Helmholtz Zentrum München - Deutsches Forschungszentrum für Gesundheit und Umwelt GmbH

The Helmholtz Zentrum München is a research institution of the Federal Government and the State of Bavaria within the Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres, the largest scientific organisation in Germany. The Helmholtz Association is a community of 15 scientific-technical and biological-medical research centres. These centres have been commissioned with pursuing long-term research goals on behalf of the state and society. The Association strives to gain insights and knowledge so that it can help to preserve and improve the foundations of human life. It does this by identifying and working on the grand challenges faced by society, science and industry. Helmholtz Centres perform top-class research in strategic programmes in six core fields: Energy, Earth and Environment, Health, Key Technologies, Structure of Matter, Transport and Space. In future, the Helmholtz Zentrum München will be represented within the research field Health of the Helmholtz Association with both programs, Environmental Health und Systemic Analysis of Multifactorial Diseases, as well as in the field Earth and Environment with the Terrestrial Environment program.