (gms) is a portal for online journals, meetings and research reports and offers all scientists from the field of medicine open access to scientific articles and the possibility to publish their research results online. GMS is being published and developed in partnership with the Association of Scientific Medical Societies in Germany (AWMF) and the German Institute of Medical Documentation and Information (DIMDI).
German Diabetes Center (DDZ) – Leibniz-Center for Diabetes Research at the Heinrich-Heine-University Duesseldorf In 1964, the Diabetes Research Institute was founded, which was renamed as the German Diabetes Center (Deutsches Diabetes-Zentrum, DDZ) in 2004. It operates under the sponsorship of the German Diabetes Research Society (Deutsche Diabetes Forschungsgesellschaft) and became an institute at the Heinrich Heine University Duesseldorf through a cooperative agreement in 1996. It is a member of the Leibniz Association. The central mission of the DDZ is to bridge the gaps between basic research and clinical application in the field of diabetes and its complications in order to improve diagnosis, therapy, and prevention of diabetes and related disorders. The DDZ comprises three scientific departments and two junior research groups, which perform investigations on diabetes mellitus in close interdisciplinary cooperation. Following a comprehensive structural change in 2007 the current scientific departments are: • Institute for Clinical Diabetology • Institute of Clinical Biochemistry and Pathobiochemistry • Institute of Biometrics and Epidemiology • Junior Research Groups: Metabolic Imaging and Signal Transduction The line of research at the DDZ is determined by three programmes which address the most relevant issues of today´s diabetes research. The three programmes are • identification of new pathogenetic mechanisms and molecular targets for therapy and prevention of diabetes (Programme A) • chronic inflammation, energy metabolism and diabetes (Programme B) • epidemiological principles and models of diabetes prevention and health care (Programme C) With a fourth structural programme called “German Diabetes Center Cohort” (Programme D) a large-scaled collective of patients with newly manifested type 1 and type 2 diabetes is recruited and followed up. Cross-linking the three departments of the DDZ is one of the essential characteristics of this study.
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Auf‘m Hennekamp 65 40225 Duesseldorf, Germany Phone +49 (0) 211 33 82 – 0 Fax +49 (0) 211 33 82 603 Internet www.ddz.uni-duesseldorf.de
Managing director: Prof. Dr. med. Michael Roden Commercial managing director: Hans-Joachim Liebe Public relations: Dr. med. Klaus Wiefels Staff: 159 Total budget: 16.7 million Euro Total budget: 10.1 million Euro Own / Third-party funds: 6.6 million Euro Legal form: Supporting Organization: Deutsche Diabetes-Forschungsgesell schaft e.v.Düsseldorf
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Arthur-Scheunert-Allee 114-116 14558 Nuthetal, Germany Phone + 49 (0) 3 32 00/88-0 Fax + 49 (0) 3 32 00/85-250 Email
[email protected] Internet www.dife.de
German Institute of Human Nutrition (DIfE) Potsdam
The mission of the German Institute of Human Nutrition (DIfE) is to conduct experimental and clinical research in the field of nutrition and health, with the aim of understanding the molecular basis of nutrition-dependent diseases, and of developing new strategies for prevention, treatment, and nutritional recommendations. Scientists at the DIfE pursue these scientific goals through interdisciplinary cooperation comprising a broad spectrum of experimental and epidemiological methods. A particular focus of the institute is research on the most important diseases at present, i.e., obesity, diabetes, and cancer, whose development may involve nutrition-dependent factors. According to current estimates, up to 30% of all cases of cancer and 80% of cases of type 2 diabetes could be related to nutrition or its associated factors.
Scientific director: Prof. Dr. Dr. Hans-Georg Joost Administrative director: Dr. Hartmut Schulz Public relations: Dr. Gisela Olias Staff: 299 Total budget: 16.56 million Euro Public funds: 12.51 million Euro Third-party funds: 3.63 million Euro Legal form: Foundation under public law
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Since DIfE’s establishment in 1992, significant progress in elucidating the genetic basis of obesity and diabetes has been made. For example, DIfE scientists identified gene variants in a mouse model that are responsible for obesity and diabetes. Based on epidemiological data derived from the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition (EPIC*), they also demonstrated an association between gene variants, nutrition and the development of diabetes. Beyond this, epidemiologists identified nutritional habits that are linked to an increased cancer risk. At present, between 4 and 6 million people in Germany are estimated to have type 2 diabetes. Additionally, many millions are suspected of having an early stage of the disease that is asymptomatic. Diabetic patients die earlier, in particular of cardiovascular diseases. Moreover, type 2 diabetes often leads to serious complications, such as blindness, kidney failure, and amputation of limbs. * EPIC: A multiple-centre, European-wide study that is designed to investigate the relationship between nutrition and the incidence of cancer and other chronic diseases.
German Primate Centre – Leibniz Institute for Primate Research (DPZ) Göttingen
The DPZ was established as a service facility for research in Germany in 1977. Its mission is biological and biomedical research on and with primates as well as the keeping and breeding of these animals. The services offered by the DPZ range from the provision of animals and samples through the import and keeping in quarantine of animals to the provision of work facilities and primatespecific training and upgrading as well as consultancy. Currently, around 1,500 animals representing 8 different species are kept. DPZ’s research activities with its ten research departments and research teams are divided into three Sections: • Infection biology The research field of “Virology/Immunobiology” is the retroviruses, one property of which is to trigger the immune deficiency disease AIDS, the herpes viruses and research on prions. The “Infection Pathology” programme focuses on pathogenetic issues relating to various infectious diseases and, also, prion research. • Organismatic Primate Biology “Reproductive Biology” centres on elucidating reproductive processes using non-invasive and comparative approaches. “Behavioural Ecology/Sociobiology” analyzes the diversity and evolution of social systems and is active in the conservation of species. The working field of “Cognitive Ethology” is the evolution of cognitive and communicative processes. “Primate Genetics” is dedicated to the analysis of genes that are involved in immune responses as well as examinations of molecular and evolution and population genetics. “Stem Cell Research” is currently being established. • Neurosciences Research in “Cognitive Neurosciences” aims at understanding the neuronal foundations of visual perception and sensory motor integration. “Clinical Neurobiology” examines the centralnervous effects of chronic stress and is dedicated to the therapy of neurodegenerative diseases.
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DPZ Kellnerweg 4 37077 Göttingen, Germany Phone + 49 (0) 5 51 / 38 51 – 0 Fax + 49 (0) 5 51 / 38 51 – 1 83 Email
[email protected] Internet www.dpz.eu
Director: Prof. Dr. Stefan Treue Head of administration Michael Lankeit Public relations: Dr. Dr. Michael Schwibbe Staff: 300 Total budget: 14 million Euro Public funds: 10 million Euro Third-party funds: 4 million Euro Legal form: Limited Company
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Charitéplatz 1 10117 Berlin, Germany Phone + 49 (0) 30/2 84 60-737 Fax + 49 (0) 30/2 84 60-603 Email
[email protected] Internet www.drfz.de
Scientific director: Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Andreas Radbruch Administrative director: Petra Starke Scientific Advisor – Leibniz Officer: Mag. Dr. rer. nat. Elke Luger Public relations: Jacqueline Hirscher Staff: 152 Total budget: 8.8 million Euro Legal form: Foundation of the Civil-Law
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German Rheumatism Research Center Berlin (DRFZ)
The German Rheumatism Research Center Berlin (DRFZ) successfully connects basic science of rheumatic diseases with clinical, regenerative and epidemiologic research. It opens up for clinicians to enable them biological and epidemiologic research. The DRFZ puts its focus on the understanding and investigation of inflammatory rheumatic diseases. As yet, there is no cure for inflammatory rheumatic diseases. Neither is there a cure for degenerative rheumatic diseases. An exact knowledge of the biology of the cells and molecules causing these diseases is the prerequisite for developing new cellular therapies, and to find ways to improve rheumatologic health care. To achieve the latter, the Epidemiology Unit has established the unique National Database of the German Collaborative Arthritis Centers, together with 300 rheumatologists in Germany. Basic science at the DRFZ is focused on the „pathophysiology of rheumatic diseases“ with special emphasis on the induction of rheumatic autoimmune reactions, the functional imprinting of T helper and effector cells, the biology of B cells as (auto)antibodysecreting effector cells and regulatory B and T cells. Research in this field opens up new possibilities of cell-directed treatment, turning off misguided cells, leaving healthy ones untouched. The DRFZ employs 23 research groups, 12 of which are liaison groups with the Charité and the Technical University Berlin. Physicians, biologists, geneticists, biochemists, mathematicians and sociologists work closely together. The DRFZ participates in 8 Collaborative Research Centers (SFBs) and in 8 research networks of the EU. It is a partner in 4 consortia of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF). The DRFZ receives core funding from the government (BMBF) and the State of Berlin in equal shares. Since 1.1.2009, the DRFZ has been full member of the LeibnizGemeinschaft with its own Leibniz-Officer on site. Equal opportunities and a good work/life balance are achievements of its successful personnel policy.
Leibniz Institute for Farm Animal Biology (FBN) Dummerstorf
On January 29th, 1993, FBN was set up in the legal form of a foundation under public law of the State of MecklenburgVorpommern. Its location in Dummerstorf can look back on a tradition of more than 50 years of continuous research on farm animals. The reputed Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Animal Breeding was founded in Dummerstorf as early as 1939. The FBN investigates the functional biodiversity of farm animals in its environmental context as a basis of domestication and as a crucial component in both sustainable agriculture and human nutrition. FBN’s research areas cover knowledge-driven basic research as well as problem-oriented applied research on the biology of farm animals. Within six research units and one research group, scientists with sound expertise in agricultural sciences, biology, veterinary medicine, chemistry, biochemistry, physics and mathematics jointly carry out research on genetics, reproduction, nutrition, behaviour, growth and development of farm animals. FBN’s disciplinary breadth guarantees an in-depth interdisciplinary investigation of forward-looking research areas such as the production of consumer-oriented foods, the efficient use of agricultural resources, animal welfare as well as livestock keeping systems which satisfy animal and environmental requirements. A total of 40 research projects are presently being carried out in collaboration with 269 institutions in 33 countries. The Large Animal Facilities of FBN can provide housing for 450 livestock units (cattle, pigs, sheep, goats, horses). An experimental slaughterhouse is on site. The Small Animal Unit houses up to 33,000 mice. As an alternative to experimental animals, in-vitro-techniques are applied wherever feasible.
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Wilhelm-Stahl-Allee 2 18196 Dummerstorf, Germany Phone + 49 (0) 3 82 08/68-5 Fax + 49 (0) 3 82 08/68-602 Email
[email protected] Internet www.fbn-dummerstorf.de
Executive board: Prof. Dr. Manfred Schwerin Head of administration: Senior Government Official Dieter Wirges Public relations: Dr. Norbert Karl Borowy Staff: 262 Total budget: 20.1 million Euro Third-party funds: 2.8 million Euro Legal form: Foundation under public law
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Senckenberganlage 25, 60325 Frankfurt, Germany Phone + 49 (0) 69-7542 0 Fax + 49 (0) 69-746238 Email
[email protected] Internet www.senckenberg.de
Director: Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Volker Mosbrugger Head of administration: Johannes Ferdinand Public relations: Doris von Eiff Staff: 428 Total budget: 25.6 million Euro Additional third-party funds: 19.9 million Euro Legal form: Private-law corporation
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Senckenberg Gesellschaft für Naturforschung
The Senckenberg Gesellschaft für Naturforschung is one of the largest German institutions performing research in bio- and geosciences. With its headquarters in Frankfurt/Main, Senckenberg is present in Dresden, Gelnhausen, Görlitz, Hamburg, Müncheberg (with the ‘Deutsches Entomologisches Institut’, German Entomological Institute), Tübingen, Weimar and Wilhelmshaven. Senckenberg also operates the Messel Pit, a UNESCO world heritage site famous for its brilliantly preserved Eocene fossils. Senckenberg runs one of the largest German natural history museums in Frankfurt as well as smaller museums in Görlitz and Dresden, the latter representing the world’s oldest nature science collections. Research focuses on all aspects of bio- and geodiversity, evolution and ecology. An overarching research goal is to analyse the role of the biosphere in the Earth’s system and to understand the human impact on the biosphere. These research fields provide a solid scientific base for nature conservation strategies, and a sustainable ecosystem and biodiversity management. Senckenberg’s mission is to study both the marine and terrestrial environments including limnic and lacustrine habitats. Both fossil and modern ecosystems are included. Senckenberg participates in major international research programmes such as the “Census of the Diversity of Abyssal Marine Life” (CeDAMar). Together with the Goethe University in Frankfurt and other partners, Senckenberg also runs the Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre BiK-F, focussing on in-depth investigations and management of climaterelated biodiversity changes, including those that are relevant to the environment and health. BiK-F is funded as part of the Initiative for the Development of Scientific and Economic Excellence (LOEWE) of the Federal State of Hesse. Thanks to its long tradition also in international research expeditions, Senckenberg now houses a collection of over 30 million animals and plants both fossilised and preserved. The collection is currently being captured in a database and can be considered an “archive of nature and natural dynamics” for the more than four billion years of the Earth’s history.
Forschungszentrum Borstel Leibniz Center for Medicine and Biosciences (FZB)
Competence in Pneumology The mission of the Research Center Borstel is comprehensive health and biomedical research in pneumology focusing on infection biology, allergology and inflammatory processes. The Center’s activities are characterized by an interdisciplinary approach combining basic sciences (immunology, biochemistry, molecular cell biology, etc.) with clinical research and trials, and an emphasis on much-needed translational research. On this basis, the Research Center Borstel works towards promoting our understanding of the molecular and cellular basis of infection, allergy and inflammation as it relates to the lung in health and disease. With this approach, the Center ultimately makes important contributions to the development of innovative and more effective therapeutic and preventive regimens in pneumology.
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Parkallee 1-40 23845 Borstel, Germany Phone + 49 (0) 45 37/1 88-439 Fax + 49 (0) 45 37/1 88-403 Email
[email protected] Internet www.fz-borstel.de
The Research Center Borstel is a partner of various national and international excellence programmes: Collaborative Research Programs 617, 415, 654 and Transregio 22 as well Priority Programs 1394 and 1313 of the “Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft”. Furthermore, the FZB is participating in the BMBF networks ‘National Genome Network-2’, CAPNETZ, PathoGenoMik-Plus, Biophotonik, Lungentuberkulose – Wirts- und Erregerdeterminanten für Resistenz und Krankheitsausprägung, Innovative Therapieverfahren auf molekularer und zellulärer Basis und Seltene Erkankungen. ‘Photonic Technologies in Cellular Nano-Surgery’ and others. At international level, the FZB is partner of different consortia in the 6th and 7th EU Framework Programmes. The FZB is founder member of the ‘Leibniz Center for Infection’ and tightly linked to the ‘Nordverbund Infektionsbiologie’ and the ‘Norddeutscher Verbund für Strukturbiochemie’.
Directorate: Prof. Dr. Peter Zabel (Managing director) Prof. Dr. Dr. Silvia Bulfone-Paus Prof. Dr. Ulrich Schaible Head of administration: Susann Schrader Public relations: Dr. Bettina Brand
High-standard medical care is provided for in- and out-patients by the FZB clinic working in close cooperation with the University Medical Center Schleswig-Holstein, Lübeck campus, the University Lung Center North, the National Reference Center for Mycobacteria and the Clinical and Experimental Pathology of the FZB, both located on the FZB campus.
