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In numerous rankings, both national and international, LMU’s scholarly achievements place it at the top of German universities. Diversity and quality are the basis for ensuring that teamwork produces outstanding results. This applies to many areas, whether interdisciplinary Japanese studies, our renowned Shakespeare scholarship or the cooperation of historians, philosophers, linguists, and cultural experts researching the early modern era, a group effort that eventually led to the establishment of a highly respected Collaborative Research Center.

 

The same diversity and quality is enjoyed by researchers at our Gene Center: medical researchers, biologists, and biochemists collaborate on genome research. At the Center for Nanoscience (CeNS), physicists, chemists, bio-chemists, and scientists from the life sciences pursue complex nano research questions. LMU scientists have demonstrated their excellent scientific qualities time and again by winning numerous awards: they have received nine Leibniz Awards, Germany’s highest academic honor, since 2001, and even a Nobel Prize in physics, which went to Professor Theodor W. Hänsch in 2005.

 

The results speak for themselves: 12 Collaborative Research Centers (SFB), 11 DFG Research Training Groups and 2 International Doctorate Programs within the “Elite Network of Bavaria,” 120 million euros in third-party funds, and intense participation in national and international support programs have earned us our high ranking. The Excellence Initiative has convincingly demonstrated the strength of the sciences and life sciences at LMU. Our scientists continue to advance the latest research in nanoscience, protein research, and photonics. In addition, junior academics will be able to receive further training at the Graduate School of Systemic Neurosciences.