Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies
The Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies ( FIAS ) is an interdisciplinary research institute in Frankfurt am Main.
Institute
The Institute is a charitable foundation in the form of a public-private partnership between the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University and private donors and sponsors. While the University and the State of Hesse provide the facilities and infrastructure, personnel costs are financed to a substantial degree by contributions from private and institutional sponsors. The institute was founded in late 2004 and has its headquarters on the campus Riedenberg the University of Frankfurt in a building that was built by the Foundation Giersch. The name reminds us of the scientific model of the FIAS, the Institute for Advanced Study (IAS ) in Princeton, New Jersey.
Founding directors are Professors Walter Greiner at the Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Frankfurt and Wolf Singer at the Max Planck Institute for Brain Research. CEO since then were Professors Horst Stöcker, Wolf Singer, Christoph von der Malsburg, and Dirk Rischke. Since 2012, Professor Volker Lindenstruth leads the CEO. On FIAS about 70 scientists who serve alongside their research well over 50 doctoral students in the Frankfurt International Graduate School for Science ( FIGSS ) act.
The Institute is affiliated to the Ernst Strüngmann Forum, a conference series on major contemporary problems. The public communication of science serves the lecture series of the FIAS forum.
The FIAS is overseen by a Board of Trustees chaired by former Frankfurt University President Professor Rudolf Steinberg and of a fifteen -member Scientific Advisory Board ( chaired by the biophysicist Professor Klaus Schulten, University of Illinois, USA) advise.
Task
The aim of the FIAS is to promote research on the various fields of theoretical natural sciences, which deal with the structure formation and self -organization of complex systems. These include Theoretical Biology, Theoretical Chemistry, Theoretical neuroscience, theoretical physics and computer science.
The FIAS worked with various institutes of the University of Frankfurt, including the Center for Scientific Computing, the Center for Membrane Proteomics, the Center for Biomolecular Resonance and the Stern-Gerlach -Zentrum (after Otto Stern and Walther Gerlach ). In addition, there are collaborations with other research institutions in the Rhine -Main region, including the GSI Helmholtz Centre for Heavy Ion Research in Darmstadt, the Max Planck Institute for Brain Research and the Ernst Strüngmann Institute (ESI ) in Frankfurt.