Third-Party Funded Projects

Mathematical model — © Patrick Pollmeier

German Research Foundation

The German Research Foundation (DFG) is the self-governing organization of science in Germany and also the country's largest funding institution for basic research. It is responsible for awarding the funding provided by the federal and state governments to outstanding researchers and promising research projects.

At a glance

7 Collaborative Research Centres (SFB) & Transregios

5 Research Training Groups

6 DFG Research Units

4 NFDI Projects

3 DFG Emmy Noether Junior Research Groups

Collaborative Research Centres and Transregios

Completed Projects: SFB 177: Sozialgeschichte des neuzeitlichen Bürgertums
SFB 216: Polarisation und Korrelation in atomaren Stoßkomplexen
SFB 223: Pathomechanismen zellulärer Wechselwirkungen
SFB 227: Prävention und Intervention im Kindes- und Jugendalter
SFB 343: Diskrete Strukturen in der Mathematik (in German)
SFB 360: Situated Artificial Communicators
SFB 549: Macromolecular Processing and Signalling in the Extracellular Matrix
SFB 584: The Political as Communicative Space in History
SFB 613: Physics of Single-Molecule Processes an of Molecular Recognition in Organic Systems
SFB 673: Alignment in Communication
SFB 686: Model-based control of homogenized low-temperature combustion
SFB 701 Spectral Structures and Topological Methods in Mathematics
SFB 882 From heterogeneities to inequalities

Research Training Groups

GRK 2225: World Politics: The Emergence of Political Arenas and Modes of Observation in World Society

GRK 2235: International Research Training Group "Searching for the regular in the irregular: Analysis of singular and random systems"

GRK 2650: Experiencing Gender. Constitution and Transformation of Being in the World

GRK 2865: CUDE: Coping with Uncertainty in Dynamic Economies

GRK 2951: Cross-Border Labour Markets: Transnational Market Makers, Infrastructures, Institutions

A group of young researchers sits around a round table in front of bookshelves and looks at a laptop — © Patrick Pollmeier

Completed Projects: GRK 150: Sozialgeschichte von Gruppen, Schichten, Klassen und Eliten

GRK 218: Genese, Strukturen und Folgen von Wissenschaft und Technik

GRK 231: Strukturbildungsprozesse

GRK 256: Aufgabenorientierte Kommunikation

GRK 518: Verhaltensstrategien und Verhaltensoptimierung

GRK 540: Jugendhilfe im Wandel

GRK 635: Bioinformatik

GRK 724: Auf dem Weg in die Wissensgesellschaft: Wissenschaft in Anwendungs- und Beratungskontexten

GRK 844: Weltgesellschaft - Die Herstellung und Repräsentation von Globalität

GRK 881: Quantenfelder und stark wechselwirkende Materie

GRK 884: Gruppenbezogene Menschenfeindlichkeit: Ursachen, Phänomenologie, Konsequenzen

GRK 1049: Archiv, Macht, Wissen - Organisieren, Kontrollieren, Zerstören von Wissensbeständen von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart

GRK 1132: Stochastics and Real World Models

GRK 1134: Economic Behaviour and Interaction Models

GRK 1620: Models of Gravity - Zusammenarbeit und Beteiligung am GRK der Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg

GRK 1906: Computational Methods for the Analysis of the Diversity and Dynamics of Genomes

GRK 2073: Integrating Ethics and Epistemology of Scientific Research - Joint Research Training Group of Bielefeld University and Leibniz University Hannover

DFG Research Units and Priority Programmes

Research Units

FOR 2692: Fundamental Aspects of Statistical Mechanics and the Emergence of Thermodynamics in Non-Equilibrium Systems (Participation)

FOR 3000: Ecology and Evolution of Intraspecific Chemodiversity of Plants (Coordination)

FOR 5215: Bioinspired Oxidation Catalysis with Iron Complexes (Coordination)

FOR 5303: Digital media in chronic disease self-management (DISELMA) (Participation)

FOR 5424: Modulation of olfaction: how recurrent circuits govern state-dependent behaviour (Participation)

FOR 5596: Unfolding the potential of S-adenosylmethionine-dependent enzyme chemistry (Participation)

Two researchers look through a microscope in the laboratory — © Patrick Pollmeier

Completed Research Units and Priority Programmes: Completed Research Units

FOR 2928: Refugee migration to Germany: a magnifying glass for broader public health challenges (PH-LENS, Coordination)

FOR 2495: Inductive Metaphysics (Participation)

FOR 2402: Rough Paths, Stochastic Partial Differential Equations and Related Topics (Participation)

FOR 2401: Optimization-Based Multiscale Control of Low-Temperature Combustion Engines (Participation)

FOR 1525: INUIT (Ice Nuclei Research Unit) (Participation)

Completed Priority Programmes

SPP 1999: Robust Argumentation Machines

SPP 1590 Probabilistic structures in Evolution

SPP 1391 Ultrafast Nanooptics

National Research Data Infrastructure (NFDI)

NFDI4BioDiversity - Biodiversity, Ecology & Environmental Data (Co-Applicant)

NFDI4Microbiota - National Research Data Infrastructure for Microbiota Research (Co-Applicant)

PUNCH4NFDI - Particles, Universe, NuClei & Hadrons for the NFDI (Co-Applicant)

BASE4NFDI - Basic Services for NFDI (Co-Applicant)

Plants grow up in parallel rows on wooden trellis rods — © Universität Bielefeld

Emmy Noether Independent Junior Researcher Groups

Prof. Dr. Stephan Hammer: New catalytic reaction development by laboratory evolution of protein-based catalysts

Prof. Dr. Tobias Hecker: Effects of violence and maltreatment on the development and well-being of children: Experimental approaches to studying the causal effects of maltreatment reduction (The EVIDENCE – Studies)

Prof. Dr. Fabian Wolff: Comparison Processes in Students’ Academic Self-Concept Formation

Portrait photo of Prof Dr Stephan Hammer in white lab coat — © Universität Bielefeld

Heisenberg Professorships

Prof. Dr. Maximilian Benz: Deutsche Literaturwissenschaft von den Anfängen bis 1700 (in German)

Prof. Dr. Daniela Schiek: Soziale Herkunft, Wohlfahrtsstaat und Individualisierung: Studien zu den Voraussetzungen elternunabhängiger Lebensverläufe (in German)

Portrait photo of Prof Dr Maximilian Benz — © Philipp Ottendörfer