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2026 - 2029
Tao Yuan
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft e.V. (DFG)
2026 - 2027
Gerhard Eschweiler, Gorden Sudeck, Andreas Michael Nieß
2026 - 2029
Matthis Synofzik
Else Kröner-Fresenius-Stiftung (EKFS)
2026
Ingrid Hotz-Davies, Aikaterini Magdou
Vereinigung der Freunde der Universität Tübingen e.V. (Unibund)
2026
Jörg Baten
Fritz Thyssen Stiftung
2026 - 2029
Peter Kühn
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft e.V. (DFG)
2026 - 2029
Hendrik Thomassen
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft e.V. (DFG)
2025 - 2026
Tim Hagen Fütterer
2026 - 2029
Marc Oudart
Gemeinnützige Hertie-Stiftung
2025 - 2026
Doreen Bryant, Constantin Cornelius Roder

International cooperations

Organizations

Faculty of Protestant Theology  20 portfolios 34 projects

Ethics and Principles of Christian Society  1  1

Institute for the Study of Religion and Jewish Studies (Institutum Judaicum)   6

Institute of Ancient Jewish Studies and History of Hellenist Religion  1  2

Institute of Biblical Archaeology   1

Institute of Hermeneutics and Dialogue between Cultures   

Institute of Late Middle Ages and the Reformation   1

Protestant Institute of Religious Instruction (EIBOR)  1  2

Protestant Preaching School  1  3

Protestant Seminary  16  9

Faculty of Catholic Theology  21 portfolios 21 projects

Catholic Institute of Religious Instruction (KIBOR)  1  2

Catholic Seminary  14  4

Institute of Ecumenical and Interreligious Research  1  

Faculty of Law  29 portfolios 23 projects

Civil Law group  9  

Criminal Law group  6  1

Institute for Financial and Tax Law  3  

Institute for Law and Religion  3  

Institute of Criminology  3  8

Public Law group  6  

Tübingen Research Institute on the Determinants of Economic Activity (TRIDEA)  3  

Faculty of Medicine  265 portfolios 1190 projects
Hospitals and clinical institutes  139  1019

Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Hospital  1  11

Center for Ophthalmology  14  103

University Eye Hospital  9  22

Research Center for Ophthalmology  2  80

Center for Women's Health  4  4

Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics  4  1

Research Center for Women's Health   2

Center of Dentistry, Oral Medicine and Maxillofacial Surgery (Department)  3  9

Department of Conservative Dentistry   1

Department of Prosthodontics with Propaedeutics  3  1

Department of Orthodontics   4

University Centre of Dentistry, Oral Medicine and Maxillofacial Surgery   6

Department for IT and Applied Medical Informatics (DITAMI)   9

Information Technology Division (GBIT)   

Institute for Applied Medical Informatics (AMI)   

Institute for Translational Bioinformatics (TBI)   1

Medical Data Integration Center (meDIC)   8

Department of Dermatology  12  46

Department of Diagnostic Laboratory Medicine  15  106

Institute of Medical Genetics and Applied Genomics   68

Institute of Medical Microbiology and Hygiene  11  9

Institute of Medical Virology and Epidemiology of Viral Diseases  3  21

Institute of Clinical Chemistry and Pathobiochemistry   4

Institute of Pathology and Neuropathology (Department)  1  5

Department of Experimental and Clinical Pharmacology and Pharmacogenomics  2  5

Pharmacology, Experimental Therapy and Toxicology   2

Clinical Pharmacology   1

Pharmacogenomics   2

Department of Internal Medicine  24  178

Internal Medicine Department I   30

Internal Medicine Department II  1  15

Internal Medicine Department III   35

Internal Medicine Department IV  1  10

Department V, Sports Medicine   12

Department VI, Psychosomatics   14

Department VII, Tropical Medicine   47

Department VIII, Medical Oncology and Pulmonology   6

Clinical Cooperation Unit (KKE)   4

Peptide-based Immunotherapy   1

Department of Neurosurgery and Neurotechnology  5  15

Department of Neurosurgery  4  11

Institute for Neuromodulation and Neurotechnology  1  2

Department of Orthopedic Surgery   1

Department of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery; Polyclinic  1  9

Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy  9  67

Department of General psychiatry and psychotherapy with outpatient clinic   37

Department of Paediatric Psychiatry, Psychosomatic and Psychotherapy with Polyclinic   18

Department of Radiation Oncology  3  4

Department of Radiology  9  59

Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology   13

Department of Nuclear Medicine and Clinical Molecular Imaging   4

Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Neuroradiology   5

Department of Biomedical Magnetic Resonance   5

Department of Preclinical Imaging and Radiopharmacy   34

Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery   8

Department of Urology  3  8

General, Visceral and Transplant Surgery Hospital  1  

Institute for Clinical and Experimental Transfusion Medicine   4

Institute for Clinical Epidemiology and Applied Biometry  1  11

Institute for General Practice and Interprofessional Care  1  53

Institute of Health Sciences   6

Midwifery Science   1

Nursing Science   2

Population-based medicine   3

Institute of Occupational and Social Medicine and Health Services Research  2  17

Interfaculty Institute of Microbiology and Infection Medicine (IMIT)  12  90

University Children’s Hospital - Department of Paediatrics  10  73

Paediatrics Department I and Polyclinic   36

Paediatrics Department II and Polyclinic   5

Paediatrics Department III and Polyclinic   5

Paediatrics Department IV   15

Department of Paediatric Surgery and Paediatric Urology and Polyclinic   3

University Department of Neurology  10  181

Department of Neurology with Focus on Neurovascular Diseases   51

Department of Neurology with an interdisciplinary focus on neuro-oncology   

Department of Neurology with Focus on Neurodegenerative Disorders   73

Department of Neurology with Focus on Neurodegenerative Disorders   36

Non-clinical institutes  31  156

Interfaculty Institute of Biochemistry (IFIB)  7  36

Department of Anatomy   20

Institute for Neuroanatomy and Developmental Biology   6

Institute for Clinical Anatomy and Cell Analytics   14

Institute of Medical Psychology  4  24

Institute of Physiology  1  9

Vegetative and Clinical Physiology  1  3

Neurophysiology   4

Institute of Ethics and History of Medicine  2  7

Hertie Institute for Clinical Brain Research (HIH)   38

Department of Cell Biology of Neurological Diseases   38

Department of Systems Neuroscience   1

Department of Neural Dynamics and Magnetencephalography   2

Hertie Institute for Artificial Intelligence in Brain Health (HIAI)  1  8

Institut for Immunology  5  

Institute for Bioinformatics and Medical Informatics (IBMI)  7  3

Institute for Biomedical Engineering (IBE)  2  7

Department of Medical technology and regenerative medicine  1  

Department of Microphysiological systems   5

Medical materials science and technology   1

Interfaculty Research Institute for Sports and Physical Activity  2  4

The M3 Research Center - Malignom, Metabolome and Microbiome  1  2

Tübingen Institute for Medical Education (TIME)   

Other Faculty of Medicine facilities   2

Comprehensive Cancer Center (CCC)   1

University dispensary   1

Faculty of Humanities  208 portfolios 392 projects
Department of Ancient Studies and Art History  51  141

