DFG priority programs
DFG priority programs
SPP 1889: Regional Sea Level Change and Society (SeaLevel)
Spokesperson: Prof. Dr. Detlef Stammer, CEN Centrum für Erdsystemforschung und Nachhaltigkeit
Term: 2016 –
- Project: Causes of Decadal to Centennial Regional Sea Level Variations (DECVAR-2)
Project leader: Prof. Dr. Detlef Stammer, CEN Centrum für Erdsystemforschung und Nachhaltigkeit
Term: 2019–2022 - Project: Sea level changes and storm climate of the last millennium (southern North Sea; SEASTORM-2)
Project leader: Prof. Dr. Christian Betzler, Dr. Sebastian Lindhors, Dr. Yvonne Milker, Faculty of Mathematics, Informatics and Natural Sciences, Department of Earth System Sciences (Earth Science), Institut für Geologie, Prof. Dr. Gerhard Schmiedl, CEN Centrum für Erdsystemforschung und Nachhaltigkeit
Term: 2019–2022
Participation in DFG priority programs
SPP 2267: The digitalization of working worlds. Conceptualising and capturing a systemic transformation
Spokesperson: Prof. Dr. Sabine Pfeiffer, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
Term: since 2020
- Project: Does the macro-level matter? A comparative analysis of institutional frameworks and gigwork platforms across EU-28 countries
Project leader: Prof. Dr. Jürgen Beyer, Faculty of Business, Economics and Social Sciences, Department of Social Sciences
Term: since 2020
SPP 2244: 2D Materials – Physics of van der Waals [hetero]structures (2DMP)
Spokesperson: Prof. Dr. Thomas Heine, Technische Universität Dresden
Term: since 2020
- Project: Atomistic theory of excited states in van-der-Waals heterostructures: Moiré confinement, strain and electric field effects
Project leader: Prof. Dr. Gabriel Bester,Faculty of Mathmatics, Informatics and Natural Sciences, Department of Chemistry, Institute for Physical Chemistry
Term: since 2020
SPP 2204: Computational Literary Studies
Spokesperson: Prof. Dr. Fotis Jannidis, Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg
Term: since 2019
- Project: Evaluation von Events in der NarraTologie (EvENT)
Project leader: Prof. Dr. Christian Biemann, Faculty of Mathmatics, Informatics and Natural Sciences, Department of Informatics
Term: since 2020
SPP 2191: Molecular mechanisms of functional phase separation
Spokesperson: Prof. Dr. Edward A. Lemke, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz
Term: since 2019
- Project: Molecular and Cellular Determinants of Tau Protein Condensation into Dense Liquid Phases
Project leader: Prof. Dr. Christian Betzel, Faculty of Mathmatics, Informatics and Natural Sciences, Department of Chemistry; Institut für Biochemie und Molekularbiologie
Term: since 2019
SPP 2143: Entangled Africa: Intra-African connections between Rainforest and Mediterranean (ca. 6000 to 500 BP)
Spokesperson: PD Dr. Jörg Linstädter, Deutsches Archäologisches Institut (DAI)
Term: since 2018
- Project: Connecting the lower middle Niger through borrowed words and shared objects: Archaeo-linguistic network analysis and modelling of cultural entanglements between the Malian Sahara and the Nigerian forests (AD 700-1500).
Project leader: Prof. Dr. Henning Schreiber, Faculty of Humanities, Asia-Africa Institute
Term: since 2019
SPP 2137: Skyrmionics: Topological Spin Phenomena in Real-Space for Applications
Spokesperson: Prof. Dr. Christian Pfleiderer, TU München
Term: since 2018
- Project: Skyrmion–Skyrmion and Skyrmion–Edge Interactions studied with Scanning Tunneling Microscopy
Project leader: Dr. Kirsten von Bergmann, Faculty of Mathmatics, Informatics and Natural Sciences, Department of Physics, Institut für Nanostruktur und Festkörperphysik (INF)
Term: since 2018 - Project: Atomic-scale skyrmions driven by lateral spin-polarized currents
Project leader: Dr. Stefan Krause, Faculty of Mathmatics, Informatics and Natural Sciences, Department of Physics, Institut für Nanostruktur und Festkörperphysik (INF)
Term: since 2018 - Project: Nonequilibrium quantum dynamics of current-driven magnetic skyrmions
Project leader: Prof. Dr. Michael Thorwart, Faculty of Mathmatics, Informatics and Natural Sciences, Department of Physics, I. Institut für Theortische Physik
Term: since 2018
SPP 2134: The active self
Spokesperson: Prof. Dr. Markus Paulus, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Term since 2018
- Project: Active voice: The influence of dynamic extralinguistic and acoustic spatial cues on voice self-ownership.
