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West African Wild Silks Techniques: Preserving Marka-Dafing’s Heritage of Knowledge

Bauer, Kathrin, (Faculty Management)

Duration of project: 02/2020 - 07/2022

For centuries, indigenous wild silks have been traded across West Africa and used in Marka-Dafing’s textile production in the Mouhoun regions of Western Burkina Faso. Over the past twenty years, the precious materials that are used by women for weavi ...

Urban Climate in Transition, Module B (Evaluation of Urban Climate Models, 3DO) – SP 02: Urban Mobile Measurement Systems and GIS-Integration (URBMOBI-GIS)

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

Duration of project: 06/2016 - 12/2019

The Research Programme „Urban Climate under Change“ intends to develop an innovative urban climate model that is able to simulate micro-scale atmospheric processes for entire cities like Stuttgart or Berlin using grid spacings that resolve buildings, ...

Tuning the Electronic Structure of Organic/Metal Contacts via Additive Interfacial Segregation

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

Duration of project: 01/2015 - 12/2017

All organic-based devices, i.e., “organic electronics”, require good electrical contacts between the organic semiconductor and an electrode, most commonly a metal. It has been established early-on that the nature of the metal/organic electrical conta ...

Top-quark physics at colliders

Uwer, Peter, Prof. Dr. rer. nat. (Theoretical Physics / Phenomenology of Elementary Particles beyond the Standard Model)

Duration of project: 01/2009 - 12/2014

The top-quark, the heaviest known elementary particle, is an excellent probe of the fundamental interactions at (sub)attometer distances. Theoretical investigations of the production and decay of these quarks are essential for the analysis of the cor ...

Topoclimatic forcing and non-linear dynamics in the climate change adaption of glaciers in High Asia

Loibl, David, Dr. (Climate Geography)

Duration of project: 01/2018 - 02/2022

Glaciers in High Asia, a substantial resource of water supply for more than a billion people, are known to react highly heterogeneous to climate change. However, spatial patterns, forcing mechanisms, and sensitivities underlying this heterogeneity ar ...

Hostert, Patrick, Prof. Dr. (Geomatics)

Duration of project: 03/2015 - 03/2017

Quality and quantity of current high-resolution optical Earth observation data is unprecedented and provides an opportunity to advance remote sensing-based land systems analyses. However, cloud coverage and a lack of gridded higher-level products sti ...

Syzygien and Moduli

Farkas, Gavril, Prof. Dr. (Algebraic Geometry I)

Duration of project: 10/2018 - 06/2022

The salient feature characterizing all the projects of the proposal is a variational approach to syzygies. There are two major sets of goals : On one side, find an answer to some of the outstanding questions on syzygies of algebraic curves: The Prym- ...

Synthesis of Functional Organic Nanotubes As Building Blocks for Bottom-Up Nanofabrication

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

Duration of project: 10/2006 - 06/2007

In order to provide a chemical contribution to the multidisciplinary nanoscience effort, a synthetic approach has been developed to generate key building blocks for the bottom-up approach to device miniaturization. On the basis of helically folding p ...

Superdiversity in the Ageing City? The Convergence of Increasing Multiethnicity and an Ageing Population.

Lakes, Tobia, Prof. Dr. (Applied GIScience)

Duration of project: 03/2017 - 02/2020

European societies are increasingly both ageing and diverse societies. Through processes of immigration and demographic change, the population composition will modify fundamentally in the next decades. Especially metropolitan areas are the geographic ...

Superdiversity in the Ageing City? The Convergence of Increasing Multiethnicity and an Ageing Population

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

Duration of project: 03/2017 - 02/2020

European societies are increasingly both ageing and diverse societies. Through processes of immigration and demographic change, the population composition will modify fundamentally in the next decades. Especially metropolitan areas are the geographic ...

