This is more of a shout out. I loved my Sommerkurse (summer classes) here. I took a class in German…read moreexpressionist film (Fritz Lang and the like), conversation class and a few others. Freiburg is an unbelievably beautiful city, the university building is amazing and the professors were all rock stars. Official communications address (contact address on their website): Friedrichstr. 39, 79098 Freiburg, P.O. Box, 79085 Freiburg However the iconic old building with the sign "The Truth Shall Set You Free" - Wahrheit Wird Euch Frei Machen (apparently from John 8:32) is the original university address ... or at least for touristic purposes.

D-BSSE is the newest department of ETH Zürich and it is located in Basel. Its focus are…read morebiosciencies and it consists of both theory, as well as experimental research groups. I particularly like it not only because this is my workplace :), but also because it is a great blend between theory and experiments, in a very research oriented environment. Bioinformatics / Systems Biology are the most promising approaches in our understanding the living complexity. Case closed :)