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Junior Research Groups

The Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) supports through different thematic research projects the setup of junior research groups. 

Current Projects

  • FiRe-UPec: Exploiting host pathways to treat antibiotic resistant uropathogenic Escherichia coli infections (Dr. Carmen Aguilar – Institute for Molecular Infection Biology / Research Center for Infectious Diseases, Funding since 2022)

  • Qecs - Quantenpunkte als deterministische effiziente Clusterzustandsquellen (Dr. Tobias Huber-Loyola – Chair of Technical Physics, Funding since 2022)

Qualified young researchers have the opportunity to qualify for a university professorship over a period of six years by leading a junior research group on their own responsibility.

Current Projects

  • Behavioural strategies and neural mechanisms for robust navigation (Dr. Hannah Haberkern – Chair of Behavioral Physiology & Sociobiology, Funding since 2023)

  • Single-cell roadmap of megakaryocyte development (Dr. Zoltan Nagy – Rudolf Virchow Center / Chair of Experimental Biomedicine I, Funding since 2023)

  • Evolution of Social Wound Care in Ants (Dr. Erik Frank – Biocenter / Chair of Animal Ecology and Tropical Biology, Funding since 2023)

  • Continuous Order Transformations: A Bridge Between Ordinal Analysis, Reverse Mathematics, and Combinatorics (Jun.-Prof. Dr. Anton Freund – Fakulty of Mathematics and Computer Science / Insitute of Mathematics, Funding since 2021)

  • A Novel Approach in Neuropharmacology: Targeting GABA(A)R-Associated Proteins (Dr. Hans Micheal Maric – Biocenter / Rudolf Virchow Center / Chair of Biotechnology and Biophysics, Funding since 2021) 

  • Neural mechanisms enabling context-dependent sensorimotor flexibility (Dr. Jan Ache – Biocenter / Chair of Neurobiology and Genetics, Funding since 2020)

  • The Hittite Historical Annals: Origins, Purpose, and Afterlife (Dr. James Burgin – Faculty of Arts / Chair of Ancient Near Eastern Studies, Funding since 2020)

  • Functional Chiral Four-Coordinate Boron Compounds (Jun.-Prof. Dr. Agnieszka Nowak-Król – Faculty of Chemistry and Pharmacy / Institute of Inorganic Chemistry / Center for Nanosystems Chemistry, Funding since 2019)

  • Practical Reasons before Kant (1720-1780) (Dr. Sonja Schierbaum – Faculty of Human Sciences / Institute for Philosophy, Funding since 2019)

  • Controlled Degradable Nanocarriers for Reprogramming the Tumor Microenvironment Towards Anti-Cancer Immunity (Prof. Dr. Lutz Nuhn – Faculty of  Chemistry and Pharmacy / Chair of Macromolecular Chemistry, Funding since 2018)