IRI THESys (since 2013)
The IRI THEsys is dedicated to the research field of Transformation of Human-Environment Systems (THESys). The IRI THESys focusses on networking several faculties of Humboldt-Universit?t (HU) in the field of sustainability research. Synergies are to be utilised through increased cooperation with non-university partners in the field of climate research. The promotion of excellent young researchers is supported by specially established junior research groups.
IRI Law & Society (since January 2019)
The Law & Society Institute (LSI) Berlin is a centre for interdisciplinary legal research at Humboldt-Universit?t zu Berlin. It was founded in 2008 by Prof Dr Susanne Baer and has been an Integrated Research Institute (IRI) of the HU since 2019.
The LSI offers a genuinely interdisciplinary place where questions about the function, controllability and interdependencies of law are identified, methodologically reflected upon and historically and comparatively contextualised. By supplementing dogmatic legal research with the systematic inclusion of the social sciences, humanities and cultural studies, it scrutinises knowledge formations that have coagulated into disciplines and provides institutional, personal and substantive impetus for integrative and reflective research into law and society. The LSI thus takes up traditions of legal sociological and legal historical research and sees itself connected to the Law & Society movement that emerged from legal realism.
As an Integrated Research Institute, the LSI aims to support cross-faculty cooperation and thus provide a framework for innovative approaches across disciplinary boundaries. In addition, the LSI cooperates with national and international partners, such as the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies at the University of Oxford.
IRIS Adlershof 2009-2024 (completed)
The Integrative Research Institute for the Sciences - IRIS Adlershof - was founded in 2009 as the HU's first IRI. It conducts interdisciplinary research into innovative hybrid materials and functional systems. Through bridging professorships, the establishment of a joint infrastructure and growing cooperation with industry, IRIS has provided important impetus for the development of the Adlershof site. Young scientists were supported through close collaboration with the Salsa graduate school, which was funded by the Excellence Initiative.
IRIS Adlershof has been closed since 2024. Its core structures have been transferred to the new central institute, the Centre for the Science of Materials Berlin (CSMB).
IRI Life Sciences 2013-2022 (terminated)
The IRI Life Sciences was founded in 2013 by the HU together with Charité Universit?tsmedizin Berlin and the Max Delbrück Centre (MDC) to promote collaborative, interdisciplinary basic research on medically relevant topics.
The IRI Life Sciences has been completed since 2022. Under the leadership of Professor Edda Klipp, scientists from various disciplines joined forces and founded the Interdisciplinary Centre Life in Space and Time in 2023.