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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 - 02/2023

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 analyzing chronologies of different tree ring parameters (tree-ring width, pointer year cat ...

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 ...

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 - 12/2022

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 - 03/2021

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, are located in the most Northeastern part of the Tibetan Plateau, on ...

Disruptive Approaches to Atom-Light Interfaces

Rauschenbeutel, Arno, Prof. Dr. (Basics of Optics and Photonics)

Duration of Project: 10/2020 - 09/2023

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

Hübers, Heinz-Wilhelm, Prof. Dr. rer. nat. habil. (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-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 ...

COUPLED. Operationalising telecouplings for solving sustainability challenges related to land use

Nielsen, Jonas Ostergaard, Prof. Dr. (Cultural and Social Geography)

Duration of Project: 01/2018 - 12/2021

COUPLED is a four-year, European Training Network granted by the EC in Horizon 2020. We put the research approach of TELECOUPLING into action for solving sustainability challenges for land use. How to understand processes and actors that influence la ...

Connecting: COproductioN with NaturE for City Transitioning, INnovation and Governance

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

Duration of Project: 06/2017 - 05/2022

Connecting Nature is a five-year project funded by the European Commission’s Horizon 2020 Innovation Action Programme. The aim by project end is to position Europe as a global leader in the innovation and implementation of nature-based solutions. The ...

Compressed Sensing in Ptychography and Transmission Electron Microscopy

Van den Broek, Wouter, (Experimental Physics / Structural Research and Electron Microscopy)

Duration of Project: 07/2017 - 03/2021

This project uses compressed sensing to improve object retrieval from ptychographic data sets consisting out of HRTEM images and diffraction patterns, and to speed up data recording and thus decrease electron dose and specimen damage. More specifical ...

CL Katalyse II: D2.1/E1.1/E3.1

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

Duration of Project: 11/2017 - 12/2018

CL Katalyse II: A1

Braun, Thomas, Prof. Dr. (Inorganic Chemistry)

Duration of Project: 11/2017 - 12/2018

The project aims for the development of new heterogeneous catalytic systems, which exhibit two spatially separated reactive centers. Synergistic effects will allow an activation and derivatization of CO2, methane and other alkanes and will open up un ...

CLEARING HOUSE – Collaborative Learning in Research, Information-Sharing and Governance on How Urban Forest-Based Solutions Support Sino-European Urban Futures

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

Duration of Project: 09/2019 - 08/2023

Trees and forests are a proven nature-based solution that contribute to sustainable urban development. Their potential for delivering ecosystem services, enhancing biodiversity and contributing to the wellbeing of urban societies is often underestima ...

Charge separation at nanostructured molecular donor-acceptor interfaces

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

Duration of Project: 09/2010 - 08/2012

This project seeks to unravel the electronic structure of conjugated organic molecules on conductive surfaces and at heterointerfaces by means of photoelectron spectroscopy. Specifically, parameters of importance for photovoltaic cells like hole and ...

Characteristic Cycles and Representation Theory

Krämer, Thomas, Prof. Dr. (Algebra and Number Theory)

Duration of Project: 10/2020 - 09/2023

The project combines algebraic geometry with the theory of D-modules and perverse sheaves. Its main goal is to study subvarieties of abelian varieties via characteristic cycles, conic Lagrangian cycles on the cotangent bundle which encode subtle info ...