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: "ExtremeLight for sensing and driving molecular CHirality(ELCH)".

SFB 1114: "Scale cascades in complex systems".

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

SFB 1249: "N-Heteropolycycles as functional materials".

  • Duration: 2021-2025 (first funding phase)
  • Participation of the University of Kassel: Prof. Dr. Claudia Backes
  • GEPRIS project description

TRR 138: "Dynamics of Security. Forms of securitization in historical perspective"

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

DFG Research Groups

FOR 5234: "Multiple Competition in the Higher Education System: Actor Constitution, Coordination of Actions, and Consequential Effects"

FOR 5425: "Urban Expansion in Times of Reurbanization - New (Sub-)Urbanity"

FOR 2724: "Thermal machines in the quantum world".

FOR 2432: "Social-Ecolocial Systems in the Indian Rural-Urban Interface: Functions, Scales, and Dynamics of Transition"

  • 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
  • GEPRIS project description

FOR 2816: "The Autotrophy-Heterotrophy Switch in Cyanobacteria: Coherent Decision-Making at Multiple Regulatory Layers".

FOR 5064: "The role of nature for human well-being in the social-ecological system of Kilimanjaro (Kili-SES)"

  • Duration: 2020-2025 (first funding phase, extension)
  • Participation University of Kassel: Prof. Dr. Andreas Thiel
  • GEPRIS project description

FOR 5254: "Sustainable learning: cognitive mechanisms and effective implementation in the classroom".

  • 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
  • GEPRIS project description

DFG Priority Programs

SPP 1984: Hybrid and multimodal energy systems: systems-theoretical methods for the transformation and operation of complex networks

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

SPP 1914: "Cyber-Physical Networking (CPN)".

  • Duration: 2019-2023 (second funding phase)
  • Participation University of Kassel: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Olaf Stursberg
  • GEPRIS project description

SPP 2041: "Computational Connectomics".

SPP 2086: "Surface Conditioning in Machining Processes".

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

SPP 2255: "Cultural Heritage Construction - Foundations of an engineering-based and networked preservation of historical monuments for the architectural heritage of high modernity".

  • Duration: 2024-2026 (second funding phase)
  • Participation University of Kassel: Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Bernhard Middendorf, Prof. Dr.-Ing. Werner Seim
  • GEPRIS project description

SPP 2256: "Variational methods for the prediction of complex phenomena in engineering structures and materials".

SPP 2322: "System ecology of soils - the microbiome and boundary conditions modulate energy discharge"

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

SPP 2378: "Resilience in Networked Worlds - Managing Failures, Overload, Attacks and the Unknown".

DFG Research Training Groups and other doctoral programs

GRK 2731: "INTERFACH - Professionalism and interaction practice in elementary school teaching".

GRK 2749: "multiscale clock s - Biological clocks on multiple time scales".

PK 056: JUST "Just and sustainable transformation

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

GRK 2050: "Privacy and Trust for Mobile Users"

  • Duration: 2020-2024 (second funding phase)
  • Participation University of Kassel: Prof. Dr. Gerrit Hornung, Prof. Dr. Jörn Lamla
  • GEPRIS project description

GRK 2686: Contradiction Studies: Constellations, Heuristics and Concepts of the Contradictory

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

National Research Data Infrastructure

NFDI 5: "NFDI4BioDiversity - Biodiversity, Ecology and Environmental Data".

Third-party funded junior research groups

AI junior research group: GAIN "Graphs in Artificial Intelligence and Neural Networks

AI junior research group: HyMeKI "Hybridization of Human and Artificial Intelligence in Knowledge Work

AI junior research group: RL4CES "Reinforcement Learning for Cognitive Energy Systems"

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

BMBF junior research group: "Bio4Act - Biogenic activated carbons and platform chemicals from residual biomass for the implementation of a sustainable circular bioeconomy"

Inorganic 2D nanomaterials as potential building blocks for supramolecular chemistry

Academy Projects

Burchard's Decree Digital: Working platform on text indexing and the history of impact of early and high medieval legal cultures

  • Duration: 2020-2037
  • Project Leader 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"

  • 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"

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

International Research Network: GPN "Global Partnership Network"

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

ERC - Starting Grant: Prof. Dr. Andra Milcu

ERC - Starting Grant: Prof. Dr. Benoit Merle

  • NanoHighSpeed. High-speed Deformation and Failure of Materials at the Nanometer Scale
  • Duration: 2021-2026
  • Cordis project description

    ERC - Consolidator Grant: Prof. Dr. Jochen Mikosch

    Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions: Dr. Prathiwi Widyatmi Putri

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

    AGISTIN - Advanced Grid Interfaces for innovative STorage INtegration

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

    SENERGY NETS - Increase the Synergy among different ENERGY NETworkS

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

    InterConnect - Interoperable Solutions Connecting Smart Homes, Buildings, and Grids

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

    LANDMARC - LAND-use based MitigAtion for Resilient Climate pathways

    BISON - Biodiversity and Infrastructure Synergies and Opportunities for European Transport Networks

    DecoIDEV - Decolonising Development: Research, Teaching and Practice

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

    BONEX - Boosting Nexus Framework Implementation in the Mediterranean - Subproject: Development of the theoretical framework for the water, energy, food and ecosystems nexus

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

     

    Other alliances

    BeBio2 - Resistance of bioplastics and biocomposites

    CoAct - Integrated urban-rural concept for the production of activated carbon and energy carriers from residual biomasses

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

    Extractivism - Investigation of Raw Material Extractivism in Latin America and the Maghreb

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

    U-high-3- Unbeschwert Urban Unterwegs

    TRIO - Transformative Mixed Crop Systems for One Health

    • Duration: 2024-2027
    • Project Leader University of Kassel: Prof. Dr. Miriam Athmann
    • Funding: State program LOEWE (priority)
    • Press release

    SMoLBits – Scalable Molecular Quantum Bits

    • Laufzeit: 2019-2023 (term extension)
    • Project Leader University of Kassel: Prof. Dr. Johann Peter Reithmaier
    • Funding: State program LOEWE (priority)
    • LOEWE project description 
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    LOEWE focus areas:

    GreenDairy - Integrated animal-plant-agricultural ecosystems.

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

    EmergenCity - The Emergency Responsive Digital City

    • Duration: 2024-2026
    • Participation University of Kassel: Prof. Dr. Gerrit Hornung, Prof. Dr. Oliver Hohlfeld
    • LOEWE project description