Outstanding research

Our scientists coordinate or participate in a large number of projects at national and international level. A selection of collaborations and other outstanding projects can be found on this page.

Projects and alliances

DFG Collaborative Research Centers and Transregios

SFB 1319 "Extreme light for sensing and driving molecular chirality" (ELCH)(GEPRIS project description)

  • Duration: 2022-2025 (second funding phase)
  • Spokesperson: Prof. Dr. Thomas Baumert

SFB 1114: "Scale cascades in complex systems"(GEPRIS project description)

  • Duration: 2022-2026 (third funding phase)
  • Participation of the University of Kassel: Prof. Dr. Dorothee Knees and Prof. Dr. Claudia Backes

SFB 1249: "N-Heteropolycycles as Functional Materials"(GEPRIS project description)

  • Duration: 2021-2025 (first funding phase)

TRR 138: "Dynamics of Security. Forms of securitization in historical perspective"(GEPRIS project description).

  • Duration: 2022-2025 (third funding phase)
  • Participation of the University of Kassel: Prof. Dr. Kai Ruffing

DFG Research Groups

FOR 5234 "Multiple Competition in the Higher Education System: Actor Constitution, Coordination of Actions, and Consequences"(GEPRIS project description).

  • Duration: 2021-2024 (first funding phase)
  • Spokesperson: Prof. Dr. Georg Krücken

FOR 5425 "Urban expansion in times of reurbanization - new (sub)urbanity?" (press release)

  • Duration: 2023-2027 (first funding phase)
  • Spokesperson: Prof. Dr. Uwe Altrock

FOR 2724: "Thermal machines in the quantum world"(GEPRIS project description)

  • Duration: 2022-2026 (second funding phase)
  • Participation University of Kassel: Prof. Dr. Kilian Singer

FOR 2432: "Social-Ecolocial Systems in the Indian Rural-Urban Interface: Functions, Scales, and Dynamics of Transition"(GEPRIS project description).

  • Duration: 2020-2024 (second funding phase)
  • Participation University of Kassel: Prof. Dr. Eva Schlecht, Prof. Dr. Andreas Bürkert, Prof. Dr. Tobias Plieninger, Prof. Dr. Andreas Thiel

FOR 2816: "The Autotrophy-Heterotrophy Switch in Cyanobacteria: Coherent Decision-Making at Multiple Regulatory Layers"(GEPRIS project description)

  • Duration: 2021-2025 (second funding phase)
  • Participation University of Kassel: Prof. Dr. Kristin Gutekunst

FOR 5064: "The Role of Nature for Human Wellbeing in the Kilimanjaro Socio-Ecological System (Klili-SES)"(GEPRIS project description)

  • Duration: 2020-2024 (first funding phase)
  • Participation University of Kassel: Prof. Dr. Andreas Thiel

FOR "Sustainable Learning: Cognitive Mechanisms and Effective Implementation in the Classroom"(press release)

  • Duration: 2022-2026 (first funding phase)
  • Participation University of Kassel:Prof. Dr. Mirjam Ebersbach, Prof. Dr. Ralf Rummer, Prof. Dr. Rita Borromeo Ferri , Prof. Dr. Frank Lipowsky, Prof. Dr. Martin Hänze

DFG Priority Programs

SPP 1984 Hybrid and multimodal energy systems: System-theoretical methods for the transformation and operation of complex grids(GEPRIS project description).

  • Duration: 2020-2023 (second funding phase)
  • Participation University of Kassel: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Martin Braun

SPP 1914" "Cyber-Physical Networking (CPN)" (GEPRIS project description)

  • Duration: 2019-2022 (second funding phase)
  • Participation University of Kassel: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Olaf Stursberg

SPP 2041: "Computational Connectomics"(GEPRIS project description)

  • Duration: 2021-2024 (second funding phase)
  • Participation University of Kassel: Prof. Dr. Monika Stengl

SPP 2086: "Surface Conditioning in Machining Processes"(GEPRIS project description)

  • Duration: 2021-2024 (second funding phase)
  • Participation University of Kassel: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Andreas Kroll, Prof. Dr.-Ing. Thomas Niendorf, Dr.-Ing. Wolfgang Zinn

SPP 2255: "Cultural Heritage Construction - Foundations of an engineering-based and networked heritage management for the architectural heritage of high modernity"(GPERIS project description)

  • Duration: 2021-2024 (first funding phase)
  • Participation University of Kassel: Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Bernhard Middendorf, Prof. Dr.-Ing. Werner Seim

