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
Participation in DFG priority programs
SPP 1158: Infrastructure area — Antarctic Research with Comparative Investigations in Arctic Sea Ice Areas
Spokesperson: Professor Dr. Ulf Karsten, University of Rostock
Term: since 2003
- Project: A Monte-Carlo ensemble of Antarctic passive-microwave sea-ice concentrations: Identifying error sources and characteristics for machine-learning supported uncertainty quantification
Project leader: Dr. Andreas Wernecke, Faculty of Mathematics, Informatics and Natural Sciences
Term: since 2023
SPP 1006: Infrastructure area — International Continental Scientific Drilling Program (ICDP)
Spokesperson: Professor Dr. Sebastian Krastel, University of Kiel
Term: since 1996
- Project: Kinematics of peak-ring rock deformation during cratering
Project leader: Prof. Dr. Ulrich Riller, Faculty of Mathematics, Informatics and Natural Sciences
Term: since 2024
SPP 2237: MAdLand — Molecular Adaptation to Land: plant evolution to change
Spokesperson: Prof. Dr. Jan de Vries, University of Göttingen, term: since 2020
- Project: Evolutionary dynamics of peroxisome functions and biogenesis facilitating plant terrestrialization
Project leader: Professorin Dr. Sigrun Reumann, Faculty of Mathematics, Informatics and Natural Sciences
Term: since 2023
SPP 2265: Random geometric systems
Spokesperson: Professor Dr. Wolfgang König, WIAS Berlin, term: since 2020
- Project: Superconcentration in random geometric structures
Spokesperson: Professor Chinmoy Bhattacharjee, Ph.D., Faculty of Mathematics, Informatics and Natural Sciences
Term: since 2023
SPP 2491: Interactive Spin-State Switching
Spokesperson: Prof. Dr. Birgit Weber, University of Jena, term: since 2020
- Project: Light- versus electron-induced spin-state switching of complexes on insulating layers
Project lead: Prof. Dr. Carmen Herrmann, Faculty of Mathematics, Informatics and Natural Sciences
Term: since 2023
SPP 2134: The active self
Spokesperson: Professor Dr. Markus Paulus, LMU München, term: since 2018
- Projekct: Modeling a robot's peripersonal space and body schema for adaptive learning and imitation
Project leader: Professor Dr. Stefan Wermter, Faculty of Mathematics, Informatics and Natural Sciences
Term: since 2022
SPP 2111: Electronic-Photonic Integrated Systems for Ultrafast Signal Processing
Spokesperson: Professor Dr. Christoph Scheytt, Universität Paderborn, term: since 2018
- Project: Modeling a robot's peripersonal space and body schema for adaptive learning and imitation
Project leader: Professor Dr. Stefan Wermter, Faculty of Mathematics, Informatics and Natural Sciences
Term: since 2022
SPP 1981: Transottomanica: Osteuropäisch-osmanisch-persische Mobilitätsdynamiken
Spokesperson: Professor Dr. Stefan Rohdewald, University of Leipzig, term: since 2017
- Project: Persian in the Ottoman Empire, as reflected in selected farhangs (dictionaries) of the 15-18th century
Project leader: Professor Dr. Ludwig Paul, Faculty of Humanities,
Term: since 2017
SPP 527: Infrastructure area — International Ocean Drilling Programme
Spokesperson: Privatdozent Dr. André Bornemann, University of Jena, term: since 1979
- Project: Core-Log-Seismic Integration at an iconic volcanic arc
Project leader: Professor Dr. Christian Hübscher, Faculty of Mathematics, Informatics and Natural Sciences
Term: since 2022
SPP 2494: Productive Biofilm Systems
Spokesperson: Prof. Dr. Johannes Gescher, TU Hamburg
Term: since 2025
- Project: Microbial biofilms upcycling plastics to produce valuable chemical compounds [BIOCYCLING]
Project leader: Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Streit, Faculty of Mathematics, Informatics and Natural Sciences,
Term: since 2025
SPP 2392: Visual Communication. Theoretical, Empirical, and Applied Perspectives (ViCom)
Spokeperson: Prof. Dr. Cornelia Ebert, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main, Department of Modern Philologies
- Project: Iconic metaphors and the gesture-sign interface in German Sign Language – corpus data meet experiments
Project leader: Prof. Dr. Annika Herrmann & Prof. Dr. Natalia Filatkina
- Project: Exploring the limits of simultaneity: Encoding caused change-of-state events with classifier constructions German Sign Language (DGS)
Project leader: Dr. Cornelia Loos
Spokesperson: Prof. Dr. Frank Glorius, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster
Term: since 2022
- Project: SAFE: Synthetically Accessible Fragment Space Extensions by Machine Learning-Based Approaches
Project leader: Prof. Dr. Matthias Rarey, Faculty of Mathmatics, Informatics and Natural Sciences, Center for Bioinformatics (ZBH)
Term: since 2022
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 2207: 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
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: 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: EC-TOOC umbrella proposal - EarthCARE, Tropical Oceans & Organized Convection
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 2023