The Collaborative Research Centre 1375 "NOA" is established in July 2019 at Friedrich Schiller University
Research Projects at Friedrich Schiller University
Cooperation partner FSU
Numerous renowned scientific centres, the Cluster of Excellence "Balance of the Microverse", the DFG Research Center iDiv, the Collaborative Research Centers, Research Training Groups and Research Groups exist at the Friedrich Schiller University. In addition, the University also participates in projects funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), and in the European research programmes.
Image: Jan-Peter Kasper (University of Jena)
Units of Excellence
The Cluster of Excellence of Friedrich Schiller University:
Research Centres
The Research Centres of the German Research Foundation (DFG) at Friedrich Schiller University:
German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig
Collaborative Research Centres
DFG Collaborative Research Centres:
CRC 1076 AquaDiva : Understanding the Links Between Surface and Subsurface Biogeosphere (since 2013)
Spokesperson: Prof. Dr. Kirsten KüselExternal link
CRC/TR 124 FungiNet: Pathogenic fungi and their human host: Networks of interaction (since 2013)
Spokesperson: Prof. Dr. Axel Brakhage
CRC 1127 ChemBioSys: Chemical Mediators in Complex Biosystems (since 2014)
Spokesperson: Prof. Dr. Christian HertweckExternal link
CRC/TR 166 ReceptorLight: High-end light microscopy elucidates membrane receptor function (since 2015)
Spokesperson: Prof. Dr. Klaus BenndorfExternal link
CRC 1278 Polymer-based nanoparticle libraries for targeted anti-inflammatory strategies de (seit 2017)
Spokesperson: Prof. Dr. Ulrich Schubert
CRC / TR 234 CataLIGHT: Light-driven Molecular Catalysts in Hierarchically Structured Materials - Synthesis and Mechanistic StudiesExternal link (since 2018)
Spokesperson: Prof. Dr. Sven RauExternal link (Ulm University)
Co-Spokesperson: Prof. Dr. Benjamin Dietzek de
CRC 1375 NOA: Nonlinear Optics down to Atomic Scales (since 2019)
Spokesperson: Prof. Dr. Ulf PeschelExternal link
CRC/TR 294: Structural Change of PropertyExternal link
Spokesperson: Prof. Dr. Hartmut RosaExternal link
Participations in DFG Collaborative Research Centres
CRC 950 Manuskriptkulturen in Asien, Afrika und Europa External link(since 2011; Spokesperson University: Hamburg)
FSU collaborateur: Prof. Dr. Tilman SeidenstickerExternal link
SFB/TRR 212 A Novel Synthesis of Individualisation across Behaviour, Ecology and Evolution: Niche Choice, Niche Conformance, Niche ConstructionExternal link
FSU collaborateur: Prof. Holger SchielzethExternal link
Completed DFG-Collaborative Research Centres
Research Training Groups
DFG Research Training Groups:
RTG 2041 Modell "Romantik". Variation-Reichweite-Aktualität (since 2015)
Spokesperson: Prof. Dr. Stefan MatuschekExternal link
RTG 2155 ProMoAgeExternal link (since 2016)
Spokesperson MLU Halle: Prof. Dr. Andreas SimmExternal link
Dep. Spokesperson FSU Jena: Prof. Dr. Regine HellerExternal link
IRTG 2309 TransTiP: Geo-ecosystems in transition on the Tibetan PlateauExternal link (since 2017)
Spokesperson: Prof. Antje SchwalbExternal link (TU Braunschweig)
Friedrich Schiller University is one of the applicant universities.
IRTG 2324 TreeDì - Tree Diversity Interactions: The role of tree-tree interactions in local neighbourhoods in Chinese subtropical forestsExternal link (since 2017)
Spokesperson: Prof. Helge BruelheideExternal link
Friedrich Schiller University is one of the applicant universities.
