Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies
The Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies (FIAS) is an interdisciplinary research institution in Frankfurt am Main . It is an excellence initiative that brings together internationally recognized scientists to research the theory of complex scientific future topics.
Institute
The institute is a non-profit foundation in the form of a public private partnership between Goethe University and private donors and sponsors . While the university and the state of Hesse provide the premises and the infrastructure, the personnel costs are largely financed by grants from private and institutional sponsors. The institute was founded in October 2003 and is located on the Riedberg campus of the University of Frankfurt in a building constructed by the Giersch Foundation . The name is reminiscent of the scientific role model of FIAS, the Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) in Princeton, New Jersey.
An extension of the building complex called HIC for FAIR was inaugurated in spring 2015.
The founding directors are Walter Greiner from the Institute for Theoretical Physics at the University of Frankfurt and Wolf Singer from the Max Planck Institute for Brain Research. Board chairmen since then have been Horst Stöcker , Wolf Singer, Christoph von der Malsburg and Dirk Rischke . Volker Lindenstruth has been the chairman of the board since 2012 . About 70 scientists work at FIAS who, in addition to their research, also supervise over 50 doctoral students within the framework of the Frankfurt International Graduate School for Science (FIGSS).
Affiliated to the institute is the Ernst Strüngmann Forum , a series of conferences on key contemporary problems. The lecture series of the FIAS Forum serves to communicate science to the public .
The FIAS is supervised by a board of trustees chaired by the former Frankfurt University President Rudolf Steinberg and advised by a fifteen-member scientific advisory board. Its chairman is the physicist Wolfgang Bauer from Michigan State University .
task
The aim of FIAS is to promote research in the various areas of theoretical natural sciences that deal with the structure formation and self-organization of complex systems. These include theoretical biology , theoretical chemistry , theoretical neurosciences , theoretical physics and computer science .
The FIAS works together with various institutes at the University of Frankfurt, including the Center for Scientific Computing , the Center for Membrane Proteomics , the Center for Biomolecular Resonance and the Stern-Gerlach-Center (after Otto Stern and Walther Gerlach ). In addition, there are cooperations with other research institutions in the Rhine-Main area , including the GSI Helmholtz Center for Heavy Ion Research in Darmstadt , the Max Planck Institute for Brain Research and the Ernst Strüngmann Institute (ESI) in Frankfurt.
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Coordinates: 50 ° 10 ′ 24.8 ″ N , 8 ° 37 ′ 41.3 ″ E