ERC Advanced Grant Projects

We are growing more and more dependent on digital navigation. Frank Dickmann is researching ways of improving our individual spatial orientation skills in spite of this trend.

To date, the security of encryption methods has often been determined by trial and error. Gregor Leander intends to design ciphers that are underpinned by sound security arguments right from the start.

A super tightly spaced periodic array of laser pulses to cut, weld, or 3D print materials.

Practical applications are often complex and mathematically messy – which is why theoretical research has often dealt with problems that have nothing to do with real-world situations. Eike Kiltz hopes to change that.

In order to get hydrogen into widespread use as an energy carrier, it is necessary to scale up production processes. In the ERC project, the required basic research will be conducted.

How does cognition develop in a brain so completely different from ours?

The problems of monoculture are legion. So why are they still with us?

The project meets the challenge of a rigorous break with the Aristotelian tradition.

We generally take for granted that the particles inside atomic nuclei stick together. However, the interactions between the nuclear constituents are, for the most part, not fully understood.

New catalysts will help to convert carbon dioxide or nitrogen oxides into useful or harmless substances.

Some plants are able to thrive even on heavy-metal polluted soil. How that works is analyzed in this project.

The Cluster of Excellence RESOLV specialises in analyzing fundamental biological reactions in aqueous solutions.

Individual areas of everyday life become more and more connected. The project studies ways of protecting hardware against attacks.