DFG projects and programmes
The German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft / DFG) is the self-governing organisation for science and research in Germany.
Researchers of the Faculty of Sciences are decisively involved in the following research programmes:
Collaborate Research Centres (SFB) / Transregio
- SFB 814: Additive Manufacturing
- SFB 953: Synthetic Carbon Allotropes
- SFB 1181: Checkpoints for Resolution of Inflammation
- SFB 1411: Design of Particulate Products
- SFB 1452: Catalysis at Liquid Interfaces – CLINT
- SFB / Transregio 130: B cells: Immunity and Autoimmunity
- SFB / Transregio 154: Mathematical Modelling, Simulation and Optimisation Using the Example of Gas Networks
- SFB / Transregio 306: Quantum Cooperativity of Light and Matter – QuCoLiMa
DFG Research Units
- FOR 1660: Optical Design and Interconnection Technology for Assembly-Integrated Bus Systems
- FOR 1878: funCOS – Functional Molecular Structures on Complex Oxide Surfaces
- FOR 2179: MAD Soil – Microaggregates: Formation and turnover of the structural building blocks of soils
- FOR 2332: Temperature-related stresses as a unifying principle in ancient extinctions (TERSANE)
- FOR 2730: Environmental changes in biodiversity hotspot ecosystems of South Ecuador: RESPonse and feedback effECTs (RESPECT)
- FOR 2799: Receiving and Translating Signals via the gamma-delta T Cell Receptor
- FOR 2886: PANDORA – Pathways triggering AutoimmuNity and Defining Onset of early Rheumatoid Arthritis
- FOR 2990: The eROSITA View of Stellar Endpoints (eRO-STEP)
- FOR 2953: Sialic Acid as Regulator in Development and Immunity
- FOR 5499: Molecular Management of Solar Energy – Chemistry of MOST Systems (MOST)
Research Training Groups
- GRK 1896: In-Situ Microscopy with Electrons, X-rays and Scanning Probes
- GRK 1910: Medicinal Chemistry of Selective GPCR Ligands
- GRK 1962: Dynamic Interactions at Biological Membranes – From Single Molecules to Tissue
- GRK 2162: Neurodevelopment and CNS vulnerability
- GRK 2339: IntComSin Interfaces, Complex Structures, and Singular Limits in Continuum Mechanics – Analysis and Numerics
- GRK 2423: Fracture across Scales
- GRK 2504: Novel antiviral approaches: from small molecules to immune intervention
- GRK 2599: FAIR – Fine-Tuners of the Adaptive Immune Response
- GRK 2861: Planar Carbon Lattices
- GRK of SFB 796: Erlangen School of Molecular Communication
- GRK of SFB 1181: Checkpoints for Resolution of Inflammation
- GRK of SFB 1411: Design of Particulate Products
- GRK of SFB 1452: Catalysis at Liquid Interfaces – CLINT
- GRK of SFB / Transregio 130: B cells: Immunity and Autoimmunity
- GRK of SFB / Transregio 154: Mathematical Modelling, Simulation and Optimisation Using the Example of Gas Networks
- Integriertes Graduiertenkolleg des SFB / Transregio 306: Quantum Cooperativity of Light and Matter – QuCoLiMa
Priority Programmes (SPP)
- SPP 527: Integrated Ocean Drilling Program/Ocean Drilling Program (IODP/ODP)
- SPP 1158: Antarctic Research with Comparable Investigations in Arctic Sea Ice Areas
- SPP 1191: Ionic Liquids
- SPP 1253: Optimisation with Partial Differential Equations
- SPP 1372: Tibetan Plateau: Formation – Climate – Ecosystems
- SPP 1388: Representation Theory
- SPP 1415: Crystalline Non-Equilibrium Phase – Synthesis, Characterisation and In-situ Investigation of the Formation Mechanisms
- SPP 1458: High Temperature Superconductivity in Iron Particles
- SPP 1459: Graphene
- SPP 1463: Epigenetic regulation of normal hematopoiesis and its dysregulation in myeloid neoplasia
- SPP 1468: Osteoimmunology – IMMUNOBONE – A Program to Unravel the Mutual Interactions between the Immune System and Bone
- SPP 1506: Transport Processes at Fluidic Interfaces
- SPP 1590: Probabilistic Structures in Evolution
- SPP 1679: Dynamic Simulation of Interconnected Solids Processes
- SPP 1708: Material Synthesis near Room Temperature
- SPP 1807: Control of London dispersion interactions in molecular chemistry
- SPP 1840: Quantum Dynamics in Tailored Intense Fields (QUTIF)
- SPP 1889: Regional Sea Level Change and Society (SeaLevel)
- SPP 1928: Coordination Networks: Building Blocks for Functional Systems
- SPP 1929: Giant Interactions in Rydberg Systems (GiRyd)
You can find further information at the FAU website.