Strong research collaborations within the UA Ruhr

Coordinated at a UA Ruhr university

• RTG 2132 Documentary Practices. Excess and Privation (Speaker: Prof. Dr. Friedrich Balke, Faculty of Philology, RUB | Participating UA Ruhr universities: RUB | Funding since 2016)
• 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 2193 Adaption Intelligence of Factories in a Dynamic and Complex Environment (Speaker: Prof. Dr. Jakob Rehof, Faculty of Computer Science, TUDo | Participating UA Ruhr universities: TUDo | Funding: 2016–2025)
• 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, UDE | 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 since 2024)
• RTG 2535 Knowledge- and data-driven personalization of medicine at the point of care (Speaker: Prof. Dr. Britta Böckmann, University Hospital Essen, UDE | Participating UA Ruhr universities: UDE | Funding: 2021–2025)
• RTG 2553 Symmetries and Classifying Spaces: Analytic, Arithmetic and Derived (Speaker: Prof. Dr. Ulrich Görtz, Faculty of Mathematics, UDE | Participating UA Ruhr universities: UDE | Funding since 2020)
• RTG 2624 Biostatistische Methoden für hochdimensionale Daten in der Toxikologie (Speaker: Prof. Dr. Jörg Rahnenführer, Fakulty of Statistics, TUDo | Participating UA Ruhr universities: TUDo | Funding: 2021–2025)
• 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 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)

Co-proposer

• RTG 2610 Innovative Schnittstellen zur Retina für optimiertes künstliches Sehen – InnoRetVision (Coordinated at RWTH Aachen; Contact at UDE: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Rainer Kokozonski & Prof. Dr.-Ing. Karsten Seidl, Faculty of Engineering | Participating UA Ruhr universities: UDE | Funding: 2021–2025)
• 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)

Participation

• RTG 2240 Algebro-geometric methods in algebra, arithmetic and topology (Coordinated at HHU Düsseldorf; Contact at RUB: Prof. Dr. Markus Reineke, Faculty of Mathematics | Participating UA Ruhr universities: RUB | Funding since 2018)
• RTG 2485 Virus detection, pathogenesis and intervention (VIPER) (Coordinated at Stiftung Tierärztliche Hochschule Hannover; Contact at RUB: Prof. Dr. Eike Steinmann, Faculty of Medicine | Participating UA Ruhr universities: RUB | Funding since 2019)
• RTG 2578 Impact of genotoxins on the differentiation efficacy of murine and human stem and progenitor cells and functional competence of thereof derived differentiated progeny (Coordinated at HHU Düsseldorf | Participating UA Ruhr universities: UDE | Funding: 2021–2025)

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)
• 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)
• 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 International Relation/Peace and Development Studies (Speaker: Prof. Dr. Tobias Debiel, Faculty of Social Sciences/INEF, UDE | Participating UA Ruhr universities: UDE | since 2006)
• 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)
• 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)

