Welcome to CeNS, 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, MPI of Biochemistry, Augsburg University 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 coordinating team.

On the fertile soil of CeNS new multidisciplinary research groups have been established such as the recently launched LMUinnovativ project Functional Nanosystems, the Cluster of Excellence Nanosystems Initiative Munich (NIM), the SFB 486 of the German research council (DFG) "Manipulation of matter on the nanometer scale" and the Bavarian research group ForNano 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.