• Institute and Centres
• Director: Prof. Dr. Christian Hinderling

Our Institute harnesses the productive synergies which arise from the combination of expertise and competencies in the fields of organic chemistry, analytical chemistry, biochemistry, nano and material sciences, engineering, microbiology and cellular biology. Our institute applies this interdisciplinary research approach to socially relevant issues ranging from the development of active pharmaceutical substances to biogas production, with the aim of using biotechnological methods to create or analyse useful substances.

• Institute and Research Groups
• Director: Prof. Dr. Thomas Ott

Our Institute is active in the fields of data analytics, modelling, simulation and optimisation, and our research solutions focus on energy, industry, mobility, urbanisation, demographic change, health and big data knowledge discovery.

We reduce complexity and produce novel insights by modelling system structures and behaviours and simulate these models in time and space to verify their relevance. We are a centre of expertise in the following technologies: predictive analytics, data mining, machine learning, bio-inspired modelling, system dynamic modelling, multi-agent modelling, multi-physics modelling, discrete event modelling and knowledge engineering.

• Institute and Research Groups

The IFM is a Swiss centre of excellence for teaching and research in the field of facility management, influencing and shaping both its theory and practice in order to achieve economic progress and generate added value for society. Our various BSc, MSc and MAS courses take a differentiated approach to the operational, tactical and strategic aspects of facility management, and we create new knowledge in the field through top-class interdisciplinary research into complex management issues, with an emphasis on industry relevance. We also make the most of our close links with businesses, public bodies, associations and other universities both inside and outside Switzerland.

• Institute and Centres
• Director: Prof. Michael Kleinert

Our Institute operates under the motto of “Enjoyable, healthy, safe and sustainable food from the field to the consumer”, and our work is characterised by its industry-focused and interdisciplinary approach and our system-focused, technological and analytical competencies. We look at the entire value creation chain via the four dimensions of environment, society, economy and health in order to capture the full complexity of sustainable development in the food sector.

• Institute and Research Priorities
• Director: Prof. Dr. Rolf Krebs

The research carried out by our Institute centres on the idea of landscape as a resource. Forward-looking urban and countryside development involves weighing up different ecological, social and economic interests, and the breadth of disciplines represented at our Institute allows us to integrate different perspectives and approach the landscape as a system. Product life cycles and closed material cycles are key principles which underlie our research activities and form the basis for solutions to current and socially relevant issues.

• Department
• Director: Karin Altermatt

Knowledge is constantly being generated, refined, confirmed or refuted within and between the various disciplines, and a firm foundation is required to ensure that expertise can be continually updated and revised.

To this end, the Department Transversalis (ATV) runs courses in mathematics, science, technology, (foreign) languages and communication for students of all disciplines.