RTG 2522 Strong Dynamics & Criticality in Quantum and Gravitational Systems External link(since 2019)
Spokesperson: Prof. Holger GiesExternal link
IRTG 2675 META-ACTIVE: Tailored metasurfaces - generating, programming and detecting light (seit 2021)
Spokesperson: Prof. Isabelle Staude
GRK 2732 M-M-M: Materials-Microbe-Microenvironment: Antimicrobial biomaterials with tailored structures and properties (seit 2022)
Spokesperson: Prof. Klaus Jandt de
Co-Spokesperson: Prof. Bettine LöfflerExternal link
GRK 2792 Autonomie heteronomer Texte in Antike und Mittelalter (seit 2022)
Spokesperson: Prof. Katharina Bracht de
Co-Spokesperson: Prof. Matthias Perkams de
Further graduate schools / graduate colleges and doctoral schools:
Jena School for Microbial Communication (JSMC)
Graduate School "The GDR and the European Dictatorships after 1945"External link
Graduate School Human Behaviour in Social and Economic Change (GSBC)
Jena School Molecular MedicineExternal link
Kolleg Globale BildungExternal link
Doktorandenschule des Jena Center "Geschichte des 20. Jahrhunderts"External link
Graduiertenkolleg "Advanced Photon Science" des Helmholtz-Instituts JenaExternal link
Frege-Kolleg - Promotionsprogramm der Fakultät für Mathematik und Informatik de
Joint graduate schools / graduate colleges with non-university research institutions:
International Max Planck Research School for Global Biogeochemical CyclesExternal link
International Leibniz Research School for Microbial and Biomolecular InteractionsExternal link
Helmholtz Interdisciplinary Graduate School for Environmental Research (HIGRADE)External link
Leibniz Graduate School on AgeingExternal link
Helmholtz Research School for Advances Photonics (HRS-AP)External link
International Max Planck Research School for the Science of Human HistoryExternal link
Completed Research Training Groups
Research Units
DFG Research Units:
RU 2179 MAD Soil - Microaggregates: Formation and Turnover of the Structural Building Blocks of SoilExternal link (since 2015)
Spokesperson: Prof. Dr. Kai Uwe TotscheExternal link
RU 2285 Debris Disks in Planetary SystemsExternal link (since 2015)
Spokesperson: Prof. Dr. Alexander V. KrivovExternal link
RU 2518 Functional dynamics of ion channels and transporters (DynIon) (since 2015)
Spokesperson: Prof. Dr. Klaus BenndorfExternal link
RU 2783 Probing the Quantum Vacuum at the High-Intensity FrontierExternal link (since 2019)
Spokesperson: Prof. Dr. Holger GiesExternal link
RU 5000 Biotic interactions, community assembly, and eco-evolutionary dynamics as drivers of long-term biodiversity- ecosystems functioning relationships (since 2019)
Spokesperson: Prof. Dr. Nico EisenhauerExternal link (German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig)
RU 3004 SYNABS- Synaptic pathology in autoimmunie encephalitiesExternal link (since 2019)
Spokesperson: Prof. Dr. Christian GeisExternal link
FOR 5151 Quantifying Liver Perfusion-Funtction Relationship in Complex Resection - A Systems Medicine Approach (QuaLiPerF)External link (since 2020)
Spokesperson: Prof. Dr. Dahmen
FOR 5301 FuncHeal The next generation of artificial self-healing materials (seit 2022)
Sprecher: Prof. Ulrich S. Schubert
Completed DFG-Research Units
Priority Programmes
DFG Priority Programmes:
PP 2248 Polymer -based Batteries
Spokesperson: Prof. Dr. Ulrich S. SchubertExternal link
EU Projects
7th Research Framework Program / EU's Horizon 2020 programme:
Powerful and Efficient EUV Coherent Light Sources (PECS)
Multi-dimensional interferometric amplification of ultrashort laser pulses (MIMAS)
Unifying concepts in the topological design of non-crystalline materials (UTOPES)
Exciton-Phonon Coupling from First Principles (Exphon)
"Thinking in Images. Herder´s Adrastea from 1801-03 up to nowadays" (TIM-Adrastea)
LARGE AREA FLUIDIC WINDOWS (LaWin)
Networking Innovation Room for Added Value Networking Alliances (NIR-VANA)
BMBF Projects
Of the numerous funded projects of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) should be explicitly mentioned:
Innovative Hochschule
Research Campus
Twenty20 - Partnerships for Innovation
Centres for Innovation Competence
Käte Hamburger International Centres
Förderung von Gesundheitsregionen