The iDiv Synthesis Centre (formerly sDiv until 2026) is an incubator for new ideas – a think tank and place of inherent horizon scanning. Scientific synthesis integrates diverse knowledge to increase the generality and applicability of results and yield novel insights or explanations. It can bring together existing but disparate data, methods, theories, and tools in new and perhaps unexpected ways.

Synthesis is a highly varied effort, and is a means for accelerating scientific understanding that is applicable across multiple places and scales. In biodiversity research, scientific synthesis is what makes it possible to find patterns, answers and solutions to some of the major questions facing science and society.

Postal address

German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research Halle-Jena-Leipzig – iDiv
Puschstrasse 4
04103 Leipzig
Germany

Head of the iDiv Synthesis Centre

Dr Marten Winter
Phone: +49 341 97 33129

Administrative Assistant

Carolin Kögler
Phone: +49 341 9733157