Coordinated at a UA Ruhr university: externally funded

• AREA Ruhr – Doctoral Programme on Transnational Institution Building and Transnational Identities in East Asia (Speaker: Prof. Dr. Karen A. Shire, Faculty of Social Sciences, UDE | Participating UA Ruhr universities: RUB, UDE | Funding since 2017 by Mercator Research Center Ruhr)
• Gerhard Mercator Graduiertenkolleg Weltoffenheit, Toleranz und Gemeinsinn (Speaker: Prof. Dr. Jakob Kapeller, Faculty of Social Sciences, UDE | Participating UA Ruhr universities: UDE | Funding since 2018 by Stiftung Mercator)
• 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)
• Graduate School on Political Cohesion (GSPC) (Speaker: Prof. Christoph Schuck, Faculty of Humanities and Theology, TUDo  | Participating UA Ruhr universities: RUB, TUDo | since 2020)
• Graduiertenkolleg zu querschnittlichen Fragen der Lehrerbildung (GKqL) (Speaker: Prof. Dr. Inga Gryl, Faculty of Humanities & Prof. Dr. Stefan Rumann, Faculty of Chemistry, UDE | Participating UA Ruhr universities: UDE | Funding since 2019 by the Ministry of Culture and Science of the German State of North Rhine-Westphalia)
• In-EAST School of Advanced Studies (Speaker: Prof. Dr. Markus Taube, Faculty of Social Sciences, UDE | Participating UA Ruhr universities: UDE | Funding since 2013 by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research)
• 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)
• Promotions- und Graduiertenkolleg der NRW School of Governance (Speaker: Prof. Dr. Karl-Rudolf Korte, Faculty of Social Sciences, UDE | Participating UA Ruhr universities: UDE | Funding since 2006 by Stiftung Mercator, Welker-Stiftung & WAZ Mediengruppe)
• “Regulatorische Immunmechanismen” – Promotionskolleg der Universitätsallianz Ruhr (RIMUR) (Speaker: Prof. Dr. Nina Babel, RUB clinics, RUB | Participating UA Ruhr universities: RUB, UDE | Funding since 2019 by Mercator Research Center Ruhr)
• 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 Reactive Structure Analysis for Chemical Reactions (IMPRS RECHARGE) (Speaker: Prof. Dr. Frank Neese, Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung | Participating UA Ruhr universities: RUB, UDE | since 2015)
• 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 for Sustainable Metallurgy (IMPRS-SusMet) (Speaker: Prof. Dr. Martin Stratmann, Max-Planck-Institut für Eisenforschung & Prof. Dr. Gunther Eggeler, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, RUB | Participating UA Ruhr universities: RUB, UDE | since 2022)
• Max Planck School of Cognition (Speaker: Prof. Dr. Onur Güntürkün, Faculty of Psychology, RUB | Participating UA Ruhr universities: RUB)

• Regionale Regulierung religiöser Pluralität im Vergleich (RePliV) (Speaker: Prof. Dr. Volkhard Krech, Center for Religious Studies, RUB | Participating UA Ruhr universities: RUB | Funding: 2021–2025)
• Schöne Neue Welt: Sicherheit für Menschen im Cyberspace (SecHuman) (Speaker: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Christof Paar, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology and Horst Görtz Institute for IT Security, RUB | Participating UA Ruhr universities: RUB, TUDo | Funding: 2016–12/2024)

Coordinated at a UA Ruhr university

• ADAPTED: Eradicating Poverty - Pathways towards achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (Speaker: Prof. Dr. Wilhelm Löwenstein, Faculty of Management and Economics, RUB | Participating UA Ruhr universities: RUB | Funding: 2021–2024)
• MetRaZymes: Metal-containing Radical Enzymes (Speaker: Prof. Dr. Jörg C. Tiller, Faculty of Biochemical and Chemical Engineering, TUDo | Funding: 2022–2026)
• News in groups: Group effects of news evaluation in social media (Speaker: Prof. Dr. Daniel Bodemer, Faculty of Engineering, UDE | Participating UA Ruhr universities: UDE | Funding: 2021–2024)
• RISE_SMA: RISE Social Media Analytics (Speaker: Prof. Dr. Stefan Stieglitz, Faculty of Engineering, UDE | Participating UA Ruhr universities: UDE | Funding: 2019–2024)
• TERAOPTICS: Terahertz Photonics for Communications, Space, Security, Radio-Astronomy, and Material Science (Speaker: Prof. Dr. Andreas Stöhr, Faculty of Engineering, UDE | Participating UA Ruhr universities: UDE | Funding: 2020–2024)

