Strong research collaborations within the UA Ruhr

Coordinated at a UA Ruhr university

• RTG 2185 Situated Cognition - New Concepts in Investigating Core Mental Phenomena (Speaker: Prof. Dr. Albert Newen, Institute for Philosophy and Educational Research, RUB | Participating UA Ruhr universities: RUB | Funding since 2017)
• RTG 2341 Microbial Substrate Conversion (MiCon) (Speaker: Prof. Dr. Franz Narberhaus, Faculty of Biology and Biotechnology, RUB | Participating UA Ruhr universities: RUB | Funding since 2018)
• RTG 2376 Confinement-controlled Chemistry (Speaker: Prof. Dr. Karina Morgenstern, Faculty of Chemistry and Biochemistry, RUB | Participating UA Ruhr universities: RUB, TUDo| Funding since 2018)
• RTG 2484 Regional Disparities and Economic Policy (Speaker: Prof. Dr. Tobias Seidel, Mercator School of Management, UDE | Participating UA Ruhr universities: RUB, TUDo, UDE | Funding: 2019–2028)
• RTG 2535 Knowledge- and data-driven personalization of medicine at the point of care (Speaker: Prof. Dr. Felix Nensa, University Hospital Essen, UDE | Participating UA Ruhr universities: UDE | Funding since 2021)
• RTG 2553 Symmetries and Classifying Spaces: Analytic, Arithmetic and Derived (Speaker: Prof. Dr. Jochen Heinloth, Faculty of Mathematics, UDE | Participating UA Ruhr universities: UDE | Funding: 2020–2029)
• GRK 2624: High-dimensional regression methods for gene-exposure interactions (Speaker: Prof. Dr. Jörg Rahnenführer, Faculty of Statistik, TUDo | Participating UA Ruhr universities: TUDo | Funding since: 2021)
• RTG 2762 Heterogenität, Plastizität und Dynamik der Antwort von Krebszellen, Tumor- und Normalgeweben auf therapeutische Bestrahlungen bei Krebs (Speaker: Prof. Dr. Verena Jendrossek, Faculty of Medicine, UDE | Participating UA Ruhr universities: UDE | Funding: 2022–2027)
• RTG 2803 Skalierbare 2D Material Architekturen (2D-MATURE) Synthese und Prozessierung, Charakterisierung und Funktionalität, Implementierung und Demonstration (Speaker: Prof. Dr. Gerd Bacher, Faculty of Engineering, UDE | Participating UA Ruhr universities: UDE | Funding: 2022–2027)
• RTG 2833 Zukunft in Ostasien: Visionen und Realisierungen auf nationaler, transregionaler und globaler Ebene (Speaker: Prof. Dr. Christine Moll-Murata, Faculty of East Asian Studies, RUB | Participating UA Ruhr universities: RUB, UDE | Funding: 2023–2028)
• RTG 2862 Monoaminerge neuronale Netze & Krankheiten (Speaker: Prof. Dr. Stefan Herlitze, Faculty of Biology and Biotechnology, RUB | Participating UA Ruhr universities: RUB | Funding since 2023)
• RTG 2945 Wissen – Glauben – Behaupten: Wahrheitsproduktion und Wahrheitsdurchsetzung in der Vormoderne (Speaker: Prof. Dr. Christina Lechtermann, Faculty of Philology, RUB | Participating UA Ruhr universities: RUB | Funding: 2024–2028)
• RTG 2989 Targeting Cellular Interfaces in Reperfused Acute Myocardial Infarction - TCI repAMI. (Speaker: Prof. Dr. Tienush Rassaf, University Hospital Essen, UDE | Participating UA Ruhr universities: UDE, TUDo | Funding: 2024–2029)
• GRK 3043:  AMTEC-PRO – Advanced Methods and Technologies for Proton Therapy (Sprecher: Prof. Dr. Kevin Kröninger, Fakultät für Physik, TUDo | Beteiligte UA Ruhr-Universitäten: UDE, TUDo | Förderung 2025–2030)

Co-proposer

• RTG 2951 Cross-border Labour Markets: Transnational Market Makers, Infrastructures, Institutions (Coordinated at Universität Bielefeld; Contact at UDE: Prof. Karen Shire, Ph.D., Faculty of Social Sciences | Participating UA Ruhr universities: UDE | Funding: 2024–2029)

