German Research Institutions

Research and development at the Julius Maximilian University of Würzburg are based on eight core areas: Life Sciences, Health Sciences, Molecular Chemistry and Materials, Quantum Phenomena in New Materials, Digital Society, Cultural Heritage, Global Change and Norms and Behaviour. In all these areas, the University of Würzburg attaches great value to cooperation arrangements with industry and to the transfer of knowledge to society – in keeping with its motto, “Science for Society”.

Research

The university owes its successes in research to its high-calibre, globally networked researchers and to its many cross-disciplinary research centres in the humanities and social sciences, natural sciences and medicine. The university's top standing has been corroborated in international rankings time and again. The University of Würzburg is regularly awarded prestigious prizes – the German Research Foundation's Leibniz Prizes, for example, or high-calibre grants from the European Research Council. Young people from over 60 countries gain their doctorates in the university's four graduate schools. The Graduate School of Life Sciences, which receives funding under the Excellence Initiative, is particularly renowned.