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Extraordinary professorships

In an extraordinary professorship, the university works together with a non-university research institution to appoint a professor. This professor generally has a leadership role at the research institution. This ensures that the non-university and university research institutions complement each other. 

Extraordinary professorships are based on a cooperation agreement that includes provisions on the professor’s teaching obligations and on costs and procedural rules for the joint appointment. 

At present, the following extraordinary professorships exist at Freie Universität Berlin:

  • Institute of Biology
    Freshwater Science
    Prof. Dr. Luc De Meester
    Leibniz-Institut für Gewässerökologie und Binnenfischerei
  • Institute of Biology
    Ecological Novelty
    Prof. Dr. Jonathan Jeschke
    Leibniz-Institut für Gewässerökologie und Binnenfischerei
  • Institute of Biology
    Entomology
    Prof. Dr. Dino Peter McMahon
    Bundesanstalt für Materialforschung und -prüfung (BAM)I
  • Institute of Biology
    Aquatic Evolutionary Ecology
    Prof. Dr. Jystina Wolinska
    Leibniz-Institut für Gewässerökologie und Binnenfischerei
  • Institute of Chemistry and Biochemistry
    Structure and Membrane Interaction
    Prof. Dr. Oliver Daumke
    Max-Delbrück-Centrum für Molekulare Medizin (MDC)
  • Institute of Chemistry and Biochemistry
    Applied Physical Chemistry. Functional Oxides
    Prof. Dr. Catherine Dubourdieu
    Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin
  • Institute of Chemistry and Biochemistry
    Molecular Pharmacology
    Prof. Dr. Volker Haucke
    Leibniz-Forschungsinstitut für Molekulare Pharmakologie (FMP)
  • Institute of Chemistry and Biochemistry
    Biomaterial Characterization
    Univ.-Prof. Dr. Nan Ma
    Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht (HZG Teltow)
  • Institute of Chemistry and Biochemistry
    Bioinformatics of RNA Structure and Transcriptome Regulation
    Prof. Dr. Irmtraud Meyer
    Max-Delbrück-Centrum für Molekulare Medizin (MDC)
  • Economics with a Focus on Empirical Finance
    Prof. Dr. Peter Haan
    Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW)
  • Economics with a Focus on Macroeconomics; Head of the Macroeconomics Department
    Univ.-Prof. Dr. Alexander Kriwoluzky
    Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW)
  • Economics with a Focus on Empirical Economic Research
    Prof. Dr. Carsten Schröder
    Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW)
  • Institute of Geological Sciences
    Interfaces-Geochemistry
    Prof. Dr. Liane Benning
    Helmholtz Centre Potsdam. GFZ  German Research Centre for Geosciences
  • Institute of Geological Sciences
    Geochemistry of Earth Surface Processes
    Prof. Dr. Friedhelm von Blanckenburg
    Helmholtz Centre Potsdam. GFZ  German Research Centre for Geosciences
  • Institute of Geological Sciences
    Experimental and Borehole Seismology
    Prof. Dr. Marco Bohnhoff
    Helmholtz Centre Potsdam. GFZ  German Research Centre for Geosciences
  • Institute of Geological Sciences
    Mineral Resources
    Prof. Dr. Sarah Gleeson
    Helmholtz Centre Potsdam. GFZ  German Research Centre for Geosciences
  • Institute of Geological Sciences
    Material and Environment
    Prof. Dr. Anna Gorbushina
    Bundesanstalt für Materialforschung und -prüfung
  • Institute of Geological Sciences
    Planetary Geophysics
    Prof. Dr. Heike Rauer
    Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR)
  • Institute of Geological Sciences
    Cosmogenic Nuclides
    Prof. Dr. Dirk Scherler
    Helmholtz Centre Potsdam. GFZ  German Research Centre for Geosciences
  • Institute of Geological Sciences
    Geo-Material Sciences/Crystallography
    Prof. Dr. Susan Schorr
    Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin
  • Institute of Geological Sciences
    Global Dynamic Earth Modeling
    Prof. Dr. Maik Thomas
    Helmholtz Centre Potsdam. GFZ  German Research Centre for Geosciences
  • Institute of Geological Sciences
    Seismology
    Prof. Dr. Frederik Tilmann
    Helmholtz Centre Potsdam. GFZ  German Research Centre for Geosciences
  • Institute of Geological Sciences
    Impact and Planetary Physics
    Prof. Dr. Kai Wünnemann
    Museum für Naturkunde Berlin
  • Psychology
    Survey Research
    Prof. Dr. David Richter
    Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW)
  • East Asia and the Middle East, Islamic Studies
