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Your Emotional City! A transdisciplinary, citizen science investigation of urban spaces

Fingerhut, Joerg, Prof. Dr. (Department of Philosophy)

Duration of project: 07/2021 - 06/2022

Usage of Solar Energy for the Bioelectrocatalysis – Photobiohybrid Eletrodes for the Light-Driven Synthesis of Valuable Substances (II, SP B)

Zouni, Athina, PD Dr. (Honorary Chairs / Professors by Special Appointment / Part-Time Lecturers)

Duration of project: 02/2018 - 01/2021

The aims of the Tandem-project are light-triggered electrodes for efficient energy conversion. In the frame of the prolonged period of work it is planned to increase the efficiency of photobio-electrodes and also to couple them with enzymatic convers ...

Urban Tipping Points: Understanding Interaction Between Changing Land Use Patterns, Biodiversity and Economic Consequences To Enhance Liveable Cities (UTiP)

Haase, Dagmar, Prof. Dr. (Landscape Ecology and Biogeography)

Duration of project: 06/2017 - 05/2018

Urban ecosystems and related ecosystem services (e.g. climate regulation, recreation experiences, habitats for species) and biodiversity provide an important basis for the sustainable development of cities. They are an essential component for human w ...

Understanding the Role of Material Stock Patterns for the Transformation to a Sustainable Society - MAT_STOCKS

Hostert, Patrick, Prof. Dr. (Geomatics)

Duration of project: 03/2018 - 08/2024

Material stocks such as buildings, infrastructures and machinery, in combination with biophysical resource flows (materials and energy), deliver services to society. Material stocks are of crucial importance for sustainability due to their eminent so ...

Trees as Indicators of the Urban Heat Island

Schneider, Christoph, Prof. Dr. (Climate Geography)

Duration of project: 06/2017 - 10/2018

The project ‚Bäume als Indikatoren für die urbane Wärmeinsel (BIWi)‘ (= ‚Trees as Indicators of the Urban Heat Island') comprises a pilot study for generating and analysing chronologies of different tree ring parameters (tree-ring width, pointer year ...

Similarity Search for Richly Annotated Structured Patient Cases

Starlinger, Johannes, (Knowledge Management in Bioinformatics)

Duration of project: 10/2016 - 09/2019

Process-enhanced similarity search has a big potential to improve knowledge discovery and decision support in a number of disciplines, and especially in clinical medicine. Currently, the potential can not be exploited due to a lack of algorithms for ...

Photoswitchable Organocatalysts

Hecht, Stefan, Prof. (Organic Chemistry and Functional Materials)

Duration of project: 03/2009 - 08/2011

The combination of photochromism and molecular property changes promises an exquisite external control over chemical function with high temporal and spatial resolution. The development of photoswitchable catalysts, which possess two optically indepen ...

Multi-particle contribution to hadronic correlation functions using Chiral Perturbation Theory

Bär, Oliver, PD Dr. (Theoretical Physics / Phenomenology of Elementary Particles beyond the Standard Model)

Duration of project: 02/2017 - 02/2020

Current and future lattice QCD simulations with physically light pion masses face new challenges. Multi-particle states with one or more pions are expected to cause sizable multi-particle-state contaminations in hadronic correlation functions, leadin ...

Long Term Analysis of a Trajectory to Investigate the Impact of a Metropolis on Its Waterbodies From the Ecological and Historical Point of View

Winklhöfer, Karin, Dr. rer. nat. (Evolution of Organismic Systems)

Duration of project: 10/2011 - 06/2012

Investigation and comparisson of the impact of metropolian areas on rivers with low discharge. Compared were the cities of Milan, Berlin, Paris and Brussels during the time period 1860 to 2010. We focussed on ecological impact, administrative and pol ...

Impact of urban climate effects and emissions on air quality, and scientific application of the urban climate model PALM-4U (AusSEn)

Schneider, Christoph, Prof. Dr. (Climate Geography)

Duration of project: 10/2019 - 07/2023

In the second phase of the programme "Urban Climate under Change" subproject 2 (TP2) will support the general objective to further develop PALM-4U into a practical urban climate model and to establish it in fields of application. The project ‘Impact ...

Elucidation of the self-repair mechanism of the light-driven water oxidation in photosystem II (PSII): Crystallization of the Mn-depleted PSII and its structural/functional analysis

Zouni, Athina, PD Dr. (Honorary Chairs / Professors by Special Appointment / Part-Time Lecturers)

Duration of project: 11/2012 - 10/2017

Photosystem II (PSII) of oxygenic photosynthesis has the unique capability of utilizing visible light to oxidize water at the Mn4CaO5-cluster (the water oxidizing complex, WOC). Important progress in elucidating the molecular structure of the WOC has ...

