Today the faculty for biology focuses on three major research fields: molecular biosciences, biodiversity and ecology, and neuro-biology and behaviour. The faculty is organized in three institutes for biology and one institute for psychology: The Albrecht-von-Haller Institute of Plant Sciences, the Johann-Friedrich-Blumenbach-Institute for Zoology and Anthropology, the Institute of Microbiology and Genetics and the Georg-Elias-Müller Institute of Psychology. more...

Being one of the biggest faculties at Georg-August University, the biological faculty plays a central role as a linking point for the manifold biologically targeted research in Göttingen which is conducted within the university faculties of medicine, agricultural sciences, forestry , physics and chemistry as well as at the Max-Planck-Institutes for Biophysical Chemistry and Experimental Medicine and at the German Primate Center (Leibniz-Society). more...

The City of Göttingen is located in the middle of Germany, set in the south of the state Lower Saxony. It is situated directly at the main north-south traffic axis. Thus, Göttingen is easily accessable by car via the motorway A7 and the federal roads B3 and B27 or by train and airplane. more...