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Priority Programmes

Particular feature of the Priority Programme (SPP), generally with a funding period of six years, is the nationwide cooperation between its participating researchers.

Freie Universitaet currently participates in 30 Priority Programmes, and hosts 1 Priority Programme.

SPP 2017: Mountain Building Process in Four Dimensions (4D-MB)

Spokesperson: Prof. Dr. Mark Handy (Dept. of Earth Sciences)
Duration: since 2017

SPP 527: Infrastructure - International Ocean Discovery Program (IODP)

Spokesperson: Dr. Jochen Erbacher, Bundesanstalt für Geowissenschaften und Rohstoffe (BGR), Hannover
FU-Participation:
Dept. of Earth Sciences
Duration: since 2016 (beginnung of the SPP 1979)

SPP 1006: Infrastructure - International Continental Scientific Drilling Program (ICDP)

Spokesperson: Prof. Dr. Sebastian Krastel, Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel
FU-Participation:
Dept. of Earth Sciences
Duration: since 1996

SPP 1158: Infrastructure - Antarctic Research with Comparable Investigations in Arctic Sea Ice Areas

Spokesperson: Prof. Dr. Ulf Kasten, Universität Rostock
FU-Participation:
Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum
Duration: since 2019

SPP 1374: Infrastructure - Biodiversity Exploratories

Spokesperson: Prof. Dr. Markus Fischer, Universität Bern
FU-Participation: Dept. of Biology, Chemistry, and Pharmacy
Duration:
since 2007

SPP 1646: Education as a Lifelong Process

Spokesperson: Prof. Dr. Hans-Peter Blossfeld, Otto-Friedrichs-Universität Bamberg
FU-Participation: Dept. of Education and Psychology
Duration:
since 2011

SPP 1786: Homotopy Theory and Algebraic Geometry

Spokesperson: Prof. Dr. Marc Levine, Universität Duisburg-Essen
FU-Participation: Dept. of Mathematics and Computer Science, Institute of Mathematics
Duration: since 2015

SPP 1833: Building a Habitable Earth

Spokesperson: Prof. Dr. Carsten Münker, Universität zu Köln
FU-Participation: Dept. of Earth Sciences, Institute of Geological Sciences
Duration:
since 2018

SPP 1859: Experience and Expectation: Historical Foundations of Economic Behaviour

Spokesperson: Prof. Dr. Alexander Nützenadel, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
FU-Participation: Dept. of History and Cultural Studies,  Friedrich Meinecke Institute of History
Duration: since 2020

SPP 1881: Turbulent Superstructures

Spokesperson: Prof. Dr. Jörg Schumacher, Technische Universität Ilmenau
FU-Participation: Dept. of Mathematics and Computer Science, Institute of Mathematics
Duration: since 2016

SPP 1926: Next Generation Optogenetics: Tool Development and Application

Spokesperson: Prof. Dr. Alexander Gottschalk, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main Cluster of Excellence Macromolecular Complexes
FU-Participation: Dept. of Physics, Institute of Experimental Physics
Duration: since 2016

SPP 1927: Iron-Sulfur for Life: Coop. Function Iron-Sulfur Centers in Assembly, Biosynthesis, Disease

Spokesperson: Prof. Dr. Silke Leimkühler, Universität Potsdam
FU-Participation: Dept. of Physics, Institute of Experimental Physics
Duration: since 2019

SPP 1929: Giant Interactions in Rydberg Systems (GiRyd)

Spokesperson: Prof. Dr. Tilman Pfau, Universität Stuttgart
FU-Participation: Dept. of Physics, Institute of Theoretical Physics
Duration: since 2019

SPP 1981: Transottomanica: Eastern European-Ottoman-Persian Mobility Dynamics

Spokesperson: Prof. Dr. Stefan Rohdewald, Universität Leipzig
FU-Participation: Dept. of History and Cultural Studies, Institute of Islamic Studies
Duration: since 2021

SPP 1991: Taxon-Omics: New Approaches for Discovering and Naming Biodiversity

Spokesperson: Prof. Dr. Susanne Sabine Renner, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
FU-Participation: Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum
Duration: since 2017

SPP 1992: Exploring the Diversity of Extrasolar Planets

Spokesperson: Prof. Dr. Heike Rauer, Technische Universität Berlin
FU-Participation: Dept. of Geological Sciences, Geochemistry, Hydrogeologie, Mineralogy
Duration: since 2020

SPP 2143: Entangled Africa: Intra-African Connections between Rainforest and Mediterranean (ca. 6000 to 500 BP)

