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 (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.
Collaborative Research Centers coordinated by TUM
SFB 1371: Microbiome Signatures - Functional Relevance in the Digestive Tract
Speaker: Prof. Dr. Dirk Haller (Chair of Nutrition and Immunology)
Funding: from 2019
Website: http://www.sfb1371.tum.de/
SFB 1335: Aberrant Immune Signals in Cancer
Speaker: Prof. Dr. med. Jürgen Ruland (Chair of Clinical Chemistry and Pathobiochemistry)
Funding: from 7/2018
Webseite: https://sfb1335.med.tum.de/en
SFB 1321: Modelling and Targeting Pancreatic Cancer
Speaker: Prof. Dr. med. Roland M. Schmid (II. Medical Clinic and Policlinic)
Funding: from 7/2018
Website: www.sfb1321.med.tum.de/en
SFB 1258: Neutrinos and Dark Matter in Astro- and Particle Physics (NDM)
Speaker: Prof. Dr. Elisa Resconi (Professor of Experimental Physics with Cosmic Particles at the Department of Physics)
Funding: from 2017
Website: http://www.sfb1258.de/
SFB 1035: Control of Protein Function by Conformational Switching
Speaker: Prof. Dr. Johannes Buchner (Chair of Biotechnology at the Department of Chemistry)
Funding: since 2012
Website: www.sfb1035.tum.de
SFB 924: Molecular Mechanisms Regulating Yield and Yield Stability in Plants
Speaker: Prof. Dr. Claus Schwechheimer (Chair of Plant Systems Biology at the TUM School of Life Sciences Weihenstephan)
Funding: since 2011
Website: sfb924.wzw.tum.de
SFB 863: Forces in Biomolecular Systems
Speaker: Prof. Dr. Matthias Rief (Chair of Molecular Biophysics at the Department of Physics)
Funding: since 2010
Website: www.sfb863.de
SFB 824: Imaging for Selection, Monitoring and Individualisation of Cancer Therapies
Speaker: Prof. Dr. Markus Schwaiger (Chair of Nuclear Clinic and Policlinic at the TUM School of Medicine)
Funding: since 2009
Website: www.sfb824.de
SFB 768: Managing Cycles in Innovation Processes – Integrated Development of Product Service Systems Based on Technical Products
Speaker: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Birgit Vogel-Heuser (Chair of Automation and Information Systems at the Department of Mechanical Engineering)
Funding: since 2008
Website: www.sfb768.tum.de
TRR 40: Technological Foundations for the Design of Thermally and Mechanically Highly Loaded Components of Future Space Transportation Systems
Speaker: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Nikolaus Adams (Chair of Aerodynamics at the Department of Mechanical Engineering)
Funding: since 2008
Website: www.sfbtr40.de
Project description of TRR 40 on the DFG website
Collaborative Research Centers with participation
Participation as co-applicant
TRR 235: Emergence of Life: Exploring Mechanisms with Cross-Disciplinary Experiments
Speaker: Prof. Dr. Dieter Braun (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München)
Co-Speaker: Prof. Dr. Ulrich Gerland (Technical University of Munich)
Funding: from 7/2018
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 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 110: Symmetries and the Emergence of Structure in Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD)
Speaker: Prof. Dr. Ulf Meißner Rheinische (University of Bonn)
Funding: since 2012
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 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 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
Participation in research
SFB 1330: Hearing Acoustics: Perceptual Principles, Algorithms and Applications
Speaker: Prof. Dr. Volker Hohmann (University of Oldenburg)
Funding: from 7/2018
SFB 1320: EASE – Everyday Activity Science and Engineering
Speaker: Prof. Dr. Michael Beetz (University of Bremen)
Funding: since 2017
SFB 1309: Chemical Biology of Epigenetic Modifications
Speaker: Prof. Dr. Thomas Carell (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München)
Funding: from 7/2018
SFB 1243: Genetic and Epigenetic Evolution of Hematopoietic Neoplasms
Speaker: Prof. Dr. Heinrich Leonhardt (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München)
Funding: since 2016
SFB 1233: Robust Vision — Inference Principles and Neural Mechanisms
Speaker: Prof. Dr. Matthias Bethge (Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen)
Funding: since 2017
SFB 1158: From nociception to chronic pain: Structure-function properties of neural pathways and their reorganisation
Speaker: Prof. Dr. Rohini Kuner (Heidelberg University)
Funding: since 2015
SFB 1123: Atherosclerosis: Mechanisms and Networks of Novel Therapeutic Targets
Speaker: Prof. Dr. Christian Weber (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München)
Funding: since 2014
SFB 1054: Control and Plasticity of Cell-Fate Decisions in the Immune System
Speaker: Prof. Dr. Thomas Brocker (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München)
Funding: since 2013
SFB 1032: Nanoagents for Spatio-temporal Control of Molecular and Cellular Reactions
Speaker: Prof. Dr. Joachim Rädler (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München)
Funding : since 2012
SFB 870: Assembly and Function of Neuronal Circuits in Sensory Processing
Speaker: Prof. Dr. Benedikt Grothe (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München)
Funding: since 2010
SFB 749: Dynamics and Intermediates of Molecular Transformations
Speaker: Prof. Dr. Thomas Carell (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München)
Funding: since 2007
TRR 237: Nucleic Acid Immunity
Speaker: Prof. Dr. med. Gunther Hartmann (University of Bonn)
Funding: from 7/2018
TRR 174: Spatiotemporal dynamics of bacterial cells
Speaker: Prof. Dr. Martin Thanbichler (Philipps-Universität Marburg)
Funding: since 2017
TRR 165: Waves to Weather
Speaker: Prof. Dr. George Craig (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München)
Funding: since 2015
TRR 152: TRiPs to Homeostasis: Maintenance of Body Homeostasis by Transient Receptor Potential Channel Modules
Speaker: Prof. Dr. Thomas Gudermann (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München)
Funding: since 2014
TRR 127: Biology of Xenogeneic Cell and Organ Transplantation – From Bench to Bedside
Speaker: Prof. Dr. Eckhard Wolf (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München)
Funding: since 2012