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Photo Archive
Prof. Dr. Günter M. Ziegler
Mathematician Günter M. Ziegler is the president of Freie Universität Berlin.
Image Credit: Kay Herschelmann
Students on Campus
At Freie Universität Berlin individuals from more than 125 countries study, conduct research, or work in other capacities.
Image Credit: Peter Himsel
New Building, Small Departments
A new building complex has space for the Campus Library and 14 smaller departments within the Department of History and Cultural Studies. The Campus Library contains holdings from 24 institutes and subdivisions. The building on Fabeckstraße at the center of the Dahlem Campus was designed by the star architect based in Munich, Florian Nagler
Image Credit: Bernd Wannenmacher
Philological Library of Freie Universität Berlin
The Philological Library was designed by the star British architect Lord Norman Foster and opened in 2005.
Image Credit: David Ausserhofer
Philologische Bibliothek
The library building implements an innovative environmental concept based on natural ventilation and heat recovery that substantially reduces energy use. Due to its shape it is often designated “The Brain.”
Image Credit: Bernd Wannenmacher
Henry Ford Building
The Henry Ford Building at Freie Universität Berlin was constructed between 1952 and 1954. It contains a large auditorium, called the Max Kade Auditorium, in addition to several lecture halls and conference rooms.
Image Credit: Bernd Wannenmacher
Hahn-Meitner Building
Nuclear fission was discovered in this building, at that time the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Physics. Currently part of Freie Universität and renamed Hahn-Meitner Building, it is now used by biochemists.
Image Credit: Bernd Wannenmacher
University Library
The holdings of the University Library (UB) cover all the academic disciplines, but there is a special focus on the humanities and social sciences.
Image Credit: Bernd Wannenmacher
Botanic Garden
Freie Universität Berlin’s Botanic Garden is the third-largest of its kind in the world.
Image Credit: Bernd Wannenmacher
Large Tropical Conservatory of the Botanic Garden
Constructed at the beginnning of the twentieth centurey, the large Tropical Conservatory is a listed historic building.
Image Credit: Bernd Wannenmacher
Cast Collection of Ancient Sculptures
The Berlin Cast Collection of Ancient Sculpture includes about 2,000 casts of Greek and Roman sculptures and is used for teaching and study activities at the university as well as for elementary and secondary school students and other groups.
Image Credit: Bernd Wannenmacher
Changeable Martian Landscape
The image shows an ancient mountain region on Mars with a complex volcanotectonic, hydrologic, and periglacial history. Tectonic graben, impact craters, fluvial valleys, and periglacial features are visible. Numerous north-south-trending tectonic graben termed Coracis Fossae cut the eastern part of the old Thaumasia basement.
The photo was created by members of the Planetary Sciences and Remote Sensing group at Freie Universität from images recorded by the High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC). The camera has been on board the Mars Express orbiter of the European Space Agency (ESA) since 2003 and is operated by the German Aerospace Center (DLR). New recordings are published monthly on the website of the Planetary Sciences and Remote Sensing group, where you can also find more information abou the Coracis Fossae in the mountain region Thaumasia.
Image Credit: Images: ESA/DLR/FU Berlin, CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO