Prof. Johannes Isselstein Von-Siebold Straße 8 Germany Webpage: www.uni-goettingen.de |
The University of Göttingen is an internationally renowned university placing emphasis on research and research-based teaching. The University is distinguished by the outstanding quality in its priority research areas, by its remarkable diversity of disciplines, especially in the humanities, and by a strong and deeply anchored interdisciplinarity in the natural and life sciences. Research excellence of international standard is currently recognized in the life sciences, neurosciences, molecular biology, biodiversity and ecology, the natural sciences, chemistry, physics of condensed matter and optics, geobiology, and pure mathematics, and the humanities, German language and literature studies, oriental and ancient world studies, and theology. The division of grassland science of the University of Göttingen is research oriented with a focus on biodiversity, nutrient cycling and on-farm surveys. The group has close ties with a number of dairy farmers, the chamber of agriculture and grassland related working groups and companies.