GeoForschungsZentrum Potsdam
The GeoForschungsZentrum Potsdam (GFZ) is a non-university geoscientific research institute and was founded on January 1st, 1992 on the Telegrafenberg in Potsdam.
As the first of its kind worldwide, the GFZ combines all solid earth science fields including geodesy, geology, geophysics, mineralogy and geochemistry, in a multidisciplinary research centre.
An underlying principle is to combine the geoscientific know-how of universities and other research centres in national and international joint projects.