Research Units of the German Research Foundation (DFG)

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Research Units of the German Research Foundation (DFG)

DFG Research Units are research networks in which several outstanding researchers work together on a research topic. They can use various programme modules to prioritise subject-specific requirements and establish new research directions. The funding period is up to eight years.

GEPRIS

Humboldt-Universität as host university for DFG Research Units

Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin is the host university for following 3 DFG Research Units:


FOR 2537:	Emerging grammars in language contact situations: A comparative approach (RUEG) Spokesperson: Prof. Dr. Heike Wiese Faculty of Language, Literature and Humanities Department of German Studies and Linguistics Start of the project: 05/2018 GEPRIS
FOR 5187:	Towards precision psychotherapy for non-respondent patients: From signatures to predictions to clinical utility Spokesperson: Prof. Dr. Ulrike Lüken Faculty of Life Sciences Department of Psychology Start of the Project: 08/2022 GEPRIS Project website
FOR 5363:	KI-FOR Fusing Deep Learning and Statistics towards Understanding Structured Biomedical Data Spokesperson: Prof. Dr. Sonja Greven Faculty of Economics and Business Administration Start of the project: 01/2023 GEPRIS Project website

Humboldt-Universität as a participating university in DFG Research Units

Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin participates in the following 22 Research Units:


FOR 2841:	Beyond the Exome – Identifying, Analyzing, and Predicting the Disease Potential of Non-Coding DNA Variants Host university: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin Spokesperson: Prof. Dr. Markus Schülke-Gerstenfeld Participating Faculties and Departments of Humboldt-Universität: Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences Department of Computer Science Faculty of Life Sciences Department of Biology Start of the project: 03/2020 GEPRIS
FOR 2898:	Military Cultures of Violence - Illegitimate Military Violence from the Early Modern Period to the Second World War Host university: University Potsdam Spokesperson: Prof. Dr. Sönke Neitzel Participating Faculty and Department of Humboldt-Universität: Faculty of Arts and Humanities Department of History Start of the project: 01/2021 GEPRIS Project website
FOR 2936:	Climate Change and Health in Sub-Saharan Africa Spokesperson: Prof. Dr. Rainer Sauerborn Participating Faculty and Department of Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin: Faculty of Life Sciences Albrecht Daniel Thaer-Institute of Agricultural and Horticultural Sciences Start of the project: 03/2020
	GEPRIS Project Website
FOR 3031:	in#sane: The contemporary history of an eroding difference Host university: Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf Spokesperson: Prof. Dr. Heiner Fangerau Participating Faculty and Department of Humboldt-Universität: Faculty of Arts and Humanities Department of European Ethnology Start of the project: 09/2021 GEPRIS Project website
FOR 5022:	Medicine and the temporal structure of the good life Host university: Universität Göttingen Spokesperson: Prof. Dr. Claudia Wiesemann Participating Faculty and Department of Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin Faculty of Language, Literature and Humanities Department of German Literature Start of the project: 05/2021 GEPRIS Project website
FOR 5177:	The Dynamics of the Spine: Mechanics, Morphology and Motion towards a comprehensive Diagnosis of Low Back Pain Host university: Charité Spokesperson: Prof. Dr. Hendrik Schmidt Participating Faculty and Department of Humboldt-Universität: Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences Department of Sports Sciences Start of the project: 01/2022 GEPRIS Project website
FOR 5208:	Model-based determination of nonlinear properties of piezoceramics for high-power ultrasound applications (NEPTUN) Host university: University Paderborn Spokesperson: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Bernd Henning Participating Faculty and Department of Humboldt-Universität: Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences Department of Mathematics Start of the project: 06/2022 GEPRIS Project website
FOR 5215:	Bioinspired oxidation catalysis with iron complexes Host university: University Bielefeld Spokesperson: Prof. Dr. Thorsten Glaser Participating Faculty and Department of Humboldt-Universität: Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences Department of Chemistry Start of the project: 07/2022 GEPRIS Project website
FOR 5228:	Membrane trafficking processes underlying presynaptic proteostasis Host university: Leibniz Institute for Neurobiology Spokesperson: Dr. Michael R. Kreutz Participating Faculty and Department of Humboldt-Universität: Faculty of Life Sciences Department of Biology Start of the project: 10/2021 GEPRIS Project website
