Colloborative research centers (SFB)
- SFB 445: Nanoparticles from the gas phase: Creation, structure and properties (till 2010)
- SFB 475: Reduction of complexity in multivariate data structures (Dortmund, till 2009)
- SFB 491: Magnetic heterostructures: Spinstructure and spintransport (BO/UDE)
- SFB 616: Energy dissipation of surfaces
- SFB 627: Spatial world models for mobile context-aware applications NEXUS (Stuttgart)
- SFB 808: Our Way to Europe: Culture-Environment Interaction and Human Mobility in the Late Quaternary (Cologne)
- SFB 823: Statistical modelling of nonlinear dynamic processes
- SFB 876: Providing Information by Ressource-Constrained Data Analysis (Dortmund)
- SFB/TR 12: Symmetries and universality in mesoscopic systems (Köln)
- SFB/TR 45: Periods, moduli spaces and arithmetic of algebraic varieties (Mainz)
- SFB/TR 60: Mutual interaction of viruses with cells of the immune systems: from fundamental research to immunotherapy and vaccination