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Junior Research Groups at Freie Universität Berlin

By establishing junior research groups, the university offers outstanding young scholars and researchers the opportunity to conduct independent research and build up their own working groups. In recent years, a number of funding institutions have established programs of this kind that include participation from academics and scientists at Freie Universität Berlin.

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Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung

Images of the Crisis - Affective Rhetoric of Audiovisuals

Group head: Dr. des. Jan-Hendrik Bakels
Funding period: 12/2015 - 11/2021
Dept. of Philosophy and Humanities, Film Studies
Email: jan.bakels@fu-berlin.de 

ThermoNanogele: Neuartige thermoresponsive Nanogele für den zielgerichteten Wirkstofftransport und die kontrollierte Freisetzung von Zytostatika und/oder fluoreszierenden Substanzen

Group head: Dr. Marcelo Calderon
Funding period: 12/2012 - 11/2018
Dept. of Biology, Chemistry, Pharmacy, Institute for Chemistry and Biochemistry
Email: marcelo.calderon@chemie.fu-berlin.de

Global Change - Local Conflicts? Land conflicts in Latin America and Sub-Saharan Africa in the Context of Interdependent Processes of Transformation

Group head: Dr. Kristina Dietz
Funding period: 8/2014 - 7/2018
Institute for Latin American Studies
Email: kristina.dietz@fu-berlin.de

eBio - Meth4SysPharm-Modeling Methods for Systems Pharmacology and Application to HIV-1

Group head: Dr. Max von Kleist
Funding period: 4/2014 - 3/2019
Dept. of Mathematik and Computer Sciences, Institute for Mathematics
Email: vkleist@zedat.fu-berlin.de

Entwicklung neuer Methoden zur Erforschung der zoonotischen Vektorbiologie von Schildzecken mittels CRISPR-Technologie und künstlicher Fütterung

Group head: Dr. Ard Menzo Nijhof
Funding period: 7/2017 - 6/2022
Dept. of Veterinary Medicine, Institute of Parasitology and Tropical Veterinary Medicine
Email: ard.nijhof@fu-berlin.de 

eBio - Endolysion - Integrative Systembiologie der endosomalen/lysosomalen Ionenhomöostase

Group head: Dr. Tobias Stauber
Funding period: 6/2014 - 5/2019
Dept. of Biology, Chemistry, Pharmacy, Institute for Chemistry and Biochemistry
Email: tobias.stauber@mdc-berlin.de

NanoMatFutur 2013: From Thermoresponsive Surfaces to Functional 3D Tissue in Vitro - A New Animal Testing Alternative (Surf3DTiss)

Group head: Dr. Heidemarie Weinhart
Funding period: 2/2015 - 1/2019
Dept. of Biology, Chemistry, Pharmacy, Institute for Chemistry and Biochemistry
E-Mail: marie.weinhart@fu-berlin.de
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DFG - Emmy Noether Program

The Emmy Noether Programme supports researchers in achieving independence at an early stage of their scientific careers. Postdocs gain the qualifications required for a university teaching career during a DFG-funded period, usually lasting five years, in which they lead their own independent junior research group.

As a rule, researchers who have acquired between two and four years of postdoctoral research experience are eligible to apply. Applicants must have international research experience.

Quantifying Multivalent Interactions

Group head: Dr. Stephan Block
Funding period: 9/2017 - 8/2022
Dept. of Biology, Chemistry, Pharmay, Institute of Chemistry and Biochemistry
Email: stephan.block@fu-berlin.de

Neural dynamics of visual cognition

Group head: Dr. Radoslaw Cichy
Funding period: 5/2016 - 4/2021
Dept. of Education and Psychology, Biological Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience
Email: mcichy@mit.edu

Reaching the People

Group head: Dr. Valeska Huber
Funding period: 10/2017 - 9/2022
Dept. of History and Cultural Studies, Friedrich Meinecke Institute of History
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Strongly Correlated Matter

Group head: Dr. Christoph Karrasch
Funding period: 10/2015 - 9/2020
Dept. of Physics, Theoretical Physics
Email: c.karrasch@fu-berlin.de

Directionality in Engineered Quantum Systems

Group head: Dr. Anja Metelmann
Funding period: 2/2018 - 1/2023
Dept. of Physics, Experimental Physics
Email: anjam@princeton.edu

Living Condition in Prehistoric Times

Group head: Dr. Eva Rosenstock
Funding period: 9/2011 - 4/2018
Dept. of History and Cultural Sciences, Prehistoric Archaeology
Email: rsnstck@zedat.fu-berlin.de

Mediating (Semi-)Authoritarianism: The Power of the Internet in the post-Soviet World