Elucidation of the photo-assembly mechanism of the light-driven water oxidizing complex in photosystem II

Zouni, Athina, PD Dr. (Honorary Chairs / Professors by Special Appointment / Part-Time Lecturers)

Duration of project: 11/2017 - 12/2018

Oxygen photosynthesis in green plants, algae and cyanobacteria is catalyzed by the two large membrane protein complexes Photosystem I (PSI) and Photosystem II (PSII). Both complexes contain a reaction center (RC) that conducts a light-driven charge t ...

Elucidating the Function in Plant Iron Homeostasis and Transport of the VTL Family of Vacuolar Membrane Proteins

Buckhout, Thomas John, Prof. Ph.D. (Applied Botany)

Duration of project: 07/2016 - 09/2018

In this project we will pursue the investigation of the functions of VTL proteins in iron homeostasis and to establish whether the VTL transporters are suitable tools for increasing the iron storage capacity in plants. The following goals will be pur ...

Dynamic Response of Glaciers in the Qilian Shan to Climate Change (Dyn-Q)

Schneider, Christoph, Prof. Dr. (Climate Geography)

Duration of project: 04/2018 - 06/2021

Knowledge on glacier and melt water variability is crucial for sustainable water supply in Central Asia since they function as water towers for millions of people. The Qilian Shan, located in the most north-eastern part of the Tibetan Plateau, on the ...

Dynamic Phenomena in Elasticity Problems

Zwicknagl, Barbara, Prof. Dr. (Applied Analysis)

Duration of project: 06/2022 - 06/2023

Dr. Saeideh Edalati-Boostan – Theoretical and experimental study of optical properties of 2D material heterostructures

Draxl, Claudia, Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. (Theoretical Physics / Solid State Theory)

Duration of project: 07/2018 - 01/2021

As light-based technologies have become indispensable in our modern world, demand for high-performing novel optical materials is growing and optimization of optical devices with respect to energy efficiency and cost effectiveness receives much attent ...

Dinosaurs in Berlin! The Brachiosaurus Brancai – a Political, Scientific, and Popular Icon

Schäffner, Wolfgang, Prof. Dr. phil. (Knowledge and Cultural History)

Duration of project: 01/2016 - 10/2017

Since more than eight decades one of the worldwide most prominent scientific objects towers above Berlin: the Brachiosaurus brancai. This fossilized dinosaur was excavated by a team of palaeontologists of the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin in the forme ...

Digital geographies: geodata – code - society

Füller, Henning, (Cultural and Social Geography)

Duration of project: 05/2019 - 04/2022

The so-called „digitization of society“ is one of the largest challenges of our times. One core characteristic of digitization is the increasing production, storage and usage of digital data. Countless social and environmental aspects are being measu ...

Diamond for infrared optoelectronics: time-resolved spectroscopy of excited acceptor states in diamond

Hübers, Heinz-Wilhelm, Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. (Optical Systems)

Duration of project: 11/2017 - 10/2020

The project is devoted to the experimental investigation of excited states in boron-doped diamond crystals. The lifetimes of the excited states will be determined by mid-infrared pump-probe spectroscopy and time-resolving Fourier transform infrared a ...

DFG-Temporary Position: Visible-Light-Responsive Molecular Materials

Hecht, Stefan, Prof. (Organic Chemistry and Functional Materials)

Duration of project: 01/2017 - 12/2022

The central objective of this project is to use visible light as a fuel or control element to activate advanced functions and harness macroscopic responses in tailor designed molecular materials via the structural modification of incorporated optimiz ...

DFG Temporary Position: New Perspectives in Strongly Interacting Systems: Preparing for Quantum Gauge Simulators

Banerjee, Debasish, Dr. (Theoretical Physics / Quantum Field Theory beyond the Standard Model and String Theory)

Duration of project: 08/2018 - 11/2020

A first-principles study of the non-perturbative physics in strongly interacting systems is a challenging field of research. It impacts a wide variety of areas, from new physics beyond the Standard Model of particle physics, to Quantum Chromodynamics ...

DFG Temporary Position: Integrability in Four Dimensions

Löbbert, Florian, (Theoretical Physics / Quantum Field Theory beyond the Standard Model and String Theory)

Duration of project: 10/2017 - 09/2019

Integrable models furnish a fertile arena for studying the theoretical framework that underlies our physical reality. They have a natural home in two dimensions and feature in elegant limits of higher dimensional systems. Notably, integrable models h ...