Legal form: Foundation under civil law
Staff: 526 (research and clinic including 43 trainees) Total budget: 24.17 million Euro Public funds: 7.28 million Euro Third-party funds: 6.4 million Euro
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Martinistraße 52 20251 Hamburg, Germany Phone + 49 (0) 40/4 80 51-0 Fax + 49 (0) 40/4 80 51-103 Email
[email protected] Internet www.hpi-hamburg.de
Scientific director: Prof. Dr. Thomas Dobner Head of administration: Dr. Volker Uhl Public relations: Dr. Angela Homfeld Staff: 126 Total budget: 12.4 million Euro Third-party funds: 2.6 million Euro Legal form: Foundation under public law
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Heinrich-Pette-Institute for Experimental Virology and Immunology at the University of Hamburg (HPI) HPI is committed to the research of the biology of human viruses, the pathogenesis of viral diseases, the physiological defense reaction of organisms and associated problems. Our central interest is to establish novel approaches to improve therapeutic and diagnostic procedures for viral diseases and viral-associated tumors. The scientists at HPI perform biomedical research on a broad spectrum of clinical important viruses, such as Influenzaviruses, Hepatitis viruses (HBV, HCV), Herpes viruses (HSV1, HSV2, EBV, KSHV), and retroviruses including leukemia (HTLV-1) and immune deficiencies (HIV) as well as small DNA tumor viruses (Adenoviruses, SV40, Merkell Cell Polyoma Virus). The institute is affiliated to the University of Hamburg by a cooperation contract and is a member of the Leibniz Center for Infection (LCI). Scientific projects are organized in two program areas (virus-host interaction, cellular dysregulation) and are dedicated to the following main topics: • Structure and function of human viruses • Pathogenesis of viral diseases and their therapy • Virus-cell interaction • Genome replication and regulation of viral gene expression • Adaptation of viruses to new hosts • Cellular defence mechanisms against virus infections • Cellular dysfunction in response to viral infections • Viral transformation and oncogenesis • Identification and functional analysis of cellular and viral structures for antiviral therapy The HPI is structured in four departments: • Department of Molecular Virology (Prof. Dr. T. Dobner) • Department of General Virology (Prof. Dr. H. Will) • Department of Cell Biology and Virology (Prof. Dr. J. Hauber) • Until 2010: Department of Tumor Virology (Prof. Dr. W. Deppert) • As of July 1 2010: Department of Virology and Immunology (Prof. Dr. W. Brune, ) In addition there are two independent research groups (Molecular Pathology, Electron Microscopy and Micro-Technology and three junior research groups (Mechanisms of Antiviral Defence, Viral Pathogenesis, Influenza Pathogenesis).
Institut für umwelmedizinische Forschung an der HeinrichHeine-Universität Düsseldorf gGmbH (IUF) [Associated member] The mission of the IUF (Environmental Health Research Institute) is to carry out molecular preventive medical research in the field of environmental health. The main objective is the analysis and evaluation of risks to human health resulting from environmental factors in order to improve health protection and to develop new preventive and therapeutic strategies. Molecular mechanisms of premature aging, degenerative diseases as well as environmentally induced impairment of immune reactions, especially allergies, are in the centre of the IUF’s work. At present, the research activities mainly focus on two environmental noxae: particles, in particular nano-particles, and non-ionizing radiation. In order to analyze their mechanisms of action, modern cell-biological, immunological, toxicological and molecularbiological methods are applied. The scientific competence of the institute makes it possible to perform inter-disciplinary investigations. All in all 15 research groups are working closely together. Besides in vitro investigations in cultivated cells also in vivo investigations both in animal models and in a special clinical investigation unit for humans (according to GTP criteria) are performed. These investigations are complemented by epidemiological studies. This approach assures the transfer of scientific information within the IUF from basic research to translational research. For the optimal utilisation of limited scientific resources, research projects focus more and more on the skin as an important model organ for environmental research. Further studies deal with effects on lung, gut and brain. The IUF was founded in 2001. It became an institute at the Heinrich Heine University through a cooperative agreement. Since 2007, it is an associated member of the Leibniz Association; in 2011 it will become a full member.
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Auf’m Hennekamp 50 40225 Düsseldorf, Germany Phone +49 (0) 211 3389 0 Fax +49 (0) 211 3190910 Email beyen@uni-duesseldorf Internet www.iuf.uni-duesseldorf.de
Scientific director: Prof. Dr. Jean Krutmann Administrative director: Dr. Alexander Beaucamp Public relations: Dr. Katharina Beyen Staff: 120 Total budget (2009): 9.1 million Euro Public funds (2009): 4.6 million Euro Third-party funds (2009): 4.5 million Euro Legal form: non-profit, limited liability company
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Beutenbergstraße 11 07745 Jena, Germany Phone + 49 (0) 3641 65 63 33 Fax + 49 (0) 3641 65 63 35 Email
[email protected] Internet www.fli-leibniz.de
Scientific Director: Prof. Dr. Peter Herrlich Administrative Director: Dr. Daniele Barthel Public relations: Dr. Eberhard Fritz Staff: 313 Total budget: 18.1 million Euro External funding: 2.9 million Euro Legal form: Registered association
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Leibniz Institute for Age Research - Fritz Lipmann Institute (FLI) Jena
The overall goal of the FLI is the dissection of molecular mechanisms involved in ageing and age-associated diseases. Newly gained knowledge will allow the development of strategies and procedures to achieve healthy ageing and to prevent disease. The program section „Mechanisms of ageing and senescence“ covers research projects on the basic principles involved in the regulation of life span and the ageing process. The section „Ageassociated Diseases“ concentrates on relevant examples of the pathological conditions which occur during ageing with increasing rate and which lead to specific disease symptoms. Mechanisms of ageing and senescence The genetic basis of ageing in vertebrate organisms is largely unknown. The FLI chose to investigate determinants of lifespan in a new vertebrate animal model, a short-lived fish. Further, to study genetic and epigenetic markers in families comprising centenarians, and to aim at identifying genes that contribute to ageing and senescence in cultured cells. A major focus addresses one of the current hypotheses on ageing: the proposal that cellular and organismic ageing is based on responses to DNA damage and telomere dysfunction. Premature ageing is studied in human diseases of reduced DNA repair. In particular, diseases of defective DNA double strand break repair are in focus. Age-associated Diseases The gradual loss of mental capabilities with age and other neurological deficiencies are the most perceived threats of older age. The FLI puts emphasis on exploring neurodegenerative disorders such as Alzheimer´s Disease, dementia based on thyroid hormone deprivation and Huntington´s Disease. Strongly connected to these themes is the research on ageing of the immune system and its role in neurodegeneration/regeneration and atherosclerosis. Other activities are directed towards specific questions in the development of diabetes and cancer.
Leibniz Research Centre for Working Environment and Human Factors (IfADo)
The IfADo combines life sciences and behavioural sciences to investigate the potentials and risks of modern work for human health and performance. Its aim is to design work, workplaces, and working environments that serve to promote safety, health, and work abilities.
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Ardeystraße 67 44139 Dortmund, Germany Phone + 49 (0) 2 31/10 84-0 Fax + 49 (0) 2 31/10 84-308 Email
[email protected] Internet www.ifado.de
The institute was founded in association with TU Dortmund University in 1969 and is operated by the Forschungsgesellschaft für Arbeitsphysiologie und Arbeitsschutz e.V., Dortmund. Its historic roots lie in the Kaiser-Wilhelm/Max-Planck-Institut für Arbeits physiologie, established in Berlin in 1913. In 1929, the KaiserWilhelm-Institute was moved to Dortmund in order to be closer to the industrial areas of the Ruhr Valley. Today the IfADo is a cross-disciplinary institute for integrated applied and basic research related to occupational health and human performance. Its research groups combine different academic subjects such as ergonomics, psychology, toxicology, and occupational medicine/biology. Among the problems addressed are the occupational origins and prevention of musculo-sceletal diseases, the optimal design of human-machine interfaces, the causes and prevention of burnout, the identification and elimination of chemical risks, and the identification and comepnsation of age-related variations of working capacities. The research findings are not only communicated to the scientific community, but in addition they form the basis for contributions to regulatory bodies such as the Scientific Committee on Occupational Exposure Limits (SCOEL) of the EU or standardization bodies such as the European Committee for Standardization (CEN). They are also communicated to practitioners in the field of occupational health and ergonomics, and to the general public. The IfADo is a WHO Collaborating Centre for Occupational Health. It hosts the office of the German Ergonomics Society (Gesellschaft für Arbeitswissenschaft, GfA) and the office of the Federation of European Ergonomics Societies (FEES), a network of associations from currently 20 countries.
Director: Prof. Dr. Herbert Heuer Administrative manager: Michael Paul Research coordination: Dr. Birgit Arnold-Schulz-Gahmen Public relations: Dr. Dietmar Gude Staff: 141 Total budget: 10.2 million Euro Public funds: 8 million Euro Third-party funds: 2.2 million Euro Legal form: Registered association
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Domagkstraße 3 48149 Münster, Germany Phone + 49 (0) 251/8 35 69 Fax + 49 (0) 251/8 35 62 05 Email
[email protected] Internet www.lifa-muenster.de
Directors: Prof. Dr. sc. hum. Monika Stoll Prof. Dr. Dr. med. Stefan Martin Brand-Herrmann Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Horst Robenek Administrative director: Dorit Günther Public relations: Tinka Wolf Staff: 65 Total budget: 5 million Euro Legal form: Registered association
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Leibniz Institute of Arteriosclerosis Research (LIFA)
Cardiovascular diseases related to atherosclerosis are the main cause of morbidity and mortality in the Western world. According to the statutes of the Münster Society for Atherosclerosis Research, the aim of the Leibniz Institute of Arteriosclerosis Research at the University of Münster (LIFA) is to carry out research on the causes of atherosclerosis, its prevention and therapy, and to promote measures that improve the prevention and treatment of this disease. The Institute combines clinical investigation with modern interdisciplinary basic research. In the future, our research programs will be restructured to address all aspects of the systemsbiology of atherosclerosis, ranging from basic research using in vitro and in vivo models, through genetic and genomic research to clinical relevance. At present, the Institute comprises two research programs: “Molecular arteriosclerosis research” (PB I) and “Genetic predisposition of cardiovascular diseases” (PB II). The research programs are subdivided into three departments and three research groups. Each department is headed by full professors of the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster. PB I comprises the department “Cell biology and ultrastructural research” and the research groups “Signal-controlled mechanisms of atherogenesis” and “Fat metabolism and metabolic syndrome”. PB II comprises the departments “Genetic epidemiology of vascular diseases” and “Molecular genetics of cardiovascular diseases” and the research group “Genetics of HDL-cholesterol, molecular diagnostics”. We expect research in research program I to clarify the molecular mechanisms in atherogenesis, especially in terms of fat metabolism, development of foam cells and inter- as well as intracellular signaling mechanisms. Research program II combines clinical, epidemiological and the functional genetic aspects of cardiovascular pathophysiology and thus covers the full range of molecular genetics and genetic-epidemiological studies relating to atherosclerosis and its associated common, complex diseases i.e. myocardial infarction or stroke.
Leibniz-Institut für Molekulare Pharmakologie, Berlin (FMP)
Molecules are at the root of all aspects of the lives of organisms - how they normally function, and what goes wrong during diseases. Researchers at the FMP start at the bottom end of the spectrum of molecular life and push their way up the ladder of organisation and scale. They seek to understand cell proteins, their structure, function and relationships as well as cell regulation processes. They aim to identify possible ways of influencing cell processes at the molecular level. Molecular pharmacology deals with the interaction of small molecules with their cellular targets (mostly proteins), and the changes that result within the cell and the organism as a whole. Successful research in this area requires a consequent interdisciplinary approach. To ensure this, the FMP has established three sections: the Signal Transduction & Molecular Genetics section studies cell biology, physiology and pathology; the Chemical Biology section develops molecular tools for probing cellular processes; the Structural Biology section explores drug-target interactions at the molecular level. In and across these sections, a total of 25 research groups work closely together at the FMP, among them several junior research groups. The FMP plays an active role in local, national and international research networks and cooperates with many research institutions, universities, as well as industry. Its groups are involved in research association projects including collaborative research centres, research training groups, priority programs and projects financed by EU funds. In particular, the FMP has close links with all three Berlin universities. Its professors are jointly appointed and its scientists participate in common research and teaching programmes also within collaborative research centres and graduate schools. Above all, the institute collaborates closely with the Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine (MDC), its neighbour on the Campus in Berlin-Buch.
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Robert-Rössle-Straße 10 13125 Berlin, Germany Phone +49 (0) 30 / 94793-100 Fax +49 (0) 30 / 94793-109 Email
[email protected] Internet www.fmp-berlin.de
Acting director: Professor Hartmut Oschkinat Administration: Frank Schilling Public relations: Silke Oßwald Staff: 260 Total budget: 18.6 million Euro Third-party funding: 4 million Euro Legal form: Institute in the „Forschungsverbund Berlin e.V.” (Registered association) Head of Administration: Dr. Falk Fabich
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Beutenbergstraße 11a 07745 Jena, Germany Phone + 49 (0) 36 41/ 532 1000 Fax + 49 (0) 36 41/532 0800 Email
[email protected] Internet www.hki-jena.de
Scientific director: Prof. Dr. Axel A. Brakhage Head of administration: Elke Jäcksch Public relations: Dr. Michael Ramm Staff: 290 Total budget: 16.4 million Euro Legal form: Registered association
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Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology – Hans Knöll Institute (HKI) Jena The HKI is engaged in all aspects of natural product research focusing mainly on microorganisms. This includes classical screening, production and structural elucidation of natural products as well as testing of potential pharmacological properties. Our scientists employ molecular approaches, based on the availability of genome sequences of bacteria and fungi producing natural compounds. Moreover, we study the molecular regulation mechanisms of gene clusters for production of secondary metabolites. Another research focus of the institute is infection biology, primarily of human pathogenic fungi like Aspergillus fumigatus and Candida albicans and their interaction with the host. Both fields - natural product research and infection biology - interact synergistically to provide a better understanding of critical infections, to search novel targets and the specific development of therapeutic leads. Our research is complemented by methods of genome, transcriptome, proteome and metabolome analyses. To encourage upcoming emerging scientific fields, we established a junior research group program. Currently, four independent junior research groups have been working on different questions of infection biology and natural product research. HKI in association with the Friedrich Schiller University of Jena (FSU) and the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology initiated the International Leibniz Research School for Microbial and Biomolecular Interactions. Today, it is integral part of the Excellence Graduate School for Microbial Communication. All departments and junior research groups of HKI are connected by a close internal research network. Besides having many national collaborations, primarily with the University Jena and its University Hospital, HKI actively participates in many international projects. Several successful startup companies have emerged from HKI since 1992.
Leibniz Institute for Neurobiology (IfN) Magdeburg
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Center for Learning and Memory Research
Research at the IfN is dedicated to the study of brain mechanisms of learning and memory and their pathophysiological dysfunction. The unique interdisciplinary approach comprises molecular biological, cellular and systems physiological as well as behavioural and cognitive aspects of brain processes. The institute was founded in 1992. It is structured into 4 departments, 6 research groups and 7 special labs: • Department Acoustics, Learning and Speech: Systems physiology of acoustic pattern processing including language and learning plasticity in the auditory cortex • Department for Neurophysiology: research on cell physiological mechanisms of association and memory formation based on the models of synaptic tagging in hippocampal Long-Term Potentiation and Long-Term Depression • Department for Neurochemistry and Molecular Biology: discovery of novel molecular components in CNS synapses, their topological organization and functional interplay in neuronal signaling processes • Department for Behavioral Neurology: interaction of attention, motivation and learning in human behavior, both in healthy volunteers and in patients with dysfunctions in evaluation and motivation; stereotactic neurosurgery and Deep Brain Stimulation The Research Groups are headed by young scientists. Their research is complementary to the departments and devoted to mechanisms of visual attention and plasticity, to the development of interactive neuroprostheses, to plasticity-related molecules and signaling pathways within neurons, and to the pathophysiology and pharmacology of cerebral ischemia. The special labs for Electron and Laser Scanning Microscopy, Behavioral Pharmacology, Molecular Biological Techniques, Neuroinformatics, Neurogenetics, Primate Neurobiology and NonInvasive Brain Imaging provide state-of-the-art technology and know-how for the research groups and departments and work on their own third party-funded scientific projects nonetheless.
Brenneckestraße 6 39118 Magdeburg, Germany Phone + 49 (0) 3 91/6 26 3-219 Fax + 49 (0) 3 91/61 61 60 Email
[email protected] Internet www.ifn-magdeburg.de
Scientific director: Prof. Dr. Henning Scheich Head of administration: Thekla Thiel Public relations: PD Dr. Constanze Seidenbecher Staff: 188 Total budget: 28.37 million Euro Public funds: 24.57 million Euro (incl. 15 million Euro investment) Third-party funds: 3.8 million Euro Legal form: Foundation under public law
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Weinberg 3 06120 Halle (Saale), Germany Postfach 11 04 32 Phone + 49 (0) 3 45/55 82 0 Fax + 49 (0) 3 45/55 82 10 09 Email
[email protected] Internet www.ipb-halle.de
Leibniz Institute of Plant Biochemistry (IPB) Halle
The IPB emanated 1992 from his former research establishment, the East German Institute for Biochemistry of Plants (founded 1958), which was a member of the GDR’s Academy of Sciences. The research programs at the IPB center on natural products and molecular mechanism of plant secondary metabolism. This includes the investigation of plant’s interaction with biotic and abiotic environmental factors as well as the isolation, synthesis and modification of biologically active natural compounds, which can be used as lead structures for the development of new drugs, cosmetics or plant protective agents in the future. The scientific projects are realized in four departments. The general theme of the Department of Molecular Signal Processing is to understand at the molecular level how plant systems monitor and perceive external parameters, transmit and integrate information about the environment, and deploy metabolic and developmental responses to abiotic or biotic challenge.
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The Department of Bioorganic Chemistry focuses on the isolation, characterization, synthesis and modification of biologically active natural compounds of plants and fungi, helping to understand their function in nature. Applications include the use of metabolites of lead structures for drugs or cosmetics, and the use of enzymes as screening targets or as catalysts for synthesis. Scientists of the Department of Stress and Developmental Biology investigate plant responses to biotic (pathogens) and abiotic (heavy metals) environmental stress factors. Research projects focus on analysis of complex molecular defense mechanisms inside of plant cells, leading to signal perception, initiation of signal transduction networks and activation of defense genes and reactions. Work of the Department of Secondary Metabolism is concerned with the molecular regulation of plant secondary metabolism, evolution of the enzymes involved and the role of secondary products in interaction of plants with their environment.
Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK) Gatersleben
The Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research in Gatersleben was established in 1943. Today it represents a research centre that deals with issues of modern biology, mainly by studying cultivated plant species. Its research programme aims at the generation of novel knowledge, the discovery of fundamental principles of plant performance and the development of enabling technologies. These are considered to be of paramount importance to understand the principles that underlie the evolution of crop plants at the organismic, the chromosomal and the DNA level and to develop knowledge-based strategies for the targeted utilization of biological diversity for a sustainable production of food, feed and renewable resources. These efforts are complemented by the development of transgenic approaches to improve plant performance. Within the four departments, three major themes are investigated, Conservation and Utilisation of Crop Plant Diversity, Dynamics of Plant Genomes, and Integrative Biology of Plant Performance, mainly by using barley as a model organism. In the Plant Genome Resources Centre (PGRC), biological resources and enabling technologies are developed such as molecular markers and plant transformation techniques. Moreover, the PGRC acts as a platform for a series of genomics-related services. A strong research programme in Bioinformatics has been interlaced with the experimental research programmes to pioneer research into structural and functional genomics and to foster systemsoriented approaches to study seed development, asexual seed formation, heterosis as well as adaptation to stresses and environmental cues. In this context, the institute leads an international effort to map and sequence the barley genome. As a central resource for plant research on a global scale and as a contribution to the conservation of biodiversity, IPK hosts the Federal Ex Situ Genebank for agricultural and horticultural plant species comprising nearly 150,000 accessions representing more than 3,000 species. IPK scientists teach at eight different universities and colleges. Training of young academics is performed within the IPK PhD programme presently comprising 54 students from 31 countries.
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Corrensstraße 3 06466 Gatersleben, Germany Phone + 49 (0) 3 94 82/5-0 Fax + 49 (0) 3 94 82/5-139 Email
[email protected] Internet www.ipk-gatersleben.de
Managing director: Prof. Dr. Andreas Graner Administrative director: Sybille-Andrea Lorenz Managing office & public relations: Roland Schnee Staff: 500 Total budget: 40.1 million Euro Public funds: 26.7 million Euro Third-party funds: 10.7 million Euro Legal form: Foundation under public law
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Alfred-Kowalke-Str. 17 10315 Berlin, Germany Phone + 49 (0) 30/51 68-100 Fax + 49 (0) 30/51 26-104 Email
[email protected] Internet www.izw-berlin.de
Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research (IZW) Berlin
The IZW was founded on the 1st January 1992 and performs basic and applied research in the fields of evolutionary ecology and genetics, wildlife diseases, and reproduction biology and management. The main purpose is to unravel evolutionary adaptations in wildlife species by studying the life history of mammals and birds in their interrelationship with people and the environment. Such knowledge is a precondition for a scientifically based approach to conservation and for the development of concepts for the ecologically sustainable use of natural resources. In this respect, the IZW participates in many national and international organisations and conducts research projects with cooperation partners on five continents. The IZW is organised in five flexible Research Groups (Evolutionary Ecology, Evolutionary Genetics, Wildlife Diseases, Reproduction Biology, Reproduction Management). In the current research programme we pursue the following objectives:
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1. A nalysis of evolutionary traits and their potential adaptive value in the life history of wildlife species. 2. A nalysis of causes, distribution and evolutionary impact of wildlife diseases. 3. C larification of the biological basis of and development of methods for the protection and conservation of threatened wildlife species. The IZW offers services in the fields of autopsies of zoo animals and free-ranging wildlife, electron microscopy, assessment of the causes of mortality, forensic genetics, population viability analyses, assisted reproduction, computer tomography and the analysis of stable isotopes. The IZW also maintains four reference collections for pathology and morphology specimens, ultrasound videos, body and gamete tissues of endangered species. The IZW hosts international conferences, in alternate years the “International Conference on Behaviour, Physiology and Genetics of wildlife”, the annual conference “Diseases of Zoo and Wild Animals” and the “Biology and Diseases of Bats”.
The Museum für Naturkunde Leibniz Institute for Research on Evolution and Biodiversity at the Humboldt University Berlin (MfN) The Museum für Naturkunde is one of the world’s principal institutions in the field of evolution and biodiversity research, including aspects of planetology. The MfN carries out basic and applied research focussing on: • biodiversity • evolution • (palaeo-)ecology and geobiology of the earth • geology and mineralogy of meteorite impacts
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Invalidenstraße 43 10115 Berlin, Germany Phone +49-(0)30-2093-8591 Fax +49-(0)30-2093-8914 Email
[email protected] Internet www.naturkundemuseum-berlin.de
The Museum für Naturkunde publishes three scientific journals: ‘Fossil record’, ‘Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift’ (German Journal of Entomology) and ‘Zoosystematics and Evolution’. With more than 30 million objects in its zoological, palaeontological, geological and mineralogical collections, the Museum für Naturkunde is one of the ten largest scientific collections in the world. Its collections are of international importance and comprise specimens from all over the world. They include such extraordinary objects as the Berlin specimen of the early bird Archaeopteryx and fossils from the Tendaguru locality (among them Brachiosaurus brancai). Further highlight are the museum’s Archive for the History of Science and its Animal Sound Archive (ca. 110,000 recordings). Yet the MfN is not only a research institution, but also a museum presenting exhibitions for the public. These exhibitions have a strong focus on the research done at the MfN and receive around half a million visitors per year. The museum has a total exhibition space of 7,000 square meters. From 1810 to 2008, the MfN was part of the Humboldt University, Berlin. From January 1, 2009 it has become a separate foundation and a member of the Leibniz Association.
General director: Prof. Dr. Reinhold Leinfelder Head of administration: Holger Hackmann Public relations: Dr. Gesine Steiner, Stefanie Firyn Staff: 232 Total budget: 12.6 million Euro Public funds: 10.7 million Euro Third-party funds: 1.9 million Euro Legal form: Public-law foundation
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[email protected] Internet www.zfmk.de
Zoologisches Forschungs museum Alexander Koenig (ZFMK), Bonn
The “Zoologisches Forschungsinstitut und Museum Alexander Koenig” (ZFMK) is one of the major natural history research museums in the Federal Republic of Germany. The museum has earned its reputation as a leading institution through the documentation, investigation, and explanation of species richness (biodiversity). The significant scientific collections, which concentrate on vertebrates and insects in terrestrial habitats, constitute the museum`s “heart”. These collections represent the foundations of the diverse research themes dealt with, and the permanent exhibition also shows parts of these rich holdings. Museum Koenig, as the Leibniz Institute for Terrestrial Biodiversity, has enlarged its field of research in systematic zoology by adding important problems related to the global biodiversity crisis. The staff members are thus beginning to make important contributions to the protection of the world`s biological resources because the results of their research are available to and discussed by the scientific community worldwide.
Managing director: Prof. Dr. Johann Wolfgang Wägele Head of administration: Agathe Paul Public relations: Sabine Heine Staff: 67 Total budget: 6.14 million Euro Legal form: Extramural Research Institution of the State of NRW
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These scientific findings contribute to authoritative economic and political decisions which secure the maintenance of humankind’s basic needs. Museum Koenig pursues modern, forwardlooking research with this range of activities. At the same time, it assumes an important position in the international efforts towards conserving the diversity of species within the framework of multiple collaborations.
Astrophysical Institute Potsdam (AIP)
Building upon an over 300-year tradition in Berlin and Brandenburg, the Astrophysical Institute Potsdam (AIP) is performing internationally competitive research in the area of astrophysics. As successor to some of Germany’s oldest observatories and as the world’s first astrophysical observatory, the AIP is today one of the leading centres for astrophysical research in Germany. It is the largest astronomical facility in the new German States. By several joint appointments with the University of Potsdam as well as lectureships at the universities in Potsdam and Berlin, the AIP is closely networked with the university research landscape of the region. The AIP focuses its work on the research area of Cosmic Magnetic Fields, Solar and Stellar Activity as well as of Extragalactic Astrophysics and Cosmology. These research areas are closely tied with both of the long-range natural forces: gravity and electromagnetism. Observational data are obtained by the most modern technology in ground-based and spaceborne telescopes. Theoretical work based on computer simulations is carried out on highperformance computers. Owing to the exceptional experimental requirements at the forefront of optical and information technology, astrophysical exploration serves as one of the driving forces in modern endeavors in research and development. The AIP is contractually involved in several large national and international cooperation-projects, of both ground-based telescopes as well as spaceborne observation platforms. These include in particular the Large Binocular Telescope, the largest single telescope in the world. Equipped with a good infrastructure, which will currently be expanded by the recently compleded building for technology transfer and the Center for Innovative Fiber-Spectroscopy and Sensing “innoFSPEC Potsdam”, the AIP is well positioned to participate actively and profitably in these projects.
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An der Sternwarte 16 14482 Potsdam, Germany Phone +49-(0) 331 / 74 99 - 0 Fax +49-(0) 331 / 74 99 - 267 Email
[email protected] Internet www.aip.de
Scientific Chairman: Prof. Dr. Matthias Steinmetz Administrative Chairman: Peter A. Stolz Scientific Coordinator & Public Relations: Dr. Gabriele Schönherr Staff: 147 Total budget: 13 million Euro Public funds: 8.7 million Euro Third-party funds: 4.3 million Euro Legal form: Foundation under private law
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Postfach 12 03 37 10593 Berlin, Germany Phone + 49 (0) 30/3 99 77-0 Fax + 49 (0) 30/3 99 77-133 Email
[email protected] Internet www.chemistry.de
FIZ CHEMIE Berlin – The Chemistry Information Centre (FCH)
FIZ CHEMIE, the German Chemistry Information and Documentation Center, is a state-supported non-profit information agency financed by the Federal Government and the Governments of the German States. Its primary task is to provide high-quality information services concerning chemistry, chemical engineering and related fields to science, education and industry. The institute prides itself as the successor to “Chemisches Zentralblatt”, the world’s first and for many years most influential scientific abstract service, which was founded in 1830 as “Pharmaceutisches Central-Blatt”. FIZ CHEMIE was founded on the 11th December 1981 and is organized as a Limited Company (GmbH). The institute’s product and service portfolio contains online and inhouse databases, printed information services, subject-specific Internet search engines as well as search services, workshops on database use and Internet hosting.
Managing director: Prof. Dr. René Deplanque Administration: Thomas Berthold Public relations: Richard Huber Staff: 70 Total budget: 10.3 million Euro Public funds: 1.956 million Euro Third-party funds: 2.8 million Euro Legal form: Limited Company
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FIZ CHEMIE’s most successful brands are “ChemInform”, an abstract service and reaction database for synthetic organic and organometallic chemistry, the “Infotherm” database of thermophysical properties of pure substances and mixtures as well as the Internet search engines “ChemGuide” and “PublishersGuide”. The product family CHEMGAROO with its modules ChemgaPedia, ChemgaNet, ChemgaMedia and ChemgaCourse emerged from the lighthouse project “Vernetztes Studium Chemie”, funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research. The multimedia, encyclopaedic eLearning-platform provides educational content up to Master-level. FIZ CHEMIE maintains close relationships with research and information institutions in Germany and abroad and has marketing agreements with partner organizations worldwide. FIZ CHEMIE guarantees the highest standard of quality through its DIN EN ISO 9001:2008 certified integrated quality management system.
FIZ Karlsruhe – Leibniz Institute for Information Infrastructure (FIZ KA)
FIZ Karlsruhe is a not-for-profit organization. Our task is to make scientific and technical information from all over the world publicly available and to provide related services. Our aim is to support knowledge transfer and innovation in Germany and worldwide. FIZ Karlsruhe’s main activities focus on the following areas:
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Hermann-von-Helmholtz-Platz 1 76344 Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen, Germany Phone +49 (0) 72 47/808-555 Fax +49 (0) 72 47/808-259 Email
[email protected] Internet www.fiz-karlsruhe.de
• STN International STN is the premium online service for scientific and patent information. It is jointly operated by Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS) in Columbus, Ohio, and FIZ Karlsruhe in a strategic partnership. STN offers the world’s most important databases with quality-checked patent and research information as well as state-of-the art retrieval, analysis, and visualization functionality. • KnowEsis KnowEsis comprises the e-Science solutions of FIZ Karlsruhe. By providing information infrastructures in science and the humanities, it aims at supporting the complete scientific information value chain. • Databases and Information Services In cooperation with renowned scientific organizations, FIZ Karls ruhe produces databases and operates scientific portals in mathematics, computer science, energy, and crystallography. Our customers and target groups are: - Scientists in research organizations, in academic institutions, and in industry - Information professionals in information and patent departments of scientific organizations and enterprises - Information professionals in libraries and data processing centers. FIZ Karlsruhe conducts applied research in close collaboration with academic institutions and research organizations. It examines current research topics (scientific data management, information mining, information retrieval, etc.) and uses the results to develop innovative products and services.
President and CEO: Sabine Brünger-Weilandt Vice President: Dr. Andreas Barth Public Relations: Rüdiger Mack Staff: 316 Total/Annual Budget: 30.4 million Euro Public Funds: 7.1 million Euro Third-party funds: 23.3 million Euro Legal form: Limited Company
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Gustav-Kirchhoff-Str. 4 12489 Berlin, Germany Phone + 49 (0) 30/63 92-2600 Fax + 49 (0) 30/63 92-2602 Email
[email protected] Internet www.fbh-berlin.de
Director: Prof. Dr. Günther Tränkle Head of administration: Volker Bentlage Public relations: Petra Immerz Staff (31.12.2009): 234 Total budget (2009): 20.8 million Euro Third-party funds: 9.3 million Euro Legal form: Institute of the Forschungsverbund Berlin e.V.
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Ferdinand-Braun-Institut, Leibniz-Institut für Höchst frequenztechnik (FBH) Berlin
The Ferdinand-Braun-Institut, Leibniz-Institut fuer Höchstfre quenztechnik (FBH) researches electronic and optical components, modules and systems based on compound semiconductors. These devices are key enablers, that address the needs of today’s society in fields like communications, energy, health and mobility. Specifically, FBH develops light sources from the visible to the ultra-violet spectral range: high-power diode lasers with excellent beam quality, UV light sources and hybrid laser systems. Applications range from medical technology, high-precision metrology and sensors to optical communications in space. In the field of microwaves, FBH develops high-efficiency multi-functional power amplifiers and millimeter wave frontends targeting energy-efficient mobile communications as well as car safety systems. In addition, compact atmospheric microwave plasma sources that operate with economic low-voltage drivers are fabricated for use in a variety of applications, such as the treatment of skin diseases. The FBH is a competence center for III-V compound semiconductors and has a strong international reputation. FBH’s competence covers the full range of capabilities, from design to fabrication to device characterization. In close cooperation with industry, its research results lead to cutting-edge products. The institute also successfully turns innovative product ideas into spin-off companies. Thus, working in strategic partnerships with industry, FBH assures Germany’s technological excellence in microwave and optoelectronic research. Current research topics include gallium nitride (GaN) power and microwave electronics, microwave plasmas, high-power diode lasers, hybrid laser systems and GaN-based lasers and UV LEDs.
