Research Highlights
National Research Collaborations
Ulm University was successful in the excellence strategy and has acquired a cluster of excellence in the field of battery research. From January 2019, the Cluster of Excellence "Post Lithium Storage" (POLiS) will receive funding of around seven million euros per year.
The following Collaborative Research Centres are currently being funded at Ulm University:
Speaker: Prof Hartmut Geiger | Institute for Molecular Medicin
Funded: 2022 - 2026
Speaker: Prof Sven Rau | Institute of Inorganic Chemistry I
Funded: 2018 - 2026
Speaker: Prof Frank Kirchhof |Institute of für Molecular Virology
Funded: 2017 - 2025
CRC 1149: Danger Response, Disturbance Factors and Regenerative Potential after Acute Trauma
Speaker: Prof Florian Gebhard |Klinik für Unfall-, Hand-, Plastische- und Wiederherstellungschirurgie
Funded: 2015 - 2026
At Ulm University the following Priority Programmes are funded by the DFG:
At Ulm University, about one hundred BMBF collaborative projects are funded. As an example successful projects under the overall coordination of Ulm University are listed:
Interdisziplinäres Nachwuchsforscherzentrum für Fertilitätsprotektion der Universität Ulm
Project Management: Prof Katharina Hancke, PD Dr Dr Karin Bundschu | Klinik für Frauenheilkunde und Geburtshilfe
Project Term: 2023-2026
Fördersumme: 2.108.734 EUR
DZKJ Aufbauförderung - Partner site Ulm - Genes, immunity, hormones and metabolism as determinants of development
Project Management: Prof Klaus-Michael Debatin
Project term: 06/2024 - 05/2026
Fördersumme: 4.258.707 EUR
International Research
The following scientists from Ulm University have been awarded with an ERC Grant:
ERC Starting Grants
SUPRANET - Supramolecular Recognition in Dynamic Covalent Networks at Equilibrium and Beyond
Prof Dr Max von Delius | Institute of Organic Chemistry I
Project Term: 2019 - 2025
ERC Consolidator Grants
CrossPeriBrain - Altered brain-periphery crosstalk as a key pathomechanism for high-risk phenotypes in humans
Prof Dr Martin Heni |Klinik für Innere Medizin I, Sektion Endokrinologie und Diabetologie
Project Term: 2024 - 2029
NanOBatt - Nanoporous and redox-active hoops and macrocycles as organic electrode materials for batteries
Prof Dr Birgit Esser | Institute of Organic Chemistry II and New Materials
Laufzeit: 2023 - 2028
BeePath - Impact of vector-mediated transmission on the evolution and ecology of a bee virus
Prof Lena Wilfert | Institute of Evolutionary Ecology and Conversation Genomics
Project Term: 2020 - 2025
MitO2Health - Major depression as a metabolic disorder: The role of oxygen homeostasis and mitochondrial bioenergetics in depression etiology and therapy
Prof Iris-Tatjana Kolassa | Institute of Psychology and Education
Project Term: 2020 - 2025
ERC Advanced Grants
Traitor-viruses - Traitor-virus-guided discovery of antiviral factors
Prof Frank Kirchhoff | Institute of Molecular Virology
Project term: 2022-2027
ERC Synergy Grants
HyperQ - Quantum hyperpolarisation for HyperQ ultrasensitive nuclear magnetic resonance and imaging
Prof Martin Plenio | Institute of Theoretical Physics
Prof Fedor Jelezko| Institute of Quantum Optics
Prof Jan Hendrik Ardenkjær-Larsen | Technical University of Denmark
Projct Term: 2020 - 2026
Successful EU-Projects coordinated by Ulm University
CERV-2022-Daphne
TICANDAC - Training to Improve Child Abuse and Neglect Diagnostic and Administrative Coding
Prof Andreas Jud | Klinik für Kinder- u. Jugendpsychiatrie/Psychotherapie
Laufzeit: 2023-2025
Horizont Europa - MSCA Doctoral Network
Eyes4ICU - Eyes for Information, Communication, and Understanding
Prof Anke Huckauf | Institut für Psychologie und Pädagogik
Laufzeit: 2022 - 2026
Early Career Programmes
Chairman: Prof Timo Ropinski | Institute of Media Informatics
Funding: 01/2025 - 12/2029
Funder: DFG
GRK: Cooperative Aperture Synthesis for Tomographic Radar Imaging (KoRaTo)
Speaker: Prof Christian Waldschmidt | Institute of Microwave Engineering
Co-Speaker: Prof Martin Vossiek | Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg
Funding: 2021 - 2025
Funder: DFG
KPK: Data Science und Analytics: Trust in and Control of Algorithms
Speaker: Prof Karsten Urban | Institut of Numerical Mathematics
Co-Speaker: Prof Kathrin Stucke-Straub | Ulm University of Applied Sciences
Funding: 2022 - 2027
Funder: State Baden-Württemberg
Chairman: Prof Bernd Knöll | Institute of Physiological Chemistry
Funded: since 2007
Funder: State Baden-Württemberg, Ulm University and the Medical Faculty of Ulm University (initiated in 2007 by the Excellence initiative of the federal and state governments (Funded 2007-2019))
Institute for Complex Quantum Systems
Heisenberg Professorship
Funded since 2023
Prof Alexander Kleger
Institute of Molecular Oncology and Stem Cell Biology
Heisenberg Professorship
Funded since 2019
Prof Pamela Fischer-Posovszky
Experimental Endocrinology and Metabolism Research
Heisenberg Professorship
Funded since 2017
Q-SiCk
Integrated photonics for scalable and CMOS-compatible quantum technologies in silicon carbide
BMBF Junior Research Group Quantum Futur
Project leader: Dr. Robert Cernansky | Institute of Quantum Optics
Funding: 2023 - 2028
EMIRA
Ecological momentary intervention to reduce suicide risk among adolescents
BMBF Junior Research Group Besondere Maßnahmen
Project leader: Jun.-Prof. Dr. Nathalie Oexle | Klinik für Psychiatrie und Psychotherapie II
Funding: 2022 - 2025
IMMUNOMOD
Modulation of innate immune responses to combat viral pathogens
BMBF Junior Research Group in Infection Research
Project leader: Jun.Prof. Dr. Konstantin Sparrer | Institute of Molecular Virology
Funding: 2020 - 2025
Cooperations
Endowed professorships are set up with the support of companies, associations and private individuals. These are highly gratifying examples of a well-functioning public-private partnership.
Endowed Professorship for Transfusion Medicine and Immunology
Prof. Dr. Hubert Schrezenmeier | Institut für Klinische Transfusionsmedizin und Immungenetik Ulm gGmbH (IKT Ulm)
Sponsor: DRK Blutspendedienst Baden-Württemberg GmbH
since 2000