Group head: Dr. Florian Töpfl
Funding period: 10/2014 - 9/2019
Dept. of Political and Social Sciences, Media and Communication Studies
Email: f.toepfl@fu-berlin.de

Development of Microscopic Models for Characterizing the Effects of Dissipation on the Quantum Control of Chemical Reactions

Group head: Dr. Jean Christophe Tremblay
Funding period: 11/2012 - 3/2018
Dept. of Biology, Chemistry, Pharmacy / Physical and Theoretical Chemistry
Email: jc.tremblay@fu-berlin.de

Neural mechanisms underlying vocal learning in zebra finches

Group head: Dr. Daniela Vallentin
Funding period: 7/2016 - 6/2021
Dept. of Biology, Chemistry, Pharmacy / Biology
Email: danielavallentin@gmail.com

Literature and Architecture (since 18th cent.)

Group head: Dr. Julia Albine Weber
Funding period: 2/2012 - 10/2018
Dept. of Philosophy and Humanities / Comparative Literature
Email: julia.weber@fu-berlin.de
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DFG Heisenberg-Programm

The Heisenberg Programme is directed primarily at those researchers who have qualified for professorship via the Emmy Noether Programme, DFG staff positions, private-sector research or non-faculty academic positions. The target group also includes junior professors who have received positive evaluations, those who have achieved their habilitation or equivalent, and German researchers returning from abroad, as well as appropriately qualified foreign researchers looking to pursue careers in Germany.

Novel Species Communities: Formation, and Ecological and Evolutionary Consequences

Group head: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Jonathan Jeschke
Funding period: 12/2014  - 12/2017
Dept. of Biology, Chemistry, and Pharmacy, Institute of Biology
Email: jonathan.jeschke@gmx.net

History and culture of China with a focus on religions

Group head: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Christian Meyer
Funding period: 11/2017 - 10/2022
Dept. of History and Cultural Studies, Seminar of East Adian Studies / Sinology - China Studies
Email: ch.meyer@fu-berlin.de


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Heisenberg Fellowships

More information about the Heisenberg Fellowships

Heisenberg Fellows at Freie Universität Berlin:

  • Dr. Evelyn Annuß, Dept. of Philisophy and Humanities, Institute of Theater Studies
    since 2017
  • Dr. Sophie Armitage, Dept. of Biology, Chemistry, Pharmacy, Institute of Biology
    since 2017
  • PD Dr. Pavel Gurevich, Dept. of Mathematics and Computer Science, Institute of Mathematics
    since 2015
  • PD Dr. Miriam Knörnschild, Dept. of Biology, Chemistry, Pharmacy, Institute of Biology
    since 2015
  • Kay Rülling, Dept. of Mathematics and Computer Science, Institute of Mathematics
    since 2014
  • PD Dr. Gerhard Wunder, Dept. of Mathematics and Computer Science, Institute of Mathematics
    since 2014
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Freigeist Fellows of the VolkswagenStiftung

A 'Freigeist' fellow: for the Volkswagen Foundation this means a young researcher with a strong personality, a creative mind, an ability to identify and use freedom, dedicated to overcoming resistance. If necessary, he or she will be a free spirit, enjoying the unexpected, even unexpected difficulties. A 'Freigeist' fellow opens up new horizons and combines critical analysis with imagination and innovative solutions. By thinking ahead the 'Freigeist' fellow will act as a catalyst in overcoming existing disciplinary, institutional and even national boundaries.

Finding Life: Spectral Biomarkers in Planetary Atmospheres

Group head: Dr. Andreas Elsäßer
Funding period: 2/2018 - 1/2023
Dept. of Physics

Navigating the social world - A cross-cultural and developmental perspective on social norms

Group head: Dr. Patricia Kanngießer
Funding period: 10/2015 - 9/2020
Dept. of Educational Science and Psychology, Applied Developmental Psychology

The Cold War's Clash of Civilizations: The Soviet Union, the Left, and the International Origins of Islamism

Group head: Dr. Timothy Nunan
Funding period: 10/2016 - 9/2021
Dept.
of History and Cultural Studies, Friedrich-Meinecke-Institut of History
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Lichtenberg Professorships of the VolkswagenStiftung

The Lichtenberg Professorships were conceived both as a means of attracting outstanding researchers as well as helping to establish innovative academic teaching and new lines of research at German universities. The funding initiative enables grantees to plan with greater certainty, thus creating the opportunity for independent work in their own new lines of research.

Evolution of vaccine resistant herpesviruses

Head of project: Prof. Benedikt Kaufer PhD, Dept. of Veterinary Medicine
Funding period: 2/2017 - 1/2021

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