German Research Foundation (DFG) research units

Research Unit
Geschlechtsspezifische Unterschiede in Immunantworten
Faculty of Medicine; Institute for Immunology
Spokesperson: Prof. Dr. Marcus Altfeld

Research Unit 2924
Romanization and Islamication in Late Antiquity – Transcultural Processes on the Iberian Peninsula and in North Africa
Faculty of Humanities
Spokespersons: Prof. Dr. Sabine Panzram, Prof. Dr. Stefan Heidemann

Research Unit 2769
Futures of Sustainability: Modernization, Transformation, Control
Faculty of Business, Economics and Social Sciences, Department of Social Sciences
Spokespersons: Prof. Dr. Sighard Neckel, Prof. Dr. Frank Adloff

Research Unit 2767
Imaginaries of Force
Faculty of Humanities and Faculty of Mathematics, Informatics and Naturals Sciences
Spokespersons: Prof. Dr. Frank Fehrenbach, Prof. Dr. Matthias Glaubrecht, Prof. Dr. Cornelia Zumbusch

Research Unit 2799
Receiving and Translating Signals via the gamma-delta T Cell Receptor
Faculty of Medicine, Center for Molecular Neurobiologogy
Spokesperson: Prof Dr. Immo Prinz

Research Unit 2625
Mechanisms of Lysosomal Homeostasis
Faculty of Medicine, Center for Molecular Neurobiology Hamburg
Spokesperson: Prof. Dr. Thomas Braulke

Research Unit 2419
Plasticity versus Stability – Molecular Mechanisms of Synaptic Strength
Faculty of Medicine, Center for Molecular Neurobiology Hamburg
Spokesperson: Prof. Dr. Matthias Kneussel

Research Unit 2311
Jewish Scepticism (Maimonides Centre for Advanced Studies)
Faculty of Humanities, Maimonides Centre for Advanced Studies
Spokesperson: Prof. Dr. Giuseppe Veltri

Research Unit 1452
Vermarktung von Produkten im Kontext digitaler sozialer Medien
Faculty of Business Administration (Hamburg Business School), Institute of Marketing
Spokesperson: Prof. Dr. Henrik Sattler

Clinical Research Unit 296
Feto-maternal immune cross talk – Consequences for maternal and offspring's health
Faculty of Medicine, Center for Obstetrics and Pediatrics
Spokesperson: Prof. Dr. Petra C. Arck
Duration: 2015–2022

Clinical Research Unit 306
Primär Sklerosierende Cholangitis
Faculty of Medicine, Center for Internal Medicine
Spokeperson: Prof. Dr. Ansgar Lohse
Duration: 2016–2023

Research Unit
Multipler Wettbewerb im Hochschulsystem: Akteurskonstitution, Handlungskoordination und Folgewirkungen
Spokesperson: Prof. Dr. Georg Krücken, Universität Kassel
Project leader: Prof. Dr. Jetta Frost, Faculty of Business, Economics and Social Sciences, Department of Socioeconomics

Research Unit 5116
Plant-microbe communication through exRNA: systems-level approaches to explore molecular mechanisms and agronomic applications
Spokesperson: Prof. Dr. Karl-Heinz Kogel, Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen
Project leader: Prof. Dr. Julia Kehr,Faculty of Mathematics, Informatics and Natural Sciences, Department of Biology, Institute of Plant Science and Microbiology

Research Unit 2975
Algorithms, Dynamics, and Information Flow in Networks
Spokesperson: Prof. Dr. Martin Hoefer, Goethe-Universität Frankfurth am Main
Project leader: Prof. Dr. Petra Berenbrink,Faculty of Mathematics, Informatics and Natural Sciences, Department of Informatics, Theoretical Informatics

Research Unit 2973
Being Catholic in the German Federal Republic. Semantics, Practices, and Emotions in Western Germany’s Society 1965–1989/90
Spokesperson: Prof. Dr. Andreas Holzem, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen
Project leader: Prof. Dr. Thomas Großbölting, Faculty of Humanities, Department of History

