Emmy Noether Groups

The programme enables highly qualified early career researchers to qualify for a university professorship by taking charge of a junior research group.

Optimization of hydrothermal geothermal heat utilization by upscaling thermo-hydro-visco-mechanical soil processes
Dr. Merita Tafili
Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Funding since 2025
Exploring the meson spectrum with 3π photoproduction and the search for the exotic hybrid meson π1(1600) at the GlueX experiment
Dr. Farah Noreen Afzal
Faculty of Physics and Astronomy
Funding since 2024
Reactivity and Spectroscopic Characterization of Interstellar Relevant Imine Species
Dr. André K. Eckard
Faculty of Physics and Astronomy
Funding since 2023
Spaces of contemplation - topographies of knowledge. Anatomical theaters of the early modern period between art, nature and science
Jun.-Prof. Dr. Christine Beese
Faculty of Historical Sciences
Funding since 2023
Dramaturgies in the Afterlife of Violence: Transnational Theater Between Global South and North
Jun.-Prof. Dr. Leon Gabriel
Faculty of Philology
Funding since 2023
Computer-Aided Verification of Physical Security Properties
Dr. Pascal Sasdrich
Faculty of Computer Science
Funding since 2023
The Return of the Organism in the Biosciences: Theoretical, Historical, and Social Dimensions
Jun.-Prof. Dr. Jan Baedke
Faculty of Philosophy and Educational Research
Funding since 2019
Scale-Bridging Computational Design of Multifunctional Ferroelectric Composites
Jun.-Prof. Dr. Anna Grünebohm
Faculty of Mechanical Engineering
Funding since 2019

Emmy Noether Groups (Life Time)

How expectations influence perception during human communication
Prof. Dr. Helen Blank
Faculty of Psychology
Funding since 2020
Feedback as the way forward: sensory predictions in the primate face processing hierarchy
Prof. Dr. Caspar M. Schwiedrzik
Faculty of Biology and Biotechnology
Funding since 2018

Junior Research Groups

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