Welcome to the Center for NanoScience

The Center for NanoScience (CeNS) was founded in 1998 at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University (LMU) Munich. The mission of CeNS is to promote, coordinate, and bundle interdisciplinary research in the field of nanoscience in the Munich area. CeNS is an association of working groups from basic research and industry and is conceived as a network, joining people from various institutions (LMU, TU Munich, University of Augsburg and others) and encompassing a variety of disciplines. The researchers cooperate in a horizontal network on a voluntary basis and are supported by a small management team.

In addition to the numerous research collaborations of individual CeNS members with scientists from all around the world, CeNS has established a growing number of cooperations with international nanoscience institutes. Exchange of doctoral researchers (e.g. Junior Nanotech Network) and Master's students as well as joint workshops (e.g. Workshop on Global Challenges & how Nanotech can help) are the means by which these cooperations are realized. Up to now, joint projects have been initiated with Canada (McGill University, University of Alberta), the United States (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Switzerland (University of Basel), the U.K. (University of Bristol), China (Chinese Academy of Sciences and City University of Hong Kong) and India (IIT Madras). More...

On the fertile soil of CeNS new multidisciplinary research groups have been established such as the Cluster of Excellence
Nanosystems Initiative Munich (NIM), the LMUinnovativ project Functional Nanosystems and the SFB 863 "Forces in biomolecular systems" of the German research council (DFG) as well as many interdisciplinary research projects supported by the BMBF, the DFG, the Volkswagen Foundation, and the European Union. Since 2004, CeNS hosts the International Doctorate Program "NanoBioTechnology", funded by the Elite Network of Bavaria.