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Workshop Academic Perspectives on Central Asia / Caucasia (Event: 29.11.-01.12.06, Berlin)

Baldauf, Ingeborg, Prof. Dr. phil. (Central Asian Languages and Cultures)

Duration of project: 09/2006 - 02/2007

Symposium zur gleichnamigen Förderinitiative der VolkswagenStiftung

Women in the Humanities: Sobering statistics and inspirational role models

Baer, Susanne, Prof. Dr. (Public Law and Gender Studies)

Duration of project: 06/2007 - 12/2007

In the year of the humanities, this brochure presents portraits of ten women who do research in different disciplines and in different walks of life, and who may serve as inspiration for younger researchers and students, which is why the portraits ha ...

Wissenschaft interaktiv 2011

Pauen, Michael, Prof. Dr. (Philosophy of Spirit)

Duration of project: 03/2011 - 12/2011

Outreach project on "brain & food" research by doctoral students of the Berlin School of Mind and Brain, to be presented at the Wissenschaftssommer 4-9 June 2011 in Mainz

Wird nachgereicht.

Hohls, Rüdiger, Prof. Dr. (Computer Science of History)

Duration of project: 07/2015 - 04/2016

Wird nachgereicht.

Wild Relatives to Fight Blight: Using Wild Tomato to Enhance the Resistance of Tropical Tomato Cultivars Against Late Blight

Ulrichs, Christian, Prof. Dr. rer. nat.; Dr. rer. agr. (Urban Plant Ecophysiology)

Duration of project: 02/2015 - 01/2017

Improve farmer income through more environmentally sustainable tomato production. Additional late blight resistance genes from the wild species S. habrochaites are made available to the global tomato breeding community for tomato improvement and farm ...

Welcoming Neighbourhoods – Conditions of Social Cohesion in Super-Diverse Communities

Hamann, Ulrike, Dr. (Georg Simmel Professorship in Comparative Studies on Diversity and Social Conflicts)

Duration of project: 10/2017 - 03/2021

The research project “Welcoming Neighbourhoods – Conditions of Social Cohesion in Super-Diverse Communities” explores the conditions of social cohesion and conflicts in urban neighbourhoods in Germany: What forms of respectful conviviality are presen ...

Visiting scholar Prof. Dr. Igor Narskii

Baberowski, Jörg, Prof. Dr. (History of Eastern Europe)

Duration of project: 03/2005 - 09/2005

Ich kenne Herrn Narskij seit vielen Jahren. Es waren besonders unsere gemeinsamen Forschungsinteressen, die uns immer wieder zusammenführten. Herr Narskij legte vor kurzem ein bedeutendes Werk zur Alltagsgeschichte des russischen Bürgerkrieges vor, i ...

VA: Molekulare Cluster

Bonacic-Koutecky, Vlasta, Prof. i. R. Dr. rer. nat. (Physical and Theoretical Chemistry I)

Duration of project: 06/1999 - 05/2001

Utilization and Protection of Agricultural Ecosystems in Central Asian High Mountains – Case Study Kyrgyz Alpine Pastures

Kaufmann, Otto, Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. (Livestock Industries and Techniques in Animal Handling)

Duration of project: 01/2012 - 09/2015

Using the Sunlight for Biocyatalysis – Development of Photo-Bioelectrode-Structures for Synthesis Isolation, Stabilization, Modification and Assembly of Photosystems and Its Components in Hybrid-Assemblies for Photo-Biocatalysis

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

Duration of project: 08/2013 - 10/2017

The aim of the Tamdem-project is to develop light-activated electrode devices for biocatalytical purposes. Therefore photosystems or components should be combined with electrodes for an efficient photo-electron transfer. By coupling various enzyme sy ...

Tropenwaldforschung Thailand

Nagel, Uwe Jens, Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. (Agricultural Consulting and Communication Studies)

Duration of project: 09/1996 - 09/1999

The development of a method to combine Land Use Planning (LUP) with remote sensing tools, with the full integration and participation of the local communities in order to maintain natural resources and to safeguard sustainable, ecological farming sys ...

Tracing patterns of contact and change: Philological vs. computational approaches to the handwritings of a 18th century migrant community in Berlin

Meyer, Roland, Prof. Dr. (West Slavic Languages)

Duration of project: 04/2017 - 12/2022

Historical manuscripts are an essential source for all humanities. Since many communities have relied on a purely handwritten culture for a long time, fostering access to historical handwritings is an important and potentially fruitful endeavour. Tra ...

