The Adolphe Merkle Institute (AMI) is a research centre devoted to materials science and nanoscience and is part of the Faculty of Science at the University of Fribourg. Administered by the Adolphe Merkle Foundation, the aim of the AMI is to become an international leader in basic research.
The AMI also runs an industrial liaison and technology transfer office and an application laboratory for small and medium-sized enterprises. This provides the Institute with sustained private funding. The Institute also makes Fribourg more attractive as a base for high-tech companies.
The Adolphe Merkle Institute stands for:
Excellence
- An internationally leading research centre
- Competitive employment conditions for outstanding scientists
- Bursaries for outstanding students
Relevance
- Basic research
- Applied research in collaboration with industry
- Contract research, mainly for small and medium-sized enterprises
Interdisciplinarity
- Interdisciplinary research
- Interdisciplinary teaching
- Four research groups based in chemistry, physics, biology and nanotechnology, each with a different focus