List of Max Planck Institutes

Max Planck Institutes are research institutions operated by the Max Planck Society.^[1] There are 83 institutes as of March 2015.^[1]^[2] Most of them are located in Germany, but some of them are located in other European countries and the United States.^[1]^[2]

Institutes are organized into three sections according to their research area:^[1]^[3]

One institute can belong to several research areas.^[1] In addition, it can also belong to several more specialized research fields.^[1]

Institutes and Research Units

As of March 2015, the following Max Planck Institutes and Research Units exist (in alphabetical order):^[1]

Name	City	Country	Research area^[1]
Bibliotheca Hertziana – Max Planck Institute for Art History	Rome	Italy	Humanities & Social Sciences
Friedrich Miescher Laboratory of the Max Planck Society	Tübingen	Germany	Biology & Medicine
Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society	Berlin	Germany	Chemistry, Physics & Technology
Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz – Max Planck Institute	Florence	Italy	Humanities & Social Sciences
Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience	Jupiter, Florida	United States	Biology & Medicine
Max Planck Institute for Astronomy	Heidelberg	Germany	Chemistry, Physics & Technology
Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics	Garching	Germany	Chemistry, Physics & Technology
Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry	Jena	Germany	Biology & Medicine Chemistry, Physics & Technology
Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics	Tübingen	Germany	Biology & Medicine Humanities & Social Sciences
Max Planck Institute for Biology of Ageing	Köln	Germany	Biology & Medicine
Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry	Göttingen	Germany	Biology & Medicine Chemistry, Physics & Technology
Max Planck Institute for Brain Research	Frankfurt am Main	Germany	Biology & Medicine
Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology	Jena	Germany	Biology & Medicine
Max Planck Institute for Chemical Energy Conversion	Mülheim an der Ruhr	Germany	Biology & Medicine Chemistry, Physics & Technology
Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids	Dresden	Germany	Chemistry, Physics & Technology
Max Planck Institute for Chemistry	Mainz	Germany	Chemistry, Physics & Technology
Max Planck Institute for Coal Research	Mülheim an der Ruhr	Germany	Chemistry, Physics & Technology
Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law	Hamburg	Germany	Humanities & Social Sciences
Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law	Heidelberg	Germany	Humanities & Social Sciences
Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research	Rostock	Germany	Humanities & Social Sciences
Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology	Tübingen	Germany	Biology & Medicine
Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization	Göttingen	Germany	Biology & Medicine Chemistry, Physics & Technology
Max Planck Institute for Dynamics of Complex Technical Systems	Magdeburg	Germany	Biology & Medicine Chemistry, Physics & Technology
Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics	Frankfurt am Main	Germany	Humanities & Social Sciences
Max Planck Institute for European Legal History	Frankfurt am Main	Germany	Humanities & Social Sciences
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology	Leipzig	Germany	Biology & Medicine Humanities & Social Sciences
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology	Plön	Germany	Biology & Medicine
Max Planck Institute for Experimental Medicine	Göttingen	Germany	Biology & Medicine
Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics	Garching	Germany	Chemistry, Physics & Technology
Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law	Freiburg	Germany	Humanities & Social Sciences
Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics	Potsdam, Hannover	Germany	Chemistry, Physics & Technology
Max Planck Institute for Heart and Lung Research	Bad Nauheim	Germany	Biology & Medicine
Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences	Leipzig	Germany	Biology & Medicine Humanities & Social Sciences
Max Planck Institute for Human Development	Berlin	Germany	Humanities & Social Sciences
Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology	Berlin	Germany	Biology & Medicine
Max Planck Institute for Informatics	Saarbrücken	Germany	Chemistry, Physics & Technology
Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition	Munich	Germany	Humanities & Social Sciences
Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems	Tübingen, Stuttgart	Germany	Biology & Medicine Chemistry, Physics & Technology
Max Planck Institute for Iron Research	Düsseldorf	Germany	Chemistry, Physics & Technology
Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology	Bremen	Germany	Biology & Medicine Chemistry, Physics & Technology
Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences	Leipzig	Germany	Chemistry, Physics & Technology
Max Planck Institute for Mathematics	Bonn	Germany	Chemistry, Physics & Technology
Max Planck Institute for Medical Research	Heidelberg	Germany	Biology & Medicine
Max Planck Institute for Metabolism Research	Köln	Germany	Biology & Medicine
Max Planck Institute for Meteorology	Hamburg	Germany	Chemistry, Physics & Technology
Max Planck Institute for Molecular Biomedicine	Münster	Germany	Biology & Medicine
Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics	Berlin	Germany	Biology & Medicine
Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics	Heidelberg	Germany	Chemistry, Physics & Technology
Max Planck Institute for Ornithology	Seewiesen, Radolfzell (sub-institute)	Germany	Biology & Medicine
Max Planck Institute for Physics	Munich	Germany	Chemistry, Physics & Technology
Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research	Köln	Germany	Biology & Medicine
Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics	Garching, Greifswald	Germany	Chemistry, Physics & Technology
Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research	Mainz	Germany	Biology & Medicine Chemistry, Physics & Technology
Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics	Nijmegen	Netherlands	Humanities & Social Sciences
Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy	Bonn	Germany	Chemistry, Physics & Technology
Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods	Bonn	Germany	Humanities & Social Sciences
Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology	Halle (Saale)	Germany	Humanities & Social Sciences
Max Planck Institute for Social Law and Social Policy	Munich	Germany	Humanities & Social Sciences
Max Planck Institute for Software Systems	Kaiserslautern, Saarbrücken	Germany	Chemistry, Physics & Technology
Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research	Göttingen	Germany	Chemistry, Physics & Technology
Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research	Stuttgart	Germany	Chemistry, Physics & Technology
Max Planck Institute for Tax Law and Public Finance	Munich	Germany	Humanities & Social Sciences
Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology	Marburg	Germany	Biology & Medicine
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science	Berlin	Germany	Humanities & Social Sciences
Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems	Dresden	Germany	Chemistry, Physics & Technology
Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History	Jena	Germany	Biology & Medicine Humanities & Social Sciences
Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light	Erlangen	Germany	Chemistry, Physics & Technology
Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter	Hamburg	Germany	Chemistry, Physics & Technology
Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity	Göttingen	Germany	Humanities & Social Sciences
Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies	Köln	Germany	Humanities & Social Sciences
Max Planck Institute Luxembourg for International, European and Regulatory Procedural Law	Luxembourg	Luxembourg	Humanities & Social Sciences
Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry	Martinsried	Germany	Chemistry, Physics & Technology
Max Planck Institute of Biophysics	Frankfurt am Main	Germany	Biology & Medicine
Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces	Potsdam	Germany	Biology & Medicine Chemistry, Physics & Technology
Max Planck Institute of Immunobiology and Epigenetics	Freiburg	Germany	Biology & Medicine
Max Planck Institute of Microstructure Physics	Halle (Saale)	Germany	Chemistry, Physics & Technology
Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics	Dresden	Germany	Biology & Medicine
Max Planck Institute of Molecular Physiology	Dortmund	Germany	Biology & Medicine Chemistry, Physics & Technology
Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology	Potsdam	Germany	Biology & Medicine
Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology	Martinsried	Germany	Biology & Medicine
Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry	Munich	Germany	Biology & Medicine Humanities & Social Sciences
Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics	Garching	Germany	Chemistry, Physics & Technology
Max Planck Research Unit for Neurogenetics	Frankfurt am Main	Germany	Biology & Medicine