TPDG Meeting

Hackbarth, Steffen, Dr. rer. nat. (Experimental Physics / Photobiophysics)

Duration of project: 06/2010 - 12/2011

regular meeting of the TPDG

Towards a socially inclusive and ecologically sustainable rural transformation in Africa

Neubert, Susanne, Dr. rer. agr. (Seminar of Advanced Training in Agricultural and Rural Development)

Duration of project: 12/2014 - 12/2017

Starting with the collection of data on demographic, economic, ecological and social trends, a documentary analysis and an on-site problem analysis in partnership with local people and experts, the project aims to develop future scenarios for rural t ...

Theory of cognition and ontology of capacities in Late Italian Aristotelianism: Pietro Pomponazzi and Jacopo Zabarella

Leone, Marialucrezia, Dr. (Theoretical Philosophy)

Duration of project: 03/2012 - 07/2015

Das philosophiehistorische Interesse am frühneuzeitlichen Aristotelismus ist in den letzten Jahrzehnten deutlich angewachsen. Wichtigste Zentren peripatetischer Philosophie im 16. Jh. waren die italienischen Universitäten, vornehmlich Padua. Dessen u ...

The impact of the approximate number sense and the spatial system on mental arithmetics III

Knops, André, Dr. (Junior Research Groups)

Duration of project: 06/2016 - 05/2017

This project deals with the interactions and interdependencies between the innate ability to perceive numerosities (number sense), the system for processing of spatial information (spatial attention, visuo-spatial working memory), and our mental arit ...

The impact of the approximate number sense and the spatial system on mental arithmetic

Knops, André, Dr. (Junior Research Groups)

Duration of project: 06/2015 - 05/2017

This project deals with the interactions and interdependencies between the innate ability to perceive numerosities (number sense), the system for processing of spatial information (spatial attention, visuo-spatial working memory), and our mental arit ...

The impact of the approximate number sense and the spatial system on mental arithmetic

Knops, André, Dr. (Junior Research Groups)

Duration of project: 06/2012 - 02/2016

This project deals with the interactions and interdependencies between the innate ability to perceive numerosities (number sense), the system for processing of spatial information (spatial attention, visuo-spatial working memory), and our mental arit ...

The Human Place in Nature - Five literary conversations with Northern Europe

Linke, Doerte, (Department of Northern European Studies)

Duration of project: 01/2019 - 03/2020

The cultural transfer and the diffusion of physical education and sport in Europe, 1918-1945: the Anglo-German case

Eisenberg-Ditt, Christiane, Prof. Dr. Prof. Dr. Christiane Eisenberg (British History since the Restoration)

Duration of project: 02/2013 - 01/2015

The changing role of agricultural institutions and farming: a collaborative project in Germany and UK

Hagedorn, Conrad, Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. (Resource Economics)

Duration of project: 11/2001 - 11/2003

Important changes are occurring in the role of agricultural institutions and farming in Germany and the UK. The project has two main purposes: to review the evolving role of agriculture institutions and farming from a comparative perspective and to c ...

Teachware on Demand

Schindler, Raimund, Prof. i. R. Dr. sc. nat. (Industrial Psychology)

Duration of project: 04/2001 - 02/2003

Gegenstand des vom BMBF geförderten Projekts "Teachware on Demand" ist die Ausarbeitung, Umsetzung und Etablierung eines Autorenzyklus für elektronische, multimediale Lernmaterialien, welchem eine dynamische, teilweise automatisierte Zusammenstellung ...

Teaching and research collaboration with Organic Research Centre, UK

Döring, Thomas, Dr. (Agriculture and Plant Cultivation)

Duration of project: 12/2015 - 12/2016

In diesem internationalen Austauschprojekt soll die Kooperation zwischen einem auf europäischer Ebene sehr erfolgreichen privaten Forschungsinstitut in England und dem Institut für Agrar- und Gartenbauwissenschaften gefördert werden. Dies soll durch ...

Taking snapshots of photosynthetic water oxidation: simultaneous X-ray spectroscopy and crystallography

Zouni, Athina, Dr. (Experimental Biophysics)

Duration of project: 11/2013 - 10/2016

The objective of this project is to study the overall protein structure and dynamics, as well as the chemical structure and dynamics of the oxygen-evolving complex (OEC) of the Photosystem II membrane bound protein, that catalyses the light-driven wa ...

