Kolleg Mathematik Physik Berlin (since 2016)
The Kolleg Mathematik Physik Berlin (KMPB) promotes cooperation between mathematics and theoretical physics. Founded in 2016 and extended for a second funding phase in 2024, the KMPB is committed to further developing the long-standing and mutually enriching relationship between mathematics and theoretical physics. After a phase of increasing specialisation in the 20th century, which led to a certain separation, cooperation has increased significantly again in recent decades - for example through developments in gauge theory and string theory. Today, close collaboration between the two disciplines is essential in order to clarify fundamental scientific questions, such as the unification of the standard model of elementary particles with the general theory of relativity.
Embedded in the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences at Humboldt-Universit?t, the Centre strengthens the university's research profile, promotes international exchange and supports the next generation of mathematicians and physicists.
Berlin Institute for Empirical Integration and Migration Research (since 2018)
The Berlin Institute for Empirical Integration and Migration Research (BIM) analyses the development of integration and migration processes in Germany and Europe - historically, currently and in perspective. The aim is to contribute to the objectification of social and political debates through well-founded empirical research.
The BIM was founded in 2014 and has been an Interdisciplinary Centre of Humboldt-Universit?t (HU) since 2018. As such, it brings together the disciplines of political, social, legal, sports, educational and economic sciences, medicine, psychology and ethnology. With its interdisciplinary structure, its theory-led and empirically based research and its focus on socially and politically relevant issues, the BIM makes a special contribution to the development of research priorities and structures in the field of migration and integration at the HU.
Georg Simmel Centre for Metropolitan Research (since 2005)
Founded in 2005, the Georg-Simmel Center for Urban Studies (GSZ) is the interdisciplinary platform for urban research at Humboldt-Universit?t zu Berlin and is one of the leading centres in this field in Germany. It is supported by the Department of Geography, the Department of European Ethnology, the Department of Social Sciences and the Department of Cultural Studies.
The GSZ brings together excellent research and innovative analyses of current transformations in cities from an international, inter- and transdisciplinary perspective under one roof and promotes scientific exchange. The focus is on the investigation of current socio-economic, socio-ecological and socio-political transformations in the fields of urban markets and inequality, more-than-human urbanism, ecological injustices, new municipalism and post-colonial debates.
Life in Space and Time (since 2023)
The Interdisciplinary Centre Life in Space and Time (IZ LIST) is dedicated to researching life in space and time from a multidisciplinary perspective. To this end, it brings together disciplines from the natural and life sciences as well as mathematics.
Living systems are highly complex and are constantly changing across space and time - at all levels, from individual molecules and cells to entire organisms and groups of organisms. The aim of IZ LIST, which was founded in 2023, is to gain a comprehensive understanding of these changes and to identify similarities and differences. As such phenomena can often only be inadequately captured using conventional methods, it is crucial not only to research the fundamental principles from the different areas, but also to link them together. Different disciplines often develop similar approaches or use comparable theoretical and mathematical tools - without communicating them with each other. The IZ LIST provides the space for comparing such methods and making them usable for each other.
Centre for Interreligious Theology and Religious Studies (since 2023)
The Center for Interreligious Theology and Religious Studies (CITRS) brings together the academic expertise and existing collaborations of three theological institutions at Humboldt-Universit?t zu Berlin - the Faculty of Protestant Theology, the Central Institute of Catholic Theology and the Berlin Institute of Islamic Theology - as well as the Potsdam School of Jewish Theology. This constellation, which is unique in Germany, opens up new opportunities to network theological research and academic communication on an interreligious basis and to contribute to public discourse.
With its research profile, the CITRS, which has been in existence since 2023, strengthens the visibility of Humboldt-Universit?t as a place of innovative, socially engaged theology and at the same time positions it in the national and international discourse as a pioneer of interreligious research into religion.
Digitality and digital methods at Campus Mitte (since 2023)
The Interdisciplinary Centre for Digitality and Digital Methods at Campus Mitte (IZ D2MCM) promotes exchange between the departments represented at Campus Mitte in the areas of digitality and digital methods, supports the development of joint research focuses and promotes the establishment of corresponding infrastructures.
Digitality and digital methods are fundamentally changing and shaping our culture and society: how we work, how we learn and communicate with each other - and also how we do research. The IZ D2MCM, founded in 2023, asks what digitality actually is and how digital methods can be utilised in research. The focus is on key future topics such as the epistemology of digitality, artificial intelligence, research data and software engineering, which are worked on as interdisciplinary focal points together with researchers, teaching staff and students. Close cooperation with the Computer and Media Service, the Research Service Centre and the University Library form the basis for an informed, well-connected and sustainable research infrastructure at Humboldt-Universit?t.
ProMINT Interdisciplinary Centre (since 2023)
The Humboldt-ProMINT-Kolleg sees itself as an interdisciplinary competence centre for the structural development of teacher training in the STEM subjects.
Against the background of a shortage of teachers in the STEM subjects, the college was founded in 2010 on the initiative of the STEM subject didacticians at Humboldt-Universit?t with the support of the Deutsche Telekom Foundation; since 2023, it has been an Interdisciplinary Centre (IC) of the HU and pursues the institutionalised networking of subject didactics, subject sciences, educational research and practical professionalisation in schools as its central concern. This structured integration of different disciplines creates the basis for a systematic and theory-led cooperation that focuses on central topics such as technology-supported teaching and learning, measurement processes and data competence, problem solving as well as models and modelling processes. The aim is to interlink different subject-specific, didactic and educational science perspectives in interdisciplinary research contexts in a methodologically sound manner and thus contribute to the evidence-based further development of STEM teacher training.
GreenCompute - Centre for Saving Energy in Large-Scale Data Analysis and HPC (since 2024)
The Interdisciplinary Centre GreenCompute - Center for Saving Energy in Large-Scale Data Analysis and HPC aims to improve energy efficiency in large-scale data analysis and high-performance computing (HPC) at Humboldt-Universit?t.
The centre is organisationally based at the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, but explicitly addresses all faculties. It is professionally anchored in the Computer and Media Service and in particular in the newly established HPC@HU service. It is also an important component of the university's climate protection plan. The main objectives of the centre, which was founded in 2024/2025, are to support and bundle research on energy-efficient big data analyses and to implement these technologies on the HU's central and decentralised computer clusters. It pursues these goals through a comprehensive approach that includes technology development, networking, information provision, awareness raising and community building.