SPP 2256: "Variational Methods for Prediction of Complex Phenomena in Structures and Materials in Engineering"(GEPRIS project description)

  • Duration: 2020-2023 (first funding phase)
  • Participation University of Kassel: Prof. Dr. Dorothee Knees

SPP 2333: "System ecology of soils - the microbiome and boundary conditions modulate energy discharge"(GEPRIS project description)

  • Duration: 2021-2024 (first funding phase)
  • Participation University of Kassel: Prof. Dr. Rainer Georg Jörgensen

SPP 2378:  "Resilience in Connected Worlds – Mastering Failures, Overload, Attacks, and the Unexpected" (GEPRIS project description)

  • Duration: 2022-2025 (frist funding phase)
  • Participation University of Kassel: Prof. Dr. Oliver Hohlfeld

DFG Research Training Groups and other doctoral programs

GRK 2731 "Professionalism and interaction practice in the elementary school classroom"(GEPRIS project description)

  • Duration: 2022-2026 (first funding phase)
  • Co-sponsor University of Kassel: Prof. Dr. Friederike Heinzel

GRK 2749 "Biological clocks on multiple time scales"(GEPRIS project description)

  • Duration: 2022-2026 (first funding phase)
  • Spokesperson: Prof. Dr. Monika Stengl

PK 056 JUST "Just and sustainable transformation"(project description)

  • Duration: 2023-2026
  • Spokesperson: Prof. Dr. Felix Welti

GRK 2050: "Privacy and trust for mobile users"(GEPRIS project description)

  • Duration: 2020-2024 (second funding phase)
  • Participation University of Kassel: Prof. Dr. Alexander Roßnagel, Prof. Dr. Jörn Lamla

GRK 2686: Contradiction Studies: Constellations, Heuristics and Concepts of Contradiction(GEPRIS project description)

  • Duration: 2022-2026 (first funding phase)
  • Participation University of Kassel: Professor Dr. Andreas Fischer-Lescano

National Research Data Infrastructure

NFDI 5: "NFDI4BioDiversity - Biodiversity, Ecology and Environmental Data"(GEPRIS project description)

  • Duration: 2020-2030
  • Participation University of Kassel: Prof. Dr. Birgit Gemeinholzer
  • Funding: DFG

Third-party funded junior research groups

Research Group GLOCALPOWER: Funds, tools & networks for an African energy transition (project page)

  • Duration: 2017-2023
  • Co-Project Management University of Kassel: Dr. Simone Claar

AI junior research group GAIN: "Graphs in Artificial Intelligence and Neural Networks (GAIN)(project page)

  • Duration: 2020-2024
  • Project Management University of Kassel: Dr. Josephine Thomas

AI junior research groupHyMeKI: "Hybridization of Human and Artificial Intelligence in Knowledge Work (HyMeKI)(project page)

  • Duration: from 2020
  • Project Management University of Kassel: Dr. Sarah Oeste-Reiß

AI junior research group RL4CES: "Reinforcement Learning for Cognitive Energy Systems"(more information)

  • Duration: 2022-2025
  • Project management University of Kassel: Dr. Christoph Scholz

Inorganic 2D nanomaterials as potential building blocks for supramolecular chemistry (GEPRIS project description).

  • Duration: 2016-2022
  • Project Management University of Kassel: Prof. Dr. Claudia Backes

Academy Projects

Burchard's Decree Digital: Working platform on text indexing and impact history of early and high medieval legal cultures(project page).

  • Duration: 2020-2037
  • Project Management University of Kassel: Prof. Dr. Ingrid Baumgärtner

International programs

International Research Center CALAS: Centro Maria Sibylla Merian de Estudios Latinoamericanas Avanzados / Maria Sibylla Merian Center for Advanced Latin American Studies (CALAS)(project page)

  • Duration: 2017-2025
  • Project Management University of Kassel: Prof. Dr. Angela Schrott and Prof. Dr. Hans-Jürgen Burchardt
  • Funding: BMBF

International Research Network ICDD: International Center for Development and Decent Work (ICDD)(project page)

  • Duration: 2019-2022
  • Project Management University of Kassel: Prof. Dr. Christoph Scherrer
  • Funding: BMZ

Global Partnership Network (GPN)(project page)

  • Duration: 2020-2024
  • Project Management University of Kassel: Prof. Dr. Aram Ziai
  • Funding: MBZ and DAAD

