• Prof. Dr. Stephanie Reich
  Subject Area: Experimental Physics
  Project: Quantum Optics in Nanostructures (OptNano)
  Year: 2008 - 2013
• Prof. Dr. Jens Rolff **
  Subject Area: Zoology
  Project:  Multidrug Resistance and the Evolutionary Ecology of Insect Immunity (EvoResIn)
  Year: 2012 - 2016
• Univ.-Prof.Dr. Frank Noé
  Subject Area: Computational Molecular Biology
  Project:  Physicochemical Principles of Efficient Information Processing in Biological Cells (pcCell)
  Year: 2013 - 2017
• Prof. Dr. Jens Eisert
  Subject Area: Theoretical Physics
  Project: Taming non-Equilibrium Quantum Systems (TAQ)
  Year: 2013 - 2018
• Prof. Dr. Kirill Bolotin
  Subject Area: Experimental Physics
  Project:  Unlocking New Physics in Controllably Strained Twodimensional Materials (Strained2DMaterials)
  Year: 2015 - 2021
• Prof. Dr. Benedikt Kaufer
  Subject Area: Virology
  Project:  Integration of Herpesvirus into Telomeres: From the Mechanism of Genome Integration and Mobilization to Therapeutic Intervention (INTEGHER)
  Year: 2016 - 2021
• Prof. Dr. Elena Giannoulis
  Subject Area: Japanese Studies
  Project: Emotional Machines: The Technological Transformation of Intimacy in Japan (EMTECH)
  Year: 2017 - 2022
• Univ.-Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Mulzer
  Subject Area: Computer Sciences
  Project: Complexity Inside NP - A Computational Geometry Perspective (CGinsideNP)
  Year: 2018 - 2023
• Univ.-Prof. Dr. Christian Volk *
  Subject Area: Political Science
  Project: Protest and Order. Democratic Theory, Contentious Politics (POWDER)
  Year: 2018 - 2023
• Dr. Daniela Vallentin *
  Subject Area: Biology
  Project: Neural Mechanisms Underlying Vocal Interactions of Duetting Nightingales (MIDNIGTH)
  Year: 2018 - 2023
• Dr. Refqa Abu-Remaileh
  Subject Area: Arabic Studies
  Project: Country of Words: Reading and Reception of Palestinian Literature from 1948 to the Present. (PalREAD)
  Year: 2018 - 2023
• Univ.-Prof. Dr. Anja Osei **
  Subject Area: Political Science
  Project: Do Legislatures Enhance Democracy in Africa? (DLEDA)
  Year: 2018 - 2024
• Dr. Radoslaw Martin Cichy
  Subject Area: Biological Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience
  Project: Cracking the Neural Code of Human Object Vision (CRACK)
  Year: 2019 - 2024
• Dr. Miriam Knörnschild *
  Subject Area: Animal Behavior
  Project: Culture as an evolutionary force: Does song learning accelerate speciation in a bat ring species? (CULTSONG)
  Year: 2019 - 2024
• Prof. Dr. Genia Kostka
  Subject Area: Chinese Studies
  Project: Governing with Data: Local Experimentation in Authoritarian China
  Year: 2019 - 2024
• Dr. Jan C. Jansen (German Historical Institute, Washington, Host University: FU Berlin) *
  Subject Area: History
  Project: Atlantic Exiles: Refugees and Revolution in the Atlantic World, 1770s-1820s
  Year: 2019 - 2024
• Prof. Dr. Bertram Lomfeld
  Subject Area: Civil Law
  Project: A Global Theory of Reflexive Debt (Deliberation) (RESOLVENCY)
  Year: 2021 - 2026
• Dr. Cedrick Ansorge**
  Subject Area: Meteorology
  Project: Turbulence-Resolving Approaches to the Intermittently Turbulent Atmospheric Boundary Layer (trainABL)
  Year: 2020 - 2025
• Dr. Marius Buning*
  Subject Area: History of Early Modern Times
  Project: Before Copyright: Printing Privileges and the Politics of Knowledge in Early Modern Europe (B4COPY)
  Year: 2022 - 2027
• Dr. Anna Fruhstorfer**
  Subject Area: East European Studies
  Project: The Logistics of Popular Uprisings (LOOPS)
  Year: 2023 - 2028
• Dr. Verena Klein*
  Subject Area: Social Psychology
  Project: Investigating Bad Sex in its socio-legal contexts – (BadSex)
  Year: 2023 - 2028
  https://www.southampton.ac.uk/people/628dfn/doctor-verena-klein#publications 
• Dr. Steffen Hven*
  Subject Area: Film Studies
  Project: Towards a New Ecology of the Moving Image (CATNEMI)
  Year: 2023 - 2028
• Dr. Lukas Hakelberg*
  Subject Area: International and Comparative Political Economy
  Project: The Whiteness of Wealth Management: Colonial Economic Structure, Racism, and the Emergence of Tax Havens in the Global South (WOWMA)
  Year: 2023 - 2028

