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

Ultrafast Nanooptics

Coordinators:
Prof. Dr. Martin Aeschlimann, TU Kaiserslautern
Prof. Dr. Walter Pfeiffer, U Bielefeld

2009-2015

 

Further Projects under Participation of OPTIMAS

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

 

DFG Priority Program SPP 1839

Tailored Disorder

Coordinator:
Prof. Dr. Silke Christiansen, Helmholtz Zentrum Berlin

Since 2015

 

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