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The University of Bayreuth is a specialized research university that features interdisciplinarity with a targeted scientific focus. Complementing its faculties, scientific centers and numerous research groups have been developed to bring the research capabilities of various disciplines together. Nine interdisciplinary target areas form the university’s research profile: High Pressure and High Temperature Research, Macromolecular and Colloid Research, Ecology and Environmental Sciences, New Materials, Molecular Biosciences, Non-Linear Dynamics, African Studies, Cultural Comparison and Intercultural Processes, and Dynamics and Order – Development of Law Culture and Economy.

 

The University of Bayreuth is a research partner for companies developing hightech products, and works with the renowned Fraunhofer Society on innovative projects. Within the Elite Network of Bavaria, the University of Bayreuth coordinates the Master’s programs in Macromolecular Science and Global Change Ecology, as well as the doctoral programs in Lead Structures of Cell Function and Structure, Reactivity and Properties of Oxide Materials; the University is also a partner in five further elite programs. The University of Bayreuth attracts an exceptionally high number of international researchers, and boasts the highest number of Alexander von Humboldt scholars per professor among Germany’s universities.