Coordinated at a UA Ruhr university: Faculties/Cooperation

• Dortmund Graduate School of Physics (Speaker: Prof. Dr. Matthias Schneider, Faculty of Physics, TUDo | Participating UA Ruhr universities: TUDo | since 2022)
• Essener Ausbildungsprogramm für den ärztlichen Nachwuchs (Promotionskolleg ELAN) (Speaker: Prof. Dr. Ursula Rauen, Faculty of Medicine, UDE | Participating UA Ruhr universities: UDE | since 2012)
• Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences (BIOME) (Speaker: Prof. Dr. Ulf Dittmer, Faculty of Biology and Faculty of Medicine, UDE | Participating UA Ruhr universities: UDE | since 2010)
• Graduate School of Chemistry and Biochemistry (GSCB) (Speaker: Prof. Dr. Wolfram Sander, Faculty of Chemistry and Biochemistry, RUB | Participating UA Ruhr universities: RUB | since 2003)
• Graduate school of the Research Center Trustworthy Data Science and Security (Speaker: Prof. Dr. Nicole Krämer | Participating UA Ruhr universities: RUB, TUDo, UDE | since 2023)
• International Graduate School of Biosciences (IGB) (Speaker: Prof. Dr. Ralph Tollrian, Faculty of Biology and Biotechnology, RUB | Participating UA Ruhr universities: RUB | since 2004)
• International Graduate School of Neuroscience (IGSN) (Speaker: Prof. Dr. Ulf Eysel, Faculty of Biology and Biotechnology, RUB | Participating UA Ruhr universities: RUB | since 2001)
• International Max Planck Research School for Sustainable Metallurgy (IMPRS-SusMet) (Prof. Dr. Jörg Neugebauer (MPIE, ICAMS), Prof. Dr.-Ing. Gunther Eggeler (Co-Speaker), Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, RUB | Participating UA Ruhr universities: RUB, UDE | since 2022)
• PhD Program in International Development Studies (IDS) (Speaker: Prof. Dr. Wilhelm Löwenstein, Faculty of Management and Economics and Institute of Development Research and Development Policy, RUB | Participating UA Ruhr universities: RUB | since 2007)
• PhD Program “Metakognitives Monitoring in authentischen Lehr-Lernkontexten im Schülerlabor (MeMo-akS)” (Speaker: Prof. Dr. Julian Roelle, Center of Educational Studies, RUB | Participating UA Ruhr universities: RUB | since 2018)
• Ruhr Graduate School in Economics (RGS Econ) (Speaker: Prof. Dr. Christoph Schmidt, Faculty of Economics and RWI, RUB & Prof. Dr. Christoph Hanck, Faculty of Economics, UDE | Participating UA Ruhr universities: RUB, TUDo, UDE | since 2004)
• Water Graduate School (Speaker: Dr. Ursula Telgheder and Prof. Dr. Alexander Probst | Participating UA Ruhr universities: UDE | since 2023)

Coordinated at a UA Ruhr university: externally funded

• Graduate School of Logistics (GSofLog) (Speaker: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Dr. h. c. Michael Henke, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, TUDo | Participating UA Ruhr universities: TUDo, RUB, UDE | since 2010)
• Graduiertenkolleg Querschnittsaufgaben in Lehrkräftebildung sowie Schul- und Unterrichtsentwicklung (GKQL) (Speaker: Prof. Dr. Inga Gryl, Faculty of Humanities & Prof. Dr. Stefan Rumann, Faculty of Chemistry, UDE | Participating UA Ruhr universities: UDE)
• PhD Program “Neue Herausforderungen in alternden Gesellschaften” (Speaker: Prof. Dr. Martina Brandt & Prof. Dr. Mona Motakef, Faculty of Social Sciences, TUDo | Participating UA Ruhr universities: TUDo | Funding 2023–2027 by the Hans Böckler Foundation)
• PhD Program “The Political Economy of Inequality” (Speaker: Prof. Dr. Till van Treeck, Faculty of Social Sciences, UDE | Participating UA Ruhr universities: UDE | Funding: 2020–2023 by Hans Böckler Stiftung)
• Promotionskolleg PK 054: Mit Sprache. Mitbestimmung durch SprachGewalten (Speaker: Prof. Dr. Björn Rothstein, Faculty of Philology, RUB | Participating UA Ruhr universities: RUB | Funding since 2023 by the Hans Böckler Foundation)

