UniReport - Issue 1-2026

Fatma Karakaşlı on an Excursion to Gotha

An interdisciplinary series by the Frankfurt Humanities Research Centre and Frankfurt University Library

Free and unrestricted online access to academic publications – known as Open Access (OA) – is becoming increasingly important both at Goethe University Frankfurt and around the world. A growing number of researchers, lecturers, and students are choosing to make their work freely accessible.

Geoscience master’s student Lucas Bek shares his passion for the field

Linda Schlegel on her award-winning dissertation on narrative extremism prevention

A workshop report explores the development of academic career paths at universities in Germany.

Prof. Kerstin Gottschalk, in charge of painting and graphic design at Goethe University’s Institute for Art Education, discusses an unconventional event series.

Over the past century, quantum physics has given rise to countless technologies that have fundamentally impacted everyday life. It all began with the curiosity of scientists – especially physicists. In 1900, Max Planck proposed that light consists of individual quanta (photons), thereby identifying what would later become the defining constant of the quantum world: the Planck constant h.

Using artistic methods, American artist, design educator, and attorney Ryan Lilienthal explores multidirectional and multiperspectival approaches to remembering National Socialism. Participation lies at the heart of his work, which also involves collaborations with students in Germany. The project is funded by the German-American Fulbright Commission and the German federal government and receives academic support from the “Education After Auschwitz” teaching and research forum.

Where is the Chinese economy headed? And what are the implications for Germany and the wider world? These questions are central to the research of Philipp Böing, Professor of Empirical Innovation Research with a focus on China at Goethe University Frankfurt and the ZEW Leibniz Centre for European Economic Research in Mannheim. Recently appointed spokesperson for the Leibniz Research Network on China, the economist is one of the few German scholars conducting empirical research on the Chinese economy and innovation using large datasets.

Three new fellows join the interdisciplinary research network “Democratic Vistas” at the Forschungskolleg Humanwissenschaften Institute for Advanced Studies.

Biologist Horst Lange-Bertalot has devoted his life to the study of diatoms. The internationally acclaimed scientist celebrated his 90th birthday in February.