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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 ...

CH 12: Advanced Magnetic Resonance Imaging: Fingerprinting and Geometric Quantification

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

Duration of Project: 06/2017 - 12/2018

Very recently, magnetic resonance fingerprinting (MRF) has been introduced as a highly promising MRI acquisition scheme which allows for the simultaneous quantification of the tissue parameters (e.g. T1, T2 and others) using a single acquisition proc ...

Central European Network for Teaching and Research in Academic Liaison (CENTRAL) 08 Analysis and Numerics for Partial Differential Equations

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

Duration of Project: 03/2015 - 12/2018

In the last 250 years, partial differential equations have emerged as one of the most important resources for humanity in understanding a wide variety of phenomena. Firstly, in science and technology: mechanics and mathematical models based on partia ...

Carbiocial

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

Duration of Project: 06/2011 - 08/2016

Biodiversity impacts of future land use trajectories

Kümmerle, Tobias, Prof. Dr. rer. nat. (Biogeography)

Duration of Project: 03/2012 - 12/2015

This project investigated the influence of future land use change on global biodiversity by (1) synthesizing knowledge on land use effects on biodiversity across a range of taxa and by compiling indicators on the current extent and intensity of globa ...

Bestimmung der Translationstemperatur bei der Hochdruck-Molekularstrahlexpansion kleiner Moleküle (II)

Christen, Wolfgang, Prof. Dr. rer. nat. (Physical and Theoretical Chemistry III)

Duration of Project: 01/2008 - 06/2009

Überkritische Fluide werden vielfach als Lösungsmittel und zum Transport nichtflüchtiger und thermisch labiler Moleküle eingesetzt. Ihre Überschallexpansion im Molekularstrahl ist hinsichtlich der grundlegenden Prozesse wie adiabatische Abkühlung und ...

Bestimmung der Translationstemperatur bei der Hochdruck-Molekularstrahlexpansion kleiner Moleküle (I)

Christen, Wolfgang, Prof. Dr. rer. nat. (Physical and Theoretical Chemistry III)

Duration of Project: 07/2006 - 06/2007

Eine aktuelle Frage bei der Anwendung gepulster Überschall-Molekularstrahlen betrifft die bei einer Hochdruckexpansion maximal erzielbare Abkühlung der Moleküle. Während hohe Stagnationsdrücke bereits erfolgreich eingesetzt werden, um mittels überkri ...

AvH - Valderrey Berciano

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

Duration of Project: 08/2015 - 07/2017

Research grant from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation for Dr. Virginia Valderrey Berciano

AvH-Karaca

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

Duration of Project: 05/2019 - 04/2021

Research grant for Alexander von Humboldt Scholarship for Dr. Ulvi O. Karaca

AvH - Goulet-Hanssens

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

Duration of Project: 09/2015 - 08/2018

Research grant for the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation research grant for Dr. Alexis Goulet-Hanssens

AvH - Dr. Schmidt

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

Duration of Project: 11/2016 - 10/2017

Return grant for the Feodor Lynen return grant for Dr. Bernd Martin Michael Schmidt

Atomic Scale and Single Molecule Logic Gate Technologies (AtMol)

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

Duration of Project: 01/2011 - 12/2014

AtMol will establish a radically different and comprehensive process flow for fabricating a molecular chip, i.e. a processing unit comprising a single molecule connected to external mesoscopic electrodes with an atomic scale precision of fabrication. ...

ANIMATION – designing movement

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

Duration of Project: 07/2016 - 12/2016

The kick-off event "ANIMATION - designing movement", supported by the Einstein Foundation Berlin, brought together the science illustrators Amir Andikfar and Jonas Lauströer, the biologist John A. Nyakatura and the animation designer Nicolas Deveaux ...

A new type of spike: Homoclinic spike generation in cells and networks

Schreiber, Susanne, Prof. Dr. rer. nat. (Computational Neurophysiology)

Duration of Project: 01/2021 - 12/2025

The project addresses the interaction of the nerve cells in our brain. The cells "talk" to each other by means of electrical pulses, so-called action potentials. In this project a new type of action potential dynamics will be investigated, which so f ...