Project leader: Dr. David Magezi, Faculty of Psychology and Human Movement, Institute of Psychology, Biological Psychology and Neuropsychology
Term: since 2018 - Project: Ideomotor Transfer for Active Self-emergence (IDEAS)
Project leader: Prof. Dr. Stefan Wermter; Dr.-Ing. Manfred Eppe, Faculty of Mathmatics, Informatics and Natural Sciences, Department of Informatics, Knowledge Technology (WTM)
Term: since 2018
SPP 2111: Electronic-Photonic Integrated Systems for Ultrafast Signal Processing
Spokesperson: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Christoph Scheytt, Universität Paderborn
Term: since 2018
- Project: Ultra-Wideband Photonically Assisted Analog-to-Digital Converters (PACE)
Project leader: Prof. Dr.-Ing Franz Xaver Kärtner, Faculty of Mathmatics, Informatics and Natural Sciences, Department of Physics, Institute for Experimental Physics
Term: since 2018
SPP 2084: µBONE: Colonization and interaction of tumor cells within the bone microenvironment
Spokesperson: Prof. Dr. Lorenz Hofbauer, Universitätsklinikum Carl Gustav Carus Dresden
Term: since 2018
- Project: Role of Tgif1 in breast cancer-induced pathological bone remodeling
Project leader: Prof. Dr. Eric Hesse; Dr. Hanna Taipaleenmäki, Faculty of Medicine, Center for Surgical Sciences
Term: since 2018 - Project: RAI2 as novel suppressor of cancer cell homing and survival in the bone marrow
Project leader: Prof. Dr. Harriet Wikman-Kocher; Prof. Dr. Klaus Pantel, Faculty of Medicine, Center for Experimental Medicine
Term: since 2018 - Project: Dissecting the role of TAM receptors in myeloma-induced osteoclast activation and their immune-modulatory function
Project leader: Prof. Dr. Sonja Loges; Dr. Isabel Ben Batalla, Faculty of Medicine, II. Medical Clinic and Polyclinic
Term: since 2018 - Project: Influence of the skeletal remodeling status on tumor cell dissemination and metastatic outgrowth
Project leader: Prof. Dr. Michael Amling; Prof. Dr. Thorsten Schinke, Faculty of Medicine, Institute for Osteology and Biomechanics
Term: since 2018 - Project: Characterization of the impact of bone-seeking tumors on the osteocyte network and the osteocyte-mediated regulation of bone turnover
Project leader: Prof. Dr. Björn Busse, Faculty of Medicine, Institute for Osteology and Biomechanics
Term: since 2018 - Project: Regulation of Tumor Cell Dormancy in Human Prostate Cancer Bone Metastasis
Project leader: Prof. Dr. Tobias Lange, Faculty of Medicine, Center for Eperimental Medicine
Term: since 2018
SPP 2041: Computational Connectomics
Spokesperson: Prof. Dr. Jochen Triesch, Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies (FIAS)
Term: since 2017
- Project: Connectome based modelling to reveal multi-scale mechanisms in stroke
Project leader: Prof. Dr. Christian Gerloff, Faculty of Medicine, Head and Neurocenter
Term: since 2017 - Project: Multi-scale analysis and computational modeling of intrinsic coupling modes in the ferret brain
Project leader: Prof. Dr. Andreas K. Engel, Faculty of Medicine, Center for Experimental Medicine
Term: since 2017 - Project: Human microstructural connectomics: Computational modelling and validation with histology and CLARITY (MICO-MRI)
Project leader: Dr. Siawoosh Mohammadi, Faculty of Medicine, Center for Experimental Medicine
Term: since 2017 - Project: Integrating multi-scale connectivity and brain architecture in a large-scale computational model of the human cerebral cortex