Summer School "Stochastic Analysis, Financial and Insurance Mathematics (SAFIM)"

Imkeller, Peter, Prof. Dr. rer. nat. (Applied Theory of Probability)

Duration of project: 04/2018 - 03/2019

The summer school intends to introduce African students and young researchers with modern methods of stochastic analysis, in particular concepts of "microfinance" and extrem value theory.

structural and thermoelectric characterization of individual single-crystalline nanowires

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

Duration of project: 11/2012 - 12/2015

The focus of this cluster project in the DFG priority programme SPP1386 "Nanostructured thermoelectrics" is the measurement of the thermoelectric properties of individual nanowires, electrical conductivity, thermal conductivity and Seebeck coefficien ...

SPP 2102: The Photocatalytic Reduction of CO2 with Heterodinuclear Catalysts Based on Earth Abundant Metals

Schwalbe, Matthias, (Inorganic and General Chemistry I)

Duration of project: 01/2019 - 12/2022

Our goal is the development and in detail investigation of catalytic systems for the light-driven reduction of carbon dioxide. A major aim is to compare inter- and intramolecular systems that are based on the same combination of photosensitizer and c ...

SPP 1489: Syzygies, Hurwitz Spaces and Ulrich Sheaves

Farkas, Gavril, Prof. Dr. (Algebraic Geometry I)

Duration of project: 08/2013 - 09/2017

Combination of methods in algebra, geometry and number theory. The Hurwitz space is the parameter space of degree k ramified coverings of the projective line by smooth curves of genus g. Via the Riemann existence theorem, every curve of genus g appea ...

SPP1386: Structural and thermoelectric characterization of individual single-crystalline nanowires (I)

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

Duration of project: 05/2011 - 04/2012

The focus of this cluster project in the DFG priority programme SPP1386 "Nanostructured thermoelectrics" is the measurement of the thermoelectric properties of individual nanowires, electrical conductivity, thermal conductivity and Seebeck coefficien ...

SPP 1386: Controlled thermoelectric properties of low-dimensional charge carrier systems in semiconductor heterostructures (II)

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

Duration of project: 11/2012 - 07/2016

The focus of this cluster project in the DFG priority programme SPP1386 "Nanostructured thermoelectrics" is the thermoelectric properties of low-dimensional charge-carrier sysequences of thermal gradients on coherent electron traThe focus of this clu ...

SPP1355:Electronic properties of interfaces with conjugated polymers III

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

Duration of project: 08/2012 - 07/2013

SPP1355:Charge separation at nanostructured molecular donor-acceptor interfaces III

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

Duration of project: 08/2012 - 06/2015

SPP1285: Spin-dependent electron transport in GaAs/AlGaAs nanostructures

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

Duration of project: 05/2011 - 01/2012

The aim of this project within the DFG priority programm SPP1285 "Semiconductor Spinelectronics" is to investigate spin-dependent ballistic transport in nanoscale GaAs/AlGaAs field-effect heterostructures. Starting materials are modulation doped hete ...

SFB 951 / 1: Hybrid Inorganic/Organic Systems for Optoelectronics

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

Duration of project: 07/2011 - 06/2015

The CRC 951 - Hybrid Inorganic/Organic Systems for Opto-Electronics (HIOS) - is an interdisciplinary effort bringing together scientists with complementary expertise from three universities and two non-university institutions. The goal is the merger ...

SFB 647/2-3: Enumerative Geometry of Moduli Spaces (TP A 09/C 03)

Farkas, Gavril, Prof. Dr. (Algebraic Geometry I)

Duration of project: 01/2009 - 12/2016

Das Leitproblem der Algebraischen Geometrie ist die Klassifikation von algebraischen Varietäten bis auf Isomorphismen. Für Varietäten der Dimension 1 greift man dieses Problem an durch Betrachtung des Modulraumes Mg von Kurven des Geschlechts g. Dies ...

Seeing into the Abyss: Critical Points and Paths on the S1 Potential Energy Surface of Stilbenes and beta-Carotene

Ernsting, Nikolaus, Prof. Ph. D. (Physical and Theoretical Chemistry II)

Duration of project: 02/2016 - 07/2018

Stilbene, the paradigm for photoisomerisation around a double bond, is not understood despite decades of research. (i) A phantom state at 90 deg C=C twist angle is thought to be nonexistent because of fast internal conversion. However, we could stabi ...

