Emmy Noether Junior Research Groups

The Emmy Noether Programme gives exceptionally qualified early career researchers the chance to qualify for a university professorship by leading an independent junior research group. The groups are funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) for a period of six years.

Current Emmy Noether Groups

Biochemical and mechanistc analysis of inflammasomes, the key proteins in chronic inflammation (L. Andreeva)

Biochemical and mechanistc analysis of inflammasomes, the key proteins in chronic inflammation (L. Andreeva)

Group head: Dr. Liudmila Andreeva, Faculty of Medicine / iFIT Cluster of Excellence

Duration: 2023-2029

Liudmila Andreeva's homepage

Socially-relevant pragmatic inference (A. Achimova)

Socially-relevant pragmatic inference (A. Achimova)

Group head: Dr. Asya Achimova, linguistics / neuro-cognitive modeling

Duration: 2023-2029

Asya Achimova's homepage

Resource-Efficient Bayesian Machine Learning (R. Bamler)

Resource-Efficient Bayesian Machine Learning (R. Bamler)

Group head: Prof. Dr. Robert Bamler, Department of Computer Science – Data Science and Machine Learning

Duration: 2021-2027

Robert Bamler's homepage

Gravitational Waves from Compact Objects - a Tool for Testing Strong Gravity and Nuclear Matter at Extreme Densities (D. Doneva)

Gravitational Waves from Compact Objects - a Tool for Testing Strong Gravity and Nuclear Matter at Extreme Densities (D. Doneva)

Group head: Dr. Daniela Doneva, Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics

Duration: 2018-2024

Homepage of the "Gravitational Waves from Compact Objects" group

Quantifying ice-ocean interactions with geophysical observations and modelling (R. Drews)

Quantifying ice-ocean interactions with geophysical observations and modelling (R. Drews)

Group head: Prof. Dr. Reinhard Drews, Department of Geoscience – Geophysics

Duration: 2018-2024

Homepage of the Geophysics work group

Rhythmic Building Blocks of Human Attention: How Network Oscillations Link Perception and Action (R. Helfrich)

Rhythmic Building Blocks of Human Attention: How Network Oscillations Link Perception and Action (R. Helfrich)

Group head: Dr. Randolph Helfrich, Hertie Institute for Clinical Brain Research (HIH)

Duration: 2020-2026

Randolph Helfrich's homepage

Role of Sema7A during the Resolution of Kidney Ischemia-/Reperfusion Injury (A. Körner)

Role of Sema7A during the Resolution of Kidney Ischemia-/Reperfusion Injury (A. Körner)

Group head: Dr. Andreas Körner, University Hospital and Faculty of Medicine, Clinic for Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine

Duration: 2022-2028

Andreas Körner's homepage

Modulating the Gut Microbiome Composition with Drugs (L. Maier)

Modulating the Gut Microbiome Composition with Drugs (L. Maier)

Group head: Prof. Dr. Lisa Maier, Interfaculty Institute of Microbiology and Infection Medicine

Duration: 2019-2025

Homepage of the "Drug-Microbiome-Host Interactions" research group

SPECSY: Structure-Potential Relationships of Electrochemical Interfaces by in situ Reflection Anisotropy Spectroscopy (M. May)

SPECSY: Structure-Potential Relationships of Electrochemical Interfaces by in situ Reflection Anisotropy Spectroscopy (M. May)

Group head: Dr. Matthias May, Institute of Physical and Theoretical Chemistry

Duration: 2020-2026

Homepage of the "SPECSY" group

The devil in the details: Phage microhabitats as drivers of soil biogeochemistry (K. Mason-Jones)

The devil in the details: Phage microhabitats as drivers of soil biogeochemistry (K. Mason-Jones)

Group head: Dr. Kyle Mason-Jones, Biogeochemistry

Duration: 2024-2030

Religious Conflict and Mobility Byzantium and the Greater Mediterranean, 700–900 (F. Montinaro)

Religious Conflict and Mobility Byzantium and the Greater Mediterranean, 700–900 (F. Montinaro)

Group head: Dr. Federico Montinaro, Institute of Ancient History

Duration: 2020-2026

Homepage of the "Religious Conflict and Mobility" group

Imaging Neuroinflammatory Axonal Injury at Nanoscale Resolution (I. Nikić-Spiegel)

Imaging Neuroinflammatory Axonal Injury at Nanoscale Resolution (I. Nikić-Spiegel)

Group head: Dr. Ivana Nikić-Spiegel, Werner Reichardt Centre for Integrative Neuroscience (CIN)

Duration: 2016-2022

Homepage of the "Imaging Neuroinflammatory Axonal Injury" group

Real Virtual Humans (G. Pons-Moll)

Real Virtual Humans (G. Pons-Moll)

Group head: Prof. Dr. Gerard Pons-Moll, Department of Computer Science – Continuous Learning on Multimodal Datastreams

Duration: 2018-2024

Homepage of the "Real Virtual Humans" group

Arrested Development – How do plants control fate transition timing? (M. Smit)

Arrested Development – How do plants control fate transition timing? (M. Smit)

Group head: Dr. Margot Smit, Center for Plant Molecular Biology (ZMBP)

Duration: 2024-2030

Homepage of the Smit research group

The Language Dynamics of the Ancient Central Andes (M. Urban)

The Language Dynamics of the Ancient Central Andes (M. Urban)

Group head: Dr. Matthias Urban, Department of Linguistics

Duration: 2017-2023

Homepage of the "The Language Dynamics of the Ancient Central Andes" group

Systems Biology Analysis of Vaccine-induced Immunity to Infectious Diseases in Cancer Patients (F. Wimmers)

Systems Biology Analysis of Vaccine-induced Immunity to Infectious Diseases in Cancer Patients (F. Wimmers)

Group head: Dr. Florian Wimmers, Interfaculty Institute of Biochemistry (IFIB)

Duration: 2022-2028

Homepage of the Wimmers Lab

The normative predictome for precision psychiatry (Th. Wolfers)

The normative predictome for precision psychiatry (Th. Wolfers)

Group head: Dr. Thomas Wolfers, University Hospital for Psychiatry and Psychotherapy

Duration: 2023-2029

Wolfers lab homepage