FOR 5234:	Multiple Competition in the Higher Education System: Constitution of Protagonists, Coordination of Action and Consequences Host university: University Kassel Spokesperson: Prof. Dr. Georg Krücken Participating Faculty and Department of Humboldt-Universität: Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences Department of Education Studies Start of the project: 07/2021 GEPRIS Project website
FOR 5289:	From Imprecision to Robustness in Neural Circuit Assembly Host university: Freie Universität Berlin Spokesperson: Professor Dr. Peter Robin Hiesinger Participating Faculty and Department of Humboldt-Universität: Faculty of Life Sciences Department of Biology Start of the project: 01/2023 GEPRIS Project website
FOR 5323:	Aetiologies: Founding Narratives in Literary, Scholarly, and Scientific Discourses Host university: Freie Universität Berlin Spokesperson: Prof. Dr. Susanne Gödde Participating Faculty of Humboldt-Universität: Faculty of Theology Start of the project: 10/2023 GEPRIS Project website
FOR 5389:	Contextual influences on dynamic belief updating in volatile environments: Basic mechanisms and clinical implications Host university: Universität Hamburg Spokesperson: Prof. Dr. Tania Lincoln Participating Faculty and Department of Humboldt-Universität: Faculty of Life Sciences Department of Psychology Start of the project: 02/2024 GEPRIS Project Website
FOR 5425:	Urban expansion in times of re-urbanization - new suburbanism? Host university: Universität Kassel Spokesperson: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Uwe Altrock Participating Faculty and Department of Humboldt-Universität: Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences Department of Geography Start of the project: 11/2023 GEPRIS Project Website
FOR 5434:	Information Abstraction During Sleep Host university: Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen Spokesperson: Prof. Dr. Jan Born Participating Faculty and Department of Humboldt-Universität: Faculty of Life Sciences Department of Psychology Start of the project: 04/2023 GEPRIS
FOR 5495:	SOURCED – Process Mining on Distributed Event Sources Host university: Universität Bayreuth Spokesperson: Prof. Dr. Agnes Koschmider Participating Faculty and Department of Humboldt-Universität: Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences Department of Computer Science Start of the project: 07/2023 GEPRIS Project website
FOR 5500:	Collaborations: Assemblages, Articulations, Alliances Host university: Universität Potsdam Spokesperson: Prof. Dr. Dirk Wiemann Participating Faculty and Department of Humboldt-Universität: Faculty of Arts and Humanities Department of European Ethnology Start of the project: 01/2025 GEPRIS Project website
FOR 5501:	A social-ecological systems approach to inform ecosystem restoration in rural Africa Host university: Leuphana Universität Lüneburg Spokesperson: Prof. Dr. Jörn Fischer Participating Faculty and Department of Humboldt-Universität: Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences Departement of Geography Start of the project: 10/2023 GEPRIS Project website
FOR 5582:	Modern Foundations of Scattering Amplitudes Host university: Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn Spokesperson: Prof. Dr. Claude Duhr Participating Faculty and Department of Humboldt-Universität: Faculty of Life Sciences Department of Biology Start of the project: 10/2024 GEPRIS
FOR 5622:	Big Structural Change Host university: Universität Hamburg Spokesperson: Prof. Dr. Lydia Mechtenberg Participating Faculty and Department of Humboldt-Universität: Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences Department of Social Sciences Start of the project: 01/2025 GEPRIS
FOR 5675:	Labour market transformation: Scarcity, Mismatch, and Policy Host university: Freie Universität Berlin Spokesperson: Prof. Dr. Peter Haan Participating Faculty of Humboldt-Universität: Faculty of Economics and Business Administration Start oft he project: 01/2025
FOR 5705:	NeuroFlame - Defence and demise of inflamed neurons Host university: Universität Hamburg Spokesperson: Professor Dr. Manuel A. Friese Participating Faculty and Department of Humboldt-Universität: Faculty of Life Sciences Department of Biology Start of the project: 01/2025

Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

Humboldt-Universität as host university for DFG Research Units

FOR 2537:

Emerging grammars in language contact situations: A comparative approach (RUEG)

FOR 5187:

Towards precision psychotherapy for non-respondent patients: From signatures to predictions to clinical utility

FOR 5363:

KI-FOR Fusing Deep Learning and Statistics towards Understanding Structured Biomedical Data

Humboldt-Universität as a participating university in DFG Research Units

FOR 2841:

Beyond the Exome – Identifying, Analyzing, and Predicting the Disease Potential of Non-Coding DNA Variants