Participation

• AntiHelix: DNA helicases in genome maintenance: from molecular and cellular mechanisms to specific inhibitors as potential drugs (Coordinated at Consiglio Nazionale Delle Ricerche; Contact at UDE: PD Dr. Iris Helfrich, Faculty of Medicine | Participating UA Ruhr universities: UDE | Funding: 2019–2024)
• 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)
• CEN: Cerebellum and Emotional Networks (Coordinated at University of Bristol; Contact at UDE: Univ.-Prof. Dr. med. Dagmar Timmann-Braun, Faculty of Medicine | Participating UA Ruhr universities: UDE | Funding: 2021–2025)
• 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: 2021–2025)
• Quantum-Safe-Internet (Coordinated at Universidad De Vigo; Coordinated at RUB: Prof. Dr. Alexander May, Faculty of Computer Science, RUB | Participating UA Ruhr universities: RUB | Funding: 2022–2026)
• QUDOT-TECH: Quantum Dots for Photonic Quantum Information Technologies (Coordinated at Danmarks Tekniske Universitet; Contact at RUB: Prof. Dr. Andreas Wieck, Faculty of Physics and Astronomy | Participating UA Ruhr universities: RUB | Funding: 2020–2024)
• REPAIRS: Relearning Perception Action In Rehabilitation from a Systems perspective (Coordinated at University Medical Center Groningen; Contact at RUB: Prof. Dr. Gregor Schöner, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology | Participating UA Ruhr universities: RUB | Funding: 2021–2024)
• SMARTHEP: Synergies between Machine leArning, Real Time analysis and Hybrid architectures for efficient Event Processing and decision making (Coordinated at The University of Manchester; Contact at TUDo: Prof. Dr. Johannes Albrecht, Faculty of Physics | Participating UA Ruhr universities: TUDo | Funding: 2021–2025)
• 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: 10/2023–09/2027)

NRW Junior Research Groups/NRW Postdoc Return Program

• Chemical Biology (Dr. Leonhard Urner, Faculty of Chemistry and Biochemistry, TUDo | Funding since 2022)
• Chemical Biology (Dr. Sidney Becker, Faculty of Chemistry and Biochemistry, TUDo | Funding since 2022)
• Inorganic Chemistry (Dr. Elisabeth Kreidt, Faculty of Chemistry and Biochemistry, TUDo | Funding since 2022)
• 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)
• Quantum Technology (Dr. Moritz Cygorek, Faculty of Physics, TUDo | Funding since 2024)

BMBF Junior Research Groups

• MoveMe – Die sozio-räumliche Transformation zu nachhaltigem Mobilitätsverhalten (Jun.-Prof. Dr. Meike Levin-Keitel, Faculty of Spatial Planning, TUDo | Funding since 2019)
• QuaMaFA – „Qualifikation“ im Migrationsprozess ausländischer Fachkräfte in Asien (Dr. Aimi Muranaka, IN-EAST & Faculty of Social Sciences, UDE | Funding: 2020–2024)
• SALUS – Ethische Aspekte von Zwang in der Psychiatrie im Spannungsfeld von Selbstbestimmung, gesundheitlichem Wohl und Sicherheit (Dr. Jakov Gather, Faculty of Medicine, RUB | Funding: 2018–2024)
• Virbio – Einrichtung einer neuen Virusinformatik-Forschungsgruppe im Bereich Infektionsbiologie (Dr. Daniel Todt, Faculty of Medicine, RUB | Funding: 2022–2027)
• GalvaNection - Galvanische Verfahren für Funktionsbeschichtungen in der Batterietechnik (Dr. Julia Linnemann, Faculty of Chemistry and Biochemistry, RUB | Funding: 2024–2028)

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)

BMBF Junior Research Competition NanoMatFutur

• MatGasDif - NanoMATerialien als Basis für GASDIFfusionselektroden für die hochselektive Kohlenstoffdioxid Reduktion (Prof. Dr.-Ing. Corina Andronescu, Faculty of Chemistry, UDE | Funding: 2020–2025)