Spokesperson: PD Dr. Jörg Linstädter, Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, Kommission für Archäologie Außereuropäischer Kulturen Bonn
FU-Participation: Dept. of Earth Sciences, Institute of Geographical Sciences
Duration: since 2018

SPP 2172: The Digital Image

Spokesperson: Prof. Dr. Hubertus Kohle, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
FU-Participation: Dept. of History and Cultural Studies, Art History
Duration: since 2020

SPP 2176: The Iranian Highlands: Resilience and Integration of Premodern Societies

Spokesperson: Prof. Dr. Thomas Stöllner, Deutsches Bergbau-Museum (DBM)
FU-Participation: Dept. of History and Cultural Studies (Archaeology)
Duration: since 2019

SPP 2196: Perovskite semiconductors. From fundamental properties to devices

Spokesperson: Prof. Dr. Lukas Schmidt-Mende Ph.D., Universität Konstanz
FU-Participation: Dept. of Physics, Institute of Experimental Physics
Duration: since 2020

SPP 2205: Evolutionary Optimisation of Neuronal Processing

Spokesperson: Prof. Dr. Fred Wolf, Max-Planck-Institut für Dynamik und Selbstorganisation (MPIDS), Göttingen
FU-Participation: Dept. of Biology, Chemistry, Pharmacy, Institute of Biology
Duration: since 2020

SPP 2207: Computational Literary Studies

Spokesperson: Prof. Dr. Fotis Jannidis, Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg
FU-Participation: Dept. of Education and Psychology (Psychology)
Duration: since 2020

SPP 2225: EXIT Strategies of Intercellular Pathogens

Spokesperson: Prof. Dr. Mathias Walter, Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen
FU-Participation: Dept. of Veterinary Medicine, Institute of Microbiology and Epizootics
Duration: 2021

SPP 2244: 2D Materials - Physics of van der Waals [hetero]structures (2DMP)

Spokesperson: Prof. Dr. Thomas Heine, Technische Universität Dresden
FU-Participation: Dept. of Physics, Institute of Experimental Physics
Duration: since 2020

SPP 2298: Theoretical Basics of Deep Learning

Spokesperson: Prof. Dr. Gitta Kutyniok, Technische Universität München
FU-Participation: Dept. of Mathematics and Computer Science, Institute of Mathematics
Duration: since 2021

SPP 2299: Tropical Climate Variability and Coral Reefs. A Past to Future Perspective on Current Rates of Change at Ultra-High Resolution

Spokesperson: Dr. Thomas Felis, Jacobs-Universität Bremen
FU-Participation: Dept. of Earth Sciences , Institute of Geological Sciences
Duration: since 2022

SPP 2314: INtegrated TERahErtz sySTems Enabling Novel Functionality (INTEREST)

Spokesperson: Prof. Dr. Ullrich Pfeiffer, Bergische Universität Wuppertal
FU-Participation: Dept. of Physics, Experimental Physics
Duration: 2023

SPP 2317: META-REP: A Meta-scientific Programme to Analyse and Optimise Replicability in the Behavioural, Social, and Cognitive Sciences

Spokesperson: Prof. Dr. Mario Gollwitzer, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
FU-Participation: Dept. of Education and Psychology, Psychology
Duration: since 2021

SPP 2332: Physics of Parasitism

Spokesperson: Prof. Dr. Markus Engstler, Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg
FU-Participation: Dept. of Veterinary Medicine, Institute of Veterinary-Physiology
Duration: since 2021

SPP 2349: Genomic Basis of Evolutionary Innovations (GEvol)

Spokesperson: Prof. Dr. Erich Bornberg-Bauer, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster
FU-Participation: Dept. of Biology, Chemistry, Pharmacy, Institute of Biology
Duration: since 2022

SPP 2378: ResCTC: Resilience through Cross-Technology Communication

Spokesperson: Prof. Dr. Falko Dressler, Dr. Anatolij Zubow,  Technische Universität Berlin
FU-Participation: Dept. of Mathematics and Computer Science, Institute of Computer Science
Duration: since 2022

Freie Universität Berlin hosted the following priority programmes:

  • SPP 1000 Theatricality - Theater as a Cultural Model in Cultural Studies (1996 - 2006)
  • SPP 1051 High-field EPR in Biology, Chemistry and Physics (1998 - 2005)
  • SPP 1132 Proteolysis in Prokaryotes: Protein Quality Control and Regulatory Principle (2002 - 2008)
  • SPP 1276: Multiple-Scales Asymptotics in (Geophysical) Fluid Mechanics (2007 - 2014)