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MIN Faculty
Facultyof Mathematics, Informatics
and Natural Sciences

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About the MIN Faculty

MIN Faculty in Figures

The MIN Faculty comprises the Departments of Biology, Chemistry, Earth System Sciences, Informatics, Mathematics, and Physics.

Around 8,500 students, of which 2,800 teacher students, 1,700 are doctoral students, are taught and supervised by some 200 professors and 370 postdoctoral research assistants.

The faculty currently comprises seven interdisciplinary research foci:

  • Climate, Earth, Environment
  • Particle, Astro- and Mathematical Physics
  • Photon and Nanosciences
  • Infection Research and Structural Biology
  • Cognitive Systems
  • Computing and Data Science
  • Ecology and Biological Resources


The faculty is developing two potential areas:

  • Information Governance Technologies
  • Hybrids


and a transdisciplinary research field:

  • Material Science


It participates across faculties in key research priorities of the university.

Faculty of Mathematics, Informatics and Natural Sciences

Faculty of Mathematics, Informatics and Natural Sciences

 1
Departmens 6
Research centers 8) 1
Federal clusters of excellence 2
Collaborative research centers (SFBs), incl. participation 5
Research training groups (GRKs) 5
State graduate schools
(incl. state and university-funded graduate groups)		 5
German Research Foundation (DFG) research groups (incl. FOR participation) 10
Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) projects 80
Students (major only)
teaching students
doctoral students

8,462
2,814
1,756
Total applicants
 8,246
Places for new students (incl. master's programs) 2,724
Number of programs (major) 58
Total degrees awarded
of which doctorates		 1,287
323
Ongoing state funding
Budget in 2016 EUR 80,9 million
Employees (Total) 1)6)
Academic staff 1) 2)
of which professors 1) 3)
Technical support, library staff, administrative personnel 1) 4)		 1,825
1,205
206
620
Employees (Grundmittel) 1) 6)
Academic staff 1) 2)
of which professors 1) 3)
Technical support, library staff, administrative personnel 1) 4)
 1,045
489
173
556

Employees (Hochschulpaktmittel) 1)
Academic staff 1) 2)
of which professors 1) 3)
Technical support, library staff, administrative personnel 1) 4)

115
91
8
24

Employees (Drittmittel) 1)5)
Academic staff 1) 2)
of which professors 1) 3)
Technical support, library staff, administrative personnel 1) 4)

 665
625
24
40

Proportion of women - academic staff

 28.7%

1) Source: Paisy-Export 12/2016 [full-time equivalent]
2) Professors, research associates, and academic staff (incl. guest and acting professors)
3) Incl. junior professors and cooperations; excl. guest and acting professors
4) Technical support, library staff, administrative personnel
5) Incl. professors
6) Ongoing state funding = annual allocation from the FHH = basic funding
7) "Other funding" = external funding = funding from the DFG, BMBF, EU, industry, state funding, other income, faculty resources, and private funding bodies
8) Status as of April 2016

Statements of accounts

Members of Universität Hamburg are able to access the Dean’s statements of accounts for the MIN Faculty here: