Research Profile: Top-Level Research
The University of Bonn has stood for top-level research for over 200 years. The founding professors already saw Bonn as a research university aimed at answering scientific, social and technological questions. Researchers, teachers and early-career researchers all benefit from this today, taking advantage of established German and global networks and strong scientific and social partnerships—with measurable effect.
Transdisciplinary Research
The six Transdisciplinary Research Areas (TRAs) at the University of Bonn create spaces for innovation in research and teaching.
Seven Faculties
The University of Bonn has divided its teaching and research activities into seven faculties, which are themselves subdivided into institutes, departments and even clinics. The faculties constitute the heart and center of the University.
Excellence in Research and Teaching
“We invest in people. We foster networks. We create impact.” We follow this strategy to create the ideal environment for creative scientific work by outstanding researchers that extends beyond our six Clusters of Excellence and to promote talented researchers at all career levels.
The Best Minds
The outstanding research performed by our researchers is shown by the many awards that have been received.
Cooperative Research Culture
Innovative top-level research in many national and international partnerships and collaborative projects sets us apart.
Diverse Appointments
The diversity of our externally funded professorships is a sign of our close cooperation with economy and society.
What sets our research profile apart?
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Excellence
The University of Bonn is one of eleven German Universities of Excellence and the only university with six Clusters of Excellence. Recent decades have seen us produce more Nobel Prize and Fields Medal winners than any other German university.
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Networked
Embedded in the UN city of Bonn and a region of cutting-edge research, the University of Bonn is one of the leading research-oriented universities in Germany.
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Transdisciplinary
Our seven faculties cover a broad range of disciplines. This strong range of disciplines is supplemented by six cross-faculty, interdisciplinary “Transdisciplinary Research Areas” (TRAs) that create areas for exploration and innovation to facilitate academic exchange.
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Comprehensive Support
Our goal is to create the ideal conditions for internationally networked research to attract and develop the best researchers. Our Argelander Program for Early-Career Researchers offers comprehensive support to promote early independent research.
Transdisciplinary Research Areas
Transdisciplinary Research Areas (TRAs) focus our research on key scientific, technological and social issues of the future and create areas for exploration and innovation.
Mathematics, Modelling and Simulation of Complex Systems
How do complex systems actually work? Interaction of mathematical modelling, classical observational methods, data simulation and creative spirit.
Building Blocks of Matter and Fundamental Interactions
How do the building blocks of matter interact? How do complex structures emerge at the different length scales of nature? Find out more about our research.
Life and Health
Understanding the complexity of life - developing new strategies for health.
Read more about TRA Life and Health.
Individuals, Institutions and Societies
Complex relationships between the individual, institutions and societies – developing new views of micro- and macrophenomena.
Past Worlds and Modern Questions. Cultures Across Time and Space
We foster and network research on the preconditions and conditions of the emergence of modern societies as well as on negotiation processes of heritage.
Technology and Innovation for Sustainable Futures
The TRA Sustainable Futures researches institutional, science- and technology-based innovations in the field of sustainability.
We think without borders
With our magazine, we give you an insight into the research and teaching being done at our University. We focus on our transdisciplinary research and the work that we are undertaking in our six Clusters of Excellence. By virtue of their reputation and sheer number, they are without parallel in the entire German university sector.
Find out more about us in the reports on the University, on our research and on some of our favorite places in Bonn—an extremely likeable city that is home to numerous international organizations.
Contact
Research and Innovation Services
+49 228 / 73-60915
GZDez7@verwaltung.uni-bonn.de
The research division manages the entire research process - from initial information on funding, handling third-party funded projects and the exploitation of results.
Also see
Transdisciplinary Research Areas
The six Transdisciplinary Research Areas (TRAs) at the University of Bonn create spaces for innovation in research and teaching.
Clusters of Excellence
The University of Bonn has six Clusters of Excellence, more than any other university in Germany.
NeurotechEU
NeurotechEU is an alliance that have set themself the mission of building an innovative, trans-European network of excellence for brain research and technologies.