DFG Temporary Position: Integrability and Conformal Symmetry in Four Dimensions

Löbbert, Florian, (Theoretical Physics / Quantum Field Theory beyond the Standard Model and String Theory)

Duration of project: 10/2019 - 12/2022

One source of inspiration to tackle the problems of modern quantum field theory comes from the so-called gauge/gravity duality. This conjectured correspondence states that certain highly symmetric quantum field theories in four dimensions have a dual ...

DFG Temporary Position/3: Gauge/String Theory Duality and Integrable Systems

Eden, Burkhard, Dr. (Mathematical Physics of Space, Time and Matter)

Duration of project: 10/2016 - 09/2018

In quantum field theory (QFT) in four dimensions calculations can often only be done by perturbation theory w.r.t. the coupling constant. In the case of electromagnetism this is the electric charge which is a very small parameter so that the leading ...

DFG Temporary Position/2: Gauge/String Theory Duality and Integrable Systems

Eden, Burkhard, Dr. (Mathematical Physics of Space, Time and Matter)

Duration of project: 11/2013 - 11/2015

In quantum field theory (QFT) in four dimensions calculations can often only be done by perturbation theory w.r.t. the coupling constant. In the case of electromagnetism this is the electric charge which is a very small parameter so that the leading ...

DFG Research Grant: Yangian Symmetry in Quantum Gauge Field Theory

Plefka, Jan, Prof. Dr. (Theoretical Physics / Quantum Field Theory beyond the Standard Model and String Theory)

Duration of project: 01/2017 - 09/2020

Our understanding of nature at its deepest level is governed by symmetries. This proposal aims at studying hidden symmetries in quantum field theory going beyond the established space-time symmetries of the Poincare group and its supersymmetric or co ...

DFG Research Grant: Three-Dimensional Quantum Photonic Elements Based on Single Emitters in Laserwritten Microstructures for Efficient Non-Classical Light Generation and Ultra-Sensitive Optical Nanomagnetometry

Benson, Oliver, Prof. Dr. rer. nat. (Experimental Physics / Nanooptics)

Duration of project: 03/2014 - 08/2017

The goal of this project is to demonstrate efficient non-classical light generation and ultrasensitive optical nanomagnetometry as two key functionalities of novel three-dimensional nanophotonic structures realised with a unique and highly versatile ...

DFG Research Grant: Template Directed Synthesis of Complex Monomer Sequences in Chain-Growth Polymerizations

Börner, Hans, Prof. Dr. (Organic Synthesis of Functional Systems)

Duration of project: 02/2015 - 12/2018

Nature obtains highly complex and functional structures by exerting an extremely high degree of control over the monomer sequence in biopolymers. This projects aims to develop a method by which more control can be exerted over the monomer sequence of ...

DFG Research Grant: Structure-Properties Correlations on Carbon-Metal Chalcogenides Nanostructured Electrocatalysts

Pinna, Nicola, Prof. Dr. (Inorganic Chemistry and Functional Materials)

Duration of project: 11/2019 - 09/2023

In this project we will combine the expertise on the synthesis of model carbon-based substrates, on atomic layer deposition and on electrochemical characterization of electrocatalysts, which are present at the Chinese partners (Prof. Geng and Yang) a ...

DFG Research Grant: Mussel-Inspirit Polymerization: The Enzyme Free Route of an Tyrosinase Activated Polymerization

Börner, Hans, Prof. Dr. (Organic Synthesis of Functional Systems)

Duration of project: 03/2020 - 02/2024

Objective of the research proposal is the investigation of an enzyme free route as alternative to the recently established tyrosinase-activated polymerization of oligopeptides, which was leading to artificial mussel glue proteins with remarkable adhe ...

DFG Research Grant: Mussel-Adhesion Derived Polymerization: From Tyrosinase Activated Polymerization Towards Multifunctional Polymers

Börner, Hans, Prof. Dr. (Organic Synthesis of Functional Systems)

Duration of project: 01/2014 - 12/2017

Research objective of the proposal is the introduction of a novel class of macromonomers, which provides the possibility to exhibit a polymerization after being enzymatically activated. As a result of the enzyme activated polymerization, segmented co ...

DFG Research Grant: Molecular Metal Siloxides As Models for Functional Units of Oxidic Frameworks and Surfaces

Limberg, Christian, Prof. Dr. (Inorganic and General Chemistry I)

Duration of project: 01/2021 - 12/2025

The target of this project is the synthesis and investigation of molecular compounds, which can mimic structural units occurring on the surfaces of oxides with high abundance and application relevance; concretely, aluminium oxides/hydroxides, iron ox ...

