Outstanding research
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
- NanoHighSpeed. High-speed Deformation and Failure of Materials at the Nanometer Scale(Cordis project description)
- Duration: 2021-2026
ERC - Starting Grant: Prof. Dr. Daquing Wang
- MSpin. Molecular Spins for Quantum Technology (Further information)
- Duration: 2023-2028
ERC - Consolidator Grant: Prof. Dr. Jochen Mikosch
- c-TSD-p. Time-Resolved Structural Imaging of Chemical Transition State Dynamics(Cordis project description)
- Duration: 2021-2026
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