ERC - Starting Grant: Prof. Dr. Benoit Merle

ERC - Starting Grant: Prof. Dr. Daquing Wang

ERC - Consolidator Grant: Prof. Dr. Jochen Mikosch

Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions: Prof. Dr. Stefan Seuring (Cordis project description)

  • ReTraCE: Realising the Transition to the Circular Economy: Models, Methods and Applications
  • Duration 2018-2022

Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions: Dr. Prathiwi Widyatmi Putri (Cordis project description)

  • CO-Water: From Conflict to Co-production. A Grassroots-Led Model of Polycentric Water Governance in the Postcolonial South.
  • Duration: 2021-2024

AGISTIN - Advanced Grid Interfaces for innovative STorage INtegration(project description)

  • Duration: 2023-2026
  • Participation University of Kassel: Prof. Dr. Martin Braun

IntercropValuES - Developing Intercropping for agrifood Value chains and Ecosystem Services delivery in Europe and Southern countries(Project description)

  • Duration: 2023-2026
  • Participation University of Kassel: Prof. Dr. Maria Finckh

SENERGY NETS - Increase the Synergy among different ENERGY NETworkS(Project description)

  • Duration: 2022-2026
  • Participation University of Kassel: Prof. Dr. Martin Braun

INTAQT - INnovative Tools for Assessment and Authentication of chicken meat, beef and dairy products' QualiTies(Project description)

  • Duration: 2021-2026
  • Participation University of Kassel: Prof. Dr.Fenja Klevenhusen

InterConnect - Interoperable Solutions Connecting Smart Homes, Buildings and Grids(Project description)

  • Duration: 2019-2024
  • Participation University of Kassel: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Martin Braun

SustainSAHEL - Synergistic use and protection of natural resources for rural livelihoods through systematic integration of crops, shrubs and livestock in the Sahel(Project description)

  • Duration: 2020-2025
  • Participation University of Kassel: Prof. Dr. Eva Schlecht

LANDMARC - LAND-use based MitigAtion for Resilient Climate pathways(Project description)

  • Duration: 2019-2023
  • Participation University of Kassel: Prof. Dr. Eva Schlecht

BISON - Biodiversity and Infrastructure Synergies and Opportunities for European Transport Networks(Project description)

  • Duration: 2021-2027
  • Participation University of Kassel: Prof. Dr. Gert Rosenthal

DecoIDEV Decolonising Development: Research, Teaching and Practice(project description)

  • Duration: 2020-2024
  • Project Management University of Kassel: Prof. Dr. Aram Ziai

BONEX - Boosting Nexus Framework Implementation in the Mediterranean - Subproject: Developing the theoretical framework for the water, energy, food and ecosystems nexus(project description).

  • Duration: 2022-2025
  • Participation University of Kassel: Prof. Dr. Andreas Thiel

 

Other alliances

BeBio2 - Resistance of bioplastics and biocomposites (Project page)

  • Duration: 2022-2024
  • Project management University of Kassel: Prof. Dr. Hans-Peter Heim
  • Funding: BMEL

CoAct - Integrated urban-rural concept for the production of activated carbon and energy carriers from residual biomass(project page)

  • Duration: 2018-2023
  • Project Management University of Kassel: Prof. Dr. Michael Wachendorf
  • Funding: BMBF

Extractivism - Investigation of Raw Material Extractivism in Latin America and the Maghreb(project page)

  • Duration: 2021-2024
  • Project Management University of Kassel: Prof. Dr. Hans-Jürgen Burchardt
  • Funding: BMBF

Fields and Actors of Arts Education in Rural Areas" (FAkuBi) (project page)

  • Duration: 2019-2023
  • Project Management University of Kassel: Prof. Dr. Werner Thole
  • Funding: BMBF

U-hoch-3(project page)

  • Duration: 2019-2023
  • Project Management University of Kassel: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Ludger Schmidt
  • Funding: BMBF

SMoLBits - Scalable Molecular Quantum Bits(project description)

  • Duration: 2019-2022
  • Project Management University of Kassel: Prof. Dr. Johann Peter Reithmaier
  • Funding: State program LOEWE (focus)
LOEWE focus areas:

GreenDairy - Integrated animal-plant-agricultural ecosystems(project description).

  • Duration: 2022-2025
  • Participation University of Kassel: Prof. Dr. Maria Finckh, Prof. Dr. Michael Wachendorf
LOEWE Center:

EmergenCity - The Emergency Responsive Digital City(project description)

  • Duration: 2020-2023
  • Participation University of Kassel: Prof. Dr. Gerrit Hornung