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Excellent Research at TU Dortmund University

Research and researchers at TU Dortmund University are internationally well-known and recognized. Around 900 externally funded projects and numerous personal awards illustrate the research strength of Dortmund’s scientists. You will find a selection on this web page.

RESOLV

  • Spokesperson: Prof Dr. Martina Havenith, Ruhr University Bochum
  • Funding period: 2012-2025

Collaborative Research Centres and Transregios (under the spokesmanship of TU Dortmund University)

TRR 188 “Damage Controlled Forming Processes”

  • Participating institutions: RWTH Aachen, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT Karlsruhe), Max-Planck-Institut für Eisenforschung GmbH, Düsseldorf
  • Spokesperson: Prof. Dr. Dr. E.h. A. Erman Tekkaya
  • Funding period: since 2017

TRR 391 ”Spatio-temporal Statistics for the Transition of Energy and Transport”

  • Participating institutions: Ruhr-Universität Bochum (co-applicant), Fachhochschule Dortmund, Hamburg University of Technology, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), University of Duisburg-Essen, University of Hamburg, University of Münster and RWI – Leibniz Institute for Economic Research
  • Spokesperson: Prof. Dr. Roland Fried
  • Funding period: seit 2024

Participations (TU Dortmund University co-applying)

CRC/Transregio 142 “Tailored nonlinear photonics: From fundamental concepts to functional structures”

  • Universität Paderborn (Speaker University), TU Dortmund University
  • Deputy Spokesperson: Prof. Dr. Manfred Bayer, TU Dortmund University
  • Funding period: since 2014

Participations (on PI level)

SFB 1430 “Molecular Mechanisms on Cell State Transitions“

  • Speaker University: University Duisburg-Essen
  • involved at TU Dortmund University: Dr. Malte Gersch
  • Funding period: since 2021

SFB 1472 "Transformation of the Popular"

  • Speaker University: University of Siegen
  • involved at TU Dortmund University: Prof. Dr. Cornelius Schubert
  • Funding period: since 2021

TRR 150 “Turbulent, chemically reactive, multi-phase flows near walls“

  • Speaker University: Technical University of Darmstadt
  • involved at TU Dortmund University: Dr.-Ing. Marion Börnhorst (Department of Biochemical and Chemical Engineering)
  • Funding period: since 2015

SFB 1491 „Cosmic interacting matters“

  • Speaker University: Ruhr-Universität Bochum
  • involved at TU Dortmund University: Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Rhode, Prof. Dr. Johannes Albrecht, PD Dr. Dominik Elsässer
  • Funding period: since 2022

DFG Research Group with Spokesperson at TU Dortmund University

FOR 5250: Mechanism-based characterization and modeling of permanent and bioresorbable implants with tailored functionality based on innovative in vivo, in vitro and in silico methods

  • Spokesperson: Prof. Frank Walther, Department of Mechanical Engineering
  • Funding period: since 2022

DFG Priority Programs coordinated by TU Dortmund University

SPP 1984: Hybrid and multimodal energy systems: System theoretic methods for the transformation and operation of complex grids

  • Spokesperson: Prof. Christian Rehtanz, Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology
  • Funding period: since 2017

SPP 2231: Efficient cooling, lubrication and transport - Coupled mechanical and fluid-dynamic simulation methods for the realization of efficient production processes (FluSimPro)

  • Spokesperson: Prof. Dirk Biermann, Department of Mechanical Engineering
  • Funding period: since 2020

Starting Grants

DynaQuanta - Nonequilibrium Terahertz Dynamics of Interacting Quantum Spins: from Novel Driven States towards Coherent Controls

  • Principal Investigator: Prof. Dr. Zhe Wang
  • Department of Physics, Professorship for Experimental Physics
  • Funding period: July 2021 to June 2026

RiboLife – Resurrecting LUCA – Engineering of RNA-encoded Cellular Life Using Dual Evolution and Intergenomic Transplantation

  • Principal Investogator: Prof. Dr. Hannes Mutschler
  • Department of Chem­is­try and Chemical Biology, Professorship for Biomimetic
  • Funding period: January 2019 to December 2024

Strongly Polarized Carbon: Taming Fundamental Intermediates and Their Applications

  • Principal Investigator: Prof. Dr. Max Hansmann
  • Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Professorship for Organic Chemistry
  • Funding Period: April 2023 until March 2028

DECAF: Deciphering adaptive footprints of epiC evolution on different timescales

  • Principal Investigator: Prof. Dr. Toni Goßmann
  • Department of Biochemical and Chemical Engineering
  • Funding Period: February 2021 bis January 2026

 

Consolidator Grants

META-LEGO – Learning to play LEGO with metamaterials!