• Dr. Simona Olivieri*
  Subject Area: Arabistic Studies
  Project: Arabic Linguistic Discourse in the Making (ALiDiM)
  Year: 2024 - 2028

• Univ.-Prof. Dr. Katharina Franke
  Subject Area: Experimental Physics
  Project: Nanoscale Spin Interactions and Dynamics on Superconducting Surfaces (NanoSpin)
  Year: 2014 - 2019

• Prof. Dr. Haike Antelmann **
  Subject Area: Microbiology
  Project: Protein S-Mycothiolations and Real-Time Redox Imaging in Corynebacterium Diphtheriae in Response to ROS Stress and Infection Conditions (MYCOTHIOLOME)
  Year: 2015 - 2020

• Prof. Dr. Tobias Kampfrath **
  Subject Area: Experimental Physics
  Project: Ultrafast spin transport and magnetic order controlled by terahertz electromagnetic pulses (TERAMAG)
  Year: 2017 - 2021
• Univ.-Prof. Dr. Frank Postberg **
  Subject Area: Planetary Sciences and Remote Sensing
  Project: Habitability of Oceans and Aqueous Systems on Icy Satellites (Habitat-OASIS)
  Year: 2018 - 2022
• Prof. Dr. Stephanie Reich
  Subject Area: Experimental Physics
  Project: Harvesting Dark Plasmons for Surface-enhanced Raman Scattering (DarkSERS)
  Year: 2018 - 2023
  
• Prof. Dr. Frank Noé
  Subject Area: Scientific Computing
  Project: Scalable Kinetic Models: From Molecular Dynamics to Cellular Signaling (ScaleCell)
  Year: 2018 - 2023
• Univ.-Prof. Dr. Urs Matthias Zachmann
  Subject Area: Japanese Studies
  Project: Japanese Courts-Martial and Military Courts During the Asia-Pacific War, 1937 - 1945 (Law Without Mercy)
  Year: 2019 - 2014
• Prof. Dr. Sebastian Hasenstab-Riedel
  Subject Area: Inorganic Chemistry
  Project: Exploring the Limits of High Potential OxidizersPrediction, Validation and Preparation of Unusual Molecules at the Edge of Stability (High PotOx)
  Year: 2020 - 2025

• Prof. Dr. Kevin Pagel
  Subject Area: Organic Chemistry
  Project: Unravelling Glycochemistry with Ion Mobility Spectrometry and Gas-Phase Spectroscopy (GlycoSpec)
  Year: 2020 - 2025