Participation

• Helmholtz-Graduiertenschule Energie und Klima (HITEC) (Coordinated at FZ Jülich; Contact at RUB: Prof. Dr. Roland Span, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, RUB | Participating UA Ruhr universities: RUB | since 2011)
• International Max Planck Research School for Living Matter: from molecules to dynamics (IMPRS-LM) (Speaker: Prof. Dr. Roger Goody, Max Planck Institute for Molecular Physiology | Participating UA Ruhr universities: RUB, TUDo, UDE | since 2001)
• International Max Planck Research School on the Social and Political Constitution of the Economy (IMPRS-SPCE) (Speaker: Prof. Dr. Lucio Baccaro, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies | Participating UA Ruhr universities: UDE)
• International Max Planck Research School in Chemical and Molecular Biology – IMPRS-CMB  (Speaker: Prof. Dr. Klaus Gerwert, Faculty of Biology and Biotechnology, RUB| Participating UA Ruhr universities: RUB, TUDo, UDE)
• Max Planck School of Cognition (Speaker: Prof. Dr. Onur Güntürkün, Faculty of Psychology, RUB | Participating UA Ruhr universities: RUB)
• Promotionskolleg "Vertretung marginalisierter Interessen im Wohlfahrtsstaat (MARGIN)" (Coordinated at TH Köln; Contact UDE: Prof. Dr. Simone Leiber, Faculty of Education | Participating UA Ruhr universities: UDE | Funding: 2025–2029)

Coordinated at a UA Ruhr university

• HEPARD: Health Economic Policy Analysis with Real World Data (Prof. Dr. Martin Karlsson, Faculty of Business Administration and Economics, UDE | Participating UA Ruhr universities: UDE| Funding: 11/2025–10/2029)

Participation

• Arctech: Harnessing the potential of Archaea - Training Europe's next visionaries for an innovative and sustainable future (Coordinated at University of Groningen; Contact at UDE: Prof. Bettina Siebers, Faculty of Chemistry | Participating UA Ruhr universities: UDE | Funding: 2024–2027)
• BiodeCCodiNNg: Decoding novel reaction chemistries in biocatalysis – Training Europe’s next visionaries for a sustainable future (Coordinated at Rijksuniversiteit Groningen; Contact at RUB: Prof. Dr. Dirk Tischler, Faculty of Biology and Biotechnology | Participating UA Ruhr universities: RUB | Funding: 2023–2026)
• CoDeF: Consumer Demand Flexibility in Electricity Use (Coordinated at University College Dublin; Contact at RUB: Prof. Dr. Valentin Bertsch, Faculty of Management and Economics | Participating UA Ruhr universities: RUB | Funding: 2024–2028)
• DETMED: Novel detector concept for medical gamma probe (Coordinated at COFAC - Cooperativa de Formação e Animação Cultural, C.R.L.; Contact at TUDo:  Prof. Dr. Marc Aßmann, Faculty of Physics | Participating UA Ruhr universities: TUDo | Funding: 2023–2027)
• EUSpecLab: European Spectroscopy Laboratory to model the materials of the future (Coordinated at Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS); Contact at RUB: Prof. Dr. Miguel Marques, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering | Participating UA Ruhr universities: RUB | Funding: 2022–2027)
• FLUXIONIC: Controlled transport of water and ions in nanoconfinement (Coordinated at Universitat de Barcelona; Contact at RUB: Prof. Dr. Marialore Sulpizi, Faculty of Physics and Astronomy | Participating UA Ruhr universities: RUB | Funding: 2024–2028)
• Glyco N: Glycoprotein N -glycosylation from non-life to encaryotes a Doctoral Network to expand the knowledge on a ubiquetous posttranslational modification of proteins (Coordinated at UNINA Universita degli Studie di Napoli; Contact at UDE: Prof. Dr. Bettina Siebers, Faculty of Chemistry |  Participating UA Ruhr universities: UDE | Funding: 2024–2027)
• HaloVerse: Advancing Europe's Next Generations on the Path to Sustainability – Expanding the Universe of Enzymatic Halogenation Chemistry (Coordinated at: Rijksuniversiteit Groningen; Contact at RUB: Prof. Dr. Dirk Tischler, Faculty of Biology and Biotechnology | Participating UA Ruhr universities: RUB | Funding: 01/2026–12/2030)
• InventWater: Inventive forecasting tools for adapting water quality management to a new climate (Coordinated at Catalan Institute for Water Research; Contact at RUB: Prof. Dr. Martina Flörke, Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering | Participating UA Ruhr universities: RUB | Funding: 2021–2026)
• MetRaZymes: Metal-containing Radical Enzymes (Coordinated at: Technische Universität Darmstadt; Contact at TUDo: Prof. Dr. Jörg Tiller, Faculty Biochemical and Chemical Engineering | Participating UA Ruhr universities: TUDo | Funding: 2022–2026)
• MITIME: Entanglements of Migration and Time in Post-industrial Urban Europe (Coordinated at: Oulun yliopisto; Contact at RUB: Prof. Dr. Margit Fauser, Faculty of Social Science | Participating UA Ruhr universities: RUB | Funding: since 03/2026)
• PSST: Privacy for Smart Speech Technology (Coordinated at: Aaalto Korkeakoulusäätiö SR; Contact at RUB: Prof. Dr.  Rainer Martin, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology | Participating UA Ruhr universities: RUB| Funding: 02/2025–01/2030)
• QSI: Quantum-Safe-Internet (Coordinated at Universidad De Vigo; Coordinated at RUB: Prof. Dr. Alexander May, Faculty of Computer Sciences, RUB | Participating UA Ruhr universities: RUB | Funding: 2022–2026)

