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
- 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)