DFG Research Grant: Mixed Metal Oxide Clusters: Model Systems for Catalytically Active Materials

Sauer, Joachim, Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Dr. h.c. (Theoretical Chemistry / Quantum Chemistry)

Duration of project: 01/2020 - 06/2023

We propose to combine state-of-the-art mass spectrometric and spectroscopic experiments with quantum chemical calculations to ultimately gain molecular-level insights into C-H bond activation, in general, and the mechanism of H-atom transfer operatin ...

DFG Research Grant: High-Resolution Terahertz Spectroscopy with Quantum-Cascade Lasers: Spectroscopy of Impurity Transitions in GE and Si

Hübers, Heinz-Wilhelm, Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. (Optical Systems)

Duration of project: 07/2015 - 12/2017

The common goal of the groups at the Technische Universität Berlin (TUB) and the Paul-Drude-Institut (PDI) consists in the demonstration of a spectrometer for high-resolution laser spectroscopy of semiconductors at THz frequencies based on multi-mode ...

DFG Research Grant: High Performance Auxiliaries for a Cysteine-Tolerant Native Chemical Ligation at Arbitrary Sites

Seitz, Oliver, Prof. Dr. rer. nat. (Organic and Bioorganic Chemistry III)

Duration of project: 01/2018 - 12/2021

The Native Chemical Ligation (NCL) between unprotected peptide thioesters and unprotected cysteinyl peptides provides access to proteins in defined posttranslational modification states. However, the requirement for cysteine limits the scope of NCL r ...

DFG Research Grant: Graphene-Coated Soft Elastic Substrates for Cell Adhesion Studies: Local Nanomechanics and Label-Free Electronic Biosensing

Balasubramanian, Kannan, Prof. Dr. (Nanoanalytics)

Duration of project: 03/2021 - 03/2024

Cell culture has long been performed in plates where the stiff underlying substrate has only served as a support. Recent observations have shown that cells interact with their microenvironment and the stiffness of the underlying surface plays an acti ...

DFG Research Grant: Gauge Dependence and Dyson-Schwinger Equations

Kreimer, Dirk, Prof. (Theoretical Physics / Mathematical Physics)

Duration of project: 10/2017 - 12/2019

For gauge theories in particular we want to clarify the interplay between quantisation and gauge fixing in covariant gauges and the structure of (systems of) Dyson–Schwinger equations (DSE). We want to investigate this in the context of higher dimens ...

DFG Research Grant: Fundamentals of Molecular Electrical Doping of Organic Semiconductors (FoMEDOS)

Koch, Norbert, Prof. Dr. techn. (Structure, Dynamics and electronic Properties of Molecular Systems)

Duration of project: 03/2016 - 10/2019

Today's information society depends on our ability to controllably dope inorganic semiconductors, such as silicon, thereby tuning their electrical properties to application-specific demands. For opto-electronic devices, however, organic semiconductor ...

DFG Research Grant: Exploiting Plasmonic Effects of Metal Nanostructures on Single Graphene Sheets for the Study of Chemical Functionalization and Sensing (IRIS Adlershof)

Balasubramanian, Kannan, Prof. Dr. (Nanoanalytics)

Duration of project: 11/2019 - 04/2023

Plasmonic effects in metal nanostructures show promise for chemical and biological sensing due to their high interfacial sensitivity to binding kinetics and growth phenomena. Surface plasmon resonances (SPR) at thin metal films efficiently transduce ...

DFG Research Grant: Energy Transfer and Enforced Intercalation – Bright and Responsive DNA-Based FIT-Probes for RNA Imaging in Live Cells

Seitz, Oliver, Prof. Dr. rer. nat. (Organic and Bioorganic Chemistry III)

Duration of project: 09/2013 - 06/2017

Fluorogenic hybridization probes enable real-time measurements of RNA molecules and RNA transport within living wild-type cells. Powerful probes furnish significant enhancements of fluorescence emission upon binding of the RNA target. However, the br ...

DFG Research Grant: Efficient Quasi Monte Carlo Methods and Their Application in Quantum Field Theory

Tischendorf, Caren, Prof. Dr. (Applied Mathematics)

Duration of project: 01/2014 - 12/2016

The project aims at the exploration of quasi Monte Carlo (QMC) methods for applications in Euclidean quantum field theory and statistical mechanics. We plan to explore and construct efficient effective-dimension reduction techniques based on derivati ...