Taking snapshots of photosynthetic water oxidation: simultaneous X-ray spectroscopy and crystallography

Zouni, Athina, (Experimental Biophysics)

Duration of project: 11/2013 - 10/2017

The objective of this project is to study the overall protein structure and dynamics, as well as the chemical structure and dynamics of the oxygen-evolving complex (OEC) of the Photosystem II membrane bound protein, that catalyses the light-driven wa ...

Take, Remember, Give Back: The Potential of Z-DNA as a Carrier of Epigenetic Memory

Ringrose, Leonie Helen, Prof. Dr. (Quantitative Biology of the Eukaryotic Cell)

Duration of project: 04/2018 - 03/2020

Take, Remember, give back: The potential of Z-DNA as a carrier of epigenetic memory. Epigenetic memory is immensely powerful in biological systems, giving stable memory of gene expression states over many cell generations, long after the initial sign ...

Synthesechemie

Wessig, Pablo, Dr. rer. nat. (Organic and Bioorganic Chemistry V)

Duration of project: 08/2001 - 09/2003

Das Projekt beinhaltet die Synthese unnatürlicher, photochemisch aktiver Aminosäuren und Peptide mit dem Ziel, diese auf verschiedensten Kunststoffmaterialien durch Bestrahlung zu immobilisieren. Schwerpunkte bei der Durchführung des Projektes werden ...

Sustainable Use of Natural Resources in an Institutional Perspective

Hagedorn, Conrad, Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. (Resource Economics)

Duration of project: 09/2009 - 03/2012

In China, problems of resource degradation and environmental pollution have increased considerably due to particular scarcity of natural resources (land-man ratio = 0.1) and rapid economic growth. The Chinese Government is well aware of this situatio ...

Sustainable Resource Use in Wetlands of the Mediterranean: The Case of the Tunisian Island Djerba. Field work in Tunesia

Hagedorn, Conrad, Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. (Resource Economics)

Duration of project: 09/2011 - 12/2011

Due to the small size, limited resource endowment and steadily increasing anthropological pressure, and not at least the arid climate, the Tunisian island Djerba suffers from enormous ecological problems. The main driving force behind this dramatic c ...

Sustainable operational programmes for the fruit and vegetable sector

Bokelmann, Wolfgang, Prof. Dr. rer. nat. habil. (Economics of Horticultural Production)

Duration of project: 11/2007 - 06/2008

Sustainable Land Management and Adaptation Strategies to Climate Change for the Western Siberian Corn-belt

Hagedorn, Conrad, Prof. Dr. Dr. (Senior Professor and Professors retired)

Duration of project: 08/2011 - 07/2016

As an impact of global warming considerable changes regarding the use of natural resources in Western Siberia are anticipated, which will be associated with corresponding changes in agricultural structures. This project aims to provide basic knowledg ...

Sustainable Agriculture in Central and Eastern Europe (CEESA)

Hagedorn, Conrad, Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. (Resource Economics)

Duration of project: 02/2000 - 06/2003

The CEESA project was established as an international and multi-disciplinary research group comprising four partners from west European universities (Humboldt University of Berlin, Helsinki University, University of Newcastle upon Tyne and Wageningen ...

Sustainability-based value chains as part of the ‘Green Deal’: strategies for trust-building and transparency

Feindt, Peter H., Prof. Dr. (Agricultural and Food Policy)

Duration of project: 07/2020 - 06/2021

The project analyses selected projects and initiatives which aim to establish agrarian value chains with enhanced sustainability characteristics. Such sustainability-based value chains are widely discussed as an approach to simultaneously increase th ...

Statistical Learning from Dependent Data: Learning Theory, Robust Algorithms and Applications

Kloft, Marius, Prof. Dr. (Mechanical Learning (J))

Duration of project: 03/2015 - 02/2018

Machine learning constitutes one of the key technologies to thoroughly analyse empirical data. One of the most common assumptions in machine learning is, that the empirical data is realized from independent random variables. However, in practice this ...

State constitutional courts and judicialization of politics in the German Länder

Reutter, Werner, Dr. (German Politics)

Duration of project: 04/2018 - 06/2021

The research project examines degree and causes of judicialization of policies in the German Länder. The questions tackled with in this project are, hence, twofold. On the one hand, it will be investigated whether and to what extent decisions of subn ...

Space and Memory in Qaraqalpaqstan (1945-2009)

Baldauf, Ingeborg, Prof. Dr. phil. (Central Asian Languages and Cultures)

Duration of project: 03/2009 - 12/2009

Workshops and oral history research (graduates and post-graduates).