Project leader: Prof. Dr. Claus C. Hilgetag, Faculty of Medicine, Center for Experimental Medicine
Term: since 2017
SPP 2026: Geometry at infinity
Spokesperson: Prof. Dr. Bernhard Hanke, Universität Augsburg
Term: since 2017
- Project: Spectral geometry, index theory and geometric flows on singular spaces
Project leader: Prof. Dr. Klaus Kröncke, Faculty of Mathmatics, Informatics and Natural Science, Department of Mathmatics, Analysis and Differential Geometry
Term: since 2020 - Project: Uniqueness in Mean Curvature Flow
Project leader: Prof. Dr. Klaus Kröncke, Faculty of Mathmatics, Informatics and Natural Science, Department of Mathmatics, Analysis and Differential Geometry
Term: since 2020
SPP 2002: Small Proteins in Prokaryotes, an Unexplored World
Spokesperson: Prof. Dr. Ruth Anne Schmitz-Streit, Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel
Term: since 2017
- Project: Systematic identification of novel µ-proteins in bacteria using ribosome profiling data
Project leader: Prof. Dr. Zoya Ignatova, Faculty of Mathmatics, Informatics and Natural Sciences, Department of Chemistry, Institut für Biochemie und Molekularbiologie
Term: since 2017
SPP 1992: Exploring the diversity of extrasolar planets
Spokesperson: Prof. Dr. Heike Rauer, TU Berlin
Term: since 2017
- Project: NLTE in the upper atmospheres of exoplanets
Project leader:Dr. Andreas Schweitzer, Faculty of Mathmatics, Informatics and Natural Science, Department of Physics, Hamburg Observatory
Term: since 2020 - Project: He I λ10 830 transmission spectroscopy: A new window on the dynamics of planetary atmospheres
Project leader: Dr. Stefan Czesla, Faculty of Mathmatics, Informatics and Natural Science, Department of Physics, Hamburg Observatory
Term: since 2020 - Project: Characterization of directly imaged exoplanets at their youngest ages
Project leader: Dr. Tobias Schmidt, Faculty of Mathmatics, Informatics and Natural Science, Department of Physics, Hamburg Observatory
Term: since 2017 - Project: Starspots meet planets: A new tool to investigate the physics of transiting exoplanetary systems around active stars
Project leader: Prof. Dr. Jürgen H.M.M. Schmitt, Faculty of Mathmatics, Informatics and Natural Science, Department of Physics, Hamburg Observatory
Term: since 2018 - Project: Transmission Spectroscopy of Extrasolar Planets
Project leader: Dr. Stefan Czesla, Faculty of Mathmatics, Informatics and Natural Science, Department of Physics, Hamburg Observatory
Term: since 2018 - Project: Energetic radiation from exoplanet hosts: The most detailed study of our nearest host star Proxima Centauri
Project leader: Dr. Christian Schneider, Faculty of Mathmatics, Informatics and Natural Science, Department of Physics, Hamburg Observatory
Term: since 2018
SPP 1991: Taxon-Omics: New approaches for discovering and naming biodiversity
Spokesperson: Pof. Dr. Susanne Renner, LMU München
Term: since 2017
- Project: Exploring genomic methods for delimiting species in radiations of terrestrial snails
Project leader: Prof. Dr. Bernhard Hausdorf, Faculty of Mathmatics, Informatics and Natural Sciences, Center for Natural History (CeNak)
Term: since 2017 - Project:A MuseOMICS approach to scrutinise DNA barcode failure: testing the causes for taxonomic incongruence patterns in phytophagous Hymenoptera and Orthoptera through hybridization capture using RAD probes.
