The Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies (FIAS) is a private-public institution tof basic theoretical research in various areas of science.

The Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies as a superstructure for basic research, brings together theorists from the disciplines of biology, chemistry, neuroscience, physics, and computer science in a common organizational and intellectual framework. It is an ambitious independent scientific institution while at the same time bundling research activities at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University of Frankfurt am Main and neighboring research centers, so as Center for Scientific Computing, the Center for Membrane Proteomics, the Center for Biomolecular Resonance, the Stern-Gerlach-Centre, the Gesellschaft für Schwerionenforschung (GSI) in Darmstadt, the Max Planck Institute of Biophysics, Max Planck Institute of Brain Research and Max Planck Institute of Polymer Research in Mainz. I.G.Farben Building at Campus Westend The Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University of Frankfurt am Main (commonly called the University of Frankfurt) was founded in 1914 as a Citizens University, which means that while it was a State university of Prussia, it had been founded and financed by the wealthy... In quantum mechanics, the Stern–Gerlach experiment, named after Otto Stern and Walther Gerlach, is a celebrated experiment in 1920 on deflection of particles, often used to illustrate basic principles of quantum mechanics. ... The Gesellschaft für Schwerionenforschung mbH (GSI, Institute for Heavy Ion Research) in Wixhausen, a suburb of Darmstadt, Germany is a federally funded heavy ion research center. ... Darmstadt is a city in the Bundesland (federal state) of Hessen in Germany. ... The Max-Planck-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Wissenschaften e. ... Biophysics (also biological physics) is an interdisciplinary science that applies the theories and methods of physical sciences, especially those of physics, to questions of biology. ... Mainz is a city in Germany and the capital of the German federal state of Rhineland-Palatinate. ...

Scientists from FIAS and from Goethe University join forces to educate graduate students in the Frankfurt International Graduate School for Science (FIGSS). Director is Prof Horst Stöcker. Founder are Professor Walter Greiner and Wolf Singer.

FIAS is located at its owne home at the Frankfurt-Riedberg campus of the Goethe University.

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• Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies