Research - University of Greifswald

Research at the University of Greifswald

The University has five key fields of research

Community Medicine and
Individualized Medicine

Environmental Change: Responses and Adaptation

The research focus ECRA links and integrates natural sciences and humanities in the field of ecological environmental research to an extent that is unique in Germany. This extends from the ecological fields of work to the geosciences, mathematics, environmental physics, economics, applied ethics and law.

Cultures of the Baltic Sea Region

Plasma Physics

Proteomics and
Protein Technologies

Funding Programmes for Your Academic Career

The Research Support Centre's information on funding programmes.

Coronavirus (COVID-19)

FAQs for members of the university community, last revised 21 October 2022, 8.45 a.m.

Our Goals

The University of Greifswald is one of the most traditional and leading research universities in the north of Germany. Together with its external partners located in the town of Greifswald, the Federal Research Institute for Animal Health (FLI), the Leibniz Institute for Plasma Science and Technology (INP) and the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics (IPP), it searches for innovative solutions for major challenges that are faced by today’s society: health & preventive medicine, environment & climate, energy & raw materials and chances & risks of globalisation. Within the framework provided by five key fields of research, scholars from different disciplines collaborate and develop interdisciplinary approaches for answering these central questions of the future. The University of Greifswald’s mission is to be a nationally and internationally visible research university. It aims to win scholars at all stages of their careers, to encourage new research ideas, to intensify the collaboration with external research institutions and to strengthen the regional economy through the application of its research and technology transfer.

Our Key Fields of Research

Proteomics and Protein Technologies
Plasma Physics
Cultures of the Baltic Sea Region
Environmental Change: Responses and Adaptation
Community Medicine and Individualized Medicine

Research Support Centre
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Research Faces: Hans Joosten

Peatlands are his passion: Peatlands expert and paeleoecologist, Hans Joosten, chairholder at the University of Greifswald, carries out research into peatland areas that not only reveal a suprisingly diverse nature, but also play a very important role for our climate. He also speaks out and contributes towards establishing a different kind of agriculture that doesn't destroy these marshland areas.

This video was produced as part of an initiative from the Stifterverband in a project called The Makers of Tomorrow's World and their Visions for Education and Training, Research and Technology. A film by Damian W. Gorczaany and Stoyan Radoslav.

The film won the bronze award at the Gute Gestaltung 18 competition held by the Deutscher Designer Club in the category video.

Please turn on the English subtitles on the bottom right of the video's control panel!

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Research Network Examines the Impact of the War on Ukrainian Society

University researchers provide information on the context and background of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. One of the goals of the Interdisciplinary Research Centre Baltic Sea Region has become more topical. It consists of answering central questions and challenges of the present.

Europasaurus and offspring. Commissioned artwork © Davide Bonadonna

Precocial Dinosaur from Niedersachsen

Research into specimens of Europasaurus holgeri found in Niedersachsen, Germany show signs of precocial behaviour and island dwarfism. Scientists from the Universities of Greifswald and Vienna used computer tomography to examine fossils.

The Research Support Centre (ZFF)

The Research Support Centre (ZFF) is a central department of the University of Greifswald. It offers University academics and scientists demand-based services concerning third-party funded research and the transfer of research.

Polysaccharide-degrading bacteria (green) on the diatom Chaetoceros sp. – photo: I. Bakenhus / Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, Bremen

Start of the Third Funding Phase for Marine Proteomics Research

The Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) has granted a third phase of funding for the research of 'Proteogenomics of Marine Polysaccharide Utilization’ (POMPU). Scientists from Greifswald and Bremen will work together to explore the mechanisms of bacterial polysaccharide degradation in marine ecosystems.