Research projects

The Faculty is involved in the following projects funded through the Excellence Initiative

Cluster of Excellence Balance of the Microverse

The Faculty is involved in the following DFG Research Centre:

German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research iDiv

The following DFG Collaborative Research Centres are coordinated by members of the Faculty:

SFB 1076 AquaDiva: Understanding the Links between Surface and Subsurface Biogeosphere
Spokesperson: Prof. Dr Kirsten Küsel, Prof. Dr Kai Uwe Totsche, Prof Susan Trumbore, PhD

SFB 1127 ChemBioSys: Chemical Mediators in Complex Biosystems
Spokesperson: Prof. Dr Christian Hertweck, Prof. Dr Georg Pohnert

SFB 1278 Poly-Target: Polymer-based nanoparticle libraries for targeted anti-inflammatory strategies
Spokesperson: Prof. Dr Ulrich S. Schubert

The Faculty is involved in further DFG Collaborative Research Centres:

SFB / TR 234 CataLIGHT: Light-driven Molecular Catalysts in Hierarchically Structured Materials - Synthesis and Mechanistic Studies
Spokesperson: Prof. Dr Sven Rau (University Ulm), Co-spokesperson: Prof. Dr Benjamin Dietzek

SFB 1375 NOA: Nonlinear Optics down to Atomic Scales de
Spokesperson: Prof. Dr Ulf Peschel

Completed DFG Collaborative Research Centre

SFB/TR 166 ReceptorLight: High-end light microscopy elucidates membrane receptor function (2015-2020)
Spokesperson: Prof. Dr Klaus Benndorf

SFB 436 Metal-Mediated Reactions Modeled after Nature (1997-2006)
Spokesperson: Prof. Dr Matthias Westerhausen

The following DFG Priority Programmes are coordinated by members of the Faculty:

SPP 1594   Topological Engineering of Ultra-strong Glasses
Coordinator: Prof. Dr Ing Lothar Wondraczek

SPP 2248 Polymer based batteries
Coordinator: Prof. Dr Ulrich S. Schubert

The Faculty is involved in further DFG Priority Programmes:

SPP 1374 Biodiversity Exploratories

SPP 1681 Field controlled particle matrix interactions: synthesis multiscale modelling and application of magnetic hybrid materials

SPP 1833 Building a Habitable Earth

SPP 1840 Quantum Dynamics in Tailored Intense Fields

SPP 2005:  Opus Fluidum Futurum - Rheology of reactive, multiscale, multiphase construction materials

SPP 2017 Mountain building processes in 4D

Completed DFP Priority Programmes:

SPP 1315 "Biogeochemical Interfaces in Soil" (2007-2018)
Coordinator: Prof. Dr Kai Uwe Totsche

SPP 1568  Design and Generic Principles of Self-Healing Materials (2011-2020)
Coordinator: Prof. Dr Ulrich Schubert

The following DFG Research Units are coordinated by members of the Faculty:

FOR 2179 MAD Soil Microaggregates: Formation and Turnover of the Structural Building Blocks of Soil
Spokesperson: Prof. Dr Kai Uwe Totsche

The Faculty is involved in further DFG Research Units:

FOR 2285 Debris Disks in Planetary Systems

FOR 2811 Adaptive Polymer Gels with Model-Network Structure

Completed DFG Research Units

FOR 1451 Exploring mechanisms underlying the relationship between biodiversity and ecosystem functioning (Jena Experiment) (2010-2020)

FOR 1738 Heme and heme degradation products (2012-2018)

ERC Consolidator Grant

UTOPES - Unifying concepts in the topological design of non-crystalline materials
Coordinator: Prof. Dr-Ing Lothar Wondraczek

QUEM-CHEM - Time- and space-resolved ultrafast dynamics in molecular-plasmonic hybrid systems
Coordinator: Prof. Dr Stefanie Gräfe

Horizon2020

LogicLab - Molecular logic lab-on-a-vesicle for intracellular diagnostics (Marie Sklodowska-Curie Innovative Training network)
Coordinator: Prof. Dr Benjamin Dietzek

POLYSTORAGE - European Training Network in Innovative Polymers for next-generation electrochemical energy storage
Coordinator: Prof. Dr Ulrich S. Schubert

THALLMORPHAL - Insight into the Symbiotic Chemical Communication of Algae and Bacteria: Thallusin and Dedicated Analogues (completed: 2018-2020)
Coordinator: Prof. Dr Hans-Dieter Arndt

DRYvER - Securing biodiversity, functional integrity and ecosystem services in DRYing rivER networks

CCIMC - Coordination chemistry inspires molecular catalysis

FunGLASS - Centre for functional and surface-functionalized glasses

FLAG-ERA

H2O Heterostructures of 2D materials and organic, semiconducting nanolayers
Coordinator: Prof. Dr Andrey Turchanin

COST

COST Action 18202 - Network for Equilibria and Chemical Thermodynamics Advanced Research

COST Action 18222 - Attosecond Chemistry

Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)

Research Campus InfectoGnostics
Spokesperson: Prof. Dr Jürgen Popp

ProfJL2 - Professionalisierung von Anfang an im Jenaer Modell der Lehrerbildung de
Spokesperson: Prof. Dr Volker Woest, Prof. Dr Bärbel Kracke

SALDi - South African Land Degradation Monitor
Coordinator: PD Dr Jussi Baade

USER 2
Coordinator: Prof. Dr Erika Kothe, Prof. Dr Thorsten Schäfer

BONDS - Balancing biOdiversity conservatioN with Development in Amazon wetlandS

EMSAfrica - Ecosystem Management Support for Climate Change in Southern Africa

Interko2 - Integriertes Wohnflächenkonzept in großstädtischen Wachstumsräumen

Next-PEG - PEG-alternative Polymere für die Biokonjugation an Proteine

TRACES - Tracing Human and Climate impacts in South Africa

TRANSITION - Natrium-ionen Batterie Demonstratoren für mobile und stationäre Energiespeicher de

Wachstumskern HIPS (High Performance Sensors)

Federal Ministry of Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWi)

KOLLORADO-e3 - Grimsel Felslabor: In-situ Experimente zur Bentonit Langzeit-Stabilität und der Radionuklidmobilität an der Grenzfläche Bentonit - Kristallin 
Coordinator: Prof. Dr Thorsten Schäfer

Carl Zeiss Foundation

Intelligente Substrate: Schaltbare Grenzflächen auf Basis multiresponsiver Hybridmaterialien
Coordinator: Prof. Dr-Ing Lothar Wondraczek

Führungsethik als Ethik in den Wissenschaften – Von der Theorie zur Praxis in Hochschule und Unternehmen

Jena School for Microbial Communication (JSMC)

Federal State Thuringia

WOM – Weltoffen miteinander arbeiten in Thüringen. Maßnahmen zur Steigerung der personalpolitischen Zukunftsfähigkeit Thüringer Unternehmen de
Coordinator: Prof. Dr Sebastian Henn, Prof. Dr Jürgen Bolten, Prof. Dr Silke Übelmesser

Leibniz Community

Leibniz ScienceCampus InfectoOptics – Combating infectious diseases with advanced optical methods
Board: Prof. Dr Marc Thilo Figge (Spokesperson), Prof. Dr Jürgen Popp, Prof. Dr Erika Kothe, Prof. Dr Andreas Tünnermann

Leibniz ScienceCampus Eastern Europe - Global Area