The Adolphe Merkle Institute is fully financed through the private Adolphe Merkle Foundation. In order to successfully attract the leading scientists required for the success of the Institute, it offers world class working conditions:

• Internationally competitive start-up funds,
• A global annual budget for personnel and operation for each Department Head,
• A competitive salary that corresponds to that of a full professor at the University of Fribourg,
• A global annual budget for the institute that allows it to develop into a real center of excellence that can support new innovative projects through matching funds, financially support guest researchers, provide excellent students with stipends, support the acquisition of capital equipment, and help to maintain and repair infrastructure and capital equipment.