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.
Collaborative Research Centers coordinated by TUM
TRR 267: Non-Coding RNA in the Cardiovascular System
Speaker: Professor Dr. Stefan Engelhardt (Institute of Pharmacology and Toxicology)
Funding: since 2019
SFB 1371: Microbiome Signatures - Functional Relevance in the Digestive Tract
Speaker: Prof. Dr. Dirk Haller (Chair of Nutrition and Immunology at the TUM School of Life Sciences Weihenstephan)
Funding: since 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: since 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: since 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: since 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 TUM 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: seit 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
SFBs/TRRs in which TUM researchers participate
SFB 1330: Hearing Acoustics: Perceptual Principles, Algorithms and Applications
Speaker: Prof. Dr. Volker Hohmann (University of Oldenburg)
Funding: since 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: since 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 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
TRR 237: Nucleic Acid Immunity
Speaker: Prof. Dr. med. Gunther Hartmann (University of Bonn)
Funding: since 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