  • Principal Investigator: Prof. Dr. Angela Madeo
  • Department of Architecture and Civil Engineering
  • Funding period: September 2021 to August 2026

PropRT - Property-Based Modulable Timing Analysis and Optimization for Complex Cyber-Physical Real-Time Systems

  • Principal Investigator: Prof. Dr. Jian-Jia Chen
  • Department of Computer Science
  • Funding period: January 2021 to December 2025

EPICODE – Programmable readers, writers, and erasers of the epigenetic cytosine code

  • Principal Investigator: Prof. Dr. Daniel Summerer
  • Department of Chem­is­try and Chemical Biology, Professorship of Chemical Biology
  • Funding period: November 2017 to April 2023

hyControl – Coherent optical control of multi-functional nano-scale hybrid units

  • Principal Investigator: Prof. Dr. Mirko Cinchetti
  • Department of Physics, Professorship for Coherent Spin Phenomena in Solids 
  • Funding period: September 2017 to February 2023

bypassNMR: Fast-MAS Solid-State NMR as a Bypass to High-Molecular-Weight Proteins in Solution

  • Principal Investigator: Prof. Dr. Rasmus Linser
  • Department of Chem­is­try and Chemical Biology, Professorship of Physical Chemistry
  • Funding Period: December 2023 to November 2028

 

Advanced Grants

MOLBEC – Molecular Bose Einstein Condensate

  • Principal Investigator: Prof. Edvardas Narevicius
  • Department of Physics
  • Funding period: August 2020 to July 2025

 

Synergy Grants

StuDySARCOMERE – Structure and Cellular Dynamics of the Sarcomere

  • Principal Investigator: Apl. Prof. Dr. Stefan Raunser
  • Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology & Max-Planck-Institute
  • Funding period: February 2020 to January 2026

 

Proof of Concept

COMBICODE – Decoding the Combinatorial Epigenetic Information of the Mammalian Genome with Engineered DNA Duplex Readers

  • Principal Investigator: Prof. Dr. Daniel Summerer
  • Department of Chem­is­try and Chemical Biology, Professorship of Chemical Biology
  • Funding period: November 2022 to April 2024

Cooperation and Competition in the context of new and traditional forms of work and employment

  • Principal Investigator: Prof. Dr. Maximiliane Wilkesmann
  • Department of Social Sciences
  • Type of funding: Heisenberg professorship
  • Funding since April 2020

Precision flavour physics with leptons: Full exploitation of the LHCb dataset and future flavour violation experiments

  • Principal Investigator: Prof. Dr. Johannes Albrecht
  • Department of Physics
  • Type of funding: Heisenberg professorship
  • Funding since April 2020

Precision tests of the Standard Model using boosted W/Z bosons at the Large Hadron Collider 

  • Principal Investigator: Dr. Chris Malena Delitzsch
  • Department of Physics
  • Funding since 2022

UDNN: Scientific Understanding and Deep Neural Networks

  • Principal Investigator: JProf. Florian J. Boge
  • Department of Human Sciences and Theology
  • Funding since 2022

Search for unknown phenomena in rare charm hadron decays

  • Principal Investigator: Dr. Dominik Mitzel
  • Department of Physics
  • Funding since 2021

Designer photo-catalysts and multi-electron processes based on redox-active hybrid molecules and their application in synthesis and activation of small molecules

  • Principal Investigator: Prof. Dr. Max Hansmann
  • Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology
  • Funding since 2020

A chemical biology approach to uncover principles of system-wide regulation of proteolysis in the ubiquitin system

  • Principal Investigator: Dr. Malte Gersch
  • Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology
  • Funding since 2018

Limiting Theories in Material Science: Mathematical derivation and Analysis

  • Principal Investigator: Prof. Dr. Peter Bella
  • Department of  Mathematics
  • Funding since 2019

Foundations of encrypted optimization-based control for networked systems

  • Principal Investigator: Prof. Moritz Schulze Darup
  • Department of Mechanical Engineering
  • Funding since 2019

Junior Research Group in the Rückkehrprogramm NRW

  • Dr. Sidney Becker, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology
  • Funding since 2022

Junior Research Group in the Rückkehrprogramm NRW

  • Dr. Elisabeth Kreidt, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology
  • Funding since 2022

Junior Research Group in the Rückkehrprogramm NRW

  • Dr. Leonhard Urner, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology
  • Funding since 2022

SINFONIA – Selectively activated INFOrmation technology by hybrid Organic Interfaces
Project management: Prof. Mirko Cinchetti, Department of Physics
Funding period: 2021-2025

GADMO – German-Austrian Digital Media Observatory
Project management: Stephan Mündges, Prof. Christina Elmer, Department of Cultural Studies
Funding period: 2022-2025

GreenSME – Driving manufacturing SME transformation towards green, digital and social sustainability
Project management: Dr. Michael Kohlgrüber, Department of Social Sciences
Funding period: 2022-2025

SIMPLI-DEMO – Demonstration of Sonication and Microwave Processing of Essential Chemicals
Project management: Prof. Sergio Lucia, Department of Biochemical and Chemical Engineering
Funding period: 2022-2026

