Karlsruher Institut für Technologie

German research university and national laboratory at Karlsruhe in Baden-Württemberg, formed in 2009 by merging the technical university founded in 1825 with the Karlsruhe research centre of the Helmholtz Association. Teaches and researches chemistry and biosciences, chemical and process engineering, applied biosciences and food chemistry, physics, mechanical engineering and informatics, and runs institutes and large scale facilities in analytical chemistry, toxicology and food chemistry, nanotechnology and energy with its own laboratories.