 It is one of 86 institutes in the Max Planck Society (Max-Planck-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Wissenschaften e. V.).Since March 2003, the MPI for Biophysics has resided in a new building on the Riedberg campus of the Goethe University in the north of the city.At the end of 2016, a total of 178 employees were working at the institute, including 48 scientists and 50 junior researchers.