Research Alliance Ruhr

Top international research on pressing issues of the future – the University Alliance Ruhr has been working on this since 2021 in four Research Centers and one College.

Research at Ruhr University Bochum

With its 21 faculties, Ruhr University Bochum unites a broad range of subjects from the natural and engineering sciences, life sciences and medicine to the humanities and social sciences on one compact campus. This proximity facilitates interdisciplinary cooperation, which is the basis for the scientific success of our researchers. Many of their projects contribute to the sustainability goals of the United Nations and thus help to shape social change.

Neuroscience & Ethics

How to Test Whether Brain Organoids Possess Consciousness

A clump of cells in a petri dish can hardly tell you whether it thinks or feels anything. Yet it may be possible to test whether it possesses a mind, says Lucia Melloni.

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Space telescope

Euclid lays the foundation for its best-ever 3D map of the Universe

The new dataset from the Euclid space telescope contains images of 900 million galaxies. That means plenty of work for Bochum-based cosmologist Hendrik Hildebrandt, who is involved in analyzing the data.

Surgery

A Patch for the Pancreas

A simulator bridges the gap between materials engineering and clinical testing.

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Cheering in the Ruhr Area

RUB and TU Dortmund University Celebrate Excellence Strategy Success

With the Ruhr Innovation Lab, the partners convinced an international jury of their outstanding scientific quality and their vision for future collaboration.

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Chemistry

ERC Starting Grant for André K. Eckhardt

Reactive phosphorus compounds were essential for the emergence of life. But where did they come from? Possibly from space? The project ³¹PIRATE searches for answers.

Main Research Areas

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Ruhr University Bochum pools the expertise of its researchers in six Key Research Areas, in which it conducts research at the highest international level. Research at Ruhr University Bochum focuses on the following areas:

Cultures and Societies in Transition
Digital Society and Information Security
From Liquids to Soft Matter
Matter, Materials & Energy
Mind, Cognition & Health
Smart Systems & Sustainable Engineering

Overview of the Key Research Areas

Excellence Strategy

Starting January 1, 2027, the Technical University of Dortmund and Ruhr University Bochum will be funded as Consortium of Excellence named “Ruhr Innovation Lab”. In the first funding line of the Excellence Strategy, the two partners had secured three Clusters of Excellence: RESOLV in the field of solvation science, CASA in IT security, and Color meets Flavor in particle physics.

Success in the Excellence Strategy

All information

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Cluster of Excellence

Ruhr Explores Solvation

Most chemical reactions, important industrial processes, and almost all biological processes take place in the liquid phase. In the Cluster of Excellence RESOLV, scientists work in the field of solvation science.

Cluster of Excellence

Cyber Security in the Age of Large-Scale Adversaries

IT security has become a central societal issue since networked devices have permeated our world. This is what the Cluster of Excellence CASA is concerned with.

Early Career Researchers

Early Career Researchers

Promoting young researchers is of key importance at Ruhr University Bochum.

Career paths in science

Projects and Infrastructure

Projects

Collaborative Research Centres and Transregios

Ruhr Unviersity unites research expertise under one roof that spans the full breadth and width of disciplines and is pretty much unparalleled in Germany. This is reflected in our Collaborative Research Centres.

Research structures

Research Buildings

With its research buildings, Ruhr University is one of the leading lights in North Rhine-Westphalia. The buildings provide optimal infrastructure for research.

Service for Researchers

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