Graduation Party 2025

Congratulations on the successful completion of the Bachelor of Science or Master of Science degree! On 8 November 2025, 65 graduates received their diplomas and celebrated their achievements at the Turbine in Kulmbach. ...more

New Faculty Management

As of 1 October 2025, a new leadership team will take over the management of the faculty. We warmly welcome Prof. Dr. Corina Vlot-Schuster as the new Dean. She will be supported by the Deputy Deans Prof. Dr. Nils Grosche and Prof. Dr. Gerald Lackner as well as the two Study Deans Prof. Dr. Susanne Baldermann and Prof. Dr. Christian Fikar. ...more

Kulmbach City Talks 2025-2026

You are cordially invited to the 2nd City Talk—a panel discussion—on December 9, 2025. Topic: Pathways to Food Democracy in Times of Global Crises. Join the discussion. Admission is free. ...more

B.Sc. "Lebensmittel- und Gesundheitswissenschaften"

The current global challenges in the field of nutrition and health are the focus of this bachelor's programme. Lots of information about the course content can be found here: ...more

M.Sc. Food Quality and Safety

Sustainable production and distribution of healthy food of the highest quality, feeding a steadily growing world population and optimizing existing and developing new supply chains - thanks to interdisciplinarity, various competencies come into play here. ...more

M.Sc. Food System Sciences

Food chemistry, human physiology, food law and bioeconomy combined in a pioneering study programme. The new Study Programme started with 30 students in winter semester 24/25. ...more

M.Sc.Global Food, Nutrition and Health

This Master's program provides students with the interdisciplinary skills required to develop and implement solutions to global challenges at the interface of food, nutrition and health. ...more

Facts about nutrition: the Ernährungsradar.

In cooperation between professors and students of the Faculty of Life Sciences and the Akademie für Neue Medien, evidence-based and comprehensible media contributions on current topics related to nutrition are produced - supported by the Oberfrankenstiftung. ...more

New and innovative: the Faculty of Life Sciences: Food, Nutrition and Health

The concept of the youngest faculty at the University of Bayreuth follows a holistic approach. In accordance with the tradition of the University of Bayreuth, it deals with interdisciplinary research and teaching on the great challenges of our time:

What are the causal relationships between risk of disease and life style and/or nutrition?
Which individual, social, cultural, and/or socio-economic factors hinder healthy lifestyles and diets?
How can providing people with sufficient quantities of healthy food be improved?

The Faculty of Life Sciences: Food, Nutrition and Health aims to find answers to these questions and challenges through its interdisciplinary approach, and to develop innovative solutions. To this end, the natural science perspective, which focuses on current, far-reaching methodological revolutions in the life sciences, is combined with modern concepts from the economic, legal, social, and behavioural sciences. It interlinks with the special competencies offered by the nutrition cluster in Kulmbach with a large number of official institutions and a wide range of food-producing industries.

Study

In the winter semester 2024/25 a total of 379 students are enrolled in the master's programmes "Global Food, Nutrition and Health", "Food System Sciences" and "Food Quality and Safety" as well as in the bachelor's programme "Lebensmittel- und Gesundheitswissenschaften" ...more

Research

An internationally experienced and steadily growing team of - in the winter semester 2024/25 - 13 professors is commited to developing and expanding our faculty. Closely cooperating in teaching, highly active and perfectly networked in research, they create the conditions for a sustainable and well-founded education for our students and for the scientific expertise of the faculty ...more

Kulmbach site

The Kulmbach campus currently extends over five buildings and covers almost 10,000 m² for classrooms, laboratories, offices, mensa, library and more. The administration of he faculty is located in the former administration building of the Kulmbacher Spinnerei ...more

New and innovative: the Faculty of Life Sciences: Food, Nutrition and Health

What are the causal relationships between risk of disease and life style and/or nutrition?

Which individual, social, cultural, and/or socio-economic factors hinder healthy lifestyles and diets?

How can providing people with sufficient quantities of healthy food be improved?