Forschungszentrum Dresden - Rossendorf (FZD)
Materials research, cancer research and nuclear safety research – these are the fundamentals at the core of the Forschungszentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (FZD). The focal point is basic as well as application-oriented research in cooperation with partners ranging from universities to private industry. Thus, the FZD contributes considerably to the following questions: • How does matter behave in strong fields and at small dimensions? • How can cancerous tumors be identified early and treated effectively? • How can the public and the environment be protected from technical risks? Scientists at the following six institutes of the FZD are working on the answers to these questions: • Institute of Ion Beam Physics and Materials Research • Dresden High Magnetic Field Laboratory • Institute of Radiation Physics • Institute of Radiopharmacy • Institute of Safety Research • Institute of Radiochemistry The FZD institutes operate six large-scale facilities that can be accessed by external users in research and industry: • Radiation Source ELBE with neutron, positron, X-ray and gamma radiation, infrared and THz radiation of free electron lasers, as well as a high performance laser system • The Ion Beam Center – surface functionality and analysis by energetic particle beams • High Magnetic Field Laboratory – record high magnetic fields for research • TOPFLOW facility for the analysis of complex fluid dynamics • Rossendorf Beamline at the ESRF in Grenoble´/France • PET Center – cancer research in cooperation with Dresden University Hospital and OncoRayCenter
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Bautzner Landstraße 400 01328 Dresden, Germany Phone + 49 (0) 3 51/26 00 Fax + 49 (0) 3 51/2 69 04 61 Email
[email protected] Internet www.fzd.de
Scientific director: Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Roland Sauerbrey Aministrative director: Prof. Dr. Dr. h. c. Peter Joehnk Public relations: Dr. Christine Bohnet Staff: 800 Total budget: 84.5 million Euro Public funds: 60.9 million Euro Third-party funds: 23.6 million Euro Legal form: Registered association
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Im Technologiepark 25 15236 Frankfurt (Oder), Germany Phone + 49(0) 3 35/56 25-0 Fax + 49(0) 3 35/56 25-300 Email
[email protected] Internet www.ihp-microelectronics.com
IHP GmbH - Innovations for High Performance Microelectronics Frankfurt (Oder) IHP’s activities are concentrated on the research and development of silicon-based systems, high-frequency circuits and technologies for wireless and broadband communication. As a European research and innovation center it aims to enhance the competitiveness of German and European industry. The institute is working on the following four closely connected research programs: • Wireless Systems and Applications The program is focused on high performance wireless systems, low power wireless sensor networks and methods for higher reliability and testability of circuits. • RF Circuits The main activities of this program are directed on integrated mm-wave circuits & synthesizers, broadband mixed signal circuits as well as circuits for low power wireless applications.
Scientific director: Prof. Wolfgang Mehr Administrative director: Manfred Stöcker Public relations: Heidrun Förster Staff: 280 Total budget: 33.6 million Euro Public funds: 16.5 million Euro Third-party funds: 11.3 million Euro Legal form: GmbH
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• Technology Platform for Wireless and Broadband Communication This program is focused on high performance silicon based technologies, technologies for embedded systems, and the provision of technology access for designers in the framework of a multi project wafer and prototyping service. The basis of these services is IHP`s pilot line with 0.13 µm SiGe BiCMOS technology. • Materials for Micro- and Nanoelectronics Materials research at IHP targets the integration of new materials and device concepts into modern silicon BiCMOS technologies. „More than Moore“-approaches for new Terahertz- and Photonic applications are of particular importance. In addition, IHP is doing basic research in Joint Labs together with universities.
Leibniz Institute for Analytical Sciences – ISAS – e.V.
The ISAS is an independent scientific research establishment for physical, chemical and biological analysis focusing mainly on analytical methods and spectroscopy. The institute was founded in 1952 as the Institute of Spectrochemistry and Applied Spectroscopy in Dortmund. In 1992, a research group of the former Academy of Sciences of the GDR was integrated into the institute. Since then, ISAS operates a location at Berlin-Adlershof. At the end of 2009, the ISAS was renamed to “Leibniz-Institut für Analytische Wissenschaften – ISAS – e.V.”. By now, the institute has an additional building in Dortmund on campus of the TU Dortmund that was opened in November 2009. The ISAS covers analytical problems, for which it develops new or improves existing measurement principles and procedures, ana lytical techniques, methods and instruments. Spectroscopic methods and the analytical contribution for solving problems in the areas of material and life sciences are the essentials of research and development at the ISAS. To achieve these aims, it is currently structured into two research areas: “Bioanalytics” and “Material and Interface Analytics”. Since its founding, the work of the ISAS has been directed mainly towards user-orientated basic research in the field of analytical sciences. The Institute has gathered particular expertise in developing new methods and improving existing ones. To solve complex analytical problems, various methods have been combined, according to the particular needs (the so-called multi-method concept). The ISAS has earned international reputation through internal and external interdisciplinary cooperation between physicists, chemists, engineers, biologists and clinicians.
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Bunsen-Kirchhoff-Straße 11 44139 Dortmund, Germany Otto-Hahn-Straße 6b 44227 Dortmund, Germany Phone + 49(0) 2 31/13 92-0 Fax + 49 (0) 2 31/13 92-120 Albert-Einstein-Str. 9 12489 Berlin, Germany Phone + 49 (0) 30/63 92-35 30 Fax + 49 (0) 30/63 92-35 44 Email
[email protected] Internet www.isas.de
Director: Prof. Dr. Norbert Esser Prof. Dr. Albert Sickmann Head of administration: Jürgen Bethke Public relations: Tinka Wolf Staff: 165 Total budget: 12.8 million Euro Public funds: 10 million Euro Third-party funds: 2.4 million Euro Own resources: 0.4 million Euro Legal form: Registered association
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Schöneckstraße 6 79104 Freiburg, Germany Phone + 49 (0) 761 / 3198 - 0 Fax + 49 (0) 761 / 3198 - 111 Email
[email protected] Internet www.kis.uni-freiburg.de
Kiepenheuer-Institut für Sonnenphysik, Freiburg (KIS)
The Kiepenheuer-Institut für Sonnenphysik (Solar Physics) conductsexperimental and theoretical investigations of physical processes on and within the Sun. It was founded in 1943; at that time the aim was to investigate the influences of solar eruptions on the ionosphere. The scientific work of the KIS centres around the origin and different manifestations of solar magnetism, solar convection, global oscillations, waves and oscillations in the solar atmosphere, and corona and solar wind. The main focus of instrumental development is the application of adaptive optics. A new 1.5 m solar telescope is under construction.
Director: Prof. Dr. Oskar von der Lühe Vicedirector: Prof. Dr. Svetlana Berdyugina Public relations: Dr. Dirk Soltau Staff: 65 Total budget: 4.6 million Euro Public funds: 3.8 million Euro Third-party funds: 0.8 million Euro Legal form: Foundation under public law
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The KIS has the leading role in the joint operation of the German solar telescopes in the Observatorio del Teide, Tenerife (Image: Vacuum Tower Telescope). Its partners are three other German institutions: the Institut für Astrophysik Göttingen, the Astrophysikalisches Institut Potsdam and the Max-Planck-Institut für Sonnensystemforschung at Katlenburg-Lindau. The KIS supplies most of the supporting scientific and technical personnel. The KIS cooperates with leading research institutions in the United States, Europe, and other parts of the world. Special joint instrumental developments and scientific cooperations exist with the National Solar Observatory in Tucson, USA and the High Altitude Observatory, Boulder, USA. The KIS scientific publications appear mostly in international astrophysical journals like Astronomy & Astrophysics, The Astrophysical Journal and Solar Physics. The institute informs the public by guided tours, as well asthrough the press and TV, about its research work.
Leibniz Institute of Atmospheric Physics at the Rostock University (IAP) Kühlungsborn The IAP was founded in January 1992. The headquarters is located in Kühlungsborn and a branch in Juliusruh on the island of Rügen. The research topics concentrate on the terrestrial atmosphere, in particular on the dynamical coupling between various layers from the troposphere up to the lower thermosphere (approx. 100 km).
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Schlossstraße 6 18225 Kühlungsborn, Germany Phone + 49 (0) 3 82 93 / 68 – 0 Fax + 49 (0) 3 82 93 / 68 – 50 Email
[email protected] Internet www.iap-kborn.de
The IAP consists of three departments: Optical methods and sounding rockets, radar soundings, and theory and modelling. Ground-based remote optical sounding is performed by various laser instruments (‘lidars’ = light detecting and ranging) with wavelengths from infrared to ultraviolet. Atmospheric parameters such as densities and temperatures are deduced from the backscattered laser light. Special emphasis is placed on the investigation of ice particles in the summer mesopause region, known as “noctilucent clouds”. The global distribution of ice layers is also investigated by modelling. Instruments on sounding rockets are applied to investigate small-scale structures (turbulence), plasma, and dust particles. Radars with frequencies in the MF and VHF range are used to measure winds and turbulence in the troposphere and mesosphere. Furthermore, physical processes leading to very strong summer and winter echoes in the mesosphere are investigated. Long-term trends of these parameters and in the background atmosphere are also studied. Theoretical methods and numerical models are applied to study physical and chemical processes in the atmosphere. The investigations concentrate on dynamical coupling between various height ranges, and on the generation, propagation, and breaking of atmospheric waves on various scales. The research topics at the IAP focus on the mesosphere (5090 km) at middle and polar latitudes. The IAP therefore operates several lidars and radars as part of the ALOMAR observatory in Northern Norway (69°N). The scientific investigations concern processes leading to the thermal and dynamical structure of the atmosphere, including long-term changes.
Director: Prof. Dr. Franz-Josef Lübken Head of administration: Marion Strate Staff: 58 Total budget: 7.2 million Euro Public funds: 5.04 million Euro Third-party funds: 1.91 million Euro Legal form: Registered association
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Helmholtzstraße 20 01069 Dresden, Germany Phone + 49 (0) 3 51 / 46 59 – 0 Fax + 49 (0) 3 51 / 46 59 – 500 Email
[email protected] Internet www.ifw-dresden.de
Leibniz Institute for Solid State and Materials Research (IFW) Dresden
The Leibniz Institute for Solid State and Materials Research Dresden (IFW Dresden) is a non-university research institute devoted to fundamental and applied research and development, with particular emphasis on the fields of superconductivity, magnetism, thin films and nanostructures. The research programme is focused on functional materials, both in bulk and thin films. In an interdisciplinary approach, it combines fundamental research in physics, chemistry and materials science with the specific needs of technological application. Furthermore, the IFW Dresden is engaged in the training of young scientists and staff trained in technology. The Institute supplies R&D know-how and experience to companies and public institutions. The Scientific Programme includes the following Research Areas: • Superconductivity and Superconductors • Magnetism and Magnetic Materials • Molecular Nanostructures and Molecular Solids • Metastable Alloys • Stress-driven Architectures and Phenomena
Scientific director: Prof. Dr. Ludwig Schultz Administrative director: Dr. h. c. Rolf Pfrengle Public relations: Dr. Carola Langer Staff: 523 Total budget: 44.2 million Euro Public funds: 29.7 million Euro Third-party funds: 14.5 million Euro Legal form: Registered association
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The IFW consists of five scientific institutes, all the directors of which are, at the same time, professors at the TU Dresden or TU Chemnitz. • Institute for Solid State Research • Institute for Metallic Materials • Institute for Complex Materials • Institute for Integrative Nanosciences • Institute for Theoretical Solid State Physics Further organizational units are the Administration and the Research Technology Division. The IFW Dresden fosters close cooperation with other research institutes and with universities on a regional, national and international scale. In fields close to application, like the development of materials or prototypes, the IFW is involved in joint projects together with industrial partners.
Leibniz Institute for Catalysis at the University of Rostock (LIKAT)
The Leibniz Institute for Catalysis (LIKAT) is one of the leading European Research Centres in the field of catalysis. Its main focus lies in the area of application-oriented basic research and applied research. The Institute adopts a role as a connector between Universities and Institutes of the Max Planck Society on one and business companies on the other hand.
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Albert-Einstein-Straße 29A 18059 Rostock, Germany Phone +49 (0) 381 / 12 81 - 0 Fax +49 (0) 381 / 12 81 - 5000 Email
[email protected] Internet www.catalysis.de
Its main areas of research are the CO chemistry, C-C and C-X bond cross-coupling reactions, asymmetric catalysis, metallocene chemistry, selective oxidations, reaction engineering and highthroughput methods, preparation of catalytically active materials and nanoporous inorganic membranes and in situ investigation of catalytic reactions. The institute’s infrastructure and state of the art equipment, especially in the areas of analytics, reaction engineering, highthroughput techniques and high-pressure chemistry covers all needs to study basically any kind of catalytic reaction in detail. Prominent areas of work range from the preparation of catalysts to detailed mechanistic investigations and development and optimization of catalytic processes. The Institute was founded as the first European catalysis research center by Langenbeck and Rienäcker in 1952. After the German reunification, and supported by the government, a new foundation was initiated as “Institut für Organische Katalyseforschung an der Universität Rostock e. V.” (IfOK), followed by its recent incorporation into the Leibniz Association. In the turn of the year 2005/2006, the Institute’s focus on the field of homogeneous catalysis was broadened significantly by the integration of the prestigious “Institut für Angewandte Chemie Berlin-Adlershof e. V.” (ACA) with its specialization on heterogeneous catalysis. Since then the name of the institution is “Leibniz Institute for Catalysis”.
Director: Prof. Dr. Matthias Beller Head of administration: Susanne Feist Public relations: Dr. Barbara Heller Staff: 253 Total budget: 15.5 million Euro Third-party funds: 5.96 million Euro Legal form: Registered association
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Max-Born-Str. 2 12489 Berlin, Germany Phone + 49 (0) 30/6392-3001 Fax + 49 (0) 30/6392-3003 Email
[email protected] Internet www.ikz-berlin.de
Leibniz Institute for Crystal Growth (IKZ)
The Leibniz Institute for Crystal Growth is a research and service institute, which is theoretically and experimentally investigating the scientific-technical fundamentals of crystal growth, processing and physico-chemical characterization of crystalline solids. The materials presently in development are of fundamental importance in micro- , opto- and power electronics, in photovoltaics, in opto- and laser technology, in acousto-electronics and sensor technology as well as for fundamental research. The research activities of the institute include bulk single crystals as well as crystalline layers and nanostructures, but also the development of comprehensive crystal growth technologies. With the combination of bulk crystal growth and layer deposition, the institute possesses ideal conditions to produce customized substrate/ layer combinations.
Director: Prof. Dr. Roberto Fornari Local administration: Dr. Maike Schröder Staff: 96 Total budget: 9 million Euro Public funds: 7.1 million Euro Third-party funds : 1.9 million Euro Legal form: Institute of the Forschungsverbund Berlin e.V.