DFG Research Grant: Designing Collagen-Inspired Template-[Protein]3-Hybrids: From Switchable High Molecular Weight Nanostructures Towards Processing Collageneous Materials for Cell Culture

Börner, Hans, Prof. Dr. (Organic Synthesis of Functional Systems)

Duration of project: 01/2014 - 12/2017

Objectives of the joint project are the synthesis of collagen-inspired, template-protein hybrids with high molecular weight. Switchable templates enable activation of self-assembly into anisotropic nano-objects with collageneous triple helices. The p ...

DFG Research Grant: Computing Molecular Properties with Controlled Precision Using Multi-Resolution Analysis

Bischoff, Florian, Dr. (Theoretical Chemistry)

Duration of project: 03/2014 - 01/2020

The project aims at the accurate description of molecular properties using novel wavelet bases for the wave function. Multi-resolution analysis (MRA) algorithms will be developed that provide a high-quality numerical representation of the correlated ...

DFG Research Grant: Ballistic Heat Transport in Thin Oxide Layers

Fischer, Saskia, Prof. Dr. rer. nat. (New Materials)

Duration of project: 12/2016 - 06/2020

In this project we will continue and finish of our investigations of the thermal conductivity in the transition region from diffusive to ballistic heat transport. Our goal is to identify unambiguously the regime of ballistic phonon transport. As a mo ...

DFG Research Grant: Approaching Chemical Accuracy in the Electronic Structure Theory of Solids: Linearly-Scaling Periodic Local Coupled Cluster Method in Combination with Explicitly Correlated Møller-Plesset Perturbation Theory

Usvyat, Denis, PD Dr. (Theoretical Chemistry)

Duration of project: 07/2017 - 10/2021

Quantum chemical hierarchy of electronic structure methods allows for systematic improvement of the accuracy of the calculations. This feature, which is lacking in DFT, makes the wave-function approach very powerful for first-principle predictions. I ...

DFG Research Grant/2: Adsorption and Desorption Processes on Beta-Ga2O3 and In2O3 Surfaces Studied via Structural and Thermo-/Electrical Investigations

Fischer, Saskia, Prof. Dr. rer. nat. (New Materials)

Duration of project: 01/2017 - 12/2020

The transparent semiconducting oxides beta-Ga2O3 and In2O3 represent a class of wide band-gap semiconductors which attract much attention in research and technology today. While used in the last decades in the form of polycrystalline or amorphous fil ...

DFG Research Grant/1: Adsorption and Desorption Processes on Beta-Ga2O3 and In2O3 Surfaces Studied via Structural and Thermo-/Electrical Investigations

Fischer, Saskia, Prof. Dr. rer. nat. (New Materials)

Duration of project: 12/2016 - 12/2020

The transparent semiconducting oxides beta-Ga2O3 and In2O3 represent a class of wide band-gap semiconductors which attract much attention in research and technology today. While used in the last decades in the form of polycrystalline or amorphous fil ...

DFG-NSF-Materials World Network:: Spin phenomena in quasi-1D systems of narrow-gap semiconducters

Fischer, Saskia, Prof. Dr. rer. nat. (New Materials)

Duration of project: 01/2011 - 10/2014

In den letzten zehn Jahren ist sehr intensiv Grundlagenforschung zu Spin-Effekten in Halbleitern und Halbleiternanostrukturen vorangetrieben worden, motiviert durch die Möglichkeit eine neue Ära in der Elektronik ("Spinelektronik") und Informationste ...

DFG FG 797/2: "Analysis and computation of microstructure in finite plasticity" - Participating project P1-1: "Numerical algorithms for the simulation of finite plasticity with microstructures"

Carstensen, Carsten, Prof. (Numerical Handling of Differential Equations)

Duration of project: 10/2010 - 06/2016

The occurrence of microstructures in solid mechanics and, in particular, in finite plasticity can be attributed to a loss of the convexity of the underlying energy potentials. While the material deforms macroscopically, structures in the form of shea ...

DFG FG 797/1: "Analysis and computation of microstructure in finite plasticity" - Participating project P1-1: "Numerical algorithms for the simulation of finite plasticity with microstructures"

Carstensen, Carsten, Prof. (Research Groups (DFG))

Duration of project: 06/2007 - 12/2012

Participating project in "Analysis and computation of microstructure in finite plasticity". The occurrence of microstructures in solid mechanics can be attributed to a loss of the convexity characteristics of the underlying energy potentials. Specif ...