NRW Junior Research Groups/NRW Postdoc Return Program

• Chemical Biology (Dr. Leonhard Urner, Faculty of Chemistry and Biochemistry, TUDo | Funding since 2022)
• Enhancing enzymatic plastic degradation through future computing (Prof. Dr. Erna K. Wieduwilt, Faculty of Chemistry, UDE | Funding since 2026)
• High-entropy oxides as innovative energy materials (Jun.-Prof. Dr. Andrea Kirsch, Faculty of Chemistry and Biochemistry/Research Center Future Energy Materials and Systems, RUB | Funding since 2025)
• Inorganic Chemistry (Dr. Elisabeth Kreidt, Faculty of Chemistry and Biochemistry, TUDo | Funding since 2022)
• Quantum Technology (Dr. Moritz Cygorek, Faculty of Physics, TUDo | Funding since 2024)
• Theoretical Inorganic Chemistry (Prof. Dr. Kai S. Exner, Faculty of Chemistry, UDE | Funding since 2021)
• Tumor-metabolism (Univ.-Prof. Dr. med. Dr. rer. nat. Alpaslan Tasdogan, Faculty of Medicine, UDE | Funding since 2021)
• Virtual material design for neuromorphic and quantum computing (Dr. Juba Bouaziz, Faculty of Physics, UDE | Funding since 2026)

BMBF Junior Research Groups

• GINN: Geo-physikalisch-Informierte Neuronale Netze als Fortschritt für die Ingenieurpraxis (Dr. Merita Tafili, Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering, RUB | Funding: 2024–2027)
• Virbio – Einrichtung einer neuen Virusinformatik-Forschungsgruppe im Bereich Infektionsbiologie (Dr. Daniel Todt, Faculty of Medicine, RUB | Funding: 2022–2027)

BMBF Junior Research programs 

• UMEA² - University Medicine Essen Advanced Clinician Scientist Academy (Prof.'in Dr. Ulrike Bingel, Program Manager, University Medicine Essen | Funding since 2021)