• Prof. Dr. Islam Dayeh*
  Subject Area: Arabistic Studies
  Project: Polymathy and Interdisciplinarity in Premodern Islamic Epistemic Cultures (KNOW)
  Year: 2023 - 2028
• Univ.-Prof. Dr. Juliane Noth
  Subject Area: Art History of East Asia
  Project: Art Academies in China: Global Histories and Institutional Practices (CHINACADEMY)
  Year: 2023 - 2028
• Prof. Dr. Benedikt Kaufer
  Research Area: Virology (Veterinary Medicine)
  Project: Endogenous Human Herpesvirus: Germ line integration and effects on host cell and organism (ENDo-Herpes)
  Duration: 2023 - 2028
• Prof. Dr. Lena Noack
  Research Area: Planetology
  Project: DIVerse Exoplanet Redox State Estimations (DIVERSE)
  Duration: 2023 - 2028
• Dr. Jana Tschurenev
  Research Area: Modern History
  Project: Democratising the Family? Gender Equality, Parental Rights, and Child Welfare in Contemporary History (DEMFAM)
  Duration: 2023 - 2028
• Prof. Dr. Lars Heinke **
  Research Area: Physical Chemistry
  Project: Dynamic Ions under Nano-Confinement for Porous Membranes with Ultrafast Gas Permeation (DYONCON)
  Duration: 2024 - 2027
• Prof. Dr. Radoslaw Martin Cichy
  Research Area: Cognitive Neuropsychology
  Project: A Theory and Model of the Neural Transformations mediating Human Object Perception (TRANSFORM)
  Duration: 2024 - 2029
• Prof. Dr. Malte Rosemeyer
  Research Area: Romance Philology / Spanish Linguistics
  Project: Experimental Replication of Historical Reanalysis Processes (EXREAN)
  Duration: 2024 - 2029
• Dr. Nozair Ashraf Khawaja
  Research Area: Planetary Sciences and Remote Sensing
  Project: Analogue Icy Moon Simulations
  Duration: 2025 - 2030

• Prof. Dr. Sabine Schmidtke
  Subject Area: Islamic Studies
  Project: Rediscovering Theological Rationalism in the Medieval World of Islam (RATIONALISM)
  Year: 2008 - 2013
• Prof. Dr. Regine Hengge *
  Subject Area: Plant Physiology and Microbiology
  Project: Cyclic-di-GMP: New Concepts in Second Messenger Signaling and Bacterial Biofilm Formation (SecMessBiofilm)
  Year: 2010 - 2015
• Prof. Dr. Joachim Küpper
  Subject Area: Comparative Literature
  Project: Early Modern European Drama and the Cultural Net (DramaNet)
  Year: 2010 - 2016
• Prof. Dr. Günter M. Ziegler
  Subject Area: Mathematics
  Project: Structured Discrete Models as a Basis for Studies in Geometry, Numerical Analysis, Topology and Visualization (SDModels)
  Year: 2011 - 2015

• Prof. Dr. Hélène Esnault **
  Subject Area: Mathematics
  Project: Fundamental Groups, Étale and Motivic, Hodge Theory and Rational Points (RATIONAL POINTS)
  Year: 2012 - 2014

• Univ.-Prof. Dr. Matthias Warstat
  Subject Area: Theater Studies
  Project: The Aesthetics of Applied Theatre (AestApp)
  Year: 2012 - 2017

• Prof. Dr. Markham Geller
  Subject Area: Ancient Studies, Ancient Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
  Project: Fragments of Cuneiform Medicine in the Babylonian Talmud: Knowledge Transfer in Late Antiquity (BabMed)
  Year: 2013 - 2018

• Prof. Dr. Matthias C. Rillig
  Subject Area: Biologie
  Project: Gradual and abrupt environmental change: connecting physiology, evolution and community composition (Gradual Change)
  Year: 2016 - 2021

• Univ.-Prof. Dr. Beatrice Gründler
  Subject Area: Arabic Studies
  Project: The Arabic Anonymous in a World Classic (Anonym Classic)
  Year: 2018 - 2022
• Prof. Dr. Volker Haucke
  (Leibniz-Forschungsinstitut für Molekulare Pharmakologie and Department of Biology, Chemistry, Pharmacy, Freie Universität Berlin)
  Subject Area: Biochemistry
  Project: Mechanisms of Presynaptic Biogenesis and Dynamic Remodeling
  Year: 2020 - 2025