Research Unit 2926
Next Generation Perturbative QCD for Hadron Structure: Preparing for the Electron-Ion Collider 
Spokesperson: Prof. Dr. Vladimir Braun, Universität Regensburg
Project leader: Prof. Dr. Bernd A. Kniehl & Prof. Dr. Sven-Olaf Moch,Faculty of Mathematics, Informatics and Natural Sciences, Department of Physics, II. Institute for Theoretical Physics

Research Unit 2879
ImmunoStroke: From immune cells to stroke recovery
Spokesperson: Prof. Dr. Christoph Kleinschnitz, Universität Duispurg-Essen
Project leader: Prof. Dr. Tim Magnus; Prof. Dr. Manuel A. Friese; Dr. Mathias Gelderblom; Prof. Dr. Friedrich Nolte; Dr. Peter Ludewig; Prof. Dr. Götz Thomalla; Prof. Dr. Eva Tolosa, Faculty of Medicine, Center for Molecular Neurobiology; Department of Neurology; Immunology; Head and Neurocenter

Research Unit 2820
Volcanic Plume Evolution and Injection Profiles (VolPlume)
Spokesperson: Prof. Dr. Christian von Savigny, Universität Greifswald
Project leader: Prof. Dr. Stefan Bühler, Faculty of Mathematics, Informatics and Natural Sciences, Department of Earth Sciences, Institute of Meteorology

Research Unit 2544
Blue Planets around Red Stars – Scientific Exploitation of the CARMENES Survey
Spokesperson: Prof. Dr. Ansgar Reiners, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
Project leaders: Prof. Dr. Jürgen H.M.M. Schmitt and Dr. Andreas Schweitzer, Faculty of Mathematics, Informatics and Natural Sciences, Department of Physics, Hamburg Observatory

Research Unit 2414
Artificial Gauge Fields and Interacting Topological Phases in Ultracold Atoms
Spokesperson: Prof. Dr. Immanuel Bloch, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Project leaders: Prof. Dr. Klaus Sengstock and Prof. Dr. Christof Weitenberg, Faculty of Mathematics, Informatics and Natural Sciences, Department of Physics, Institute of Laser Physics

Research Unit 2319
Determination of Neutrino Mass Hierarchy in the JUNO Experiment
Spokesperson: Prof. Dr. Achim Stahl, RWTH Aachen University
Project leader: Prof. Dr. Caren Hagner, Faculty of Mathematics, Informatics and Natural Sciences, Department of Physics, Institute of Experimental Physics

Research Unit 2289
Calcium homeostasis in neuroinflammation and -degeneration: New targets for therapy of multiple sclerosis?
Spokesperson: Prof. Dr. Ricarda Diem, Universität Heidelberg
Project leader: Prof. Dr. Manuel A. Friese, Faculty of Medicine, Center for Molecular Neurobiology Hamburg

Research Unit 2253
Crossing the borders: The interplay of language, cognition, and the brain in early development
Spokesperson: Prof. Dr. Barbara Höhle, Universität Potsdam
Project leader: Prof. Dr. Ulf Liszkowski, Faculty of Psychology and Human Movement, Institute of Psychology

Research Unit 2252
Media and Participation. Between demand and entitlement
Spokesperson: Prof. Dr. Beate Ochsner, Universität Konstanz
Project leader: Prof. Dr. Urs Stäheli, Faculty of Business, Economics and Social Sciences, Department of Social Sciences

Research Unit 2104
Need-Based Justice and Distribution Procedures
Spokesperson: Prof. Dr. Stefan Traub, Helmut-Schmidt-Universität Hamburg
Project leader: Prof. Kai-Uwe Schnapp, Faculty of Business, Economics and Social Sciences, Department of Social Sciences