• A Chemical Biology approach to uncover principles of system-wide regulation of proteolysis in the ubiquitin system (Dr. Malte Gersch, Faculty of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, TUDo | Funding since 2019)
• Computer-Aided Verification of Physical Security Properties (Dr. Pascal Sasdrich, Faculty of Computer Science, RUB | Funding since 2023)
• Designer photo-catalysts and multi-electron processes based on redox-active hybrid molecules and their application in synthesis and activation of small molecules (Prof. Dr. Max Martin Hansmann, Faculty of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, TUDo | Funding since 2020)
• DNA Origami-templated Silica nanostructures for applications in biomedicine and catalysis (Prof. Dr. Amelie Heuer-Jungemann, Faculty of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, TU Do | Funding since 2020)
• 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, RUB | Funding since 2024)
• Mechanisms of interpretation biases in anxiety – bridging experimental investigation and clinical translation (Dr. Marcella Woud, Faculty of Psychology, RUB | Funding since 2021)
• The Return of the Organism in the Biosciences: Theoretical, Historical, and Social Dimensions (Jun.-Prof. Dr. Jan Baedke, Faculty of Philosophy and Educational Research, RUB | Funding since 2019)
• Dramaturgies in the Afterlife of violence: transnational Theater between Global South and North (Jun.-Prof. Dr. Leon Gabriel, Faculty of Philology, RUB | Funding since 2023)
• Foundations of encrypted optimization-based control for networked systems (Prof. Dr. Moritz Schulze Darup, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, TUDo | Funding since 2019)
• Discovering novel metabolic vulnerabilities in melanoma metastasis (Prof. Dr. Dr. Alpaslan Tasdogan, Faculty of Medicine, UDE | Funding since 2021)
• How expectations influence perception during human communication (Prof. Dr. Helen Blank, Faculty of Psychology, RUB | Funding since 2020)
• Longitudinal Analysis and Therapeutic Exploitation of Radiotherapy Resistance Mechanisms in Gliomas [R2-GLIO] (Dr. Dr. Emre Kocakavuk, Faculty of Medicine, UDE | Funding since 2024)
• Optimization of geothermal energy utilization by upscaling thermo-hydro-visco-mechanical soil processes (Dr. Merita Tafili, Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering, RUB | Funding since 2025)
• Probing the Standard Model via boosted W/Z boson precision measurements at the Large Hadron Collider (Dr. Chris Malena Delitzsch, Faculty of Physics, TUDo | Funding since 2022)
• Spaces of visualisation – topographies of knowledge. Early modern anatomical theatres in art, nature and science (Dr.-Ing. Christine Beese, Institute of Art History, RUB | Funding since 2023)
• Reactivity and Spectroscopic Characterization of Interstellar Relevant Imine Species (Dr. André K. Eckhardt, Faculty of Chemistry and Biochemistry, RUB | Funding since 2023)
• Search for unknown phenomena in rare charm hadron decays (Dr. Dominik Mitzel, Faculty of Physics, TUDo | Funding since 2022)
• Towards the Next Generation in Cosmic Ray Astrochemistry (Dr. Brandt A. L. Gaches, Faculty of Physics, UDE | Funding since 2024)
• UDNN: Scientific Understanding and Deep Neural Networks (Jun.-Prof. Dr. Florian J. Boge, Faculty of Humanities and Theology, TUDo | Funding since 2022)
• Varieties of Reproduction Regimes: Institutionen, Normen und Soziale Ungleichheit (REPROREG) (Prof. Dr. Hannah Zagel, Faculty of Social Science, Professor of Life Course Sociology, TUDo | Funding since 2021)

