Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies

Soon after its conception, the Hermann Staudinger Lectures were introduced, named after the famous University of Freiburg chemist who won the Nobel Prize in 1953.

Renowned scientists from all over the world, so far including Douglas Osheroff, Jean-Marie Lehn, Richard R. Ernst, and Werner Arber, are invited to hold this lecture.

As Junior Fellows, promising young academics have the opportunity to organise their own conferences at FRIAS and invite celebrated international guests to attend, as well as the chance to teach and obtain their professorial qualification (Habilitation) at the university.

Smaller, inter-school event formats such as monthly Dinner Speeches and After Hours Conversations provide opportunities for interdisciplinary exchange.

In the upper Rhine area, close relationships exist with the Institut d'Études Avancées de Strasbourg and the University of Basel.