    Islamic Studies
    Univ.-Prof. Dr. Ulrike Freitag
    Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient
  • Ancient Studies, Egyptology
    Computational Philology/Data Science of the Languages of the Ancient World
    Prof. Dr. Eliese-Sophia Lincke
    Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften (BBAW)
  • Ancient Studies, Egyptology
    Egyptology with a Focus on Coptology
    Univ.-Prof. Dr. Sebastian Richter
    Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften (BBAW)
  • Institute of Mathematics
    Discrete Mathematics with a Focus on Discrete Optimization in Transportation Sciences
    Prof. Dr. Ralf Borndörfer
    Zuse-Institut Berlin Berlin (ZIB)
  • Institute of Mathematics
    Mathematics with Emphasis on Numerics of Partial Differential Equations
    Prof. Dr. Volker John
    Weierstraß-Institut für angewandte Analysis und Stochastik (WIAS)
  • Institute of Computer Science
    Semantic Data Intelligence
    Univ.-Prof. Dr. Adrian Paschke
    Fraunhofer Institut für Offene Kommunikationssysteme FOKUS
  • Institute of Computer Science
    Information Security
    Univ.Prof. Dr. Marian Margraf
    Fraunhofer-Institut für Angewandte und Integrierte Sicherheit AISEC
  • Institute of Computer Science
    Image Signal Processing
    Prof. Dr. Heiko Schwarz
    Fraunhofer-Institut für Nachrichtentechnik, Heinrich-Hertz-Institut der FhG
  • Institute of Computer Science
    Computer Modeling of Biological Networks
    Dr. Sarah Wolf
    Max-Delbrück-Centrum für Molekulare Medizin
  • Institute of Experimental Physics
    Nanoarchitectures for Energy Conversion
    Prof. Dr. Silke Christiansen
    Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin
  • Institute of Experimental Physics
    Analytics for photovoltaics
    Prof. Dr. Klaus Lips
    Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin
  • Institute of Theoretical Physics
    Theory of Quantum Magnetism
    Prof. Dr. Johannes Reuther
    Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin
  • Institute of Experimental Physics
    Focus on Ultrafast Physics
    Prof. Dr. Marc Vrakking
    Max-Born-Institut für Nichtlineare Optik und Kurzzeitspektroskopie (MBI)
  • Institute of Sociology
    Sociology with a Focus on Education and Digitalization
    Porf. Dr. Martin Ehlert
    Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin (WZB)
  • Institute of Sociology
    Sociology with a Focus on Social Inequalities in Comparative Perspective
    Prof. Dr. Jan Paul Heisig
    Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin (WZB)
  • Institute for Media and Communication Studies
    Internet Politics
    Prof. Dr. Jeanette Hofmann
    Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin (WZB)
  • Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology
    Social and Cultural Anthropology of Muslim Societies of sub-Saharan Africa or Southeast Asia
    Prof. Dr. Kai Kresse
    Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient
  • Institute of Sociology
    Labor, Labor Market, Employment Policy
    Univ.-Prof. Dr. Heike Solga
    Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin (WZB)
  • Otto Suhr Institute of Political Science
    Intercultural Conflicts, Violence and Human Rights
    Univ.-Prof. Dr. Michael Zürn
    Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin (WZB)
  • Institute for Animal Hygiene and Environmental Health
    Environment-Utility Animal Interactions
    Univ.-Prof. Dr. Thomas Amon
    Institut für Agrartechnik Potsdam Bornim e.V. (ATB)
  • Dept. of Veterinary Medicine
    Wildlife Diseases
    Univ.-Prof. Dr. Alex Greenwood
    Leibniz-Institut für Zoo- und Wildtierforschung (IZW)
  • Institute of Food Safety and Hygiene
    Wildlife Reproductive Medicine
    Univ.-Prof. Dr. Goetz Hildebrandt
    Leibniz-Institut für Zoo- und Wildtierforschung (IZW)
  • Institute of Parasitology and Tropical Veterinary Medicine
    Interdisciplinary Zoo and Wildlife Science
    Univ.-Prof. Dr. Heribert Hofer
    Leibniz-Institut für Zoo- und Wildtierforschung (IZW)
  • Institute of Animal Welfare, Animal Behavior, and Laboratory Animal Science
    Animal Welfare with a Focus on Refinement in Laboratory Animal Science
    Univ.-Prof. Dr. Lars Lewejohann
    Bundesinstitut für Risikobewertung (BfR)
  • Institute of Veterinary Physiology
    Dynamic and Functional in vivo Imaging
    Univ.-Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Raluca A. Niesner
    Deutsches Rheumaforschungszentrum Berlin (DRFZ)