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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.
11th Hermann Staudinger Lecture with Nobel Laureate Werner Arber
Nobel Laureate Werner Arber presented the 11th Staudinger Lecture “From Microbial Genetics to Molecular Genetics and to Molecular Evolution” on 19th January 2012.
Literatur-Comics: New definitive work published on research into intermediality
During her research stay at FRIAS, Prof. Monika Schmitz-Emans, Professor of Comparative Literature at Ruhr-Universität Bochum, conducted a pioneering study on literary research into comics. The work has now been published as volume 10 of the FRIAS “linguae & litterae” journal series.
Mathematical Inspirations in Literature and the Arts
October 2008 saw an international, interdisciplinary conference entitled “Numbers, Signs and Figures. Mathematical Inspirations in Literature and the Arts” take place in the School of Language & Literature. This heralded the introduction of new trends in the field of “literature and science studies”. Edited by Andrea Albrecht, Gesa von Essen and Werner Frick, the papers presented at that conference have now been published as volume 11 of the “linguae & litterae” journal series.
5th issue of FRIAS NEWS announced
The Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (FRIAS) has now published the fifth issue of FRIAS NEWS. The research magazine entitled "FRIAS – Within the University" focuses on the interplay between FRIAS and the faculties. A round table talk between four deans and FRIAS speaker Werner Frick shows how the University of Freiburg has changed since FRIAS has been established.
Soft Matter Director Jan Korvink has been awarded an European Research Council’s Advanced Grant
Prof. Jan Korvink, Director of the School of Soft Matter Research, will receive an European Research Council (ERC) Advanced Grant for his project „A modular micro nuclear magnetic resonance in vivo platform for the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans“. The grant is endowed with 3,4 Million Euros.
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.
Fourth competition for interdisciplinary research groups announced
The academic year 2012/2013 will see the return of a competition for interdisciplinary research groups at FRIAS. The competition is open to scholars from all faculties of the University of Freiburg.
Soft Matter Fellow Ingo Krossing has been awarded an European Research Council’s Advanced Grant
Prof. Dr Ingo Krossing, Internal Senior Fellow at the School of Soft Matter Research will receive an European Research Council (ERC) Advanced Grant for his project “Unifying Concepts for Acid-Base- and Redox-Chemistry: Development, Validation and Application of Absolute pH and pe Scales Culminating in the Protoelectric Potential Map (PPM)”.
Timmer team is best performer in the DREAM6 challenge
LifeNet Director Jens Timmer and his team ranked 1st out of 19 teams competing in the 2011 DREAM6 benchmark challenge. Given the complete model structures for three gene regulatory networks, participants were asked to develop and/or apply optimisation methods to accurately estimate parameters and predict outcomes of perturbations in Systems Biology models.
Wartburg Prize awarded to History Fellow Volkhard Knigge
Volkhard Knigge, Director of the Buchenwald and Mittelbau-Dora Memorials Foundation and Professor at the Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena, has been awarded the renowned Wartburg Prize. Knigge is currently an External Senior Fellow at the FRIAS School of History and works on a book project on "The Future of Commemoration".
Hans Joas on the History of Human Rights
Hans Joas, Permanent Fellow at the FRIAS School of
History and Professor at the University of Chicago, has
recently published his new volume entitled
"The Sacredness of the Person. A New Genealogy of Human Rights" (Suhrkamp). In his study Joas explores the origins of the concept of
human rights. By approaching human rights from a historical-sociological perspective he reveals a surprising third interpretation of their long history.
Heinrich von Kleist: New Lecture Series Presented by the German Department and the FRIAS School of Language & Literature
A public lecture series running throughout the winter semester (Tuesdays, 8 pm, Kollegiengebäude I, lecture hall 1010), which has been jointly organised by the German Department of the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität and the FRIAS School of Language & Literature, is to mark the 200th anniversary of the death of Heinrich von Kleist, reawakening the memory of this exceptional outsider of German literature.
Professor Peter Strohschneider opened the academic year 2011/2012 at FRIAS
Professor Peter Strohschneider delivered the opening lecture entitled "The German Excellence Initiative and the Concept of University" at the festive inauguration of the Academic Year 2011/2012 at FRIAS. Strohschneider was Chairman of the German Council of Science and Humanities from 2006– 2010 and is currently an External Senior Fellow at the FRIAS School of Language & Literature.
Videos of the 2nd Interdisciplinary FRIAS Symposium published
From 4th to 6th May 2011, the 2nd Interdisciplinary FRIAS Symposium set out to examine “Catastrophes”. Now the videos of the converence are published online and document the wide interdisciplinary dialogue led between the humanities, social sciences and natural sciences.
