German Research Foundation (DFG) research units

Research Unit
Event-driven and developmental changes in statistical learning: shared mechanisms and clinical implications
Faculty of Psychology and Human Movement Sciences, Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, Institute of Psychology
Project Lead: Prof. Dr. Tanja Lincoln
Term: 2023 – 2027

Research Unit 5317
Practices for referring to persons: usage-based approaches to personal, indefinite and demonstrative pronouns
Faculty of Humanities, Language Literature Media I (SLM I), Institute of German Studies
Project Lead: Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Imo
Term: 2022 – 2026

Research Unit 5159
Resolving the prefrontal circuits of cognitive flexibility
Faculty of Medicine, Center for Molecular Neurobiology, Institute of Developmental Neurophysiology
Project Lead: Prof. Dr. Ileana Hanganu-Opatz
Term: 2021 – 2025

Research Unit 5138
Spiritual Intermediality in the Early Modern Period
Faculty of Humanities
Project Lead: Prof. Dr. Anselm Steiger
Term: 2021 – 2025

Research Unit 5211
Persistent Somatic Symptoms Across Diseases: From Risk Factors to Modification
Faculty of Medicine, Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy
Project Lead: Prof. Dr. Bernd Löwe
Term: 2021 – 2025

Research Unit 5068
Sex differences in immunity
Faculty of Medicine, Institute for Immunology
Project Lead: Prof. Dr. Marcus Altfeld
Term: 2021 – 2025

Research Unit 2924
Romanization and Islamication in Late Antiquity – Transcultural Processes on the Iberian Peninsula and in North Africa
Faculty of Humanities
Project Lead: Prof. Dr. Sabine Panzram, Prof. Dr. Stefan Heidemann
Term: 2020 – 2024

Research Unit 2769
Futures of Sustainability: Modernization, Transformation, Control
Faculty of Business, Economics and Social Sciences, Department of Social Sciences
Project Lead: Prof. Dr. Frank Adloff
Term: 2019 – 2027

Research Unit 2767
Imaginaries of Force
Faculty of Humanities and Faculty of Mathematics, Informatics and Naturals Sciences
Project Lead: Prof. Dr. Frank Fehrenbach,  Prof. Dr. Cornelia Zumbusch
Term: 2019 – 2028

Research Unit 2799
Receiving and Translating Signals via the gamma-delta T Cell Receptor
Faculty of Medicine, Center for Molecular Neurobiologogy
Project Lead: Prof Dr. Immo Prinz
Term: 2018 – 2026

Research Unit 2625
Mechanisms of Lysosomal Homeostasis
Faculty of Medicine, Center for Molecular Neurobiology Hamburg
Project Lead: Prof. Dr. Thomas Braulke
Term: 2017 – 2023

Research Unit 2311
Jewish Scepticism
Faculty of Humanities, Institute of Jewish Philosophy and Religion
Project Lead: Prof. Dr. Giuseppe Veltri
Term: 2015 – 2024

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
Term: 2015 – 2023

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

Research Unit 5267 
Biogeochemical processes and Air-sea exchange in the Sea-Surface microlayer (BASS)
Spokeperson: Prof. Dr. Oliver Wurl, Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg
Project Leader: Dr. Martin Gade, Faculty of Mathematics, Informatics and Natural Sciences, Institute of Oceanography
Term: 2022 – 2026

Research Unit 5315
FOREST FLOOR: Functioning, Dynamics, and Vulnerability in a Changing World
Spokeperson: Prof. Dr. Friederike Land, Albert-Ludwigs-University of Freiburg 
Project Leader: Prof. Dr. Ina Meier, Faculty of Mathematics, Informatics and Natural Sciences, Department of Biology
Term: 2022 – 2026

Research Unit 5249
Quantitative Spatio-Temporal Model-Building for Correlated Electronic Matter
Spokeperson: Prof. Dr. Maria Roser Valenti, Goethe University Frankfurt am Main
Project Leader: Prof. Dr. Tim Wehling, Faculty of Mathematics, Informatics and Natural Sciences; Prof. Dr. Michael Potthoff, Faculty of Mathematics, Computer Science and Natural Sciences; Dr. Georg Rohringer, Faculty of Mathematics, Computer Science and Natural Sciences
Term: 2022 – 2025

