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On 10 April 2025, the NEXUS Lab hosted the third day of Postdoc Days 2025, which aim to make the valuable work of postdocs in research and teaching visible, offer a... [more]

From March 31 to April 2, 2025, the Pestalozzi Realschule, Freiburg’s Stadtbibliothek at Münsterplatz, and IMBIT—the research facility of the BrainLinks-BrainTools... [more]

Two BrainLinks-BrainTools doctoral researcher inspire young women for technology [more]

Science meets business in an innovative format [more]

New position for spokesperson of BrainLinks-BrainTools [more]

On January 20, IMBIT opened its doors to the Carl Zeiss Foundation and sponsored projects. [more]


BrainLinks-BrainTools aims to develop medical technology that directly interacts with the nervous system. In view of this aim, BrainLinks-BrainTools combines life-sciences and engineering sciences as well as their clinical applications. BrainLinks-BrainTools was established in 2012 as a cluster of excellence within the excellence inititative by the DFG (EXC 1086) and is funded as a Center since 2019 from the Federal Ministry of Economics, Science and Arts of Baden-Württemberg within the sustainability programm for projects of the excellence initiative II.