Health Sciences are situated at the university hospital. The faculty has approximately 1,800 students. Institute of Biology Institute of Biology was founded in 1972. The first three areas deal mainly with aquatic environments, while neurobiological science involves animals from both aquatic and terrestrial environments. Although the research areas are rather different, they all aim at understanding how living organisms function in their natural environment.
Field studies are therefore central in the research of all groups.
Furthermore, there is extensive collaboration between members of the different research groups. Additionally, all research groups have cooperation with other Danish and foreign research groups. The institute has many foreign visitors, including post-docs and Ph.D. students doing research for shorter or longer periods. Some of the research at IB also involves more applied research through a number of governmentally supported environmental research programs.