Institute for Ancient Near Eastern Studies (IANES)  10  52

Institute of Classical Archaeology  4  11

Institute of Philology  9  16

Institute of Prehistory and Medieval Archaeology (UFG)  11  33

Institute of Art History (KHI)  7  8

Institute of Musicology  5  10

Institute of Religious Studies  2  3

Institute for Archaeological Sciences (INA)  1  15

Department of Asian and Oriental Studies  24  46

Cultural Anthropology Section  3  5

Indian Studies  4  4

Japanese Studies Section  4  5

Oriental and Islamic Studies Section  2  11

Chinese Studies Section  5  4

Korean Studies Section  1  16

Department of History  27  58

Institute of Ancient History  4  9

Institute of Medieval History  6  24

Institute of Modern History  6  13

Institute of Contemporary History  6  7

Institute for Eastern European History and Area Studies  2  1

Institute of Library Science for Historians  2  1

Institute of Didactics of History and Public History  1  

Department of Modern Languages  80  123

Institute of German Language and Literature  27  48

Institute of English Languages and Literatures  21  19

Institute of Romance Languages and Literatures  13  19

Institute of Slavic Languages and Literatures  7  10

Institute of Linguistics (SfS)  10  39

Department of Philosophy and Media  21  33

Institute of Philosophy  10  11

Institute of Rhetoric  3  8

Institute of Media Studies  8  14

Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences  61 portfolios 231 projects

Department of Economics  21  35

Department of Social Sciences  38  190

Hector Institute of Education Science  5  73

Institute for Research on Far Right Extremism (IRex)   3

Institute of Education (IFE)  8  19

Institute of Historical and Cultural Anthropology (LUI)  3  18

Institute of Political Science  9  16

Institute of Sociology  6  12

Institute of Sports Science (IfS)  5  47

Interfaculty Research Institute for Sports and Physical Activity  2  4

Methods Center  2  5

Faculty of Science  234 portfolios 1230 projects
Department of Biology  45  253

Center for Plant Molecular Biology (ZMBP)  9  78

Institute of Cell Biology (IZB)  3  3

Institute of Evolution and Ecology  13  55

Institute of Neurobiology  5  25

Interfaculty Institute of Microbiology and Infection Medicine (IMIT)  12  90

Department of Chemistry  26  83

Central Chemical Institute (CZI)  1  

Institute of Inorganic Chemistry  9  11

Institute of Organic Chemistry  7  16

Institute of Physical Chemistry (IPTC)  10  45

Department of Geoscience  41  300

Center for Applied Geoscience  13  86

Geography Research Area  9  51

Institute of Archaeological Sciences Research Areas (UFG)  6  67

Institute for Archaeological Sciences (INA)  1  15

Mineralogy and Geodynamics Research Area  7  18

Palaeobiology Research Area  4  3

Department of Informatics  28  157

Institute for Bioinformatics and Medical Informatics (IBMI)  7  3

Wilhelm Schickard Institute of Computer Science (WSI)  23  62

Department of Mathematics  15  38

Department of Pharmacy and Biochemistry  20  92

Interfaculty Institute of Biochemistry (IFIB)  7  36

Pharmaceutical Institute  12  29

Plant Biochemistry Research Group at ZMBP  1  14

Department of Physics  37  256

Institute for Theoretical Physics (ITP)  10  60

Institute of Applied Physics (IAP)  8  37

Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics (IAAT)  8  96

Institute of Physics (PIT)  11  58

Department of Psychology  19  65

Center of Islamic Theology (ZITh)  5 portfolios 8 projects

Institute for Islamic Religious Education Research (IIRF)  1  

Collaborative research centers and transregios  50 portfolios 20 projects

CRC 923 - Threatened Orders  16  

CRC 1070 - ResourceCultures. Socio-cultural Dynamics in the Treatment of Resources  11  2

CRC 1101 - Molecular Coding of Specificity in Plant Processes  1  

CRC 1233 - Robust Vision — Inference Principles and Neural Mechanisms  1  

CRC 1253 - Catchments as Reactors: Metabolism of Pollutants on the Landscape Scale (CAMPOS)   

CRC 1391 - Different Aesthetics  2  

CRC 1718 - Common Ground: Cognition - Grammar - Communication   

CRC-TR 156 - The Skin as a Sensor and Effector Organ Orchestrating Local and Systemic Immune Responses  1  

CRC-TR 261 - Cellular Mechanisms of Antibiotic Action and Production  1  

SFB-TR 352 - Mathematics of Many-Body Quantum Systems and Their Collective Phenomena  2  

Research training groups and graduate schools  38 portfolios 5 projects

LEAD Graduate School & Research Network  11  4

Research training group MOMbrane: The multifaceted functions and dynamics of the mitochondrial outer membrane  2  

