Coordinated Projects
Research networks funded by DFG
The following list is a selection of current research programs and research networks mainly sustained through funding by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation).
These initiatives were initiated by or are under the leadership of OPTIMAS scientists.
SFB/TRR 185
OSCAR - Open System Control of Atomic and Photonic Matter
RPTU Kaiserslautern-Landau - U Bonn
Coordinators:
Prof. Dr. Michael Fleischhauer, RPTU Kaiserslautern-Landau / Prof. Dr. Dieter Meschede, U Bonn
Since 2016
SFB/TRR 173
Spin+X – Spin in its collective environment
RPTU Kaiserslautern-Landau - U Mainz
Coordinator:
Prof. Dr. Martin Aeschlimann, RPTU Kaiserslautern-Landau
Since 2016
SFB/TRR 88
Cooperative Effects in Homo- and Heterometallic Complexes (3MET)
TU Kaiserslautern - Karlsruher Institut für Technologie
Coordinator:
Prof. Dr. Gereon Niedner-Schatteburg, TU Kaiserslautern
2011-2022
SFB 926
Microscale Morphology of Component Surfaces (MICOS)
RPTU Kaiserslautern-Landau
Coordinator:
Prof. Dr. Hans Hasse, RPTU Kaiserslautern-Landau
Since 2012
Max Planck Graduate Center
Max Planck Graduate Center mit Johannes Gutenberg Universität Mainz
MPIs for Polymer Research and Chemistry - U Mainz - RPTU Kaiserslautern
not funded by the DFG
Since 2019
Research Unit 1464
Advanced Spintronic Materials and Transport Phenomena (ASPIMATT)
U Mainz - TU Kaiserslautern – Tohoku U (Sendai, Japan)
Coordinators:
Prof. Dr. Claudia Felser, U Mainz / Prof. Dr. Burkard Hillebrands, TU Kaiserslautern
2010-2015
DFG Priority Program SPP 1391
Coordinators:
Prof. Dr. Martin Aeschlimann, TU Kaiserslautern
Prof. Dr. Walter Pfeiffer, U Bielefeld
2009-2015
QUIP
Rhineland-Palatinate Quantum Initiative
Coordinators:
Prof. Dr. Herwig Ott, RPTU Kaiserslautern-Landau / Dr. Valeria Bartsch, Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Mathematics (ITWM) / Prof. Dr. Andreas Dengel, Deutsches Forschungszentrum für Künstliche Intelligenz (DFKI) / Prof. Dr. Michael Fleischhauer, RPTU Kaiserslautern-Landau / Dr. Maximilian Kiefer-Emmanouilidis, RPTU Kaiserslautern-Landau, DFKI Kaiserslautern / Prof. Dr. Ferdinand Schmidt-Kaler, Johannes Gutenberg Universität Mainz / Prof. Dr. Anita Schöbel, Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Mathematics / Dr. Arne Wickenbrock, Johannes Gutenberg Universität Mainz und Helmholtz Institut Mainz / Prof. Dr. Artur Widera, RPTU Kaiserslautern-Landau / Prof. Dr. Patrick Windpassinger, Johannes Gutenberg Universität Mainz und Helmholtz Institut Mainz
Since 2023
FAIRmat
FAIR Data Infrastructure For Materials Science, And Related Research Fields
Coordinator:
Prof. Dr. Claudia Draxl, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Since 2021
DFG Priority Program SPP 1929
Giant Interactions in Rydberg Systems (GiRyd)
Coordinator:
Prof. Dr. Tilman Pfau, U Stuttgart
Since 2016
SFB/TRR 49
Condensed Matter Systems with Variable Many-Body Interactions
U Frankfurt - TU Kaiserslautern - U Mainz
Coordinator:
Prof. Dr. Michael Lang, U Frankfurt
2007-2019
Graduate School of Excellence MAINZ
Materials Science in Mainz
U Mainz - TU Kaiserslautern
Coordinator:
Prof. Dr. Mathias Kläui, U Mainz
2007-2019
DFG Priority Program SPP 1538
Spincaloric Transport (SpinCaT)
Coordinator:
Prof. Dr. Christian Back, U Regensburg
2011-2019