South African-German Centre for Transnational Criminal Justice

Werle, Gerhard, Prof. Dr. (German and International Criminal Law / Criminal Procedural Law and Juridical Contemporary History)

Duration of project: 01/2014 - 12/2018

Fortsetzung des LL.M- und Doktorandenprogramms "Transnational Criminal Justice and Crime Prevention - An International and African Perspective" gemeinsam mit der University of the Western Cape (Südafrika)

Solow Residuals without Capital Stock

Severgnini, Battista, (Economic Theory II)

Duration of project: 01/2008 - 12/2008

Soft Matter inspired systems for modelling cell adhesion

Dzubiella, Joachim, Prof. Dr. (Theory and Simulation of Many-body Systems)

Duration of project: 05/2013 - 04/2015

Cell adhesion is an extremely complex phenomenon controlling a large number of impor- tant biological processes, such as tissue formation, the response of the immune system and the migration of metastatic cancerous cells. It is regulated by the inter ...

Small Things of Greater Importance: Exploring the Sensory Relationship of Medieval People and Objects

Jasperse, Tjisje Geertje, Dr. (Medieval Visual Cultures)

Duration of project: 12/2020 - 12/2020

Simulation and Optimisation of Structure-Process interaction

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

Duration of project: 06/2007 - 11/2010

Project following up "Mathematical Modelling and efficient computational mathematics for simulation of tool grinding" in "Prediction and manipulation of interaction between Structure and Process".

Short-Term vs. Long-Term Learning in Mathematical Cognition: Cerebral Correlates, Domain Impacts, and Sources of Individual Differences

van der Meer, Elke, Prof. Dr. sc. nat. (Cognitive Psychology)

Duration of project: 04/2008 - 10/2011

The objective of the proposed project is to analyze how long- and short-term learning modulates the plasticity of the cognitive system of mathematically gifted pupils in secondary education as compared to a group of controls matched in terms of age, ...

Sheepwoolsubstrate

Böhme, Michael, Doz. Dr. sc. Dr. h. c. (Vegetable Science)

Duration of project: 11/2007 - 09/2008

Es werden verschiedene Substrate unter Verwendung von Schafwollfasern getestet mit dem Ziel einer Markteinführung im Garten- und Landschaftsbau. Wasser- und Nährstoffversorgung soll an ökologische Verfahren angepasst werden.

Shared pasture resource conflicts in transboundary South Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan

Hagedorn, Conrad, Prof. Dr. Dr. (Senior Professor and Professors retired)

Duration of project: 04/2016 - 08/2016

Sentinels supporting carbon estimates and REDD+

Hostert, Patrick, Prof. Dr. (Geomatics)

Duration of project: 05/2013 - 12/2016

The focus of SENSE-CARBON was on the development of new methods for the comprehensive monitoring of land cover, land use and their changes, which serve a better characterization of carbon stocks, for example within the framework of REDD+. The regiona ...

Self-reflection in music

Danuser, Hermann, Prof. Dr. Dr. h. c. (Historical Musicology)

Duration of project: 04/2011 - 09/2011

Problems of self-reflection in music have been discussed for quite a while in musicology, especially with phenomena that are evidently analogous to those of other arts (as "meta-opera" in analogy to the dramatic device of a "play within a play"). Ho ...

Scratch resistent antireflective coatings on polymer surfaces

Kemnitz, Erhard, Prof. Dr. sc. nat. (Inorganic and General Chemistry III)

Duration of project: 09/2014 - 12/2017

Using MgF2 sols scratch resistent AR-layers will be developed

Scattering processes in quantum dots as the main reason causing the destruction of the coherence

Henneberger, Fritz, Prof. Dr. sc. nat. (Experimental Physics / Physical Foundations of Photonics)

Duration of project: 04/2000 - 01/2003

The object of our studies was to determine the processes that are responsible for the destruction of the coherence of optical excitons in zero dimensional semiconductor structures. CdSe/ZnSe quantum dots, tailor-made by molecular beam epitaxy (MBE), ...

Risk Management

Odening, Martin, Prof. Dr. agr. habil. (Agricultural Farm Management)

Duration of project: 05/2002 - 08/2002

Research on user profiles of the German Education Server

Kos, Olaf, PD Dr. paed. (Educational Studies in Higher Education)

Duration of project: 01/2002 - 12/2002