The Faculty of Science has eight research institutes.

Physical Geography

Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics (IBED)
Special focus on: biodiversity, ecosystem dynamics, environmental problems, molecular cell biology, molecular phytopathology, microbiology, neurobiology, mass spectrometry, biochemistry, biophysics, bioinformatics, plant physiology.

Biology and Medical Biology

Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics (IBED)
Special focus on: biodiversity, ecosystem dynamics, environmental problems, molecular cell biology, molecular phytopathology, microbiology, neurobiology, mass spectrometry, biochemistry, biophysics, bioinformatics, plant physiology.

Swammerdam Institute for Life Sciences (SILS)
Special focus on: molecular cell biology, molecular phytopathology, microbiology, neurobiology, mass spectrometry, biochemistry, biophysics, bioinformatics, plant physiology.

Informatics and Logic

Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC) (Interfaculty research institute)
Special focus on: logic, change and transmission of information, theoretical informatics

Informatics Institute (IvI)
Special focus on: software, intelligent autonomous systems, sensor information systems, computational science, computer architecture

Related organizations:
Amsterdam Centre for Computational Science (ACCS)
Center for Computer Science in Organization and Management
European Association for Logic, Language and Information

Physics

Institute of Physics (loP)
The Institute of Physics is a conglomeration of the Institute of High Energy Physics (IHEF), the Institute for Theoretical Physics Amsterdam (ITFA), and the Van der Waals-Zeeman Institute (WZI) for experimental physics. The IoP was founded in January 2011.

Related organizations:
National Institute for Subatomic Physics (Nikhef)

Chemistry

Van ’t Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences (HIMS)
Special focus on: molecular photonics, polymer analysis, molecular simulation, catalysis, complex liquids, bioactive molecules.

Swammerdam Institute for Life Sciences (SILS)
Special focus on: molecular cell biology, molecular phytopathology, microbiology, neurobiology, mass spectrometry, biochemistry, biophysics, bioinformatics, plant physiology.

Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics (IBED)
Special focus on: biodiversity, ecosystem dynamics, environmental problems

Astronomy

Astronomical Institute Anton Pannekoek (AIP)
Special focus on: high energy astrophysics, low energy astrophysics.

Related organization: Centre for High Energy Astrophysics (CHEAF)

Mathematics and Statistics

Korteweg-de Vries Institute (KdVI)
Special focus on: algebra and geometry, analysis, mathematical physics, stochastics, applied analysis and dynamic systems, numerical algorithms, discrete mathematics

Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC)
(Interfaculty research institute). Special focus on: logic, change and transmission of information, theoretical informatics.