• Prof. Dr. Roland Netz
  Subject Area: Theoretical Physics
  Project: Non-Markovian Memory-Based Modelling of Near-and Far-From Equilibrium Dynamical Systems (NaMaMemo)
  Year: 2020 - 2025

• Prof. Dr. Friedemann Pulvermüller
  Subject Area: Neuroscience / Neurobiology
  Project: Material Constraints Enabling Human Cognition
  Year: 2020 - 2025

• Univ.-Prof. Dr. Mathieu Ossendrijver
  Subject Area: History of science
  Project: Ancient Astral Science in Transformation
  Year: 2021 - 2026

• Univ.-Prof. Dr. Peter Robin Hiesinger
  Subject Area: Neurobiology
  Project: Synaptic Promiscuity in Brain Development (SynPromiscuity)
  Year: 2021 - 2026
• Univ.-Prof. Dr. Rainer Haag
  Subject Area: Organic Chemistry
  Project: Multivalent Supramolecular Nanosystems as Dynamic Virus Blockers
  Year: 2022 - 2027
• Univ.-Prof. Dr. Friedhelm von Blanckenburg
  Subject Area: Geochemistry, Hydrogeology, Mineralogy
  Project: Deciphering the Effect of Vegetation and Erosion on basalt and carbonate weathering by Novel Denudation Rate Approaches (DEVENDRA)
  Year: 2023 - 2028
• Univ.-Prof. Dr. Stephan Sigrist
  Subject Area: Neurobiology
  Project: The synaptic active zone as a signaling hub for sleep homeostasis and resilience (SynProtect)
  Year: 2023 - 2028

• Univ.-Prof. Dr. Jens Eisert
  Subject Area: Quantum Physics
  Project: Delineating the boundary between the computational power of quantum and classical devices (DebuQC)
  Year: 2024 - 2028
• Prof. Dr. Tobias Kampfrath
  Subject Area: Experimental Physics
  Project: Advancing orbitronics by pushing electron orbital angular momentum to terahertz speed (ORBITERA)
  Year: 2025 - 2029

• Univ.-Prof. Dr. Michael Eid
  Subject Area: Psychology, Methods and Evaluation
  Project: Production and Perception of Emotion: An Affective Sciences Approach (PROPEREMO)
  Year: 2013 - 2015
• Prof. Dr. Katja Liebal
  Subject Area: Evolutionary Psychology
  Project: The Grammar of the Body: Revealing the Foundations of Compositionality in Human Language (GRAMBY)
  Year: 2014 - 2019
• Prof. Dr. Alberto Cantera
  Subject Area: Iranian Studies
  Project: The Multimedia Yasna (MUYA)
  Year: 2016 - 2021

Univ.-Prof. Dr. Robert Bittl
Subject Area: Experimental Physics
Project: Chirality and Spin Selectivity in Electron Transfer Processes: from Quantum Detection to Quantum Enabled Technologies (CASTLE)
Year: 2023 - 2029

• Univ.-Prof. Dr. Jens Rolff
  Subject Area: Zoology
  Project: Predicting antibiotic resistence for sustainable antibiotic stewardship (EVOLchip)
  Year: 2017 - 2019

• Prof. Dr. Sabine Schmidtke
  Subject Area: Islamic Studies
  Project: Weaving the Humanities into the Web and the Web into the Humanities. Preserving the Cultural Heritage of Yemen by Creating an Universally Virtual Library of Manuscripts (HumanWeb)
  Year: 2013 - 2014

• Univ.-Prof. Dr. Tobias Kampfrath
  Subject Area: Experimental Physics
  Project: HE Lump Sum MGA: Low-noise, rapid and ultrabroadband terahertz time-domain ellipsometry enabled by spintronic terahertz emitters (T-SPINDEX)
  Year: 2024 - 2025