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:
- SFB 796: Reprogramming of host cells by microbial effectors
- SFB 953: Synthetic Carbon Allotropes
- SFB 1181: Checkpoints for Resolution of Inflammation
- SFB / Transregio 130: B cells: Immunity and Autoimmunity
- SFB / Transregio 154: Mathematical Modelling, Simulation and Optimisation Using the Example of Gas Networks
- FOR 816: Biodiversity and Sustainable Management of a Megadiverse Mountain Ecosystem in South-Ecuador
- FOR 832: Regulators of the Humoral Immune Response
- FOR 894: Fundamental Flow Analysis of the Human Voice
- FOR 1234: iBeetle: Functional genomics of insect embryogenesis and metamorphosis
- FOR 1548: Geometry and Physics of Spatial Random Systems
- 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)
- GRK 1161: Disperse Systems for Electronic Applications
- GRK 1660: Key Signals of Adaptive Immune Response
- 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 of SFB 643: Strategies of cellular immune intervention
- GRK of SFB 796: Erlangen School of Molecular Communication
- GRK of SFB 1181: Checkpoints for Resolution of Inflammation
- 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
- SPP 527: Integrated Ocean Drilling Program/Ocean Drilling Program (IODP/ODP)
- SPP 1158: Antartic 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.