Welcome to the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (FRIAS)
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The Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (FRIAS) is at the core of the institutional strategy “Windows for Research”, which carried the University of Freiburg to success in the Federal and State Governments' Excellence Initiative in 2007. As an integral part of the University of Freiburg, the research college brings together research areas with particularly prominent profiles at Albert-Ludwigs-Universität. It is split into four schools: the School of History, the School of Language & Literature, the School of Life Sciences – LifeNet and the School of Soft Matter Research.
Additional positions offered to LiLi School Junior Fellows
Two further Junior Fellows from the School of Language & Literature have been offered positions at renowned European universities immediately after gaining their professorial qualification (Habilitation): the linguist Benedikt Szmrecsanyi has been offered a lectureship in Manchester, whilst his fellow linguist Martin Hilpert has been offered chairs in Bruxelles and Neuchâtel.
A Discussion Meeting: Challenges and Prospects of Polymer Chemistry
From 2nd-4th May the School of Soft Matter Research organised a discussion meeting which emphasised the fruitful relationship between the University of Freiburg and the University of Strasbourg in the field of polymer chemistry. One aim of this workshop was to discuss current challenges in polymer chemistry.
Scientists Discover New Human Disease
An international team of scientists led by Prof. Dr Leena Bruckner-Tuderman, Director of the FRIAS School of Life Sciences – LifeNet and Medical Director of the Department of Dermatology, University Freiburg Medical Centre, has identified a new heritable disorder. The findings have now been published in the prestigious New England Journal of Medicine.
Scholars from Serbia and Spain win tandem-fellowship in linguistics and literary studies
The FRIAS School of Language & Literature has received a large number of applications for its tandem-fellowship in linguistics and literary studies, many of them including very attractive and innovative research proposals.
Prof. Hans Joas receives Werner Heisenberg Medal
Prof. Hans Joas, Permanent Fellow of the FRIAS School of History and Professor of Sociology at the University of Chicago, was awarded the Werner Heisenberg Medal by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation on 26th March 2012. The medal was presented to Hans Joas in recognition of his outstanding services to promoting international academic collaboration.
Austrian linguist with a two-year Humboldt scholarship joins the LiLi School as a guest researcher
Dr Elisabeth Zima has received a two-year postdoctoral scholarship from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation for a research stay at FRIAS. Ms Zima will become affiliated to the School of Language & Literature as a Junior Fellow from July 2012. She is pursuing a project on “Construction grammar in interaction: a multimodal perspective on operator-scope-constructions across different genres of spoken interaction”.
Searching for drugs that are kind to the liver
Professor Jens Timmer, Director of the FRIAS School of Life Sciences – LifeNet, is part of a consortium that has been granted 34.7 million Euro for five years by the EU and the European Federation of Pharmaceutical Industries and Associations (EFPIA). The consortium aims at developing new tests that will help researchers detect potential liver toxicity issues much earlier in drug development.
Whatever happened to the social dimension of ecological urban development?
Today, sustainable urban development is primarily guided by ecological standards and economic issues. But what might social, sustainable urban development look like? This question was at the heart of a conference that saw international experts flock to the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (FRIAS) from 13th - 14th April 2012.
Moss detects Air Pollution
Biologists around Internal Senior Fellow Professor Ralf Reski are part of a consortium that has been granted 3.5 million Euro for three years by the EU within their initiative “Eco-Innovations!”.
Natural healing proven in congenital skin disorder
For the first time, scientists working in the group of Prof. Dr Leena Bruckner-Tuderman, Director of the School of Life Sciences – LifeNet, have been able to show how the blotchy skin patterns characteristic of Kindler Syndrome arise as a result of ‘natural healing’, which corrects a defect in the Kindlin-1 gene. The findings have now been published in the prestigious Journal of Clinical Investigation.
UBIAS steering committee meets in New Delhi
The steering committee of the worldwide “University-Based Institutes for Advanced Studies” (UBIAS) network, which was established in Freiburg in 2010, met in New Delhi from 22nd to 25th March 2012 for a working conference to explore further ways in which members might collaborate.
FRIAS offers guided tours through the exhibition: "Abstrakt/Konkret – Besuche im realen Utopia"
FRIAS is pleased to be hosting another art exhibition, which opened with a preview on Tuesday, 14th February 2012 in the FRIAS House. The dichotomy of the “abstract and concrete” is at the heart of this third exhibition, which can be viewed at the University of Freiburg’s research college.
School of History Fellow Jörg Baberowski receives Leipzig Book Fair Prize
Jörg Baberowski, alumnus of the School of History and Professor of East European History at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, received the 2012 Leipzig Book Fair Prize in the non-fiction category for his monograph “Verbrannte Erde. Stalins Herrschaft der Gewalt”. The study offers a new perspective of Stalinist crimes and takes the reader to the depth of the Soviet dictator's paranoid world.
New Website of the University-Based Institutes for Advanced Studies‘ Network (UBIAS)
The international network of University-Based Institutes for Advanced Studies UBIAS has now got its own website, www.ubias.net. The network was founded during the world’s first conference research colleges, which took place in Freiburg from 25th to 28th October 2010.
