DFG-funded large-scale projects & Investigator-focused funding
Here you will find an overview of DFG-coordinated programmes at the University of Wuppertal.
Collaborative Research Centres
Prof Dr Birgit Jacob (Spokesperson)
School of Mathematics and Natural Sciences
Functional Analysis
Funding since 2025
Prof. Dr Karl-Heinz Kampert (project participant)
School of Mathematics and Natural Sciences
Particle Physics
Link
Funding: since 2022
Prof. Dr Bilal Gökce (project participant)
School of Mechanical Engineering and Safety Engineering
Chair of Materials Science and Additive Manufacturing
Link
Funding: since 2020
Prof. Dr Patrick Sahle (project participant)
School of Humanities and Cultural Studies - History
Department of Digital Humanities
Link
Funding of the sub-project: since 2020
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Tibor Jager (project participant)
Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Information Technology and Media Technology
Teaching and research focus "IT Security and Cryptography"
Link
Participation of Prof. Dr.-Ing. Jager in sub-projects: since 2019
Prof. Dr Ullrich Pfeiffer (project participant)
Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Information Technology and Media Technology
High-frequency systems in communication technology
Link
Funding: since 2017
Dr Stefan Hinterwimmer (project participant)
School of Humanities and Cultural Studies
German Studies Group
Link
Funding: since 2017
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Arne Röttger (project participant)
Faculty of Mechanical and Safety Engineering
New Manufacturing Technologies and Materials
Link
Funding: 2010 - 2022
Prof. Dr Swantje Bargmann (project participant)
School of mechanical engineering and safety engineering
Computer-aided modelling in product development
Link
Funding: 2012 - 2020
DFG Research Training Groups at the University of Wuppertal
Spokesperson: Prof Dr Volker Remmert
Link
Funding: since 2022
Spokesperson of the DFG Research Training Group: Prof. Dr Jens Hornbostel
(since 01.12.2022)
Vice Spokesperson of the DFG Research Training Group: Prof. Dr Stefan
Schröer, Heinrich Heine University (since 01.12.2022)
Press release
Press release on the extension
Funding: since 2018
Conditions and forms of transformation and modelling: a transdisciplinary perspective
Spokesperson for the DFG Research Training Group: Prof. Dr. Jochen Johrendt
Press release
Funding: since 2016
Associate member: Prof Dr Ullrich Pfeiffer
Link
Funding: 2015 - 2020
Associate member: Prof Dr Ullrich Pfeiffer
Link
Funding: 2009 - 2018
DFG Priority Programmes at the University of Wuppertal
INtegrated TERahErtz sySTems enabling novel functionality
Coordinator: Prof Ullrich Pfeiffer
Funding: since 2022
Project participant: Prof. Dr Matthias Bolten
Funding of the sub-project: since 2021
Project participant: Prof. Dr Helmut Maier
Funding: since 2020
Perovskite semiconductors: from fundamental properties to devices
Project participant: Prof Dr Thomas Riedl
Funding: since 2019
Materials for Additive Manufacturing (MATframe)
Vice spokesperson and project participant: Prof. Dr Bilal Gökce
Funding since 2022
Cyclic deterioration of High-Performance Concrete in an experimental-virtual lab
Project participant: Prof Dr Steffen Anders
Funding: since 2017
Homotopy theory and algebraic geometry
Project participant: Prof. Dr Jens Hornbostel
Funding: since 2015
Electromagnetic sensors for life sciences (ESSENCE)
Project participant: Prof Dr Ullrich Pfeiffer
Funding: since 2015
Infrastructure Priority Programmes - Atmospheric and Earth system research with the "High Altitude and Long Range Research Aircraft" (HALO)
Project participants: Prof Dr Ralf Koppmann, Prof Dr Michael C. Volk, Dr Marc Krebsbach
Funding: since 2007
Volunteered Geographic Information: Interpretation, Visualisation and Social Computing
Project participant: Prof. Dr.-Ing Frank Fiedrich
Funding: 2016 - 2020
Dynamic Simulation of Interconnected Solids Processes
Project participant: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Eberhard Schmidt
Funding: 2013 - 2020
High Frequency Flexible Bendable Electronics for Wireless Communication Systems (FFLexCom)
Project participants: Prof. Dr Ullrich Pfeiffer, Prof. Dr Thomas Riedl, Prof. Dr Ullrich Scherf
Funding: 2013 - 2018
Wireless Ultra-High Speed Communication for Mobile Internet Access: "Wireless 100 Gb/s and beyond"
Project participant: Prof Dr Ullrich Pfeiffer
Funding: 2013 - 2017
Particles in contact - micromechanics, microprocess dynamics and particle collectives
Project participant: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Eberhard Schmidt
Funding: 2010 - 2017
Compressed sensing in information processing
Project participant: Prof. Dr Ullrich Pfeiffer
Funding: 2015 - 2016
DFG research groups at the university of Wuppertal
Spokesperson of the research group: Prof. Dr Francesco Knechtli
Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences
Theoretical Particle Physics
Funding: since 2021
Project management at the BUW: Prof Ulrich Königs
Spokesperson of the research group: Prof. Dr Albert Gerhards (Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn)
Faculty of Architecture and Civil Engineering
Architecture
Funding: since 2019
Project leader at the BUW: Prof Dr Julia Bornhorst
Spokesperson of the research group: Prof. Dr Tanja Schwerdtle (University of Potsdam)
School of Mathematics and Natural Sciences
Food Chemistry
Funding: since 2017
Spokesperson of the research group: Prof Dr Gregor Schiemann
school of humanities
Philosophy of Science
Funding: since 2016
Spokesperson of the research group: Prof Dr Andreas Klümper
School of Mathematics and Natural Sciences
Faculty of Physics
Funding: since 2015
Other DFG-funded large-scale projects
Core facility for high-speed 6G/THz radio exploration (6Gcore)
Project Leader: Prof Dr Ullrich Pfeiffer (Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Information Technology and Media Technology)
Link to the press release
Funding: since 2022
Major Instrumentation Initiatives "Terahertz Network Tester (T-Net)"
Project Leader: Prof Dr Ullrich Pfeiffer (Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Information Technology and Media Technology)
Link to the project homepage
Funding: since 2020
"Hybrid functionals for hybrid materials"
Junior Professor Dr Hilke Bahmann (School of Mathematics and Natural Sciences)
Funding: since 2019
"Terahertz Super-Resolution Imaging"
Project Leader: Prof. Dr Ullrich Pfeiffer (Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Information Technology and Media Technology)
Link to the project homepage
Link to the press release
Funding: since 2016
Project management: Prof. Dr Nils Helge Schebb (School of Mathematics and Natural Sciences)
Link to the DFG-GEPRIS page
Funding: in 2020
Project Leader: Prof. Dr Ullrich Pfeiffer (Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Information Technology and Media Technology)
Link to the DFG-GEPRIS page
Funding: in 2020
Project Leader: Prof. Dr Christian Zeitnitz (School of Mathematics and Natural Sciences)
Link to the project homepage
Funding: in 2019
Investigator-focused funding of the DFG
Influence of nanoparticle additivation on microstructure formation in Laser Powder Bed Fusion.
Funding since 2021
Hybrid Functionals for Hybrid Materials
Funding since 2019
Tailoring force-induced reaction pathways of mechanophores in polymer materials through energetic state and directionality
Funding since 2022
