Junior Research Groups

This page provides an overview of the junior research groups based at the University of Hamburg. Visit their webpages for more information about the individaul projects and junior research group leadership.

Emmy Noether Programme (German Research Foundation)

Uncovering the role of microbiota-derived metabolites in the initiation and progression of pancreatic cancer

Group leader: Dr. Joseph Tintelnot
Faculty of Medicine, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf
Term: 2024 – 2030

The formation and evolution of Supermassive black holes in the early Universe as probes of cosmic structure formation

Group leader: Dr. Jan-Torge Schindler
Faculty of Mathematics, Informatics and Natural Science, Department of Physics
Term: 2023 – 2029

Topological Quantum Field Theories in more than 3 Dimensions

Group leader: Dr. David Reutter
Faculty of Mathematics, Informatics and Natural Science, Department of Mathematics
Term: 2022 – 2028

Vertex Algebras Associated with 2- and 4-Dimensional Conformal Field Theories

Group leader: Dr. Sven Möller
Faculty of Mathematics, Informatics and Natural Science, Department of Mathematics
Term: 2022 – 2028

The Evolution of Islamic Societies (c.600-1600 CE): Algorithmic Analysis into Social History

Group leader: Dr. Maxim Romanov
Faculty of Humanities, Department of Asia-Africa Studies
Term: 2021 – 2027

Investigation of Allosteric Mechanisms by Time-Resolved Serial Synchrotron Crystallography

Group leader: Dr. Pedram Mehrabi
Faculty of Mathematics, Informatics and Natural Sciences, Department of Physics
Term: 2021 – 2027

Social Contexts of Rebellion in the Early Islamic Period (SCORE)

Group leader: Dr. Hannah-Lena Hagemann
Faculty of Humanities, Asien-Afrika-Institut
Term: 2020 – 2026

Ocean Life on the Brink: Quantifying the Collapse of Shallow Marine Ecosystems during the Permo-Triassic Climate Crisis

Group leader: Dr. William Foster
Faculty of Mathematics, Informatics and Natural Sciences, Department of Earth System Sciences
Term: 2020 – 2026

Prediction in Communication

Group leader: Dr. Helen Blank
Faculty of Medicine, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf
Term: 2020 – 2026

The role of LIN28A in brain development and pediatric brain tumors

Group leader: Prof. Dr. Julia Neumann
Faculty of Medicine, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf
Term: 2019 – 2025

Molecular Mechanisms of Membranous Nephropathy – New Avenues Towards an Individualized Therapy

Group leader: Dr. Nicola Tomas
Faculty of Medicine, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf
Term: 2018 – 2025

BMFTR junior groups

Multiliteralität als Arbeitsmarktressource – Soziale Erwerbsbedingungen multiliteraler Kompetenzen und deren Transformierbarkeit in ökonomisches Kapital (MARE) (in German only)

Group leader: Dr. Irina Usanova
Faculty of Education, Department EW1
Term: 2021 – 2026

Bioökonomie als gesellschaftlicher Wandel – Meat the Economy – Die Fleischindustrie als Teil der Bioökonomie: Internationalisierung, Arbeitsgeographien und hegemoniale Strategien (in German only)

Group leader: Dr. Christin Bernhold
Faculty of Mathematics, Informatics and Natural Sciences, Department of Earth System Sciences
Term: 2023 – 2028

Verifikation im Bereich des Biowaffenübereinkommens neu denken (VERIBIO) (in German only)

Group Leader: Dr. Gunnar Jeremias
Centre for Science and Peace Research (ZNF)
Term: 2024 – 2028

Freigeist-Fellowship (VolkswagenStiftung)

Super-Resolution Fluorescence Cryo-Microscopy

Group leader: Rainer Kaufmann
Faculty of Mathematics, Informatics and Natural Sciences, Department of Physics/CSSB
Term: 10/2017 – 03/2027

Seeing excitons in motion

Group Leader: Darya Gorelova
Faculty of Mathematics, Informatics and Natural Sciences, Department of Physics/CFEL-DESY
Term: 04/2020 – 03/2026

Reaching for Atlantis

Group Leader: Bernhard Schirg
Faculty of Humanities, Department of History
Term: 06/2021 – 04/2025

Culpable Ignorance: Moral Knowledge in Organisations

Group Leader: Marco Meyer
Faculty of Humanities, Department of Philosophy
Term: 02/2021 – 01/2026