Seeing into the Abyss: Critical Points and Paths on the S1 Potential Energy Surface of Stilbenes and beta-Carotene

Ernsting, Nikolaus, Prof. Ph. D. (Physical and Theoretical Chemistry II)

Duration of project: 03/2014 - 06/2017

Stilbene, the paradigm for photoisomerisation around a double bond, is not understood despite decades of research. (i) A phantom state at 90 deg C=C twist angle is thought to be nonexistent because of fast internal conversion. However, we could stabi ...

Satellite-based information for grassland management

Hostert, Patrick, Prof. Dr. (Geomatics)

Duration of project: 12/2017 - 02/2021

Permanent grassland accounts for 28% of Germany's agricultural area and thus has a landscape-shaping character. Its main supply service is the production of milk and meat, through the use of grassland as a high-quality basic feed. In addition, grassl ...

PP 2196: Understanding and Suppressing Interfacial Charge Recombination for High Performance Perovskite Solar Cells (SURPRISE)

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

Duration of project: 11/2019 - 10/2022

Halide perovskite semiconductors continue to surprise the community by their many extraordinary physical properties. A key for solar cell applications is their highly fluorescent nature likely due to low defect densities despite their simple processa ...

PP 2196: Illuminating Building Block Evolution of Metal-Halide Perovskite Semiconductors from Solutions to Thin Films

Cocchi, Caterina, Prof. Dr. (Theoretical Physics / Theory of Excitations in low-dimensional Systems)

Duration of project: 11/2019 - 10/2022

The overall goal of this project is to gain fundamental understanding on the structural, electronic, and optical properties of metal-halide complexes in solutions and to follow their evolution towards the formation of crystalline semiconductors throu ...

PP 2196/1: Transport of Optical Exciations in Low-Dimensional Halide Perovskites: Coulomb Effects & Structural Dynamics

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

Duration of project: 09/2019 - 08/2022

The recent intense scientific efforts related to halide perovskites (HaPs) have revolutionized and invigorated the solid-state research community. The tremendous interest was fuelled by rapid advances in the performances of HaP-based photovoltaic and ...

PP 1926: Development and Application of RoCK, a Novel Rhodopsin Cyclase/ K+ Channel-Based Optogenetic Tool for Silencing of Excitable Cells

Bernal Sierra, Yinth Andrea, Dr. (Experimental Biophysics)

Duration of project: 07/2019 - 12/2022

Optogenetics enables manipulation of biological processes with light at unprecendented spatio-temporal resolution to control the behaviour of cells, networks, or even whole animals. In contrast to the performance of excitatory rhodopsins, the effecti ...

PP 1879: Nucleotide Second Messenger Signaling in Bacteria/Coordination Project

Hengge, Regine, Prof. Dr. (Microbiology)

Duration of project: 09/2016 - 08/2021

The overall goal of SPP 1879 over the next six years is to built a tightly collaborating and internationally radiating scientific community in the highly dynamic field of bacterial nucleotide second messenger signalling. Achieving this goal not only ...

PP 1879: Nucleotide Second Messenger Signaling in Bacteria/Coordination Fund

Hengge, Regine, Prof. Dr. (Microbiology)

Duration of project: 09/2019 - 02/2023

The DFG priority programme SPP 1879 is a research consortium studying bacterial second messenger signalling that currently funds 18 research projects at German universities and other research institutions. By including representatives of all clades o ...

PP 1840: Diatomic Molecules in Intense Laser Fields (SP of QUTIF)

Saenz, Alejandro, Prof. Dr. (Modern Optics)

Duration of project: 11/2015 - 07/2019

Already in the past diatomic molecules have played a prominent role in understanding molecular processes. Therefore, an existing theoretical approach for the description of diatomic molecules with two electrons (like molecular hydrogen) exposed to ul ...

PP 1784: Cellular Imaging of RNA C-to-U Editing

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

Duration of project: 01/2016 - 06/2019

RNA editing impacts RNA splicing and protein translation. The recent progress in high-throughput RNA sequencing has revealed an increasing number of mRNA editing sites. However, these methods provide an overview about the editing state of an ensemble ...

PP 1748: Approximation and Reconstruction of Stresses in the Deformed Configuration for Hyperelastic Material Models

Farkas, Gavril-Marius, Prof. Dr. (Department of Mathematics)

Duration of project: 09/2019 - 08/2022

Numerical simulation techniques are an essential component for the construction, design and optimisation of cutting-edge technologies as for example innovative products, new materials as well as medical-technical applications and production processes ...

PP 1666/2: Magnetically Doped Topological Insulators: From the Ground State to Dynamics

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

Duration of project: 01/2017 - 01/2020

The project investigates primarily the impact of magnetic doping on three-dimensional topological insulator (TI) systems. Detailed information on their electronic structure is obtained by means of spin and angle-resolved photo emission spectroscopy ( ...

PP 1666/1: Magnetically Doped Topological Insulators: Surfaces States, Dimensionality and Defect Effects

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

Duration of project: 08/2013 - 07/2018

The project investigates primarily the impact of magnetic doping on three-dimensional topological insulator (TI) systems. Detailed information on their electronic structure is obtained by means of spin and angle-resolved photo emission spectroscopy ( ...

PP 1623: Peptide-Templated Bioconjugation with Proteins on and in Living Cells for Investigations of GPCR Transport and Cross-Reactivity

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

Duration of project: 02/2016 - 06/2019

The functional properties of G-protein coupled receptors (GPCRs) depend on localisation, density of surface expression and their mobility in the cell membrane. Some GPCRs undergo dynamic equilibria between monomeric and dimeric forms. Microscopic ima ...

PP 1617: Phenotypic Heterogeneity and Sociobiology of Bacterial Populations

Hengge, Regine, Prof. Dr. (Microbiology)

Duration of project: 07/2015 - 12/2019

Bakterielle Biofilme zeigen räumliche physiologische Differenzierung, die Nährstoff- und/oder Sauerstoffgradienten folgt. Fluoreszenz- und EM-Analysen von Kryoschnitten durch Makrokoloniebiofilme von E. coli zeigen eine klare Stratifizierung mit wach ...

PP 1386: Controlled Thermoelectric Properties of Low-Dimensional Charge Carrier Systems in Semiconductor Heterostructures (I)

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

Duration of project: 08/2011 - 12/2012

The focus of this cluster project in the DFG priority programme 1386 "Nanostructured Thermoelectrics" is the thermoelectric properties of low-dimensional charge-carrier systems in high-quality semiconductor heterostructures. The project focuses on sy ...

PP 1285: Spin-Dependent Electron in GaAs/AlGaAs Nanostructures (III)

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

Duration of project: 10/2011 - 07/2014

The aim of this project within the DFG priority programme 1285 "Semiconductor Spinelectronics" is to investigate spin-dependent ballistic transport in nanoscale GaAs/AlGaAs field-effect heterostructures (FETs) of low spin-orbit coupling, and to exten ...

Phenomenological studies of top-quark properties at hadron collider

Uwer, Peter, Prof. Dr. rer. nat. (Theoretical Physics / Phenomenology of Elementary Particles beyond the Standard Model)

Duration of project: 07/2012 - 06/2015

The main goal of the project is to improve our current understanding of top-quark properties using experimental input obtained in hadronic collisions. Top-quark physics is one of the central research topics at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). Since t ...

CRC-TRR 154: Mathematical Modelling, Simulation and Optimisation Using the Example of Gas Networks

SZF-1, Leitung Servicezentrum Forschung, (Research Service Centre)

Duration of project: 07/2014 - 06/2022

The latest and still ongoing discussion on Diesel engines and the phasing out of charcoal have disclosed that there is an urgent need by the society for a clean and ecologically friendly handling of energy. This not only applies for the mobile sector ...