FOR 2898:

Military Cultures of Violence - Illegitimate Military Violence from the Early Modern Period to the Second World War

Host university: University PotsdamSpokesperson: Prof. Dr. Sönke NeitzelParticipating Faculty and Department of Humboldt-Universität:Faculty of Arts and HumanitiesDepartment of History

Start of the project: 01/2021

FOR 2936:

Climate Change and Health in Sub-Saharan Africa

Spokesperson: Prof. Dr. Rainer SauerbornParticipating Faculty and Department of Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin:Faculty of Life SciencesAlbrecht Daniel Thaer-Institute of Agricultural and Horticultural Sciences

Start of the project: 03/2020

FOR 3031:

in#sane: The contemporary history of an eroding difference

Host university: Heinrich-Heine-Universität DüsseldorfSpokesperson: Prof. Dr. Heiner FangerauParticipating Faculty and Department of Humboldt-Universität:Faculty of Arts and HumanitiesDepartment of European Ethnology

Start of the project: 09/2021

FOR 5022:

Medicine and the temporal structure of the good life

Host university: Universität GöttingenSpokesperson: Prof. Dr. Claudia WiesemannParticipating Faculty and Department of Humboldt-Universität zu BerlinFaculty of Language, Literature and HumanitiesDepartment of German Literature

Start of the project: 05/2021

FOR 5177:

The Dynamics of the Spine: Mechanics, Morphology and Motion towards a comprehensive Diagnosis of Low Back Pain

Host university: CharitéSpokesperson: Prof. Dr. Hendrik SchmidtParticipating Faculty and Department of Humboldt-Universität:Faculty of Humanities and Social SciencesDepartment of Sports Sciences

Start of the project: 01/2022

FOR 5208:

Model-based determination of nonlinear properties of piezoceramics for high-power ultrasound applications (NEPTUN)

Host university: University PaderbornSpokesperson: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Bernd HenningParticipating Faculty and Department of Humboldt-Universität:Faculty of Mathematics and Natural SciencesDepartment of Mathematics

Start of the project: 06/2022

FOR 5215:

Bioinspired oxidation catalysis with iron complexes

FOR 5228:

Membrane trafficking processes underlying presynaptic proteostasis

FOR 5234:

Multiple Competition in the Higher Education System: Constitution of Protagonists, Coordination of Action and Consequences

FOR 5289:

From Imprecision to Robustness in Neural Circuit Assembly

FOR 5323:

Aetiologies: Founding Narratives in Literary, Scholarly, and Scientific Discourses

FOR 5389:

Contextual influences on dynamic belief updating in volatile environments: Basic mechanisms and clinical implications

FOR 5425:

Urban expansion in times of re-urbanization - new suburbanism?

FOR 5434:

Information Abstraction During Sleep

FOR 5495:

SOURCED – Process Mining on Distributed Event Sources

FOR 5500:

Collaborations: Assemblages, Articulations, Alliances

FOR 5501:

A social-ecological systems approach to inform ecosystem restoration in rural Africa

FOR 5582:

Modern Foundations of Scattering Amplitudes

FOR 5622:

Big Structural Change

FOR 5675:

Labour market transformation: Scarcity, Mismatch, and Policy

FOR 5705:

NeuroFlame - Defence and demise of inflamed neurons

Host university: University Potsdam
Spokesperson: Prof. Dr. Sönke Neitzel
Participating Faculty and Department of Humboldt-Universität:
Faculty of Arts and Humanities
Department of History

Spokesperson: Prof. Dr. Rainer Sauerborn
Participating Faculty and Department of Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin:
Faculty of Life Sciences
Albrecht Daniel Thaer-Institute of Agricultural and Horticultural Sciences

Host university: Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf
Spokesperson: Prof. Dr. Heiner Fangerau
Participating Faculty and Department of Humboldt-Universität:
Faculty of Arts and Humanities
Department of European Ethnology

Host university: Universität Göttingen
Spokesperson: Prof. Dr. Claudia Wiesemann
Participating Faculty and Department of Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Faculty of Language, Literature and Humanities
Department of German Literature

Host university: Charité
Spokesperson: Prof. Dr. Hendrik Schmidt
Participating Faculty and Department of Humboldt-Universität:
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
Department of Sports Sciences

Host university: University Paderborn
Spokesperson: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Bernd Henning
Participating Faculty and Department of Humboldt-Universität:
Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences
Department of Mathematics