Research Training Groups
GRK 1014: Gender as a category of knowledge
Research in this group is focused on the relevance of gender to science, its role in the formation of scientific concepts and its entries as a category of knowledge.
Spokesperson:
Prof. Dr. Christina von Braun
Prof. Dr. Volker Hess (Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin)
Faculty of Arts III
Department of Cultural Studies
Cultural Theory Spezializing in Gender Issues and History
Sophienstr. 22-22a
D-10178 Berlin
Phone: +49 30 2093-8244
Fax: +49 30 2093-8258
E-Mail: CvBraun@culture.hu-berlin.de
Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Institute of the History of Medicine
Ziegelstr. 5-9
D-10117 Berlin
Phone: +49 30 450 529 031/051
Fax: +49 30 450 529 901
E-Mail: volker.hess@charite.de
Duration: 01/05 - 06/09
Homepage: http://www2.hu-berlin.de/gkgeschlecht/
GRK 1121: Genetic and immunological determinants of pathogen-host interactions
In this group biologists, medical and veterinary postgraduates from eight Berlin research institutions investigate molecular aspects of the interaction between viruses, bacteria and eucaryotic parasites and their hosts, especially their immune responses. A better understanding of these processes can pave the way towards the development of medication and vaccines against the causative organisms of infections.
Spokesperson:
Prof. Dr. Richard Lucius
Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences I
Department of Biology
Philippstr. 13 / Hannoversche Str. 2
D-10115 Berlin
Phone: +49 30 2093-6053
Fax: +49 30 2093-6051
E-Mail: richard.lucius@rz.hu-berlin.de
Duration: 04/05 - 03/14
Homepage: http://www.zibi-graduateschool-berlin.de/
GRK 1123: Cellular mechanisms of learning and memory consolidation in the hippocampal formation
The research group investigates cellular mechanisms in learning and the storage of information in memory. Understanding these processes is of great biomedical importance because they enable the organism to adjust to new environmental conditions irrespective of genetically determined patterns of behaviour. However, the mechanisms underlying these processes are liable to break down, and besides they are involved in various neurological and psychiatric disorders.
Spokesperson:
Prof. Dr. Uwe Heinemann
Institute of Neurophysiology
Charité, Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Tucholskystraße 2
D-10117 Berlin
Phone: +49 30 450-528091
E-Mail: uwe.heinemann@charite.de
Duration: 04/05 - 03/14
Homepage: http://www.charite.de/GRK1123/
GRK 1208: Hormonal regulation of energy metabolism, body weight and growth
In an interdisciplinary context some central aspects of the hormonal regulation of energy metabolism, of body weight and growth in highly developed mammals and humans are investigated. The hormones leptin, insulin, growth hormones, incretins and hormones of the thyroid gland are in the centre of the investigations.
Spokesperson:
Prof. Dr. Josef Köhrle
Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Department of Experimental Endocrinology
Schumannstr. 20/21
D-10117 Berlin
Phone: +49 30 450 021
Fax: +49 30 450
E-Mail: josef.koehrle@charite.de
Duration: 10/05 - 09/14
Homepage: http://www.endokrinologie-berlin.com/GK
GRK 1263: Multilevel constitutionalism - European experiences and global perspectives
The research group investigates issues involved in the application of law and its constitutionalization on a global level against the background of European experience. The investigations aim to explore possibilities and conditions for the creation and enforcement of law on an international scale taking account of the globalization processes as well as old and new security risks arising from organized international crime, terrorism and the decline of states.
Spokesperson:
Prof. Dr. Ingolf Pernice
Faculty of Law
Department of Public Law, Specializing in International Law and European Law
Unter den Linden 11
D-10117 Berlin
Phone: +49 30 2093-3773
Fax: +49 30 2093-3449
E-Mail: ingolf.pernice@rewi.hu-berlin.de
Duration: 04/06 - 03/15
Homepage: http://www.grakov-berlin.de
GRK 1324: Model-based development of technologies for self-organizing information systems for application to disaster management
The scientists in Metrik work at wireless sensor networks without a lavish central administration and wiring technology, operating at low cost as to construction and electricity consumption and based on the principle of self-organization. These novel infrastructures of communication are investigated with a view to their application as early warning systems of earthquakes, but also for their use in monitoring and information systems.
Spokesperson:
Prof. Dr. Joachim Fischer
Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences II
Department of Computer Sciences
Rudower Chaussee 25
D-12489 Berlin
Phone: +49 30 2093-3109
Fax: +49 30 2093-3112
E-Mail: fischer@informatik.hu-berlin.de
Duration: 04/06 - 03/15
Homepage: http://metrik.informatik.hu-berlin.de/grk-wiki/index.php/Hauptseite
GRK 1504: Mass, spectrum, symmetry: particle physics in the era of the large Hadron collider
While working in this group doctoral students familiar with experimenting, on the one hand, or with theory on the other will be acquainted with the sphere of research they are not used to. For the experimenting contingent there will primarily be research work at the Atlas Detector of the LHC. Besides the astrophysical groups conducting the IceCube experiments in the Antartic and H.E.S.S. researchers in Namibia are involved. The theoretical physicists, in turn, whose common denominator is the quantum field theory, work to find new approaches reaching beyond the standard model.
