27 Several institutes and lecturers moved into the city’s research tower during this period. Although this building proved unfavourable from a logistical standpoint, the University was only able to relocate to the current campus, which was previously the city’s main Zeiss site, in 1996. This succession perfectly illustrates how the University and the local industry dovetail here. Bau 15, Germany’s first freestanding high rise, is also part of the modern-day campus. During the East German era, Jena was seen as a centre for dissidents, so it should not come as a surprise that the city saw its biggest demonstration to date on 4 November 1989. Almost 40,000 people took to the Platz der Kosmonauten—today’s Eichplatz—to protest against the communist dictatorship. FACULTIES AND FIELDS OF RESEARCH Today, the University is the largest university in the State of Thuringia and the only state University covering all disciplines. The University comprises ten faculties: • Faculty of Theology • Faculty of Law • Faculty of Economics and Business Administration • Faculty of Arts • Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences • Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science • Faculty of Physics and Astronomy • Faculty of Chemistry and Earth Sciences • Faculty of Biological Sciences • Faculty of Medicine uni-jena.de/en/schools Regarding their research activities, the faculties focus on these areas: LIGHT: optics and photonics, innovative materials; energy storage LIFE: microbiology and infection research; biodiversity and bio-geo-interaction; gerontology LIBERTY: social change; enlightenment; romanticism; Eastern Europe; contemporary history These form an infrastructure in which various institutes can collaborate promoting interdisciplinary research in the process. In addition to these research focuses and the cross-faculty structure, a range of additional research areas exist. These are funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG). As a result, there are two chemistry-based research programmes, one in geosciences, and one programme focusing on art history. The University also launched several DFG collaborative research centres, for instance in the following topics: ›Pathogenic fungi and their human host: Networks of interaction‹ and ›AquaDiva: Understanding the Links Between Surface and Subsurface Biogeosphere‹. The research support is rounded out by the DFG Research Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research. uni-jena.de/en/research
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