Andrejewski Day on the topic: "Stability Phenomena in Geometry and Mathematical Physics"

Müller, Olaf, Dr. (Analysis II)

Duration of Project: 10/2018 - 10/2018

The Andrejewski Day takes part in the frame of the conference "Stability Phenomena in Geometry and Mathematical Physics". There is special emphasis on Mathematical Physics in all talks of that day.

Analysis of functional Brain Connections by in vivo Optogenetics and Holography

Hegemann, Peter, Prof. Dr. (Experimental Biophysics)

Duration of Project: 11/2020 - 10/2023

The relationship between the function and connectivity of cortical circuits has been a long-standing theme in neuroscience. Although since decades ago the predominant pathways of cortical information processing in primary sensory area have been descr ...

Algorithms for lattice QCD and related models

Hasenbusch, Martin, (Theoretical Physics / Phenomenology of Elementary Particles beyond the Standard Model)

Duration of Project: 10/2016 - 09/2018

Die Gitter-QCD ist die etablierte Methode für theoretische Berechnungen zur starken Wechselwirkung jenseits der Störungstheorie. Um qualitative Resultate zu erhalten, werden aufwendige Monte-Carlo-Simulationen durchgeführt. Die Gitter-QCD hat sich in ...

Alexander von Humboldt Grant for Akinyemi Gabriel Omonijo: Climate and thermal bioclimate assessment of Ibadan, Nigeria

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

Duration of Project: 09/2016 - 12/2017

The general objective of Dr Omanijo's research stay is to examine and analyse the climate and thermal bioclimate of Ibadan, NIgeria, using complete heat budget model approach to calculate physiologically equivalent temperature (PET) and universal the ...

Agricultural Land Markets - Efficiency and Regulation"

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

Duration of Project: 01/2021 - 12/2023

Die Dynamik auf landwirtschaftlichen Bodenmärkten veränderte sich in Deutschland substanziell in den vergangenen zehn Jahren in denen sowohl die Pacht- als auch die Kaufpreise für Ackerland massiv angestiegen sind. Dieser Preisanstieg wirkte sich auf ...

Activation of SF6 at Rhodium and Platinum Complexes

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

Duration of Project: 03/2019 - 02/2022

The proposal deals with the activation of SF6 at rhodium and platinum compounds. Based on stoichiometric model reactions and mechanistic studies, the development of catalytic processes is envisaged. For the degradation or derivatization of SF6 at rho ...

AvH - Chung-Yang Huang

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

Duration of Project: 10/2016 - 09/2018

Research Grant from the Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung Dr. Dennis Chung-Yang Huang

Ballistischer Wärmetransport in dünnen und ultradünnen Oxidschichten

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

Duration of Project: 12/2016 - 06/2020

CL UniCat / Ü: Unifying Concepts in Catalysis

SZF-1, Leitung Servicezentrum Forschung, (Management)

Duration of Project: 11/2017 - 12/2018

Digitalisierung der Zeitschrift für Geographiedidaktik

Bagoly-Simó, Péter, Prof. Dr. (Didactics of Geography)

Duration of Project: 08/2018 - 12/2020

Die Umstellung der Zeitschrift für Geographiedidaktik von Print auf ein digitales Format soll in den nächsten Monaten auf den Weg gebracht werden.

Diamant-Nanophotonik für On-Chip Quantentechnologie

Schröder, Tim, Dr. (Junior Research Groups)

Duration of Project: 10/2018 - 09/2023

Atomar dünn beschichtete poröse Elektroden als neuartige Katalysatoren für die Wasser-Elektrolyse

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

Duration of Project: 11/2018 - 10/2021

Wasserstoffbasierte Technologien der elektrochemischen Stoff- und Energieumwandlung können einen wesentlichen Beitrag bei der Erhöhung des Anteils erneuerbarer Energien liefern und damit zur Erreichung der klimapolitischen Ziele der Bundesregierung i ...