LAND4CLIMATE – Utilization of Private Land for Mainstreaming Nature-Based Solution Systemic Transformation Towards a Climate-Resilient Europe
Project management: Prof. Stefan Greiving, Department of Spatial Planning
Funding period: 2023-2027

HEALING BAT – advanced sensing, monitoring and self-HEALING mechanisms to self-repair BATteries
Project management: Prof. Stefan Palzer, Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology
Funding period: 2023-2027

Lamarr Institute for Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence

  • Board of Directors: Prof. Dr. Stefan Wrobel, Prof. Dr. Christian Bauckhage, Prof. Dr. Dr. h. c. Michael ten Hompel
  • Funding period: since 2022

Silicon Economy Logistics Ecosystem (SELE)

  • Coordination: Prof. Dr. Michael Henke, Prof. Dr. Boris Otto and Prof. Dr. Michael ten Hompel
  • Funding period: 2020 to 2024

IGLU 2021

  • Coordination: Prof. Dr. Nele McElvany
  • Funding period: 2019 to 2023

DoProfiL

  • Coordination: Prof. Dr. Stephan Hußmann, Prof. Dr. Barbara Welzel
  • Funding period: 2016 to 2023

FAIR: From Prediction to Agile Interventions in the Social Sciences

  • Coordination: Prof. Fani Lauermann, PhD und Prof. Dr. Philipp Doebler
  • Funding period: 2021 to 2024

Research Training Groups of the German Research Foundation (DFG)

Participation in Research Training Groups of the German Research Foundation (DFG)

EU-funded Graduate Programs (Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions)

Graduate Programs funded by VolkswagenFoundation

Graduate Programs funded by MERCUR

Graduate Programs funded by the Hans Böckler Foundation

Leopoldina

  • Prof. Dr.-Ing. Dr. h.c. Matthias Kleiner (Mechanical Engineering)
  • Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Herbert Waldmann (Chemistry and Chemical Biology)

Acatech

  • Prof. Dr.-Ing. Dirk Biermann (Mechanical Engineering)
  • Prof. Dr.-Ing. Uwe Clausen (Mechanical Engineering)
  • Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Ursula Gather (Mathematics)
  • Prof. Dr. Andrzej Górak (Biochemical and Chemical Engineering)
  • Prof. Dr. Michael Henke (Mechanical Engineering)
  • Prof. Dr.-Ing. Dr. h.c. Matthias Kleiner (Mechanical Engineering)
  • Prof. Dr. Katharina Morik (Computer Science)
  • Prof. Dr. Gabriele Sadowski (Biochemical and Chemical Engineering)
  • Prof. Dr. Dr. E.h. A. Erman Tekkaya (Mechanical Engineering)
  • Prof. Dr. Dr. h. c. Michael ten Hompel (Mechanical Engineering)
  • Prof. Dr. Johannes Weyer (Social Sciences)

Russian Academy of Sciences

  • Prof. Dr. Manfred Bayer (Physics)

Academia Europaea

  • Prof. Dr.-Ing. Dr. h.c. Matthias Kleiner (Mechanical Engineering)
  • Prof. Dr. Liudvika Leišytė (zhb and Business and Economics)
  • Prof. Dr. Thomas Schwentick (Computer Science)

North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences, Humanities and the Arts

  • Prof. Dr.-Ing. Dirk Biermann (Mechanical Engineering)
  • Prof. Dr. Dr. Brigitte Falkenburg (Humanities and Theology)
  • Prof. Heike Hanada (Architecture and Civil Engineering)
  • Prof. Dr. Walter Krämer (Statistics)
  • Prof. Dr. Katharina Morik (Computer Science)
  • Prof. Dr. Gabriele Sadowski (Biochemical and Chemical Engineering)
  • Prof. Dr. Metin Tolan (Physics)
  • Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Herbert Waldmann (Chemistry and Chemical Biology)

“Junges Kolleg” of North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences, Humanities and the Arts

  • Dr. Malte Gersch (Chemistry and Chemical Biology)
  • JProf. Max Hansmann (Chemistry and Chemical Biology)
  • Dr. Elisabeth Kreidt (Chemistry and Chemical Biology)
  • Dr. Leonhard Urner (Chemistry and Chemical Biology)

Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities

  • Prof. Dr.-Ing. Dr. h.c. Matthias Kleiner (Mechanical Engineering)
  • Prof. Dr. Christian Rehtanz (Electrical Engineering & Information Technology)

Academy of Sciences and Literature | Mainz

  • Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Herbert Waldmann (Chemistry and Chemical Biology)

International Academy for Production Engineering (CIRP)

  • Prof. Dr.-Ing. Dirk Biermann (Mechanical Engineering)
  • Prof. Dr.-Ing. Dr. h.c. Matthias Kleiner (Mechanical Engineering)
  • Prof. Dr. Dr. E.h. A. Erman Tekkaya (Mechanical Engineering)
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