• ALIVE: Avicenna Live: The Immediate Context of Avicenna’s Intellectual Formation (Prof. Dr. Andreas Lammer, Faculty of Philology, RUB | Funding: 2024–2028)
• BacForce - Quantifying minute forces: How mechanoregulation determines the behavior of pathogenic bacteria (Prof. Dr. Benedikt Sabaß, TUDo, Faculty of Physics, TUDo| Funding: 2020–2026)
• BeyondRVE: Beyond Representative Volume Elements for Random Heterogeneous Materials (Prof. Dr. Matti Schneider, Faculty of Engineering, UDE | Funding: 2022–2027)
• CAPCAM: Cut-and-paste conjectures and multicurves (Prof. Dr. Claudius Zibrowius, Faculty of Mathematics, RUB | Funding: 2024–2029)
• CEC: The Cognitive-Ecological Challenge of Diversity (Prof. Dr. Hans Alves, Faculty of Psychology, RUB | Funding: 2021–2026)
• CONSEC: Secure Execution of Smart Contracts (Prof. Dr.-Ing. Lucas Vincenzo Davi, Faculty of Computer Science, UDE | Funding: 2022–2027)
• DECAF: Deciphering adaptive footprints of epiC evolution on different timescales (Prof. Dr. Toni Goßmann, Faculty of Biochemical and Chemical Engineering, TUDo | Funding: 2021–2026)
• DEUCE: Data-Driven Verification and Learning Under Uncertainty (Prof. Dr. Nils Jansen, Faculty of Computer Science, RUB | Funding: 2023–2027)
• DISCO-DATA: Hard work, plastic flow: a data-centric approach to dislocation-based plasticity (Prof. Dr. Markus Stricker, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, RUB | Funding: 2024–2029)
• DIVERSIPHAGY: Utilizing diversity to decipher the role of autophagy in plant-microbe interactions (Prof. Dr. Şuayb Üstün, Faculty of Biology and Biotechnology, RUB | Funding: 2021–2026)
• DynaQuanta: Nonequilibrium Terahertz Dynamics of Interacting Quantum Spins: from Novel Driven States towards Coherent Controls (Prof. Dr. Zhe Wang, Faculty of Physics, TUDo | Funding: 2021–2026)
• Insights into a unique form of superconductivity (Prof. Dr. Anna Böhmer, Faculty of Physics and Astronomy, RUB | Funding from 2023)
• Koopman-Operator-based Reinforcement Learning Control of Partial Differential Equations (Prof. Dr. Sebastian Peitz, Department of Computer Science, TUDo | Förderung: 2025–2029)
• METATARGET: Targeting the Metabolic Dependencies of Metastatic Tumor Cells (Prof. Dr. Alpaslan Tasdogan, University Hospital Essen, UDE | Funding: 2024–2029)
• MITICAT: Microfluidic Tuning of Individual Nanoparticles to Understand and Improve Electrocatalysis (Prof. Dr. Kristina Tschulik, Faculty of Chemistry and Biochemistry, RUB | Funding: 2021–2026)
• NuRadioOpt – Optimization of Radio Detectors of Ultra-High-Energy Neutrinos through Deep Learning and Differential Programming (Prof. Dr. Christian Glaser, Faculty of Physics, TUDo | Funding: 2024–2029)
• Science and Dogma: Tracing Natural Knowledge within Scholastic Theology (1545–1789) (Prof. Dr. Christoph Sander, CERES, RUB | Funding: 2025–2030)
• Strongly Polarized Carbon: Taming Fundamental Intermediates and Their Applications (Prof. Dr. Max Hansmann, Faculty of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, TUDo | Funding: 2023–2028)
• Surprising symmetries for theoretical computer science (Prof. Dr. Michael Walter, Faculty of Computer Science, RUB | Funding since 2022)
• TectoVision: What is controlling plate motions over the minutes to decades timescale? (Prof. Dr. Jonathan Bedford, Institute for Geology, Mineralogy and Geophysics, RUB | Funding: 2022–2027)

2023

• Prof. Dr. Marcella Woud, Faculty of Psychology, RUB

2018

• Prof. Dr. Dr. Benedikt Göcke, Faculty of Catholic Theology, RUB

2015

• Prof. Dr. Sarah Weigelt, Faculty of Rehabilitation Sciences, TUDo

• EXC 2092 Cyber-Sicherheit im Zeitalter großskaliger Angreifer (CASA) (Speaker: Prof. Dr. Eike Kiltz & Prof. Dr. Christof Paar, Horst Görtz Institute for IT Security, RUB | Participating UA Ruhr universities: RUB (Proposer), UDE | Funding since 2019)
• EXC 2033 RESOLV (Ruhr Explores Salvation) (Speaker: Prof. Dr. Martina Havenith, Faculty of Chemistry and Biochemistry, RUB | Participating UA Ruhr universities: RUB (Proposer), TUDo (Co-proposer), UDE | Funding since 2012)
• EXC 3107: Color meets Flavor - Suche nach neuen Phänomenen in der starken und schwachen Wechselwirkung (Speaker: Prof. Dr. Jochen Dingfelder, Universität Bonn / Co-Speaker: Prof. Dr. Johannes Albrecht, TUDo | Participating UA Ruhr universities: TUDo | Funding since 2026)

