Core research areas and research projects

The research being conducted at Saarland University covers an exceptionally broad range of disciplines. The university's research profile has four core research areas. The research undertaken in these four strategic areas, as well as in a wide range of other research projects, is characterized by specialist expertise and interdisciplinary collaboration – helping to generate new knowledge, drive innovation and actively shape the social issues of the future.

    • BioMed – Life and Materials

      Medicine, pharmaceutical science, life sciences and bioinformatics – Research at the interface of medicine and the natural sciences links fundamental research with clinical applications to deliver knowledge and innovations with real-world impact.

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    • Computer Science

      The Saarland Informatics Campus (SIC) is a unique research ecosystem that has strong international ties and is driving digital innovation in around thirty different areas of computer science.

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    • Interdisciplinary European research

      'Europe-World(s) – Projections, Reflections, Transformations' is the name of an interdisciplinary research environment in which questions about and concepts of Europe are explored and systematically examined from historical, transcultural and cross-media perspectives.

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    • Sustainability

      Researchers from multiple disciplines across Saarland University are developing and exploring solutions to environmental and social challenges and supporting sustainable future trajectories.

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For an overview of the research projects currently being undertaken in the core research areas and elsewhere, please visit the research project portal.