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Globally connected, research at the University of Regensburg (UR) addresses the challenges of a rapidly changing world, both independently and collaboratively:

Dynamics in the Global World

Material Worlds and Sustainability

Digital Transformations

Integrated Sciences in Life, Health, and Disease

... Impact

UR is committed to ensuring an optimal research environment, nurturing scientists at every career phase, while championing equal opportunities, knowledge exchange, and innovation, through research-friendly infrastructures and dedicated intramural funding programs.

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Cluster of Excellence: Center for Chiral Electronics

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The German Research Foundation (DFG) is funding the Cluster of Excellence Center for Chiral Electronics (CCE) with up to 64.5 million euros.?

The University of Regensburg has applied for the cluster together with Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (MLU) in Halle, Freie Universit?t Berlin and the Max Planck Institute of Microstructure Physics in Halle. The cluster will start in January 2026 and initially run for seven years.?

The aim of the research collaboration is to develop innovative concepts for energy-efficient and high-performance electronics - based on the hitherto little-used property of chirality. More...

News

17. June 2025

ERC Advanced Grant for Prof. Veronica Egger
10. June 2025

Ecological Transformation and Social Conflicts along the Danube
22. May 2025

Excellence Strategy: Cluster of Excellence for the University of Regensburg

After a long and highly competitive competition, the University of Regensburg (UR) is one of the winners of the Excellence Strategy.

20. May 2025

How the Brain’s Visual Systems Help Us Understand and Act in the World

Professors Angelika Lingnau of the University of Regensburg and Nancy Kanwisher of the MIT McGovern Institute are conducting research on the brain's visual systems and their role in enabling human beings to comprehend and navigate the world around them. They have been awarded a grant from the MIT Germany-University of Regensburg Seed Fund program, which is intended to support their research endeavors.
15. May 2025

Margins of Memory: Cultures and Politics of Non-Hegemonic Remembrance

Early career scholars launch new international LSC research network at the University of Regensburg

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Third-Party Funding in Mio � (2023)
77
Scientists (Including Professors)
3031
International Guest Scientists (currently)
335
ERC Grants (currently)
10

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Fresh Science, Diverse Careers

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    Richard H?fer, Professor of Analysis and Numerics of Partial Differential Equations - Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Prize 2025 _

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    The Intuition Game

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    UR's intramural funding program supports early career scientists.

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    Meet the UR Potentials!

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    Simon Lebek is UR’s Professor of Internal Medicine with a focus on Experimental Cardiology and Gene Editing.

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    The Trailblazer

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    Jan Wilhelm leads the junior research group 'Computational Electronic Structure Theory' at UR’s Institute of Theoretical Physics.

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    Breaking the Waves

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    Juliane Tomann is UR’s Junior professor for Public History.

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    Doing History