Collaborative Research Centers (SFB)

Here you will find an overview of all Collaborative Research Centers the Technical University of Munich is involved in.

What are Collaborative Research Centers?

Collaborative Research Centers (CRC; short SFB for german ‘Sonderforschungsbereich’) are university research projects which are funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG), generally for a period of up to 12 years.
Transregional Collaborative Research Centers (referred to as TRR) are created when two or three universities apply for funding and jointly steer the research project.
Sub-projects of other universities or research institutes may be involved.
Collaborative Research Centers provide a platform for conducting complex, long-term research.
In particular, they support the professional development of young scientists, promoting cooperation across different disciplines, fields of specialization, institutes and faculties.
These collaborative alliances strengthen the academic relationships between universities and other research institutes.

For further information about Collaboration Research Centers, please consult the website of the DFG.

11 Collaborative Research Centers coordinated by TUM

Speaker: Prof. Dr. Matthias Rief (Chair of Biophysics at the Physics Department)
Funding: since 2010
Website: www.sfb863.de

Project description of SFB 863 on the DFG website

Speaker: Prof. Dr. Claus Schwechheimer (Chair of Plant Systems Biology at the TUM School of Life Sciences)
Funding: since 2011
Website: sfb924.wzw.tum.de

Project description of SFB 924 at the DFG website

Speaker: Prof. Dr. Johannes Buchner (Chair of Biotechnology at the Chemistry Department)
Funding: since 2012
Website: www.sfb1035.tum.de

Project description of SFB 1035 on the DFG website

Speaker: Prof. Dr. Elisa Resconi (Chair of Experimental Physics with Cosmic Particles at the Physics Department)
Funding: since 2017
Website: http://www.sfb1258.de/

Project description of SFB 1258 on the DFG website

Speaker: Prof. Dr. med. Roland M. Schmid (Department of Internal Medicine II)
Funding: since 2018
Website: www.sfb1321.med.tum.de/en

Project description of SFB 1321 on the DFG website

Speaker: Prof. Dr. med. Jürgen Ruland (Chair of Clinical Chemistry and Pathobiochemistry at the Department of Medicine)
Funding: since 2018
Website: https://sfb1335.med.tum.de/en

Project description of SFB 1335 on the DFG website

Speaker: Prof. Dr. Dirk Haller (Chair of Nutrition and Immunology at the TUM School of Life Sciences)
Funding: since 2019
Website: http://www.sfb1371.tum.de/

Project description of SFB 1371 on the DFG website

Speaker: Professor Dr. Stefan Engelhardt (Chair of Pharmacology and Toxicology at the Department of Medicine)
Funding: since 2019
Website: https://cardiovascular-ncrna.de/

Project description of TRR 267 on the DFG website

Speaker: Prof. Dr. Mikael Simons (Chair of Molecular Neurobiology at the Department of Medicine)
Funding: since January 2020
Website: https://www.sfb274.de/en

Project description of TRR 274 on the DFG website

Speaker: Prof. Dr. Thorsten Bach (Chair of Organic Chemistry I at the Chemistry Department)
Funding: since July 2021
Website: https://www.department.ch.tum.de/en/oc1/research/crc-325/

Project description of TRR 325 on the DFG website

Speaker: Prof. Dr. Dirk Busch (Chair of Medical Microbiology, Immunology and Hygiene at the Department of Medicine)
Funding: since July 2021

Project description of TRR 338 on the DFG website

Collaborative Research Centers with TUM participation

TRR 80: From Electronic Correlations to Functionality

Speaker: Prof. Dr. Philipp Gegenwart (University of Augsburg)
Co-speaker: Prof. Dr. Christian Pfleiderer (Technical University of Munich)
Funding: since 2010

TRR 89: Invasive Computing

Speaker: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Jürgen Teich (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg)
Co-speaker: Prof. Dr. Andreas Herkersdorf (Technical University of Munich)
Funding: since 2010

TRR 109: Discretisation in Geometry and Dynamics

Speaker: Prof. Dr. Alexander Bobenko (Technische Universität Berlin)
Co-speaker: Prof. Dr. Folkmar Bornemann (Technical University of Munich)
Funding: since 2012

TRR 110: Symmetries and the Emergence of Structure in Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD)

Speaker: Prof. Dr. Ulf Meißner Rheinische (University of Bonn)
Funding: since 2012

TRR 128: Initiating/Effector versus Regulatory Mechanisms in Multiple Sclerosis - Progress towards Tackling the Disease

Speaker: Prof. Dr. Heinz Wiendl (University of Münster)
Funding: since 2012

TRR 179: Determinants and dynamics of elimination versus persistence of hepatitis virus infection

Speaker: Prof. Dr. Ralf Bartenschlager (Heidelberg University)
Co-speaker: Prof. Dr. Ulrike Protzer (Technical University of Munich)
Funding: since 2016

TRR 235: Emergence of life: exploring mechanisms with cross-disciplinary experiments

Speaker: Prof. Dr. Dieter Braun (LMU Munich)
Co-speaker: Prof. Dr. Ulrich Gerland (Technical University of Munich)
Funding: since 2018

TRR 277: Additive Manufacturing in Construction. The Challenge of Large Scale

Speaker: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Harald Kloft (TU Braunschweig)
Co-Speaker: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Christoph Gehlen (Technical University of Munich)
Funding: since 2020

TRR 333: Brown and Beige Fat – Organ Crosstalk, Signaling and Energetics (BATenergy)

Speaker: Prof. Dr. med. Alexander Pfeifer (University of Bonn)
Co-Speaker: Prof. Dr. Nina Henriette Uhlenhaut (Technical University of Munich)
Funding: starting 2022