Friedrich Schiller University Jena

Friedrich Schiller University Jena (FSU; Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, shortened form Uni Jena) is a public research university located in Jena, Thuringia, Germany.

The university was established in 1558 and is counted among the ten oldest universities in Germany. It is affiliated with six Nobel Prize winners, most recently in 2000 when Jena graduate Herbert Kroemer won the Nobel Prize for physics. It was renamed after the poet Friedrich Schiller who was teaching as professor of philosophy when Jena attracted some of the most influential minds at the turn of the 19th century. With Karl Leonhard Reinhold, Johann Gottlieb Fichte, G. W. F. Hegel, F. W. J. Schelling and Friedrich von Schlegel on its teaching staff, the university has been at the centre of the emergence of German idealism and early Romanticism.

The university is organised into the following ten schools:

• Theology
• Jurisprudence
• Economics and Business administration
• Humanities
• Social and behavioural sciences
• Mathematics and computer science
• Physics and astronomy
• Chemical and earth sciences
• Biology and pharmacy
• Medicine

Research

Research at Friedrich Schiller University traditionally focusses on both humanities and sciences. In addition to the faculties the following "Collaborative Research Centres" ("Sonderforschungsbereich", SFB) operate at the university:

• SFB/TR 7 "Gravitationswellenastronomie: Methoden - Quellen - Beobachtung"
• SFB/TR 18 Relativistische Laser-Plasma-Dynamik
• SFB 1076 "AquaDiva : Understanding the Links Between Surface and Subsurface Biogeospere"
• SFB/TR 124 FungiNet "Pathogenic fungi and their human host: Networks of interaction"
• SFB 1127 "Chemische Mediatoren in komplexen Biosystemen"
• SFB / TR 166 "Hochleistungs-Lichtmikroskopie zur Aufklärung der Funktionen von Membranrezeptoren (ReceptorLight)"

In 2006 the research center, Jena Center - History of the 20th century, was founded. In 2007 the graduate school "Jena School for Microbial Communication" (JSMC) was established within the German Universities Excellence Initiative. In 2008 the Center for Molecular Biomedicine (CMB) and the interdisciplinary research center Laboratory of the Enlightenment were developed as research institutions. 2014 the "Center of Advanced Research" (ZAF) was established.

Jena University is one of the founder of The German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, that was founded in 2013. It is a research centre of the German Research Foundation (DFG).

Friedrich Schiller University is the only German University with a chair for gravitational theory and one for Caucasus Studies.