Research Unit 5242
Proximity-induced correlation effects in low dimensional systems
Spokeperson: Prof. Dr. Christoph Tegenkamp, Chemnitz University of Technology
Project Leader: Prof. Dr. Tim Wehling, Faculty of Mathematics, Computer Science and Natural Sciences
Term: 2022 – 2025

Research Unit 5235
Cereal Stem Cell Systems (CSCS): Establishment, Maintenance and Termination
Spokeperson: Prof. Dr. Thomas Dresselhaus, University of Regensburg
Project Leader: Prof. Dr. Arp Schnittger, Faculty of Mathematics, Computer Science and Natural Sciences
Term: 2021 – 2025

Research Unit 5200
Disrupt - Evade - Exploit: Gene expression and host response programming in DNA virus infection (DEEP-DV)
Spokeperson: Prof. Dr. Melanie Brinkmann, Braunschweig University of Technology
Project Leader: Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Nicole Fischer, Faculty of Medicine, Center for diagnostics; Institute for Medical Microbiology, Virology and Hygiene
Term: 2021 – 2025

Research Unit 5195
Relativistic Jets in Active Galaxies
Spokeperson: Prof. Dr. Matthias Kadler, Julius-Maximilians-University of Würzburg
Project leader: Prof. Marcus Brüggen, Faculty of Mathematics, Informatics and Natural Sciences; Dr. Manuel Meyer, Faculty of Mathematics, Informatics and Natural Sciences, Hamburg Observatory
Term: 2021 – 2025

Research Unit 2990
The eROSITA View of Stellar Endpoints (eRO-STEP)
Spokesperson: Prof. Dr. Manami Sasaki, Friedrich-Alexander-University of Erlangen-Nürnberg
Project leader: Dr. Jürgen H.M.M. Schmitt,Faculty of Mathematics, Informatics and Natural Sciences, Hamburg Observatory
Term: 2021 – 2025

Research Unit 5234
Multipler Wettbewerb im Hochschulsystem: Akteurskonstitution, Handlungskoordination und Folgewirkungen
Spokesperson: Prof. Dr. Georg Krücken, University of Kassel
Project leader: Prof. Dr. Jetta Frost, Faculty of Business, Economics and Social Sciences, Department of Socioeconomics
Term: 2021 – 2025

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-University Gießen
Project leader: Prof. Dr. Julia Kehr,Faculty of Mathematics, Informatics and Natural Sciences, Department of Biology, Institute of Plant Science and Microbiology
Term: 2020 – 2024

Research Unit 2975
Algorithms, Dynamics, and Information Flow in Networks
Spokesperson: Prof. Dr. Martin Hoefer, Goethe-University Frankfurth am Main
Project leader: Prof. Dr. Petra Berenbrink,Faculty of Mathematics, Informatics and Natural Sciences, Department of Informatics, Theoretical Informatics
Term: 2020 – 2024

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 University Tübingen
Project leader: Prof. Dr. Thomas Großbölting, Faculty of Humanities, Department of History
Term: 2020 – 2024

Research Unit 2926
Next Generation Perturbative QCD for Hadron Structure: Preparing for the Electron-Ion Collider 
Spokesperson: Prof. Dr. Vladimir Braun, University of 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
Term: 2019 – 2025

Research Unit 2879
ImmunoStroke: From immune cells to stroke recovery
Spokesperson: Prof. Dr. Christoph Kleinschnitz, University of Duisburg-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
Term: 2019 – 2027

Research Unit 2820
Volcanic Plume Evolution and Injection Profiles (VolPlume)
Spokesperson: Prof. Dr. Christian von Savigny, University of Greifswald
Project leader: Prof. Dr. Stefan Bühler, Faculty of Mathematics, Informatics and Natural Sciences, Department of Earth Sciences, Institute of Meteorology
Term: 2019 – 2025

Research Unit 2743
Mechanical Stress Protection
Spokeperson: Prof. Dr. Jörg Höhfeld, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-University Bonn
Project leader: Prof. Dr. Markus Rinschen, Faculty of Medicine, Center for Internal Medicine, III Medical Clinic and Polyclinic
Term: 2018 – 2024

Research Unit 2414
Artificial Gauge Fields and Interacting Topological Phases in Ultracold Atoms
Spokesperson: Prof. Dr. Immanuel Bloch, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich
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
Term: 2016 – 2024