Saarland University is known for research in Computer Science, nano technology, medicine, European relations, politics and law. The university campus and the surrounding area is home to several research institutes, affiliated with various independent research societies and private companies, focused on primary and applied research.
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German Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence – DFKI
CISPA – Helmholtz Center for Information Security
Dagstuhl, the Leibniz Center for Informatics
Fraunhofer IZFP
Fraunhofer Institute for Biomedical Engineering
Society for Environmentally Compatible Process Technology
Institut of the society for the promotion of the applied information research
Leibniz-Institute for New Materials INM
KIST – Korea Institute of Science and Technology Europe Research Society.
Intel Visual Computing Institute
Centre for Bioinformatics Saar
Institute for Formal Ontology and Medical Information Science – IFOMIS
HIPS – Helmholtz Institute for Pharmaceutical Research Saarland
Cooperation
Saarland University is part of the Software-Cluster, a local association of universities, research institutes and IT companies in Karlsruhe, Darmstadt, Kaiserslautern, Waldorf and Saarbrücken with the purpose of fostering business software development.
Research
SIC focuses on research across 16 fields: Algebra, Algorithms, Applied Analysis, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, Computational Biology and Life Sciences, Computational Linguistics, Data Science, Didactics of Computers Science and Mathematics, Formal Methods, Human-Computer Interaction, Mathematical Data Analysis, Numerical Mathematics, Security and Cryptography, Software and Hardware Systems, Stochastics, Visual and Geometric Computing.
SIC participates in Germany's excellence initiative. As a participant, it received a Cluster of Excellence "Multimodal Computing and Interaction" (2007-2019) and a Graduate School of Computer Science in 2007. SIC is involved in many multi-institutional projects, some of which include:
Collaborative Research Center (CRC) Transregio (TRR) 248: Foundations of Perspicuous Software Systems, funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG);
CRC 1102: Information Density and Linguistic Encoding, funded by the DFG;
CRC TRR-195: Symbolic Tools in Mathematics and their Applications, funded by the DFG;
RTG: Neuroexplicit Models of Language, Vision, and Action, funded by the DFG;
Information Density and Linguistic Encoding (IDeaL), funded by the DFG;
Interdisciplinary Institute for Societal Computing (I2SC);
Explainable Intelligent Systems, funded by Volkswagen Foundation;
ELLIS Unit Saarbrücken AI & Machine Learning "SAM";
Centre for European Research in Trusted AI (CERTAIN), funded by European Regional Development Fund;
Zuse School ELIZA.
Research institutes
The following research institutions are included in the SIC:
German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (1988),
Leibniz Center for Informatics at Schloss Dagstuhl (1989),
Max Planck Institute for Informatics (1990),
Center for Bioinformatics (2000),
Max Planck Institute for Software Systems (2004),
CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security (2020).
Bachelor's degree programs
Bioinformatics, Business Informatics, Computer Science (English), Computer Science (German), Computational Linguistics, Cybersecurity (English), Cybersecurity (German), Data Science and Artificial Intelligence, Embedded Systems (phasing out), Mathematics and Computer Science, Media Informatics.
Master's degree programs
Bioinformatics, Business Informatics, Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Data Science and Artificial Intelligence, Embedded Systems, Entrepreneurial Cybersecurity (phasing out), Language Science and Technology, Mathematics and Computer Science, Media Informatics, Visual Computing, Language and Communication Technologies.
State examination (teaching credential)
Computer Science Teacher Education: Secondary Level I (LS 1), Secondary Level II (LS 1 + 2), teaching at vocational schools (LAB)
PhD programs
Saarbrücken Graduate School of Computer Science
Max Planck Graduate Center for Computer and Information Science
International Max Planck Research School on Trustworthy Computing