BMEL Junior Research Groups

• Renewlysis – Catalysis for Renewables (Dr. Thomas Seidensticker, Faculty of Biochemical and Chemical Engineering, TUDo | 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)
• Computergestützte Verifikation physikalischer Sicherheitseigenschaften (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)
• 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)
• The effectiveness of cognitive and situative instructional approaches to foster self-regulated learning (Prof. Dr. Charlotte Dignath, Faculty of Educational Science and Psychology, TUDo | Funding since 2019)
• Experimental Philosophy and the Method of Cases: Theoretical Foundations, Responses, and Alternatives (EXTRA) (Dr. Joachim Horvath, Faculty of Philosophy and Educational Research, RUB | Funding since 2018)
• 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)
• Präzisionstests des Standardmodells unter der Verwendung von geboosteten W/Z-Bosonen am Large Hadron Collider (Dr. Chris Malena Delitzsch, Faculty of Physics, TUDo | Funding since 2022)
• Scale-bridging computational design of multifunctional ferroelectric composites (Dr. Anna Grünebohm, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, RUB | Funding since 2019)
• Search for unknown phenomena in rare charm hadron decays (Dr. Dominik Mitzel, Faculty of Physics, TUDo | Funding since 2022)
• UDNN: Scientific Understanding and Deep Neural Networks (Jun.-Prof. Dr. Florian J. Boge, Faculty of Humanities and Theology, TUDo | Funding since 2022)
• Complex molecular systems studied by modern ab initio multireference methods (Dr. Michael Römelt, Faculty of Chemistry and Biochemistry, RUB | Funding since 2018)
• From Perception to Belief and Back Again – A Formal Epistemology of Perception (Jun.-Prof. Dr. Peter Brössel, Faculty of Philosophy and Educational Research, RUB | Funding since 2017)
• 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)
• Effektive Theorien in den Materialwissenschaften: Mathematische Herleitung und Analysis (Prof. Dr. Peter Bella, Faculty of Mathematics, TUDo | Funding since 2019)
• Jenseits der Mittelwertsregression - Eine Bayesianische Perspektive auf das Maschinelle Lernen (Prof. Dr. Nadja Klein, Faculty of Statistics, TUDo | Funding 2019–12/2024)
• 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)
• Reaktivität und Spektroskopische Charakterisierung von Interstellar Relevanten Imin-Spezies (Dr. André K. Eckhardt, Faculty of Chemistry and Biochemistry, RUB | Funding since 2023)

• Europe’s Postwar Consensus: A Golden Age of Social Cohesion and Mobility? (Jun.-Prof. Dr. Jan De Graaf, Institute for Social Movements, RUB | Funding since 2019)
• Listening to Young Voices: Improving the understanding Of early psychotic-like experiences in adolescents (The YVORI Study) (Dr. Mar Rus-Calafell, Faculty of Psychology, RUB | Funding since 2020)
• Mechanistic Cell Biology (Prof. Dr. Doris Hellerschmied-Jelinek, Center for Medical Biotechnology (ZMB), UDE | Funding since 2019)

• CEC: The Cognitive-Ecological Challenge of Diversity (Prof. Dr. Hans Alves, Faculty of Psychology, 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)
• Mechanocat: Using milling balls as catalysts – Understanding the novel concept of direct mechanocatalysis (Prof. Dr. Lars Borchardt, Faculty of Chemistry and Biochemistry, RUB | Funding: 2020–2025)
• MITICAT: Microfluidic Tuning of Individual Nanoparticles to Understand and Improve Electrocatalysis (Prof. Dr. Kristina Tschulik, Faculty of Chemistry and Biochemistry, RUB | Funding: 2021–2026)
• RiboLife: Resurrecting LUCA – Engineering of RNA-encoded Cellular Life Using Dual Evolution and Intergenomic Transplantation (Prof. Dr. Hannes Mutschler, Faculty of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, TUDo | Funding: 2019–2024)
• 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)
• DECAF: Deciphering adaptive footprints of epiC evolution on different timescales (Prof. Dr. Toni Goßmann, Faculty of Biochemical and Chemical Engineering, TUDo | Funding: 2021–2026)
• Strongly Polarized Carbon: Taming Fundamental Intermediates and Their Applications (Prof. Dr. Max Hansmann, Faculty of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, TUDo | Funding: 2023–2028)
• BeyondRVE: Beyond Representative Volume Elements for Random Heterogeneous Materials (Prof. Dr. Matti Schneider, Faculty of Engineering, UDE | Funding: 2022–2027)
• CONSEC: Secure Execution of Smart Contracts (Prof. Dr.-Ing. Lucas Vincenzo Davi, Faculty of Computer Science, UDE | Funding: 2022–2027)
• METATARGET: Targeting the Metabolic Dependencies of Metastatic Tumor Cells (Prof. Dr. Alpaslan Tasdogan, University Hospital Essen, UDE | Funding: 2024–2029)

