DFG priority programs
DFG priority programs
SPP 1991: Taxon-Omics: New approaches for discovering and naming biodiversity
Spokesperson: Prof. Dr. Dominik Begerow, Institute of Plant Sciences and Microbiology
funding since 2017
- Project: The genomic basis of host specificity as tool for species recognition and delimitations in Ustilaginales - a parasite group with high gene flow
Project leader: Prof. Dr. Dominik Begerow, Institute of Plant Sciences and Microbiology
funding since 2017
SPP 1889: Regional Sea Level Change and Society (SeaLevel)
Spokesperson: Prof. Dr. Detlef Stammer, CEN Centrum für Erdsystemforschung und Nachhaltigkeit
funding since 2016
- Project: Causes of Decadal to Centennial Regional Sea Level Variations (DECVAR-2)
Project leader: Prof. Dr. Detlef Stammer, CEN Center for Earth System Research and Sustainability
funding since 2019 - 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 Center for Earth System Research and Sustainability
funding since 2019
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-University 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, Dresden University of Technology
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-University 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 2143: Entangled Africa: Intra-African connections between Rainforest and Mediterranean (ca. 6000 to 500 BP)
Spokesperson: PD Dr. Jörg Linstädter, German Archaeological Institute (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 Studies
Term: since 2019
SPP 2137: Skyrmionics: Topological Spin Phenomena in Real-Space for Applications
Spokesperson: Prof. Dr. Christian Pfleiderer, TU Munich
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.Institute for Theoretical Physics
Term: since 2018
SPP 2134: The active self
Spokesperson: Prof. Dr. Markus Paulus, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich
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
SPP 2084: µBONE: Colonization and interaction of tumor cells within the bone microenvironment
Spokesperson: Prof. Dr. Lorenz Hofbauer, University Medical Center 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 2026: Geometry at infinity
Spokesperson: Prof. Dr. Bernhard Hanke, Augsburg University
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 1981: Transottomanica: Osteuropäisch-osmanisch-persische Mobilitätsdynamiken
Spokesperson: Prof. Dr. Stefan Rohdewald, Justus-Leibig-University 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 1926: Next Generation Optogenetics: Tool Development and Application
Spokesperson: Prof. Dr. Alexander Gottschalk, Goethe-University 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, Center for Molecular Neurobiology
Term: since 2016
SPP 1879: Nucleotide Second Messenger Signaling in Bacteria
Spokeperson: Prof. Dr. Regine Hengge, Humboldt-University of Berlin
Förderung seit 2016
- Project: Regulation der (p)ppGpp-metabolischen Aktivitäten von RelA, Rel und SpoT
Project leader: Prof. Dr. Daniel Nicodemus Wilson, Faculty of Mathematics, Informatics and Natural Sciences, Department of Chemistry, Institute of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Term: since 2017
Spokesperson: Prof. Dr. Joachim Curtius, Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main, Dr.-Ing. Mirko Scheinert, Dresden University of Technology, Prof. Dr. Manfred Wendisch, Leipzig University
Term: since 2007
- Project: Elevated Moist Layers – Using HALO during EUREC4A to explore a blind spot in the global satellite observing system
Project leader: Prof. Dr. Stefan Bühler, Faculty of Mathematics, Informatics and Natural Sciences Department, Department of Earth System Sciences (Earth Sciences)
Meteorological Institute
Term: since 2019 - Project: EUREC4A mission proposal - Elucidating the Role of Cloud-Circulation Coupling in Climate
Project leader: Prof. Dr. Felix Ament, Faculty of Mathematics, Informatics and Natural Sciences Department, Department of Earth System Sciences (Earth Sciences)
Meteorological Institute
Term: since2019 - Project: Understanding clouds and precipitation at the sub kilometer scale using HAMP – The edge of shallow precipitation (UCP-HAMP-Edge)
Project leader: Prof. Dr. Felix Ament, Faculty of Mathematics, Informatics and Natural Sciences Department, Department of Earth System Sciences (Earth Sciences)
Meteorological Institute
Term: since 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: since 2020