Here you can find a selection of ongoing coordinated research projects and networks involving the Faculty of Chemistry and Earth Sciences. The following link provides further information on the research of the entire Friedrich Schiller University.
Jena School for Microbial Communication (JSMC) (since 2019 funded by the Carl Zeiss Stiftung)
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
SFB/TR 166 ReceptorLight: High-end light microscopy elucidates membrane receptor function
SPP 1568 Design and Generic Principles of Self-Healing Materials
Coordinator: Prof. Dr Ulrich Schubert
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
SPP 1374 Biodiversity Exploratories
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
FOR 2179 MAD Soil Microaggregates: Formation and Turnover of the Structural Building Blocks of Soil
Spokesman: Prof. Dr Kai Uwe Totsche
FOR 1738 Heme and heme degradation products
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
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
Coordinator: Prof. Dr Hans-Dieter Arndt
CCIMC - Coordination chemistry inspires molecular catalysis
FunGLASS - Centre for functional and surface-functionalized glasses
H2O Heterostructures of 2D materials and organic, semiconducting nanolayers
Coordinator: Prof. Dr Andrey Turchanin
Research Campus InfectoGnostics
Spokesman: Prof. Dr Jürgen Popp
ProfJL2 - Professionalisierung von Anfang an im Jenaer Modell der Lehrerbildung de
Coordinator: Prof. Dr Iris Winkler; Spokesman/Spokeswoman: 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)
KOLLORADO-e3 - Grimsel Felslabor: In-situ Experimente zur Bentonit Langzeit-Stabilität und der Radionuklidmobilität an der Grenzfläche Bentonit - Kristallin
Coordinator: Prof. Dr Thorsten Schäfer
Intelligente Substrate: Schaltbare Grenzflächen auf Basis multiresponsiver Hybridmaterialien
Koordinator: Prof. Dr-Ing Lothar Wondraczek
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 ScienceCampus InfectoOptics – Combating infectious diseases with advanced optical methods
Borad: Prof. Dr Marc Thilo Figge (Spokesman), Prof. Dr Jürgen Popp, Prof. Dr Erika Kothe, Prof. Dr Andreas Tünnermann