CRC-TRR 154/1: Multicriteria Optimization Subject to Equilibrium Constraints at the Example of Gas Markets (SP B02)

Hintermüller, Michael, Prof. Dr. (Applied Mathematics)

Duration of project: 10/2014 - 06/2022

The objective is to provide a mathematical description of markets that are coupled with physical processes for investigating economic questions regarding the behavior of market participants or optimal capacity utilization of the transport network. Th ...

CRC-TRR 154/1: Hierarchical PDAE-surrogate-modeling and stable PDAE-network-discretization for simulating large non-stationary gas networks (SP C02)

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

Duration of project: 10/2014 - 06/2022

This subproject focuses on the development and analysis of models and methods for a stable and fast simulation of huge transient gasnetworks, which will also be used for an efficient parameter optimization and control of the network. The main aspects ...

CRC/ TRR 109/3: Geometric Rigidity in Spin Systems (SP B11)

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

Duration of project: 07/2020 - 06/2024

The project aims at developing a deeper understanding of typical low-energy states and to derive coarse-grained continuum theories of variational lattice spin theories. One of the main difficulties in this respect is the lack of understanding of elem ...

CRC 951 I: HIOS - Custom-synthesis of conjugated organic molecules (Project Z1)

Hecht, Stefan, Prof. (Collaborative Research Centre 546 'Transitional Metal Oxide Aggregates')

Duration of project: 07/2011 - 06/2015

The central mission of this project is to synthesize specific conjugated organic molecules (COMs) serving as the necessary materials basis for various projects within the CRC. Hence, this project is exploiting the present expertise in organic synthes ...

CRC 951 I: HIOS - Covalent and non-covalent assembly of conjugated molecular building blocks at semiconductor surfaces (Project A3)

Hecht, Stefan, Prof. (Collaborative Research Centre 546 'Transitional Metal Oxide Aggregates')

Duration of project: 07/2011 - 06/2015

The central goal of this project is to design and synthesize functional molecular building blocks to achieve control over structure formation at inorganic/organic interfaces using both non-covalent and covalent assembly strategies. By varying the ele ...

CRC 951 I: HIOS - Adjusting energy levels of hybrid inorganic/organic heterostructures (Project A8)

Koch, Norbert, Prof. Dr. techn. (Collaborative Research Centre 555 'Complex Non-linear Processes')

Duration of project: 07/2011 - 06/2015

This project will provide fundamental understanding of the energy levels at HIOS interfaces comprising ZnO and wide-gap conjugated molecules, mainly using photoelectron spectroscopy and the Kelvin probe method. Furthermore, we target developing means ...

CRC 951/3: Theory of Opto-Electronic Excitations and Excitation Dynamics at Hybrid Inorganic/Organic Interfaces (SP B11)

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

Duration of project: 07/2019 - 06/2023

We are aiming at an in-depth understanding of level alignment, electronic structure, optical excitations and excitation dynamics in hybrid materials, consisting of π-conjugated molecules and transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs). To reach these go ...

CRC 951/3: Theory of Electro-Optic and Chiral Coupling in Plasmonically Enhanced HIOS (SP B10)

Busch, Kurt, Prof. Dr. rer. nat. (Theoretical Physics / Theoretical Optics)

Duration of project: 07/2019 - 06/2023

The goal of this project is the development of a comprehensive theoretical framework for electrically driven plasmonic nano-gap structures with sandwiched hybrid inorganic/organic systems (HIOS) and for HIOS that are chirally coupled to plasmonic nan ...

CRC 951/3: Structure and Electronic Properties of Conjugated Organic Molecules on Transition Metal Dichalcogenide Monolayers (SP A08)

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

Duration of project: 07/2019 - 06/2023

The goal is achieving a comprehensive understanding of the structure and electronic properties of hybrid inorganic/organic systems (HIOS) formed by conjugated organic molecules and transition metal dichalcogenide (TMDC) monolayers. The first research ...