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v t e Max Planck Society
Institutes	Bibliotheca Hertziana Friedrich Miescher Laboratory Fritz Haber Institute Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience MPI for Astronomy MPI for Astrophysics MPI for Biogeochemistry MPI for Biological Cybernetics MPI for Biology of Ageing MPI for Biophysical Chemistry MPI for Brain Research MPI for Chemical Ecology MPI for Chemical Energy Conversion MPI for Chemical Physics of Solids MPI for Chemistry MPI for Coal Research MPI for Comparative and International Private Law MPI for Comparative Public Law and International Law MPI for Demographic Research MPI for Developmental Biology MPI for Dynamics and Self-Organization MPI for Dynamics of Complex Technical Systems MPI of Experimental Endocrinology MPI for Empirical Aesthetics MPI for European Legal History MPI for Evolutionary Anthropology MPI for Evolutionary Biology MPI for Experimental Medicine MPI for Extraterrestrial Physics MPI for Foreign and International Criminal Law MPI for Gravitational Physics MPI for Heart and Lung Research MPI for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences MPI for Human Development MPI for Infection Biology MPI for Informatics MPI for Innovation and Competition MPI for Intelligent Systems MPI for Iron Research MPI for Marine Microbiology MPI for Mathematics in the Sciences MPI for Mathematics MPI for Medical Research MPI for Metabolism Research MPI for Meteorology MPI for Molecular Biomedicine MPI for Molecular Genetics MPI for Nuclear Physics MPI for Ornithology MPI for Physics MPI for Plant Breeding Research MPI for Plasma Physics MPI for Polymer Research MPI for Psycholinguistics MPI for Radio Astronomy MPI for Research on Collective Goods MPI for Social Anthropology MPI for Social Law and Social Policy MPI for Software Systems MPI for Solar System Research MPI for Solid State Research MPI for Tax Law and Public Finance MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology MPI for the History of Science MPI for the Physics of Complex Systems MPI for the Science of Human History MPI for the Science of Light MPI for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter MPI for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity MPI for the Study of Societies MPI Luxembourg for International, European and Regulatory Procedural Law MPI of Biochemistry MPI of Biophysics MPI of Colloids and Interfaces MPI of Immunobiology and Epigenetics MPI of Microstructure Physics MPI of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics MPI of Molecular Physiology MPI of Molecular Plant Physiology MPI of Neurobiology MPI of Psychiatry MPI of Quantum Optics Max Planck Research Unit for Neurogenetics
Associated Institutes	Center of Advanced European Studies and Research Ernst Strüngmann Institute
List of Presidents	Otto Hahn (1948-1960) Adolf Butenandt (1960–1972) Reimar Lüst (1972–1984) Heinz Staab (1984–1990) Hans F. Zacher (1990–1996) Hubert Markl (1996–2002) Peter Gruss (2002–2014) Martin Stratmann (since 2014)
Nobel laureates	Walter Bothe (1954) Karl Ziegler (1963) Feodor Lynen (1964) Manfred Eigen (1967) Konrad Lorenz (1973) Georges Köhler (1984) Klaus von Klitzing (1985) Ernst Ruska (1986) Hartmut Michel (1988) Johann Deisenhofer (1988) Robert Huber (1988) Bert Sakmann (1991) Erwin Neher (1991) Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard (1995) Paul Crutzen (1995) Theodor W. Hänsch (2005) Gerhard Ertl (2007) Stefan W. Hell (2014)
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