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The research and service tasks of the institute include: • Modelling and investigation of crystal growth processes •D evelopment of technologies for growth, processing and characterization of bulk crystals and of crystalline structures with dimensions in the micro- and nanometer range • Supply of crystals with non-standard specifications for research and development purposes • Development and construction of components for growth, processing and characterization of crystals • Training of students and members of other research institutes Materials presently in development: • Wide band gap semiconductors (crystalline AlN, GaN and ZnO) for high temperature, power- and optoelectronics • Oxide and fluoride crystals for acousto-electronics, laser-, opto and sensor technology • Si crystals for power electronics and photovoltaics • Si/Ge crystals for radiation detectors and diffraction gratings • Si layers on amorphous substrates for photovoltaics • Crystalline layers with dimensions in the micro- and nanometer range (SiC, oxide layers, SiGe microstructures)
Leibniz Institute for New Materials (INM) Saarbrücken
The INM – Leibniz Institute for New Materials, situated in Saarbrücken, engages in fundamental and applied materials research from molecules to pilot production. We develop nanostructured materials from a chemical, physical and biological perspective, investigate material properties and promote their potential applications in industrial collaborations. We develop for companies worldwide and cooperate with national and international institutions. Our main research fields are
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Campus D2 2 66123 Saarbrücken, Germany Phone + 49 (0) 6 81/93 00-0 Fax + 49 (0) 6 81/93 00-223 Email
[email protected] Internet www.inm-gmbh.de
“Chemical nanotechnology“ • Nanomers • Nanoprotect / Combinatorial Chemistry • Optical Materials “Interface Materials” • Functional Surfaces • Nanotribology • Structure Formation at Small Scales “Materials in Biology” • Biomineralization • CVD / Biosurfaces • Nano Cell Interactions “Cross Linking Activities” • Modelling / Simulation • NMO / Chemical Engineering
Scientific director and chairman: Prof. Dr. Eduard Arzt Scientific director: Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Michael Veith Business director: Jochen Flackus Public relations: Dr. Christina Sauer Staff: 185 Total budget: 17.9 million Euro Public funds: 13.9 million Euro Third-party funds: 3.4 million Euro Legal form: Non-profit organisation with limited liability
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Permoserstraße 15 04318 Leipzig, Germany Phone + 49 (0) 03 41/2 35-23 08 Fax + 49 (0) 3 41/2 35-23 13 Email
[email protected] Internet www.iom-leipzig.de
Leibniz Institute of Surface Modification (IOM) Leipzig
The mission of the Leibniz Institute for Surface Modification (IOM), a member of the Leibniz Association, is to carry out application-oriented fundamental research on the field of ions, electrons, photons and plasma interactions with matter. An important goal of the institute is to transfer the results of the research and development into innovative technological applications. The IOM contributes to the solution of complex scientific and technological problems in the chemical, optical and microelectronic industry in Germany and worldwide. The IOM offers its technical-technological support to universities and its service features to industry. An aim of the Institute is to support technological development by establishing new companies.
Director: Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. B. Rauschenbach Head of administration: Dipl.-Ökonomin Viola Zellin Public relations: Dr. Dieter Flamm Staff: 150 Total budget: 15 million Euro Public funds: 7.5 million Euro Third-party funds: 7.5 million Euro Legal form: Registered association
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The main directions in research and development are: • Ion and Plasma assisted ultra-precision shaping and smoothing • Micro- and nanodimensional structuring and structure transfer • Thin film deposition, modification and nanostructures layers • Fundamental principles of poymeric layers • Manufacture of functional coatings • Functional deposition.
Leibniz Institute for Plasma Science and Technology (INP) Greifswald
The INP was set up on January 1st 1992 at the recommendation of the Federal Republic of Germany’s Science Council to carry on the tradition of the GDR’s Academy of Science Central Institute for Electron Physics (ZIE). The INP Greifswald researches lowtemperature plasmas for technical applications to supply technical lead time research while focusing established plasma techniques and plasma products and discovering new applications for plasma. INP rounds off its efforts by adapting plasmas to specific applications for customers including feasibility studies, consultation and services.
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Felix-Hausdorff-Str. 2 17489 Greifswald, Germany Phone + 49 (0) 38 34/5 54-300 Fax + 49 (0) 38 34/5 54-301 Email
[email protected] Internet www.inp-greifswald.de
The INP Institute launches research projects starting with the concept right through to building prototypes while aligning projects to the needs of the market. At the top of our agenda are biomedical technology, micro- and nanotechnology, environmental engineering, special plasma sources, modelling and diagnostics. Not only does the Institute have 3,700 m² of prime utility space, but 37 laboratories, a classified clean room and a microbiological laboratory for interdisciplinary research as well 2010 a new building with additional 600 m2 and 8 new laboratories will be available for interdisciplinary research. It is a non-profit organisation employing 65 co-workers, making it the largest nonuniversity institute anywhere in Europe that concentrates on this special area of research. The INP set up a spin-off company in 2005 (neoplas GmbH), 2006 (neoplas control GmbH) and 2009 (neoplas tools GmbH). Joining forces with the Institute for Physics at the Ernst Moritz Arndt University and the Max Planck Institute, INP sees its mission in promoting plasma technology while combining basic and industrial research.
Director: Prof Klaus-Dieter Weltmann Head of administration: Renate Schönebeck Public relations: Liane Glawe Staff: 165 Total budget: 10.2 million Euro Public funds: 5.3 million Euro Third-party funds: 4.9 million Euro Legal form: Registered association
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Leibniz-Institut für Polymer forschung Dresden e.V. (IPF) Leibniz Institute of Polymer Research Dresden
Hohe Str. 6 01069 Dresden, Germany Phone + 49 (0) 3 51/46 58-0 Fax + 49 (0) 3 51/46 58-284 Email
[email protected] Internet www.ipfdd.de
The IPF is one of the largest polymer research institutions in Germany and is engaged in the field of application-oriented basic research. Its facilities at a campus near the city centre of Dresden include state-of-the-art equipment up to pilot plants that allow research under industry-relevant conditions. Advanced polymer materials are a driving force for the development of new technologies, and they are indispensable in many system solutions, e.g. in medical engineering, modern communication technology, data storage and processing, as well as in transport and energy technology. Therefore they are the main subject of the research activities at the IPF, which are focused on four main areas: • Multifunctional Polymer Architectures • Functional and Nanostructured Polymer Interfaces • Functional Polymer Materials • Biomimetic Interfaces and Matrices
Scientific director: Prof. Dr. Brigitte Voit Director Business and Adminstration: Dipl.-Kaufmann Dipl.-Chemiker Achim von Dungern Public relations: Kerstin Wustrack Staff: 463 Total budget: 24.4 million Euro Public funds: 17.5 million Euro Third-party funds: 6.9 million Euro Legal form: Registered association
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Close cooperation of scientists and engineers guarantees a holistic approach to materials science research, in which the researchers are supported by experienced and highly qualified technicians and laboratory staff. The institute is closely linked to the Technische Universität Dresden through five university professorships held by leading scientists of the IPF as well as by numerous joint projects. In addition, the IPF is a member of the Materials Research Network Dresden and cooperates with numerous institutions and enterprises in Germany as well as in European and international research projects, which was a major characteristic of the institute’s development since re-founding in 1992.
Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach (MFO)
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The MFO was founded in 1944 and is legally owned by the “Gesellschaft für mathematische Forschung e.V.”. Since 2006, the MFO has been a service institute of the Leibniz Association. Its basic financing is provided by the Federal and State Governments. The main part of the scientific research is based on weekly changing workshops and on the “Research in Pairs” programme. Also, advanced trainings are held for young graduate and postdoctoral students as well as for mathematics teachers. The programme takes place each week of the year (with the exception of two weeks over Christmas). The high degree of abstraction in mathematics requires, compared to other research fields, direct personal communication with other colleagues. For this reason, the MFO invites scientists of very topical research fields and from all over the world to Oberwolfach and provides optimal working conditions for a very intensive exchange of ideas, thus initiating many concrete developments in mathematical research. The MFO is visited by approximately 2,500 researchers each year, with about 70 % coming from abroad.
Schwarzwaldstraße 9-11 77709 Oberwolfach-Walke, Germany Phone + 49 (0) 7834 / 979 50 Fax + 49 (0) 7834 / 979 55 Email
[email protected] Internet www.mfo.de
The scientific programme of the MFO covers the whole spectrum of mathematics, including its applications in sciences and engineering. The importance of modern mathematical methods is often underrated in today’s society, since they are frequently hidden behind a lot of technical and socially relevant applications. For instance, the relevance between number theory and safe data transmission, the theory of probability and financial mathematics, combinatorics and genetic engineering or between differential geometry and elementary particle physics is mostly unknown to the broader public.
Director: Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Gert-Martin Greuel
The MFO is unique in the field of mathematics and holds a leading position on a worldwide scale, since it especially supports scientific research by its excellent facilities, an ideal time management for the researchers, highly qualified workshops and the principle of admitting participants only by selection and invitation.
Staff: 21 Total budget: 3.70 million Euro Public funds: 1.82 million Euro Third-party funds: 1.38 million Euro Legal form: Non-profit Limited Company
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Max-Born-Straße 2A 12489 Berlin, Germany Phone + 49 (0) 30/63 92-15 05 Fax + 49 (0) 30 63 92-15 19 Email
[email protected] Internet www.mbi-berlin.de
Max Born Institute for Nonlinear Optics and Short Pulse Spectroscopy (MBI) Berlin The Max Born Institute (MBI) for Nonlinear Optics and Short Pulse Spectroscopy was founded in 1992. It belongs to the “Forschungsverbund Berlin e.V.” and is a member of the Leibniz Association. The MBI holds a total of about 185 staff members among them about 90 scientists including 35 PhD students. The MBI conducts basic research in the field of nonlinear optics and ultrafast dynamics of the interaction of light with matter and pursues applications which emerge from this research. Ultrashort pulses in a wide spectral range from the far-infrared to hard xrays, nonlinear phenomena and high intensities are key aspects of this mission. Lasers are both a topic of research and a tool for studying light-matter interactions.
Board of directors: Prof. Dr. Marc Vrakking Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Sandner Prof. Dr. Thomas Elsaesser Staff: 185 Total budget: 18.5 million Euro Public funds: 15.1 million Euro Third-party funds: 3.4 million Euro Legal form: Institute of the Forschungsverbund Berlin e.V.
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Research at MBI covers the following areas: • New sources for ultrashort and ultra-intense light pulses, pulse shaping, pulse characterization, and measuring techniques for ultrafast processes. • Basic research on nonlinear and ultrafast phenomena in a broad range of systems and development of key technologies emerging from such research – with an emphasis on physics, materials sciences and photochemistry. With its research, the MBI fulfills a nationwide mission and is part of the international science community. It offers its facilities and its scientific know-how to external researchers within the framework of an active guest program. The MBI is involved in a large number and variety of cooperative research projects with universities, other research institutions and industrial partners. The three directors of the MBI hold joint appointments as professors at the Berlin Universities (M. Vrakking at the Freie Universität, W. Sandner at the Technische Universität and T. Elsaesser at the Humboldt Universität). In addition, several senior scientists of the MBI hold teaching assignments at universities. The MBI offers opportunities for PhD students to perform their thesis at the institute.
Paul Drude Institute for Solid State Electronics (PDI) Berlin
The Paul Drude Institute for Solid State Electronics (PDI) carries out research in materials science and solid state physics with special emphasis on low-dimensional systems in nanostructured semiconductors. The unique properties of low-dimensional systems are strongly influenced by the structural and energetic properties of interfaces. Therefore, by intentionally adjusting the nature and distribution of internal interfaces in a static and dynamic way, the mechanical, optical, electronic, and magnetic properties of nanostructured solids can be tuned over a wide range using materials engineering at the atomic level. The main fabrication technique is molecular-beam epitaxy. The research is carried out in interdisciplinary core research areas. At present, the six core research areas are: • Ferromagnet-semiconductor hybrid structures, • Control of elementary excitations by acoustic fields, • Group-III nitrides for optoelectronics, • Intersubband emitters: GaAs-based quantum-cascade lasers, • Nanoanalytics, • Nanofabrication. The PDI is involved in a variety of cooperative research projects with universities and other research institutions on a national and international level. The director of the PDI holds a joint appointment as a professor at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.
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Hausvogteiplatz 5 - 7 10117 Berlin, Germany Phone + 49 (0) 30/2 03 77-234 Fax + 49 (0) 30/2 03 77-515 Email
[email protected] Internet www.pdi-berlin.de
Director: Prof. Dr. Henning Riechert Local administration: Dr. Carsten Hucho Public relations: Dr. Carsten Hucho Staff: 98 Total budget (31.12.08): 8.7 million Euro Public funds: 7.4 million Euro Third-party funds: 1.3 million Euro Legal form: Institute of the Forschungsverbund Berlin e.V.
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Octavie-Allee 66687 Wadern, Germany Phone + 49 (0) 68 71/90 5-0 Fax + 49 (0) 68 71/9 05-133 Email
[email protected] Internet www.dagstuhl.de
Scientific director: Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. mult. Reinhard Wilhelm Technical administrative directors: Dipl.-Kfm. Wolfgang Lorenz Dr. Christian Lindig Public relations: Dr. Roswitha Bardohl Staff: 40 Total budget: 2.3 million Euro Public funds: 1.9 million Euro Third-party funds: 0.4 million Euro Legal form: Non-profit limited company
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Schloss Dagstuhl - Leibniz Center for Informatics GmbH (LCI)
Since 1990, Schloss Dagstuhl has organized conferences at the highest scientific level. Furthermore, it serves continuing and advanced academic education, and the transfer of knowledge between academia and industry. The Center fosters world-class research by bringing internationally renowned scientists from universities and industrial research laboratories together with promising young scientists. Dagstuhl’s comprehensive offerings are utilized by over 3,000 scientists from all over the world each year. Dagstuhl Seminars enable the exchange of current research. They also provide the backdrop for the discussion of perspectives for the future and new research and application fields. In addition, Dagstuhl Perspectives Workshops are systematically utilized for the purpose of stimulating Dagstuhl Seminars in key computer science fields, identifying development perspectives for these fields, tapping the potential offered by existing fields of research for useful applications, fostering the setting of priorities, and triggering innovation processes. The Center is also open for conferences and continuing education related to computer science (e.g., working groups, retreats, summer schools). Extended stays of visiting scientists who like to take advantage of the Center’s optimal working climate and its research library are promoted. The Scientific Directorate is responsible for selecting the seminar topics and the participants to be invited. Industrial topics are integrated in the planning of the program in cooperation with the Center’s Industrial Curatory Board. The Scientific Advisory Board advises and evaluates the work of the Center. The associates of the Center are the universities of the Saarland, Darmstadt, Frankfurt, Kaiserslautern, Karlsruhe, Stuttgart, and Trier, as well as the German Informatics Society, the Max Planck Society, and the European research institutes CWI Amsterdam and INRIA Rocquencourt.
German National Library of Science and Technology (TIB) Hannover
As the German National Library of Science and Technology, the TIB specialises in all areas of technology and their related sciences such as architecture, chemistry, information technology, mathematics and physics. Founded in 1959, the TIB has been successfully fulfilling its role as an important source of information for decades.
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Welfengarten 1 B 30167 Hannover, Germany Phone + 49 (0) 511 / 762 89 89 Fax + 49 (0) 511 / 762 89 98 Email
[email protected] Internet www.tib-hannover.de
With an excellent stock of 7.8 million items, as well as 16,000 current journals, the TIB today stands as the largest specialized library in the world, and one of the most reliable suppliers of documents within its fields of specialisation. The collection´s strengths are conference reports, research papers, patent applications, standards, PhD theses as well as specialist literature from Eastern Europe and Eastern Asia. In particular, so-called grey literature, which is difficult to obtain and not available through booksellers, is included in the stock. As part of the forward-looking expansion of its digital library, the TIB is constantly increasing its collection of electronic publications. Articles from journals and magazines, research reports and dissertations as well as other technical-scientific documents are immediately available online. GetInfo – as a collaborative endeavour jointly run by the TIB and the German specialist information centres - enables parallel searches to be conducted in literature databases, conference papers, research reports, library catalogues and electronic full texts. TIB´s comfortable ordering and delivery system provides a fast and reliable electronic means for industry, business, research and scientific communities to obtain the specialist literature they need to secure a clear competitive advantage. Within the Leibniz Library Network for Research Information “Goportis”, the TIB along with its partner libraries ZB MED and ZBW bundle their knowledge and initiate further developments in the following competence fields: Full text service, licences, nontextual materials, long-term preservation and Open Access.
Director: Uwe Rosemann Deputy Director: Dr. Irina Sens Public relations: Nicole Petri Staff: 150 Total budget: 25 million Euro Third-party funds: 5 million Euro Legal form: Associated Lower Saxony State institution at the Leibniz University Hannover
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Mohrenstraße 39 10117 Berlin, Germany Phone + 49 (0) 30/2 03 72-587 Fax + 49 (0) 30/2 04 49 75 Email
[email protected] Internet www.wias-berlin.de
Weierstrass Institute for Applied Analysis and Stochastics (WIAS) Berlin
WIAS was founded following a recommendation from the German Science Council of 1991. The institute’s mission is to conduct project- oriented research in applied analysis and applied stochastics, in order to contribute to the solution of complex economic, scientific, and technological problems. Research work at WIAS comprises the entire process of problem solution, from the mathematical modelling to the development of algorithms and to the numerical simulation of technological processes. WIAS has seven research groups: • Partial Differential Equations • Laser Dynamics • Numerical Mathematics and Scientific Computing • Nonlinear Optimization and Inverse Problems • Interacting Random Systems • Stochastic Algorithms and Nonparametric Statistics • Thermodynamic Modelling and Analysis of Phase Transitions
Director: Prof. Dr. Jürgen Sprekels Public relations and technology transfer: Torsten Köhler
Research is focusing on the main application areas • Nano- and optoelectronics • Optimization and control of technological processes • Phase transitions and multifunctional materials • Random phenomena in nature and economy • Flow and transport processes in continua
Staff: 121 Total budget: 10.3 million Euro Public funds: 7.6 million Euro Third-party funds: 2.7 million Euro
WIAS offers consulting for potential collaboration partners on its web pages. Representatives from industry have the opportunity to present their problems in the Institute’s Colloquium. The institute promotes national and international collaboration in the field of applied mathematics, e.g. by running its Weierstrass Postdoctoral Fellowship Program and by organising workshops. A special emphasis is devoted to the extension of WIAS’s traditional contacts to scientists and research institutions in Eastern Europe.
Legal form: Institute of the Forschungsverbund Berlin e.V.
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Leibniz Institute of Vegetable and Ornamental Crops (IGZ) Großbeeren and Erfurt
The IGZ has two locations (Großbeeren, near Berlin, and Erfurt). The Institute for Vegetable Production Großbeeren, which was a part of the Academy of Agricultural Sciences of the GDR, was a predecessor. The Institute in Erfurt arose from the Ornamental Plant Department of the Central Institute for Special Cultures and Ornamental Plants. In 1992, the IGZ was established in its present legal form. The IGZ is a non-profit making registered society supported by the Federal Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Consumer Protection, the Brandenburg State Ministry of Rural Development, Environment and Consumer Protection Brandenburg, State Ministry of Infrastructure and Agriculture as well as the Ministry for Agriculture, Nature and Environment Protection of the Free State of Thüringen. Apart from these sources, we receive grants from various organizations (EU, DFG, BLE etc).
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Theodor-Echtermeyer-Weg 1 14979 Großbeeren, Germany Phone + 49 (0) 33701 / 78 131 Fax + 49 (0) 33701 / 55 391 Email
[email protected] Kühnhäuser Str. 101 99189 Erfurt, Germany Phone + 49 (0) 36201 / 785 211 Fax + 49 (0) 36201 / 785 250 Email
[email protected] Internet www.igzev.de
Horticultural products should be of high quality, come from an environmentally friendly cultivation and must be affordable for the consumer. Vegetable plants are the basis of much valuable food. Vegetable-based food can be both tasty and healthy. The Leibniz Institute of Vegetable and Ornamental Crops works on the scientific base of ecologically meaningful and also effective production of garden produce. Thereby, we hope to help the environment, the competitiveness of the growers and the needs of the consumers. We work together with universities, other research institutes and producers, not only within Germany and Europe, but also worldwide. The library of the institute is a scientific library for all issues concerning vegetable und ornamental crops. The collection of the library comprises about 61.520 monographic texts.
Scientific director: Prof. Dr. Dr. Eckhard George Head of administration: Dipl.-Ing. Wolfgang Nehls Public relations: Monika Grohmann Staff: 114 Total budget: 10.4 million Euro Public funds: 7.5 million Euro Third-party funds: 2.9 Euro Legal form: Registered association
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Max-Eyth-Allee 100 14469 Potsdam, Germany Phone + 49 (0) 331 5699-0 Fax + 49 (0) 331 5699-849 Email
[email protected] Internet www.atb-potsdam.de
Leibniz Institute for Agricultural Engineering Potsdam-Bornim (ATB)
Research of the Leibniz Institute for Agriculural Engineering aims at the resource-efficient and CO2 neutral use of biological systems for the production of food, raw materials and energy following the demands of climate protection and climate change. For this purpose the ATB develops process-engineering bases for a sustainable land management and provides innovative technical solutions for agriculture and industry. ATB scientists and engineers significantly contribute to a deeper understanding of the underlying mechanisms and develop solutions for improving the environmental compatibility, efficiency and sustainability of relevant processes in order to enhance a knowledge based bio-economy. Activities concentrate on environment- and animal-friendly competitive production procedures, on quality and safety of food and feeds as well as on renewable raw materials and bio-energy in rural areas. One of the key duties is to analyze the economic and social impact of the use of technology along the entire value added chain - from farm to consumer.
Scientific director: Prof. Dr. Reiner Brunsch Head of administration: Dr. Uta Tietz Public relations: Helene Foltan Staff: 169 Total budget: 9.822 million Euro Public funds: 7.023 million Euro Third-party funds: 2.819 million Euro Legal form: Registered association
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The tasks include the development of technical solutions for plant production, animal husbandry and horticulture, the quality assurance of agricultural products in the postharvest as well as production of raw materials and energy from plant biomass and biogenic residues. Most recent projects focus on e.g. water efficiency in agriculture, emission-reduced animal husbandry, energy-saving technologies for drying crops, the application of plasma technology and sensorbased systems for quality assessment in fruit and vegetables, as well as the optimized production of biogas and biochar on basis of biogenic residuals. Founded in 1992, the ATB is one of the leading research institutes for agricultural engineering in Europe.
Leibniz Institute for Applied Geophysics (LIAG), Hannover
The Leibniz Institute for Applied Geophysics (LIAG) performs geophysical and geoscientific research for georesources and the environment. The main focus of the research is on clarifying processes in the anthropogenic-affected subsurface, both with respect to and as a result of its economic exploitation, as well as for public society and conservation of the environment. Accordingly, the Institute’s central areas of responsibility lie in exploring the structures and conditions of the subsurface, including their spatial and temporal development.
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Stilleweg 2 30655 Hannover, Germany Phone +49 (0) 511 / 643 2302 Fax.: +49 (0) 511 / 643 3665 Email
[email protected] Internet www.liag-hannover.de
The Institute concentrates its work on the key research themes of groundwater systems, terrestrial sediment systems and geothermal energy. Research work on new and future developments of measuring and evaluation methods is subdivided into the following disciplinary sections: • seismics, gravimetry and geomagnetics, • geoelectrics and electromagnetics, • geochronology and isotope hydrology, • geothermics and information systems, • rock physics and borehole geophysics. The Institute’s mostly interdisciplinary projects are often executed in international partnerships with universities, research institutes, state geological surveys and industrial companies.
Director: Prof. Dr. Ugur Yaramanci Head of administration: Jörg Hammann Public relations: Franz Binot Staff: 106 Total budget: 12.2 million Euro Public funds: 7.6 million Euro Third-party funds: 4.6 million Euro Legal form: Incorporated public-law institution
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Müggelseedamm 310 12587 Berlin, Germany Phone + 49 (0) 30/6 41 81-5 Fax + 49 (0) 30/6 41 81-600 Email
[email protected] Internet www.igb-berlin.de
Leibniz Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries (IGB)
The Leibniz Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries (IGB) is a leading centre for freshwater research and application in Germany. The main mission of IGB is to develop the scientific basis for the sustainable management of lakes, rivers, wetlands and ground waters. The research focuses on the effect of natural drivers and anthropogenic stressors on the structure-function relationship in freshwater ecosystems. This information underpins the development of sustainable conservation and restoration strategies. The IGB has six research departments: Ecohydrology, Limnology of Shallow Lakes, Limnology of Stratified Lakes, Fish Biology and Ecology, Ecophysiology and Aquaculture and the Central Chemical Laboratory. Four cross-cutting programs integrate the disciplinary research of these departments:
Director: Prof. Dr. Klement Tockner Local administration: Frau Gisela Krätsch Public relations: Nadja Neumann Staff: 180 Total budget: 12.5 million Euro Public funds: 9 million Euro Third-party funds: 3.5 million Euro Legal form: Institute of the Forschungsverbund Berlin e.V.
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Freshwater biodiversity We investigate the causes and consequences of the rapid alteration of biological diversity. For example, the reintroduction of the Atlantic sturgeon in Central European waters is considered as a national flagship project in biodiversity research. Freshwater boundaries Freshwaters connect the land with the sea, and interact with groundwater and riparian ecosystems. The current research focuses on the restoration of lakes and wetlands. Social-ecological linkages Most freshwaters are coupled human-ecological ecosystems. Among other projects, we focus on the ecological consequences of artificial light pollution on freshwater and riparian ecosystems and we study the role of multiple stressors on large river ecosystems. Long-term research program The long-term research programs at Lake Stechlin, Lake Müggel, the River Spree and Tagliamento River (Italy) are unique in an international context. The results allow us to develop predictive models to forecasting ecosystem functioning under global change.
Leibniz Institute of Marine Sciences (IFM-GEOMAR), Kiel
The Leibniz Institute of Marine Sciences (IFM-GEOMAR) is one of the world’s leading institutes in the field of marine sciences. The institute investigates the chemical, physical, biological and geological processes of the seafloor, oceans and ocean margins and their interactions with the atmosphere. This broad spectrum makes IFM-GEOMAR unique in Germany. Additionally, the institute has successfully bridged the gap between basic and applied science in a number of research areas.
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East shore campus, Wischhofstr. 1-3 24148 Kiel, Germany Phone + 49 (0) 4 31/600-0 Fax + 49 (0) 4 31/600-2805 Email
[email protected] Internet: www.ifm-geomar.de
IFM-GEOMAR has four major research foci: Ocean Circulation and Climate Dynamics, Marine Biogeochemistry, Marine Ecology and Dynamics of the Ocean Floor. In cooperation with the University of Kiel, the Institute runs the excellence cluster “The Future Ocean” and two long-term Collaborative Research Centres (SFBs) that are funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG). Four research vessels, large-scale seagoing equipment such as the manned submersible JAGO, the unmanned deep-sea robots ROV Kiel 6000 and AUV ABYSS as well as state-of-the-art laboratories, analytical facilities, and a hierarchy of numerical models provide a unique basis for excellent marine research. With a number of internationally-based curricula the Institute actively contributes to educating young scientists in the field of marine sciences. IFM-GEOMAR is a member of the Leibniz Association, the German Marine Research Consortium (KDM) and the Marine Board of the European Science Foundation.
Director and CEO: Prof. Dr. Peter Herzig Head of administration: Ursula Frank-Scholz Public relations: Dr. Andreas Villwock Staff: 753 Total budget: 60.4 million Euro Third-party funds: 26.8 million Euro Legal form: Foundation under public law
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Seestr. 15 18119 Rostock, Germany Phone +49 (0) 3 81/51 97-0 Fax + 49 (0) 3 81/51 97-440 Email
[email protected] Internet www.io-warnemuende.de
Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research Warnemünde (IOW)
The Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research Warnemünde is dedicated to interdisciplinary marine research in coastal and marginal seas with a special emphasis on the Baltic Sea. The IOW has four departments representing the disciplines of physical oceanography, marine chemistry, biological oceanography and marine geology. An instrumentation group is affiliated with the Department of Physical Oceanography. Jointly, the departments work on a long-term research programme. The Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research Warnemuende is associated with Rostock University, where the IOW department heads contribute to the teaching of biology, chemistry and physics. The two professors in the department of marine geology teach at Greifswald University. The Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency in Hamburg (BSH) has entrusted the IOW with the Baltic Sea Monitoring Programme to which the Federal Republic of Germany, together with the other countries bordering the Baltic Sea, have committed themselves in the Helsinki Convention (http:// www.helcom.fi/).
Director: Prof. Dr. Bodo v. Bodungen Head of administration: Bernhard Ullrich Public relations: Dr. Barbara Hentzsch Staff: 207 Total budget: 15.7 million Euro Basic funds: 9.5 million Euro Third-party funds: 6.2 million Euro Legal form: State of MecklenburgWestern Pomerania institution
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Leibniz Institute for Tropospheric Research (IfT) Leipzig
IfT investigates climate processes in tropospheric multiphase systems. This includes the description of the 3-dimensional distribution of key properties of aerosols and clouds and their formation and transformation processes for a better understanding of the energy budget and the hydrological cycle of the atmosphere. Growing fine particle dust concentrations in urban areas also requires basic and applied research concerning sources, properties und transformations of urban aerosols. The two research areas are coupled because measures against urban aerosol pollution may have desired or undesired side effects on the energy balance and on the hydrological cycle. Consequently, IfT derives its main scientific subjects from climate process research and from aerosol research concerning air quality.
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Permoserstraße 15 04318 Leipzig, Germany Phone + 49 (0) 3 41/235-3210 Fax + 49 (0) 3 41/235-2361 Email
[email protected] Internet www.tropos.de
The three research departments of the institute are dedicated totropospheric Modelling, Chemistry, and Physics. The departments focus on the three main subjects: 1. Evolution, Transport and distribution of the tropospheric aerosol 2. Influence of the tropospheric aerosol on clouds and radiative budget 3. Chemical processes in tropospheric multiphase systems Besides a unique cloud laboratory, IfT operates chambers for the study of aerosol formation and a field station some 40 km east of Leipzig. In the WMO-World calibration centre for aerosol measurements operated by IfT, particle-measuring systems are calibrated within the size range from three nanometres to 20 micrometres. IfT maintains many international links with universities such as Beijing, Stockholm, and Helsinki and a large number of aerosol and cloud laboratories worldwide.
Director: Prof. Dr. Andreas Macke Head of administration: Claudia Peter Public relations: Katja Brödner Staff: 113 Total budget: 11.1 million Euro Public funds: 7.4 million Euro Third-party funds: 2.7 million Euro Legal form: Registered association
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Eberswalder Str. 84 15374 Müncheberg, Germany Phone + 49 (0) 3 34 32 / 82-200 Fax + 49 (0) 3 34 32 / 82-223 Email
[email protected] Internet www.zalf.de
Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF) Müncheberg
Mission The Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF) was founded in 1992 with its main site located in Müncheberg. According to the statutes the mission of ZALF is to „do research on ecosystems within agricultural landscapes and to develop ecological and economical sound land use systems”. To fulfil this mission, ZALF applies the approach of an interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary landscape research. Thus, landscape research at ZALF means dealing with interdependencies and interactions between the single compartments/systems from viewpoints of natural sciences, engineering and socio-economics.
Director: Prof. Dr. Hubert Wiggering Head of administration: Holger Seidler, MA. Public relations: N.N. Staff: 324 Total budget: 18.518.000 Euro Institutional funding: 14.378.000 Euro Soft money (DFG, EU, etc.): 4.140.000 Euro Legal form: Registered association
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Methodological approach and purpose of landscape research • Problem identification • Targeting problems via objects by systems analysis (holisitc) • Analysis of processes mainly between sub-systems • Interpretation of interdependencies between sub-systems • Modelling of land use related systems • Strategies for sustainable problem solving Research topics Preconditions and equipment Recent and planned research Climate change, new frame conditions of the European agricultural policy, implementation of modern technology in agriculture and increasing changes of intensities in landscape use, demographic change, increased expectations of the society related to protection of environment and consumer result in alterations of the development of rural regions. Six institutes and several central services work on these topics within four programme sections as well as in national and international joint projects.
Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK)
The Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) conducts research into global climate change and issues of sustainable development. Set up in 1992, the Institute is regarded as a pioneer in interdisciplinary research and as one of the world’s leading establishments in this field. Natural and social scientists as well as economists work together, investigating how the earth is changing as a system, studying the ecological, economic and social consequences of climate change, and assessing viable strategies for sustainable development. This mainly involves analysing systems and scenarios using computer simulations and analysing data from different economic sectors and aspects of life. The models are solution-oriented, their projections forming a solid basis for decisions in politics, economics and civil society.
