FIAS wishes a Merry Christmas!
and a good start into a successful, creative, and co-operative new year!
Celebrating FIAS!
What began 20 years ago as an abstract vision of a theoretical research institute has proven successful. FIAS ended its anniversary year with a diverse and captivating ceremony in the Goethe University Casino.
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Dark Energy inside the galaxies?
Dark Energy accelates the expansion of our universe. It plays a role stronger then we thought even in closeby galaxies, as FIAS researchers show.
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New AI model prevents damage to pipes
Vapour bubbles damage pipes in industrial plants. FIAS researchers developed an innovative deep learning model that optimises the detection of such ‘cavitations’ and thus saves maintenance costs and downtime.
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Giersch Conference: From Multiscale Models to Digital Twins
The international Giersch Conference at FIAS in September was exploring digital twins that simulate complex systems under experimental conditions - controllable and reproducible.
moreFIAS (Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies)
...is an interdisciplinary research institution in Frankfurt/Germany. Our Fellows develop theories on complex interdisciplinary topics of the future. The non-profit foundation supports 130 scientists cooperating with Goethe University and surrounding research institutes as well as private donors and sponsors.
Quality, integrity and clear standards
At FIAS, quality and integrity form the backbone of our scientific endeavors. Upholding the highest ethical standards is essential for fostering trust, ensuring transparency, and advancing respected research.
Learn more about our commitment to ethical working practices, strict honesty and consistent critical reflection. These elementary rules are essential for respected scientific work and the public's trust in the scientific community. At FIAS, we set clear standards and promote a discourse based on criteria of scientific integrity and truth.
Thoughts
Dr. Thomas Sokolowski
Life- and Neurosciences
What makes living systems most fascinating to me is the recurring observation that increasing complexity of fundamentally stochastic systems can dramatically multiply distinct but almost equivalent functional solutions--in spite of fundamental physical constraints.
Prof. Dr. Hannah Elfner
Theoretical Sciences
"To understand the smallest building blocks of matter and their properties fascinates me and I enjoy the required international collaboration in this field."
Prof. Dr. Luciano Rezzolla
Theoretical Sciences
It never ceases to amaze me the thought that the laws of physics we experience here are valid also in the furthest corner of the Universe. This fact alone gives theoretical research so much power.
Prof. Dr. Armen Sedrakian
Theoretical Sciences
"My research is deeply focused on the interrelation between the particle physics and astrophysics, between the micro- and macro-worlds, on theories, models and methods that find applications in a multitude of research fields ranging from condensed matter to high-density quantum chromodynamics."
Nadine Flinner
Life- and Neurosciences
In my research, I try to understand the correlation between cell morphology, function and the underlaying molecular features. To link different features to morphology, deep learning and quantitative image analysis are used.
Research Areas
Theoretical Physics
Theoretical physics is the discipline that aims at describing how the world works in terms of fundamental equations. The goal is to abstract explicit phenomena by reducing them to underlying principles that are responsible for many different manifestations in nature.
Computer Science
Within the last decade high performance computers have become an integral part in todays science and society. Most simulations and experimental analysations of complex systems require a high amount of computing power.
Life and Neuro Sciences
Theoretical biology aims at a quantitative understanding of biological systems, their dynamics and interaction across scales. To this end new analysis approaches are developed to extract relevant information from either tera and petabyte sized data sets, or from very scarce data.