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)

Coordinated at a UA Ruhr university

• 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: 2017–2024)
• 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 296 Local Control of Thyroid Hormone Action – LOCOTACT (Speaker: Prof. Dr. Dr. Dagmar Führer-Sakel, Faculty of Medicine, UDE | Participating UA Ruhr universities: UDE | Funding since 2020)
• 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: 2021–2025)
• 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)
• SFB 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: 2024–2028)
• CRC/TRR 188 Damage Controlled Forming Processes (Speaker: Prof. Dr.-Ing. A. Erman Tekkaya, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, TUDo | Participating UA Ruhr universities: TUDo | Funding since 2017, in speakership since 07/2023)
• CRC/TRR 191 Symplectic Structures in Geometry, Algebra and Dynamics (Speaker: Prof. Dr. Kai Zehmisch, Faculty of Mathematics, RUB | Participating UA Ruhr universities: RUB | Funding since 2017, in speakership since 07/2021)

Co-proposer

• CRC/TRR 110 Symmetries and the Emergence of Structure in QCD (Speaker: Prof. Dr. Ulf-G. Meißner, Universität Bonn | Participating UA Ruhr universities: RUB (Co-proposer) | Funding since 2012)
• CRC/TRR 129 Oxyflame - Development of Methods and Models to Describe the Reaction of Solid Fuels in an Oxy-Fuel Atmosphere (Speaker: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Reinhold Kneer, RWTH Aachen | Participating UA Ruhr universities: RUB (Co-proposerr) | Funding since 2013)
• CRC/TRR 142 Tailored Nonlinear Photonics: From Fundamental Concepts to Functional Structures (Speaker: Prof. Dr. Christine Silberhorn, Universität Paderborn | Participating UA Ruhr universities: TUDo (Co-proposer) | Funding since 2015)
• 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)
• SFB/TRR 332 Neutrophils: origin, fate & function (Speaker: Prof. Dr. Oliver Söhnlein, Universität Münster | Participating UA Ruhr universities: UDE (Co-proposer) | Funding 2022–2026)