Project leader: Dr. Oliver Hawlitschek, Faculty of Mathmatics, Informatics and Natural Sciences, Center for Natural History (CeNak)
Term: since 2017
SPP 1981: Transottomanica: Osteuropäisch-osmanisch-persische Mobilitätsdynamiken
Spokesperson: Prof. Dr. Stefan Rohdewald, Justus-Leibig-Universität Gießen
Term: since 2017
- Project: Persian in the Ottoman Empire, as reflected in selected farhangs (dictionaries) of the 16th century: a cultural ‚transottoman configuration‘
Project leader: Prof. Dr. Ludwig Paul, Faculty of Humanities, Asia-Africa Studies
Term: since 2017
SPP 1937: Innate Lymphoid Cells
Spokesperson: Prof. Dr. Andreas Diefenbach, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Term: since 2016
- Project: Tissue-specific mechanisms of ILC2 adaptation and plasticity
Project leader: Privatdozent Dr. Jan-Eric Turner, Faculty of Medicine, III. Department of Medicine
Term 2019 - Project: Die Rolle von Gruppe 2 innate lymphoid cells in immunvermittelten Lebererkrankungen und Leberregeneration
Project leader: Dr. Katrin Neumann und Prof. Dr. Gisa Tiegs, Faculty of Medicine / University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Zentrum für Experimentelle Medizin, Institut für Experimentelle Immunologie und Hepatologie
Term: since 2016
SPP 1929: Giant Interactions in Rydberg Systems (GiRyd)
Spokesperson: Prof. Dr. Tilman Pfau, Universität Stuttgart
Term: since 2016
- Project: Polyatomic ultra-long range Rydberg molecules
Project leader: Prof. Dr. Peter Schmelcher, Faculty of Mathmatics, Informatics and Natural Sciences, Department of Physics, Center for Optical Quantum Technologies
Term: since 2016
SPP 1926: Next Generation Optogenetics: Tool Development and Application
Spokesperson: Prof. Dr. Alexander Gottschalk, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main
Term: since 2016
- Project: Optogenetic silencing tools for precise, all-optical analysis of synaptic circuits
Project leader: Dr. Peter Soba und Dr. Jörn S. Wiegert, Faculty of Medicine / University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Zentrum für Molekulare Neurobiologie
Term: since 2016
SPP 1738: Emerging Roles of Non-Coding RNAs in Nervous System Development, Plasticity and Disease
Spokesperson: Prof. Dr. André Fischer, Universitätsmedizin Göttingen
Term: since 2014
- Project: Control of mitochondrial function in neurons by microRNAs during inflammation-induced neurodegeneration
Project leader: Prof. Dr. Manuel A. Friese, Faculty of Medicin, Center for Molecular Neurobiology
Term: since 2017
SPP 1374: Exploratories for Long-Term and Large-Scale Biodiversity Research (Biodiversity Exploratories)
Spokesperson: Prof. Dr. Markus Fischer, University of Bern
Term: scince 2008
- Project: SPIDERFUN: Land-use effects on the functional role of spiders in food webs in permanent grasslands
Project leader: Dr. Danilo Harms, Centrum für Naturkunde (CeNaK)
Term: since 2020
Spokesperson: Prof. Dr. Joachim Curtius, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main, Dr.-Ing. Mirko Scheinert, Technische Universität Dresden, Prof. Dr. Manfred Wendisch, Universität Leipzig
Term: scince 2007
- Project: NARVAL-II Rahmenantrag
Project leader: Prof. Dr. Felix Ament, Faculty of Mathematics, Informatics and Natural Sciences, Department of Earth System Sciences (Earth Sciences), Meteorological Institute
Term: scince 2016 - Project: Feuchte Schichten in der freien Troposphäre - Untersuchung eines blinden Flecks im globalen Beobachtungssystem mit HALO während EUREC4A
Project leader: Prof. Dr. Stefan Bühler, Faculty of Mathematics, Informatics and Natural Sciences Department, Department of Earth System Sciences (Earth Sciences)
Meteorological Institute
Term: scince 2019 - Project: EUREC4A Rahmenantrag - Untersuchung der Bedeutung der Koppelung zwischen Wolken und Zirkulation im Klimasystem
Project leader: Prof. Dr. Felix Ament, Faculty of Mathematics, Informatics and Natural Sciences Department, Department of Earth System Sciences (Earth Sciences)
Meteorological Institute
Term: scince2019 - Project: Untersuchung von Wolken und Niederschlag auf der Subkilometer-Skala mit HAMP - der Übergang zu leichtem Regen
Project leader: Prof. Dr. Felix Ament, Faculty of Mathematics, Informatics and Natural Sciences Department, Department of Earth System Sciences (Earth Sciences)
Meteorological Institute
Term: scince 2019 - Project: Understanding clouds and precipitation at the sub kilometer scale using HALO and ICON – Air mass transformations in the Arctic (UCP-Arctic)
Project leader: Prof. Dr. Felix Ament, Faculty of Mathematics, Informatics and Natural Sciences Department, Department of Earth System Sciences (Earth Sciences)
Meteorological Institute
Term: scince 2020
SPP 527: Bereich Infrastruktur - Integrated Ocean Drilling Program/Ocean Drilling Program (IODP/ODP)
Spokesperson: Prof. Dr. Jochen Ehrbacher, Bundesanstalt für Geowissenschaften und Rohstoffe (BGR)
Term 1979
- Project: Sauerstoffentzug im Pazifischen Ozean während des Pliozäns
Project leader: Dr. Jeroen Groeneveld, Faculty of Mathematics, Informatics and Natural Sciences, Department of Earth System Sciences, Institute of Geology
Term 2019