Tackling bias in academia

The University of Freiburg honors Maria Asplund with 2020 Bertha Ottenstein Award

Long-term Sight on the Horizon

Researchers receive four million euros to develop a neuroprosthetic implant to improve vision

Lighting matrix in the ear: First use of multi-channel cochlear implants with microscale light-emitting diodes

A milestone in hearing research: Researchers at the University Medical Center Göttingen and the University of Freiburg combine for the first time gene therapy in the cochlea with optical cochlear implants to optogenetically...

Cold Plasma Battles Bacteria

A new method promises gentler, more effective dental treatment (Video)

A Kaleidoscopic View of Corona

In a new series of video podcasts Freiburg researchers offer their perspectives on the effects of the pandemic. Here are the contributions of the Faculty of Technology with its three departments.

A small, sharp eye

Hans Zappe is developing an automatic, autonomous microcamera with chemical “muscles” which could be used in endoscopes and other applications

A storage battery for the entire world

Freiburg project on battery research funded by the BMBF “World Storage” program

Intelligent Aircraft Wings Could Save Fuel

Intelligent Aircraft Wings Could Save Fuel

Chris Eberl develops unit cells – these miniature building blocks give materials special capabilities

Faster and more effective scene understanding

New deep learning research breaks records in image recognition ability of self-driving cars

Award-winning measuring technology at a nano scale

Joint research group of the University of Freiburg’s Department of Microsystems Engineering and the Humboldt University Berlin receives Helmholtz Prize