Participation

• CRC/TRR 128 Initiating/effector versus regulatory mechanisms in Multiple Sclerosis – progress towards tackling the disease (Speaker: Prof. Dr. med. Heinz Wiendl, Universitätsklinikum Münster | Participating UA Ruhr universities: RUB | Funding since 2012)
• CRC/TRR 150 Turbulent, chemically reactive, multi-phase flows near walls (Speaker: Prof. Dr. Andreas Dreizler, TU Darmstadt | Participating UA Ruhr universities: TUDo | Funding since 2015)
• CRC/TRR 154 Mathematical Modelling, Simulation and Optimization using the Example of Gas Networks (Speaker: Prof. Dr. Alexander Martin, Universität Erlangen | Participating UA Ruhr universities: UDE | Funding since 2014)
• CRC/TRR 156 The skin as sensor and effector orchestrating local and systemic immunity (Speaker: Prof. Dr. Alexander Erik, UK Heidelberg | Participating UA Ruhr universities: UDE | Funding since 2015)
• CRC/TRR 173 Spin+X - Spin in its collective environment (Speaker: Prof. Dr. Martin Aeschlimann, TU Kaiserslautern | Participating UA Ruhr universities: UDE | Funding since 2016)
• CRC/TRR 341 Plant Ecological Genetics (Speaker: Prof. Dr. Juliette de Meaux, Universität zu Köln | Beteiligte UA Ruhr-Universitäten: RUB | Funding since 2022)
• CRC 1053 MAKI - Multi-Mechanism-Adaptation for the Future Internet (Speaker: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Ralf Steinmetz, TU Darmstadt | Participating UA Ruhr universities: UDE | Funding since 2013)
• CRC 1101 Molecular Encoding of Specificity in Plant Processes (Speaker: Prof. Dr. Klaus Harter, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen | Participating UA Ruhr universities: RUB | Funding since 2014)
• CRC 1102 Information Density and Linguistic Encoding (Speaker: Prof. Dr. Elke Teich, Universität des Saarlandes | Participating UA Ruhr universities: RUB | Funding since 2014)
• CRC 1119 Cryptography-Based Security Solutions: Enabling Trust in New and Next Generation Computing Environments (Speaker: Prof. Dr. Johannes Buchmann, TU Darmstadt | Participating UA Ruhr universities: UDE | Funding since 2014)
• CRC 1279 Exploiting the Human Peptidome for Novel Antimicrobial and Anticancer Agents (Speaker: Prof. Dr. Frank Kirchhoff, Universität Ulm | Participating UA Ruhr universities: UDE | Funding since 2017)
• CRC 1287 Limits of Variability in Language: Cognitive, Grammatical, and Social Aspects (Speaker: Prof. Dr. Isabell Wartenburger, Universität Potsdam | Participating UA Ruhr universities: RUB, TUDo | Funding since 2017)
• CRC 1342 Global Dynamics on Social Policy (Speaker: Prof. Dr. Herbert Obinger, Universität Bremen | Participating UA Ruhr universities: UDE | Funding since 2018)
• CRC 1372 Magnetoreception and navigation in vertebrates: from biophysics to brain and behaviour (Speaker: Prof. Dr. Henrik Mouritsen, Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg | Participating UA Ruhr universities: RUB | Funding since 2019)
• CRC 1399 Mechanisms of drug sensitivity and resistance in small cell lung cancer (Speaker: Prof. Dr. Roman Thomas, Universität zu Köln | Participating UA Ruhr universities: UDE | Funding since 2019)
• CRC 1411 Design of particulate products (Speaker: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Wolfgang Peukert, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg | Participating UA Ruhr universities: UDE | Funding since 2020)
• CRC 1461 Neurotronics: Bio-inspired Information Pathways (Speaker: Prof. Dr. Hermann Kohlstedt, Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel | Participating UA Ruhr universities: RUB | Funding since 2021)
• CRC 1472 Transformations of the Popular (Speaker: Prof. Dr. Niels Werber, Universität Siegen | Participating UA Ruhr universities: RUB | Funding since 2021)
• CRC 1530 Elucidation and targeting of pathogenic mechanisms in B cell malignancies (Speaker: Prof. Dr. Michael Hallek, Universität zu Köln | Participating UA Ruhr universities: UDE | Funding since 2022)
• CRC 1085 Higher Invariants – Interactions between Arithmetic Geometry and Global Analysis (Speaker: Prof. Dr. Guido Kings, Universität Regensburg | Participating UA Ruhr universities: UDE | Funding since 2014)
• CRC1597 Small Data (Speaker: Prof. Dr. Harald Binder, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg | Participating UA Ruhr universities: RUB | Funding since 2023)
• CRC 1333 Molecular Heterogeneous Catalysis in Confined Geometries (Speaker: Prof. Dr. Michael R. Buchmeiser, Universität Stuttgart | Participating UA Ruhr universities: RUB | Funding since 2018, participating since 2022)
• TRR 259 Aortic Disease (Speaker: Prof. Dr. Georg Nickenig, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn | Participating UA Ruhr universities: RUB | Funding since 2019)