Coordinated at a UA Ruhr university

• CRC/TRR 188 Damage Controlled Forming Processes (Speaker: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Yannis P. Korkolis, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, TUDo | Participating UA Ruhr universities: TUDo | Funding since 2017, in speakership since 07/2023)
• CRC/TRR 196 Mobile Material Characterization and Localization by Electromagnetic Sensing (MARIE) (Speaker: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Thomas Kaiser, Faculty of Engineering, UDE | Participating UA Ruhr universities: RUB, UDE | Funding since 2017)
• CRC/TRR 247 Heterogeneous Oxidation Catalysis in the Liquid Phase (Speaker: Prof. Dr. Kristina Tschulik, Faculty of Chemistry, UDE | Participating UA Ruhr universities: RUB, UDE | Funding since 2018)
• CRC/TRR 287 BULK-REACTION - Reacting and moving granular assemblies with gas flow (Speaker: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Viktor Scherer, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, RUB | Participating UA Ruhr universities: RUB | Funding since 2020)
• CRC/TRR 289 The Impact of Expectation on Health Outcome – Treatment Expectation (Speaker: Prof. Dr. Ulrike Bingel, Faculty of Medicine, UDE | Participating UA Ruhr universities: UDE | Funding since 2020)
• CRC/TRR 391: Spatio-temporal Statistics for the Transition of Energy and Transport (Speaker: Prof. Dr. Roland Fried, Department of Statistics, TUDo | Participating UA Ruhr universities: RUB, TUDo, UDE | Funding since 2024)
• CRC 1242 Non-Equilibrium Dynamics of Condensed Matter in the Time Domain (Speaker: Prof. Dr. Uwe Bovensiepen, Faculty of Physics, UDE | Participating UA Ruhr universities: UDE | Funding since 2016)
• CRC 1280 Extinction learning (Speaker: Prof. Dr. Onur Güntürkün, Faculty of Psychology, RUB | Participating UA Ruhr universities: RUB, TUDo, UDE | Funding since 2017)
• CRC 1316 Transient atmospheric plasmas – from plasmas to liquids to solids (Speaker: Prof. Dr. Achim von Keudell, Faculty of Physics and Astronomy, RUB | Participating UA Ruhr universities: RUB | Funding since 2018)
• CRC 1430 Molecular mechanisms of cell state transitions (Speaker: Prof. Dr. Hemmo Meyer, Faculty of Biology, UDE | Participating UA Ruhr universities: TUDo, UDE | Funding since 2021)
• CRC 1439 Multilevel response to stresser increase and release in stream ecosystems – RESIST (Speaker: Prof. Dr. Bernd Sures, Faculty of Biology, UDE | Participating UA Ruhr universities: RUB, UDE | Funding: since 2021)
• CRC 1475 Metaphors of Religion. Religious Meaning-Making in Language Use (Speaker: Prof. Dr. Volkhard Krech, Centre for Religious Studies, RUB | Participating UA Ruhr universities: RUB | Funding since 2022)
• CRC 1491 Cosmic Interacting Matters - From Source to Signal (Speaker: Prof. Dr. Julia Tjus, Faculty of Physics and Astronomy, RUB | Participating UA Ruhr universities: RUB, TUDo | Funding since 2022)
• CRC 1567 Virtuelle Lebenswelten (Speaker: Prof. Dr. Stefan Rieger, Institute for Media Studies, RUB | Participating UA Ruhr universities: RUB | Funding since 2022)
• CRC 1625 Atomic-Scale Understanding and Design of Multifunctional Surfaces (Speaker: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Alfred Ludwig, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, RUB | Participating UA Ruhr universities: RUB, UDE | Funding since 2024)
• CRC 1683 Interaction methods for the modular reuse of existing structures (Speaker: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Peter Mark, Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering, RUB | Participating UA Ruhr universities: RUB | Funding since 2025)
   

Co-proposer

• CRC/TRR 270 Hysteresis design of magnetic materials for efficient energy conversion (HoMMage) (Speaker: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Oliver Gutfleisch, TU Darmstadt | Participating UA Ruhr universities: UDE (Co-proposer) | Funding since 2020)
• CRC/TRR 332 Neutrophils: origin, fate & function (Speaker: Prof. Dr. Oliver Söhnlein, Universität Münster | Participating UA Ruhr universities: UDE (Co-proposer) | Funding since 2022)