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Telegraphenberg A31 14412 Potsdam, Germany Phone + 49 (0) 3 31 / 2 88 – 25 00 Fax + 49 (0) 3 31 / 2 88 – 26 00 Email
[email protected] Internet www.pik-potsdam.de
The Institute fosters close links with national and international research establishments and is part of a worldwide network of institutions conducting research into global environmental changes. Research is currently being conducted into the following issues in four interdisciplinary research domains: “Earth System Analysis” covers climate change caused by greenhouse gas emissions, therefore investigating the fundamental properties of the earth system arising from the interaction of natural physical, chemical and biological processes and their coevolution with human activity. The expected implications of unmitigated climate change subject to adaptive measures are investigated on a regional and global scale in research domain “Climate Impacts and Vulnerabilities”. Domain “Sustainable Solutions” maps out strategies to mitigate dangerous climate change and to adapt to the effects of global warming unavoidable by now. It develops instruments for reduction of greenhouse gas emissions by the world’s energy systems. Research Domain “Transdisciplinary Concepts & Methods” develops new methodological and theoretical approaches in areas where existing theories and methods are found wanting. Mathematics serves as the most important tool for bringing together knowledge from different areas and attaining integrated results.
Director: Prof. Dr. Hans Joachim Schellnhuber Science coordination: Dr. Ingo Bräuer Head of administration: N.N. Public relations: Uta Pohlmann, Patrick Eickemeier Staff: 250 Total budget: 18.2 million Euro Public funds: 8.6 million Euro Economic Stimulus Programme: 1.4 million EUR Third-party funds: 8.2 million Euro Legal form: Registered association
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Fahrenheitstraße 6 28359 Bremen, Germany Phone + 49 (0) 4 21/23800-0 Fax + 49 (0) 4 21/23800-30 Email
[email protected] Internet www.zmt-bremen.de
Director: Prof. Dr. Venugopalan Ittekkot Head of administration: Dr. Ursel Selent Public relations: Dr. Susanne Eickhoff Staff: 61 Total budget: 6.2 million Euro Public funds: 4.5 million Euro Third-party funds: 1.7 million Euro Legal form: GmbH Limited Liability Company
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Leibniz Center for Tropical Marine Ecology (ZMT) Bremen
The Leibniz Center for Tropical Marine Ecology (ZMT) was established in 1991. It is a member of MARUM, an association of marine research institutes in the State of Bremen, and of the Consortium of German Marine Research (KDM). The ZMT contributes to developing the scientific data base that is necessary for the sustainable use of tropical coastal ecosystems. Its tasks comprise • t he planning and implementation of partnership projects to better understand and manage tropical marine ecosystems • e ducational activities in the field of tropical marine ecology and capacity building in tropical countries • f acilitating communication and cooperation amongst scientists and institutions active in the field of tropical marine ecology Human interventions and natural processes exert severe pressure on tropical coastal ecosystems like mangroves, estuaries, coral reefs and the adjacent coastal seas. The ZMT´s research addresses issues related to the structure and function of these ecosystems, to their resources and their vulnerability to anthropogenic influences as well as environmental and climatic changes. The Institute conducts research in the fields of ecology, biogeochemistry, ecological modelling as well as social sciences. The projects are implemented in close cooperation with partners in the tropics. Research is carried out in South-East Asia, South America and southern Africa. The ZMT’s capacity building activities include university teaching, coordination and implementation of international study programs and the organization of summer schools in Bremen and in partner countries. The Institute also acts as a transfer centre for knowledge to academia, governmental institutions, industry and the public. It facilitates cooperation at national and international levels between scientists and research institutes with the involvement of partners from industry. Through its activities, the ZMT contributes to the goals set by Agenda 21 of the United Nations Convention.
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The Organizational Structure of the Leibniz Association The “Wissenschaftsgemeinschaft Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz”, Leibniz Association for short, comprises 86 scientific institutions and four associated member institutions that currently enjoy joint funding by the Federal and Länder Governments. The Association is a registered charity under German law. It pursues the common interests of the Leibniz institutions and supports cooperation among them. The organs of the Leibniz Association are the Members’ Congress, the Senate, the Presidential Office and the President, the Executive Board, the Sections’ Conference, the Administrative Committee and the Interdisciplinary Network of Infrastructure Facilities (IVI). The Senate, whose membership is recruited from outside the Association, advises the Leibniz Association on issues regarding its strategic development and science-policy issues. It is responsible for the regular evaluation of all Leibniz Institutes. The Joint Science Conference (GWK) supports its decisions on funding for the Leibniz Institutes on the recommendation of the Senate. The Evaluation Department coordinates the institute reviews, which are held at regular intervals. The committees are supported by the headquarters, seated in Bonn, as well as offices in Berlin and Brussels. The Leibniz Association’s Brussels Office The Office commenced its activities in June 2006. It represents the common interests of all member institutes in Brussels, seeks to achieve a greater visibility of the Leibniz Association and promotes the individual interests of the Institutes in the European context. The Brussels Office wishes to contribute to the Leibniz Institutions gaining easier access to European funding programmes, having better prospects in competition and having their research policy positions being given greater consideration. In overarching issues, the Office cooperates closely with other science organizations and acts both internally and externally as a contact point for all European issues. Finally, the Office fosters the formation of opinion on research policy issues relating to the EU. The Brussels Office supports all Leibniz Institutions in • Network formation • Formulating and pursuing cross-institute interests •P reparing research policy statements of the Leibniz Association and coordinating them with European and national partners •M ediating contacts between Leibniz representatives and the European institutions at all levels.
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(in alphabetical order) Doris Ahnen Minister of Education, Science, Youth and Culture, Rheinland-Pfalz Prof. Dr. Dr. h. c. Ulrike Beisiegel Institute oft Molecular Cell Biology at University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf Prof. Dr. Dr. h. c. mult. Hans-Jörg Bullinger President, Fraunhofer Society, Munich Dr. Peter Dröll Head of Unit, “Innovation Policy Development”, Directorate General Enterprise and Industry, European Commission Dr. Richard Escritt Director, ret., European Commission Prof. Dr. Paul Gans University of Mannheim, Economic Geography Chair, Department of Economics Petra Gerstenkorn Member of the Federal Board, ver.di Prof. Dr. Bernhard Graf Institute for Museum Research, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin Prof. Dr. Peter Gruss President, Max Planck Society, Munich Dr. Herlind Gundelach Senator of Science and Research, Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg Klaus Hagemann Member of the Federal Parliament (Deutscher Bundestag) Prof. Dr. Dieter Häussinger Department of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Infectiology at Düsseldorf University Hospital Dr. Bernhard Heitzer State Secretary, Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology Prof. Dr. Dr. h. c. Reinhard F. Hüttl Scientific Executive Board and Board Chairman, Potsdam GeoForschungsZentrum Prof. Dr. Beate Jessel Federal Agency for Nature Conservation, Bonn
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Renate Jürgens-Pieper Senator of Education and Science, City of Bremen Prof. Dr. Matthias Kleiner President, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, Bonn Michael Kretschmer Member of the Federal Parliament (Deutscher Bundestag) Prof. Dr. Dr. Sabine Kunst President of Potsdam University Prof. Dr. Dr. h. c. Christoph Markschies President, Humboldt University, Berlin Prof. Dr. Stefan Meuer University of Heidelberg, Institute of Immunology Prof. Dr. Hans Joachim Meyer Minister for Science and Education of the GDR, Minister for Science and Art in Saxony, ret., President of Central Committee of German Catholics, Berlin, ret. Prof. Dr. Jürgen Mlynek President, Helmholtz Association, Berlin Prof. Dr. jur. Wernhard Möschel University of Tübingen, Chair of Civil Law Ass. jur. Manfred Nettekoven Head of Adminsitration, Rhenish-Westphalian Technical University Aachen Dr. Frank Nolden Head of Adminsitration, University of Leipzig Cornelia Pieper Minister of State at the Federal Foreign Office Cornelia Quennet-Thielen, State Secretary, Federal Ministry of Education and Research Prof. Dr. Dr. h. c. mult. Ernst Theodor Rietschel President, Leibniz Association (without voting power) Prof. Dr. Rudolf Schieffer President, Monumenta Germaniae Historica; Chair of Medieval History, LMU Munich Prof. Dr. Andreas Schlüter Secretary General, Stifterverband für die Deutsche Wissenschaft, Essen
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Prof. Dr. Hans Spada Institute for Psychology, Freiburg University Helmut Stahl State Secretary, ret., Member of the Parliament of North RhineWestphalia, Düsseldorf Prof. Dr. Peter Strohschneider Chairman, Executive Board of the Science Council, Cologne Dr.-Ing. Uwe Thomas State Secretary, ret. Prof. Dr. Dr. h. c. mult. Jürgen Troe Institute of Physical Chemistry at Göttingen University Prof. Dr. Knut Urban Director, Institute of Solid State Physics Research, Research Centre Jülich Prof. Dr. Gerold Wefer Director, DFG Ocean Rim Research Centre, Bremen University; Chairman of the Steering Committee of Science in Dialogue (“Wissenschaft im Dialog”) Prof. Dr. Margret Wintermantel President, Rectors’ Conference, Bonn Christian Wriedt Chairman, Executive Board, Körber Foundation, Hamburg
Guests: Prof. Dr. Monika Stoll Academic Vice-President of the Leibniz Association, Director of the Leibniz Institute of Arteriosclerosis Research at the University of Münster Prof. Dr. Dr. h. c. Bernhard Müller Academic Vice-President of the Leibniz Association, Director of the Leibniz Institute of Ecological and Regional Development, Dresden Dr. Falk Fabich Administrative Vice-President of the Leibniz Association, Managing Director of the Forschungsverbund Berlin e.V. PD Dr. habil. Susanne Holstein Acting Secretary General
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Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. mult. Ernst Th. Rietschel President of the Leibniz Association, Berlin Prof. Dr. Monika Stoll Academic Vice-President of the Leibniz Association, Director of the Leibniz Institute of Arteriosclerosis Research an the University of Münste Prof. Dr. Dr. h. c. Bernhard Müller Academic Vice-President of the Leibniz Association, Director of the Leibniz Institute of Ecological and Regional Development, Dresden Dr. Falk Fabich Administrative Vice-President of the Leibniz Association, Managing Director of the Forschungsverbund Berlin e.V. Prof. Dr. Dr. Ludwig Eichinger Director of the Institute for the German Language (IDS) Prof. Dr. Dr. Wolfgang Franz President of the Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW) Prof. Heribert Hofer DPhil Director of the Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research (IZW) Prof. Dr. Matthias Steinmetz Director of the Astrophysical Institute Potsdam (AIP) Prof. Dr. Peter Herzig Director of the Leibniz Institute of Marine Sciences IFM-GEOMAR Heinrich Baßler Head of Administration of the Berlin Social Science Research Centre (WZB) Prof. Dr. Marc Rittberger Director of the German Institute for International Educational Research (DIPF) PD Dr. habil. Susanne Holstein Secretary General (commissionary)
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Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. mult. Ernst Th. Rietschel
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Prof. Dr. Dr. h. c. mult. Ernst Theodor Rietschel President from November 2005 until June 2010 Ernst Theodor Rietschel was born in Gießen (Germany) in 1941. He studied chemistry at Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich (1961-1963) and Albert Ludwigs University in Freiburg (diploma in 1968). In the same year, he entered the Max Planck Institute for Immunobiology in Freiburg, where he received his PhD graduation with Otto Westphal (1971). Thereafter, he worked as a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Minnesota (Minneapolis). He then rejoined the Max Planck Institute in Freiburg, working on the chemistry and biology of bacterial endotoxins. After his habilitation, he accepted a chair and full professorship for Immunochemistry and Biochemical Microbiology at the University of Lübeck in 1980. At the same time, he was appointed Director of the Research Center Borstel, Leibniz Center for Medicine and Biosciences. In 2003, he became Scientific Vice-President of the Leibniz Association, and in 2005, he was elected the Association’s President. In 2006, he was assigned Acting Chair of the European Medical Research Councils (EMRC) of the European Science Foundation (ESF). Prof. Dr.-Ing. E. h. Hans-Olaf Henkel President from 2001 until 2005 Born in Hamburg in 1940, joined IBM Germany in 1962. Various line and staff responsibilities in Germany, the USA, Asia and the European headquarters in Paris, 1987 Chairman of IBM Deutschland board of management, 1993 Head of IBM Europe, Middle East and Africa. President of the Federal Confederation of German Industry from 1995 to 2000, member of several supervisory boards and most senior Senator of the Max Planck Society (since 1988). Henkel is an active member of Amnesty International and the author of several books. In 1992, Henkel was awarded an honorary doctorate by the Technical University of Dresden and was designated “Eco-manager of the Year” by the Worldwide Fund for Nature, WWF. In 2002, he received the “Cicero Prize” (“Best speaker of Germany’s business community”) and in 2003 the international book award “Corine” as well as the “Ludwig Erhard Prize for Economic Journalism”.
Ret. State Secretary Prof. Dr. Ingolf Volker Hertel Founding President from 1995 to 1998 Physicist (born 1941) with chemical physics and laser physics as chief areas of activity, was Professor at the University of Kaiserslautern, the FU Berlin und Freiburg University from 1970 to 1993. Has been Director of the Max Born Institute and Spokesman for the extra-university research institutions in Berlin-Adlershof since 1992 and, since 1993, University Professor at the Physics Department of the FU Berlin. Has been on several national and international academic committees and, from 1986 to 2003, senior editor of the “Zeitschrift für Physik D” and the “European Physical Journal D”. Was a State Secretary at the Land of Berlin’s Senate Administration of Science, Research and Culture from 1998-2000. Full member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences, well over 200 scientific publications.
Prof. Dr. Frank Pobell
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Prof. Dr. Frank Pobell President from 1998 until 2001 Physicist (born 1937) with solid state physics at extremely low temperatures as chief area of activity. Did his doctorate in 1965 and his Habilitation (qualification as a lecturer) at Munich Technical University in 1969, worked for KFA Jülich, today’s Research Centre Jülich, a member of the Helmholtz Association, from 1971 to 1983, where he attained the post of Director at the Institute of Solid State Physics. From 1975 to 1983, he was a Full Professor at the University of Cologne. Held Chair for Experimental Physics at the University of Bayreuth from 1983 – 1996 was Scientific Director of the Rossendorf Research Centre and was Professor at Dresden Technical University up to his retirement in spring 2003. Received several distinctions, has been a member of the Saxon Academy of Sciences since 1999. Edited the “Journal of Low Temperature Physics”, more than 200 publications in scientific journals, one book.
