DFG – Research units

The German Research Foundation’s “Research groups” programme allows several outstanding scientists to work together on a research task. This opportunity to work in such close partnership can often help research groups to establish new working directions. There is, of course, a clear expectation here for the scientific quality and originality of the project to be at an international level, and for results to go beyond what would be expected with individual funding. These programmes generally run for six years (two periods of three years each).

In addition to the traditional research groups, there are also the “Clinical research groups” and “Postgraduate research groups in the humanities and social sciences”.

DFG research groups at the UDE

Acronym	Title \| Coordination \| Faculties	Duration from
FOR 2284	Model-based scalable gas-phase synthesis of complex nanoparticles Coordination: Prof. Dr. Christof Schulz, Faculty of Engineering	2015
FOR 2242	Academic learning and study success in the entry phase of science and technology study programs (ALSTER) Coordination: Prof. Dr. Elke Sumfleth, Faculty of Chemistry; Prof. Dr. Detlev Leutner, Faculty of Educational Sciences	2015
FOR 1993	Multi-functional conversion of chemical species and energy Coordination: Prof. Dr. Burak Atakan, Fakultät für Ingenieurwissenschaften	2013
FOR 1509	Ferroische Funktionsmaterialien – Mehrskalige Modellierung und experimentelle Charakterisierung Coordination: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Jörg Schröder, Faculty of Engineering	2012

UDE involvement in ongoing DFG research groups

Acronym	Title \| City \| Coordination \| Contact UDE \| Faculties	Duration from
FOR 2161	Organized Creativity – Practices for Inducing and Coping with Uncertainty Coordination: Professor Dr. Jörg Sydow, Freie Universität Berlin Contact UDE: Professor Dr. Sigrid Quack, Faculty of Social Sciences	2016
FOR 2240	(Lymph) Angiogenesis And Cellular Immunity In Inflammatroy Deseases Of The Eye Coordination: Prof. Dr. Claus Cursiefen, University of Cologne Contact UDE: Prof. Dr. Arnd Heiligenhaus	2015
FOR 2123	Sphingolipid Dynamics in Infection Control Coordination: Professor Dr. Sibylle Schneider-Schaulies, Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg Coontact UDE: Professor Dr. Erich Gulbins, Faculty of Medicine	2014
FOR 1961	Mature T-cell Lymphomas - mechanisms of perturbed clonal T-cell homeostasis Coordination: Prof. Dr. Martin-Leo Hansmann, University Hospital Frankfurt Contact UDE: Prof. Dr. Ralf Küppers, Faculty of Medicine	2013
FOR 1700	Metallic nanowires on the atomic scale: Electronic and vibrational coupling in real world systems (Hannover) Coordination: Prof. Dr. Herbert Pfnür, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Universität Hannover Contact UDE: Professor Dr. Uwe Bovensiepen, Faculty of Physics	2012
FOR 1616	Dynamics and Interactions of Semiconductor Nanowires for Optoelectronics (Jena; Leipzig) Coordination: Prof. Dr. Carsten Ronning, Friedrich Schiller University Jena Contact UDE: Dr.-Ing. Werner Prost, Faculty of Engineering	2012
FOR 1581	Extinction Learning: Behavioural, Neural and Clinical Mechanisms (Bochum) Coordination: Prof. Dr. Onur Güntürkün, Ruhr-Universität Bochum Contact UDE: Prof.Dr. Prof. Dr. Manfred Schedlowski, Faculty of Medicine	2011

Discontinued DFG research groups

FOR 1328	Erwartungen und Konditionierung als Basisprozesse der Placebo- und Nocebo-Reaktion: Von der Neurobiologie zur klinischen Anwendung (bis 2014)
FOR 511	Naturwissenschaftlicher Unterricht (bis 2013)
KFO 117	Optimierung der Leberlebendspende (bis 2011)