Spokesperson:
Prof. Dr. Jan Plefka
Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences I
Department of Physics
Newtonstr. 15
D-12489 Berlin
Phone: +49 30 2093-7620
Fax: +49 30 2093-7631
E-Mail: jan.plefka@physik.hu-berlin.de
Duration: 04/09 - 09/13
Homepage: http://www.masse-spektrum-symmetrie.de/
IGRK 1631: MyoGrad
Hereditary muscular dystrophy, cachexia caused by cancer, cardiac failure or age, immobility within the framework of intensive medical treatment become manifest in muscular wasting and loss of weight. They affect thousands of people suffering from muscular weakness from a certain age onwards. Within the framework of research in this group cell biological, molecular biological and clinical aspects of muscular disorders are investigated.
Spokesperson:
Prof. Dr. Simone Spuler
Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Campus Buch
Experimental and Clinical Research Center (ECRC)
Lindenberger Weg 80
D-13125 Berlin
Phone: +49 30 450-560260
Fax: +49 30 450-560982
E-Mail: simone.spuler@charite.de
Duration: 04/10 - 09/14
Homepage: http://www.charite-buch.de/myograd/
GRK 1651: Service-oriented architectures for the integration of software-based processes as demonstrated by the example of the health service and medical technology (SOAMED)
In this group doctoral students investigate software components which are to support and, at least partly, control communication in a complex network consisting of human beings, medical technology, data systems and medical organizations. Their research aims to increase the efficiency and reduce the cost of the health service.
Spokesperson:
Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Reisig
Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences II
Department of Computer Science
Rudower Chaussee 25
D-12489 Berlin
Phone: +49 30 2093-3065
Fax: +49 30 2093-3067
E-Mail: reisig@informatik.hu-berlin.de
Duration: 04/10 - 09/14
Homepage: https://www.informatik.hu-berlin.de/forschung/gebiete/soamed/
GRK 1659: Interdependencies in the regulation of markets
The research group investigates to what degree regulatory measures can identify interdependencies within and among the three classical market sections - product market, financial market and job market, especially feedback effects operating across markets and organizations. Besides, ways of regulating a market more efficiently once the feedback effects and independencies have been identified is another aspect of the investigations.
Spokesperson:
Prof. Dr. Roland Strausz
School of Business and Economics
Institute for Microeconomic Theory
Spandauer Straße 1
D-10178 Berlin
Tel.: +49 30 2093-5676
Fax: +49 30 2093-5938
E-Mail: roland.strausz@wiwi.hu-berlin.de
Duration: 10/11 - 03/16
Homepage: http://lehre.wiwi.hu-berlin.de/Professuren/vwl/mt/RTG/general-information-rtg/
GRK 1740: Dynamic phenomena in complex networks: fundamentals and applications
The focus within this first German-Brasilian research training group is on Amazonia, the rainforest and a better understanding of partial systems on earth in continuously changing conditions. The investigations are concentrated on the consequences which the deforestation of the area round the Amazon has on the region as a whole as well as on the climate worldwide, with different options of the further development being set up.
Spokesperson:
Prof. Dr. Jürgen Kurths
S-professor "Nonlinear Dynamics"
Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences I
Department of Physics
Newtonstr. 15
D-12489 Berlin
E-Mail: Juergen.Kurths@pik-potsdam.de
Duration: 10/11 - 03/16
Homepage: http://www.physik.hu-berlin.de/irtg1740
GRK 1772: Computer-based system biology
Patterns in the relationship of the structure, dynamics and function of biological systems are investigated in this group. Its work is aimed at developing new theoretical concepts and their application to current problems of cellular biology. It is to contribute to a better understanding of biological phenomena and processes. At the same time the interpretation of biological data is to be further improved and the development of new experimental and practice-related research strategies to be promoted.
Spokesperson:
Prof. Dr. Edda Klipp
Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences I
Department of Biology
Philippstr. 13 / Hannoversche Str. 2
D-10115 Berlin
Tel.: +49 30 2093-9040
Fax: +49 30 2093-8813
E-Mail: edda.klipp@rz.hu-berlin.de
Duration: 02/11 - 07/15
Homepage: http://www2.hu-berlin.de/biologie/theorybp/index.php?goto=PhD%20program%20CSB
IGRK 1800: Moduli und automorphe Formen: arithmetische und geometrische Aspekte
Spokesperson:
Prof. Dr. Jürg Kramer
Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences II
Department of Mathematics
Rudower Chaussee 25
D-12489 Berlin
Tel.: +49 30 2093-5815
Fax: +49 30 2093-5866
Duration: since 2012
GRK 1845: Stochastic analysis and applications in biology, finance and physics
In the framework of a Research Training Group thorough training is offered in probability theory and the theory of stochastic processes. Stochastic analysis, a branch of mathematics, is concerned with the investigation of mathematical models of random phenomena by methods of probability calculus and analytical techniques. It is used in almost all empirical sciences. Particular emphasis is placed on the development of new concepts and techniques of stochastic analysis which are to contribute substantially to the solution of many problems in these fields.
Spokesperson:
Prof. Dr. Peter Imkeller
Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences II
Department of Mathematics
Rudower Chaussee 25
D-12489 Berlin
Tel.: +49 30 2093-5850
Fax: +49 30 2093-5848
E-Mail: imkeller@math.hu-berlin.de
Duration: 10/12 - 03/17