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Ret. State Secretary Prof. Dr. Ingolf Volker Hertel
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Institutions in Alphabetical Order Academy for Spatial Research and Planning – Leibniz Forum for Spatial Sciences (ARL) Hannover Astrophysical Institute Potsdam (AIP) Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine, Hamburg (BNI) Bremen Institute for Prevention Research and Social Medicine (BIPS) [Associated member] Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW) Mannheim Deutsches Bergbau-Museum Bochum (DBM) DMT-Research Institute for Mining History and Mining Museum Deutsches Museum (DM) Munich Deutsches Schiffahrtsmuseum, Bremerhaven (DSM) DIPF - German Institute for International Educational Research Ferdinand-Braun-Institut, Leibniz-Institut für Höchstfrequenztechnik (FBH) Berlin FIZ CHEMIE Berlin – The Chemistry Information Centre (FCH) FIZ Karlsruhe – Leibniz Institute for Information Infrastructure (FIZ KA) Forschungszentrum Borstel Leibniz Center for Medicine and Biosciences (FZB) Forschungszentrum Dresden - Rossendorf (FZD) Georg Eckert Institute for International Textbook Research (GEI) German Collection of Microorganisms and Cell Cultures (DSMZ) Brunswick German Diabetes Center (DDZ) – Leibniz-Center for Diabetes Research at the Heinrich-Heine-University Duesseldorf German Institute for Adult Education – Leibniz Centre for Lifelong Learning (DIE) Bonn German Institute for Economic Research (DIW) Berlin German Institute of Human Nutrition (DIfE) Potsdam German National Library of Economics (ZBW) – Leibniz Information Centre for Economics Kiel / Hamburg German National Library of Medicine (ZB MED) Cologne and Bonn German National Library of Science and Technology (TIB) Hannover German Primate Centre – Leibniz Institute for Primate Research (DPZ) Göttingen German Research Centre for Food Chemistry (DFA) Garching
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German Research Institute for Public Administration (FÖV) 42 Speyer 60 German Rheumatism Research Center Berlin (DRFZ) 31 Germanisches Nationalmuseum (GNM) Nuremberg 44 GESIS - Leibniz Institute for Social Sciences (GESIS) 45 GIGA German Institute of Global and Area Studies 50 Halle Institute for Economic Research (IWH) Heinrich-Pette-Institute for Experimental Virology and 70 Immunology at the University of Hamburg (HPI) Herder-Institut – Centre for Historical Research on East 32 Central Europe (HI) Marburg Ifo Institute for Economic Research at the University of 47 Munich (ifo) IHP GmbH - Innovations for High Performance 88 Microelectronics Frankfurt (Oder) (IHP) ILS - Research Institute for Regional and Urban Develop48 ment German Company (ILS) [Associated member] Institut für umwelmedizinische Forschung an der Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf gGmbH (IUF) 71 [Associated member] 33 Institute for the German Language (IDS), Mannheim 35 Institute of Contemporary History (IfZ) Munich-Berlin 49 Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW) 90 Kiepenheuer-Institut für Sonnenphysik, Freiburg (KIS) 34 Knowledge Media Research Center (KMRC) Tübingen 114 Leibniz Center for Tropical Marine Ecology (ZMT) Bremen Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF) 112 Müncheberg Leibniz Institute for Age Research - Fritz Lipmann Institute 72 (FLI) Jena Leibniz Institute for Agricultural Engineering Potsdam106 Bornim (ATB) 107 Leibniz Institute for Applied Geophysics (LIAG), Hannover Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research Warnemünde (IOW) 110 Leibniz Institute for Catalysis at the University of Rostock 93 (LIKAT) 94 Leibniz Institute for Crystal Growth (IKZ) Leibniz Institute for Farm Animal Biology (FBN) Dummerstorf 67 Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection 76 Biology – Hans Knöll Institute (HKI) Jena Leibniz Institute for Neurobiology (IfN) Magdeburg Center 77 for Learning and Memory Research 95 Leibniz Institute for New Materials (INM) Saarbrücken
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Leibniz Institute for Plasma Science and Technology (INP) Greifswald Leibniz Institute for Regional Development and Structural Planning (IRS) Erkner Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography (IfL) Leipzig Leibniz Institute for Science and Mathematics Education at the University of Kiel (IPN) Leibniz Institute for Solid State and Materials Research (IFW) Dresden Leibniz Institute for Tropospheric Research (IfT) Leipzig Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research (IZW) Berlin Leibniz Institute of Agricultural Development in Central and Eastern Europe (IAMO) Halle Leibniz Institute of Arteriosclerosis Research (LIFA) Leibniz Institute of Ecological and Regional Development (IÖR) Dresden Leibniz Institute of Marine Sciences (IFM-GEOMAR), Kiel Leibniz Institute of Plant Biochemistry (IPB) Halle Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK) Gatersleben Leibniz Institute of Surface Modification (IOM) Leipzig Leibniz Institute of Vegetable and Ornamental Crops (IGZ) Großbeeren and Erfurt Leibniz Research Centre for Working Environment and Human Factors (IfADo) Leibniz-Institut für Atmosphärenphysik an der Universität Rostock, Kühlungsborn (IAP) Leibniz-Institut für Molekulare Pharmakologie, Berlin (FMP) Leibniz-Institut für Polymerforschung Dresden e.V. (IPF) Leibniz Institute of Polymer Research Dresden Leibniz Institute for Analytical Sciences – ISAS – e.V. Leibniz Institute for Psychology Information (ZPID) Trier Leibniz Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries (IGB) Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach (MFO) Max Born Institute for Nonlinear Optics and Short Pulse Spectroscopy (MBI) Berlin Paul Drude Institute for Solid State Electronics (PDI) Berlin Peace Research Institute Frankfurt (PRIF) Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (RWI) Essen
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Römisch-Germanisches Zentralmuseum Mainz Forschungs institut für Vor- und Frühgeschichte (RGZM) Schloss Dagstuhl - Leibniz Center for Informatics GmbH (LCI) Senckenberg Gesellschaft für Naturforschung Social Science Research Center Berlin (WZB) The Center of Contemporary History Potsdam (ZZF) The Museum für Naturkunde - Leibniz Institute for Research on Evolution and Biodiversity at the Humboldt University Berlin (MfN) Weierstrass Institute for Applied Analysis and Stochastics (WIAS) Berlin Zoologisches Forschungsmuseum Alexander Koenig (ZFMK), Bonn
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Institutions by Abbreviations 83 AIP Astrophysical Institute Potsdam ARL Academy for Spatial Research and Planning – 40 Leibniz Forum for Spatial Sciences Hannover ATB Leibniz Institute for Agricultural Engineering 106 Potsdam-Bornim BIPS Bremen Institute for Prevention Research and Social 59 Medicine [Associated member] BNI Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine, 58 Hamburg DBM Deutsches Bergbau-Museum Bochum – DMTResearch Institute for Mining History and Mining 25 Museum DDZ German Diabetes Center – Leibniz-Center for Diabetes Research at the Heinrich-Heine-University 63 Duesseldorf DFA German Research Centre for Food Chemistry 60 Garching DIE German Institute for Adult Education – 26 Leibniz Centre for Lifelong Learning Bonn 64 DIfE German Institute of Human Nutrition Potsdam DIPF German Institute for International Educational 27 Research 43 DIW German Institute for Economic Research Berlin 28 DM Deutsches Museum Munich DPZ German Primate Centre – Leibniz Institute for 65 Primate Research Göttingen 66 DRFZ German Rheumatism Research Center Berlin 30 DSM Deutsches Schiffahrtsmuseum, Bremerhaven DSMZ German Collection of Microorganisms and Cell 61 Cultures Brunswick FBH Ferdinand-Braun-Institut, Leibniz-Institut 86 für Höchstfrequenztechnik Berlin FBN Leibniz Institute for Farm Animal 67 Biology Dummerstorf FCH FIZ CHEMIE Berlin – The Chemistry Information Centre FIZ KA FIZ Karlsruhe – Leibniz Institute for Information 85 Infrastructure FLI Leibniz Institute for Age Research - Fritz Lipmann 72 Institute Jena FMP Leibniz-Institut für Molekulare Pharmakologie, Berlin 75 FÖV German Research Institute for Public Administration 42 Speyer
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FZB Forschungszentrum Borstel Leibniz Center for Medicine and Biosciences FZD Forschungszentrum Dresden - Rossendorf GEI Georg Eckert Institute for International Textbook Research GESIS Leibniz Institute for Social Sciences GIGA German Institute of Global and Area Studies GNM Germanisches Nationalmuseum Nuremberg HI Herder-Institut – Centre for Historical Research on East Central Europe Marburg HKI Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology – Hans Knöll Institute Jena HPI Heinrich-Pette-Institute for Experimental Virology and Immunology at the University of Hamburg IAMO Leibniz Institute of Agricultural Development in Central and Eastern Europe Halle IAP Leibniz-Institut für Atmosphärenphysik an der Universität Rostock, Kühlungsborn IDS Institute for the German Language, Mannheim IfADo Leibniz Research Centre for Working Environment and Human Factors IfL Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography Leipzig IFM-GEOMAR Leibniz Institute of Marine Sciences, Kiel IfN Leibniz Institute for Neurobiology Magdeburg Center for Learning and Memory Research Ifo Institute for Economic Research at the University of Munich IfT Leibniz Institute for Tropospheric Research Leipzig IfW Kiel Institute for the World Economy IFW Leibniz Institute for Solid State and Materials Research Dresden IfZ Institute of Contemporary History Munich-Berlin IGB Leibniz Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries IGZ Leibniz Institute of Vegetable and Ornamental Crops Großbeeren and Erfurt IHP IHP GmbH - Innovations for High Performance Microelectronics Frankfurt Oder IKZ Leibniz Institute for Crystal Growth ILS Research Institute for Regional and Urban Development German Company [Associated member] INM Leibniz Institute for New Materials Saarbrücken
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INP Leibniz Institute for Plasma Science and Technology Greifswald 97 IOM Leibniz Institute of Surface Modification Leipzig 96 IÖR Leibniz Institute of Ecological and Regional Development Dresden 53 IOW Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research Warnemünde 110 IPB Leibniz Institute of Plant Biochemistry Halle 78 IPF Leibniz-Institut für Polymerforschung Dresden e.V. Leibniz Institute of Polymer Research Dresden 98 IPK Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research Gatersleben 79 IPN Leibniz Institute for Science and Mathematics Education at the University of Kiel 36 IRS Leibniz Institute for Regional Development and Structural Planning Erkner 54 ISAS Leibniz Institute for Analytical Sciences – ISAS – e.V. 89 IUF Institut für umwelmedizinische Forschung an der Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf gGmbH [Associated member] 71 IWH Halle Institute for Economic Research 50 IZW Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research Berlin 80 KIS Kiepenheuer-Institut für Sonnenphysik, Freiburg 90 KMRC Knowledge Media Research Center Tübingen 34 LCI Schloss Dagstuhl - Leibniz Center for Informatics GmbH 102 LIAG Leibniz Institute for Applied Geophysics, Hannover 107 LIFA Leibniz Institute of Arteriosclerosis Research 74 LIKAT Leibniz Institute for Catalysis at the University of Rostock 93 MBI Max Born Institute for Nonlinear Optics and Short Pulse Spectroscopy Berlin 100 MfN The Museum für Naturkunde - Leibniz Institute for Research on Evolution and Biodiversity at the Humboldt University Berlin 81 MFO Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach 99 PDI Paul Drude Institute for Solid State Electronics Berlin 101 PIK Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research 113 PRIF Peace Research Institute Frankfurt 46 RGZM Römisch-Germanisches Zentralmuseum Mainz Forschungsinstitut für Vor- und Frühgeschichte 37 RWI Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung Essen 55 SGN Senckenberg Gesellschaft für Naturforschung 68
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TIB German National Library of Science and Technology Hannover WIAS Weierstrass Institute for Applied Analysis and Stochastics Berlin WZB Social Science Research Center Berlin ZALF Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research Müncheberg ZB MED German National Library of Medicine Cologne and Bonn ZBW German National Library of Economics – Leibniz Information Centre for Economics Kiel / Hamburg ZEW Centre for European Economic Research Mannheim ZFMK Zoologisches Forschungsmuseum Alexander Koenig, Bonn ZMT Leibniz Center for Tropical Marine Ecology Bremen ZPID Leibniz Institute for Psychology Information Trier ZZF The Center of Contemporary History Potsdam
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The Humanities and Educational Research DBM Deutsches Bergbau-Museum Bochum DMT-Research Institute for Mining History and Mining Museum DIE German Institute for Adult Education – Leibniz Centre for Lifelong Learning Bonn DIPF German Institute for International Educational Research DM Deutsches Museum Munich GEI Georg Eckert Institute for International Textbook Research DSM Deutsches Schiffahrtsmuseum, Bremerhaven GNM Germanisches Nationalmuseum Nuremberg HI Herder-Institut – Centre for Historical Research on East Central Europe Marburg IDS Institute for the German Language, Mannheim KMRC Knowledge Media Research Center Tübingen IfZ Institute of Contemporary History Munich-Berlin IPN Leibniz Institute for Science and Mathematics Education at the University of Kiel RGZM Römisch-Germanisches Zentralmuseum Mainz Forschungsinstitut für Vor- und Frühgeschichte ZPID Leibniz Institute for Psychology Information Trier ZZF The Center of Contemporary History Potsdam
Section B
Economics, Social Sciences, Regional Infrastructure Research ARL Academy for Spatial Research and Planning – Leibniz Forum for Spatial Sciences Hannover ZBW German National Library of Economics – Leibniz Information Centre for Economics Kiel / Hamburg FÖV German Research Institute for Public Administration Speyer DIW German Institute for Economic Research Berlin GESIS GESIS - Leibniz Institute for Social Sciences GIGA German Institute of Global and Area Studies PRIF Peace Research Institute Frankfurt ifo Ifo Institute for Economic Research at the University of Munich ILS ILS - Research Institute for Regional and Urban Development German Company [Associated member] IfW Kiel Institute for the World Economy IWH Halle Institute for Economic Research IAMO Leibniz Institute of Agricultural Development in Central and Eastern Europe Halle IfL Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography Leipzig IÖR Leibniz Institute of Ecological and Regional Development Dresden IRS Leibniz Institute for Regional Development and Structural Planning Erkner
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RWI Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung Essen WZB Social Science Research Center Berlin ZEW Centre for European Economic Research Mannheim
Section C
Life Sciences
BNI Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine, Hamburg BIPS Bremen Institute for Prevention Research and Social Medicine [Associated member] DFA German Research Centre for Food Chemistry Garching DSMZ German Collection of Microorganisms and Cell Cultures Brunswick ZB MED German National Library of Medicine Cologne and Bonn DDZ German Diabetes Center – Leibniz-Center for Diabetes Research at the Heinrich-Heine-University Duesseldorf DIfE German Institute of Human Nutrition Potsdam DPZ German Primate Centre – Leibniz Institute for Primate Research Göttingen DRFZ German Rheumatism Research Center Berlin FBN Leibniz Institute for Farm Animal Biology Dummerstorf SGN Senckenberg Gesellschaft für Naturforschung FZB Forschungszentrum Borstel Leibniz Center for Medicine and Biosciences HPI Heinrich-Pette-Institute for Experimental Virology and Immunology at the University of Hamburg IUF Institut für umwelmedizinische Forschung an der Heinrich-HeineUniversität Düsseldorf gGmbH [Associated member] FLI Leibniz Institute for Age Research - Fritz Lipmann Institute Jena IfADo Leibniz Research Centre for Working Environment and Human Factors LIFA Leibniz Institute of Arteriosclerosis Research FMP Leibniz-Institut für Molekulare Pharmakologie, Berlin HKI Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology – Hans Knöll Institute Jena IfN Leibniz Institute for Neurobiology Magdeburg Center for Learning and Memory Research IPB Leibniz Institute of Plant Biochemistry Halle IPK Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research Gatersleben IZW Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research Berlin MfN The Museum für Naturkunde Leibniz Institute for Research on Evolution and Biodiversity at the Humboldt University Berlin ZFMK Zoologisches Forschungsmuseum Alexander Koenig, Bonn
Section D
Mathematics, Natural Sciences, Engineering AIP Astrophysical Institute Potsdam FCH FIZ CHEMIE Berlin – The Chemistry Information Centre FIZ KA FIZ Karlsruhe – Leibniz Institute for Information Infrastructure FBH Ferdinand-Braun-Institut, LeibnizInstitut für Höchstfrequenztechnik Berlin FZD Forschungszentrum Dresden - Rossendorf IHP IHP GmbH - Innovations for High Performance Microelectronics Frankfurt Oder ISAS Leibniz Institute for Analytical Sciences – ISAS – e.V. KIS Kiepenheuer-Institut für Sonnenphysik, Freiburg IAP Leibniz-Institut für Atmosphärenphysik an der Universität Rostock, Kühlungsborn IFW Leibniz Institute for Solid State and Materials Research Dresden LIKAT Leibniz Institute for Catalysis at the University of Rostock IKZ Leibniz Institute for Crystal Growth INM Leibniz Institute for New Materials Saarbrücken IOM Leibniz Institute of Surface Modification Leipzig INP Leibniz Institute for Plasma Science and Technology Greifswald IPF Leibniz-Institut für Polymerforschung Dresden e.V. Leibniz Institute of Polymer Research Dresden MFO Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach MBI Max Born Institute for Nonlinear Optics and Short Pulse Spectroscopy Berlin PDI Paul Drude Institute for Solid State Electronics Berlin LCI Schloss Dagstuhl - Leibniz Center for Informatics GmbH TIB German National Library of Science and Technology Hannover WIAS Weierstrass Institute for Applied Analysis and Stochastics Berlin
Section E
Environmental Research IGZ Leibniz Institute of Vegetable and Ornamental Crops Großbeeren and Erfurt ATB Leibniz Institute for Agricultural Engineering Potsdam-Bornim LIAG Leibniz Institute for Applied Geophysics, Hannover IGB Leibniz Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries IFM-GEOMAR Leibniz Institute of Marine Sciences, Kiel IOW Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research Warnemünde IfT Leibniz Institute for Tropospheric Research Leipzig ZALF Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research Müncheberg PIK Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research ZMT Leibniz Center for Tropical Marine Ecology Bremen
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