Research training group: cGMP - From Bedside to Bench  1  

Research training group: Doing Transitions – The Formation of Transitions over the Life Course  1  

Research training group: Intraoperative multi-sensor tissue identification in oncology  3  

Research training group: Non-canonical G protein signaling pathways  4  

Research training group: Statistical Modeling in Psychology (SMiP)  2  1

Research training group: Women’s mental health across the reproductive years  1  

Interdisciplinary research institutions, centers and institutes  75 portfolios 375 projects
Interfaculty Institutes  30  190

Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience Tübingen  1  4

Institute for Archaeological Sciences (INA)  1  15

Institute for Bioinformatics and Medical Informatics (IBMI)  7  3

Interfaculty Institute of Biochemistry (IFIB)  7  36

Biochemistry I   

Biochemistry II   

Biochemistry III   1

Interfaculty Institute of Microbiology and Infection Medicine (IMIT)  12  90

Interfaculty Research Institute for Sports and Physical Activity  2  4

Clusters of Excellence  27  11

Controlling Microbes to Fight Infections (CMFI)  6  9

Image-Guided and Functionally Instructed Tumor Therapies (iFIT)  17  

Machine Learning: New Perspectives for Science (CML)  5  2

Interdisciplinary institutions for area studies  2  7

Baden-Württemberg Center for Brazil and Latin America  1  1

China Centrum Tübingen (CCT)   6

Interdisciplinary Centre for Global South Studies (ICGSS)  1  

Comprehensive research institutions  8  21

College of Fellows - Center for Interdisciplinary and Intercultural Studies (CoF)  1  

Tübingen Center for Gender and Diversity Research (ZGD)   1

Tübingen School of Education (TüSE)  7  20

Research institutions with a core focus  17  114

Center for interdiscipinary research into life experience of disabled persons (Z.I.E.L.)  1  

Cognitive Science Center (CSC)   

European Center for Research on Federalism (EZFF)  1  1

International Center for Ethics in the Sciences and Humanities (IZEW)  5  67

Tübingen AI Center  5  11

Tübingen Center for Digital Education (TüCeDE)  1  3

Werner Reichardt Center for Integrative Neuroscience (CIN)  4  33

Core Facilities  4  25

Center for Light Matter Interaction, Sensors & Analytics (LISA+)  1  2

Digital Humanities Center   1

Methods Center  2  5

Quantitative Biology Center (QBIC)  1  17

Tübingen Structural Microscopy (TSM)   

CyberValley Unit for Artificial Intelligence   2

Forum Scientiarum  2  4

Leibniz Kolleg   

Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker Center  1  4

Tübinger Forum for Science and Humanities (TFW)  1  

Associated institutes  2  12

Casualty Hospital (Tübingen) (BGU)  1  8

Global Ethics Institute   

Institute for Applied Economic Research (IAW)   

Institute of Diabetes Research and Metabolic Diseases   

Natural and Medical Sciences Institute  1  2

Senckenberg Center for Human Evolution and Palaeoenvironment (SHEP)   2

Other institutions  18 portfolios 48 projects

Botanical Gardens  1  

Collegium Musicum   

IT Center (ZDV)  1  7

Knowledge Media Research Center (IWM)  6  6

Media Competence Center (ZFM)  1  2

Startup Center  1  2

University Library (UB)  1  13

University of Tübingen Museum (MUT)  1  1

General administration   

Joint seminary administration of the three theologies (GSV)   

Central Administration (ZV)  6  17
President’s Office  5  6

President and Vice-Chancellor  1  2

Vice-Presidents  4  

Executive Vice-President   

Staff unit European University Alliance (CIVIS)   

Division I – Development, General and Legal Affairs   

Division II – Research   2

Division III – Student Affairs and Studies   

Division IV – Student Affairs   

Division V – International Office  1  9

Division VI – Human Resources and Internal Services   

Division VII – Finance   

Division VIII – Construction, Safety and Environment   

Administration of the clinic   

Department of Nutrition Management   

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