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 274: Checkpoints of Central Nervous System Recovery
Speaker: Prof. Dr. Mikael Simons (Institute of Neuronal Cell Biology)
Funding: from January 2020
TRR 267: Non-Coding RNA in the Cardiovascular System
Speaker: Professor Dr. Stefan Engelhardt (Institute of Pharmacology and Toxicology)
Funding: since 2019
Project description of TRR 267 on the DFG website
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)
Website: http://www.sfb1371.tum.de/
Project description of SFB 1371 on the DFG website
SFB 1335: Aberrant Immune Signals in Cancer
Speaker: Prof. Dr. med. Jürgen Ruland (Chair of Clinical Chemistry and Pathobiochemistry)
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)
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)
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)
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)
Website: sfb924.wzw.tum.de
Project description of SFB 924 at the DFG website
SFB 863: Forces in Biomolecular Systems
Speaker: Prof. Dr. Matthias Rief (Chair of Molecular Biophysics at the Department of Physics)
Website: www.sfb863.de
Project description of SFB 863 on the DFG website
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)
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)
Website: www.sfbtr40.de
Project description of TRR 40 on the DFG website
Collaborative Research Centers with TUM participation
Participation as co-applicant
TRR 277: Additive Manufacturing in Construction. The Challenge of Large Scale
Speaker: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Harald Kloft (TUniversity of Braunschweig - Instiute of Technology (TUBS))
Co-Speaker: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Christoph Gehlen (Technical University of Munich)
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)
TRR 128: Initiating/Effector versus Regulatory Mechanisms in Multiple Sclerosis - Progress towards Tackling the Disease
Speaker: Prof. Dr. Heinz Wiendl (University of Münster)
TRR 110: Symmetries and the Emergence of Structure in Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD)
Speaker: Prof. Dr. Ulf Meißner Rheinische (University of Bonn)
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)
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)
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)
SFBs/TRRs in which TUM researchers participate
SFB 1330: Hearing Acoustics: Perceptual Principles, Algorithms and Applications
Speaker: Prof. Dr. Volker Hohmann (University of Oldenburg)
SFB 1320: EASE – Everyday Activity Science and Engineering
Speaker: Prof. Dr. Michael Beetz (University of Bremen)
SFB 1309: Chemical Biology of Epigenetic Modifications
Speaker: Prof. Dr. Thomas Carell (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München)
SFB 1243: Genetic and Epigenetic Evolution of Hematopoietic Neoplasms
Speaker: Prof. Dr. Heinrich Leonhardt (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München)
SFB 1233: Robust Vision — Inference Principles and Neural Mechanisms
Speaker: Prof. Dr. Matthias Bethge (Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen)
SFB 1123: Atherosclerosis: Mechanisms and Networks of Novel Therapeutic Targets
Speaker: Prof. Dr. Christian Weber (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München)
SFB 1054: Control and Plasticity of Cell-Fate Decisions in the Immune System
Speaker: Prof. Dr. Thomas Brocker (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München)
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)
TRR 237: Nucleic Acid Immunity
Speaker: Prof. Dr. med. Gunther Hartmann (University of Bonn)
TRR 174: Spatiotemporal dynamics of bacterial cells
Speaker: Prof. Dr. Martin Thanbichler (Philipps-Universität Marburg)
TRR 165: Waves to Weather
Speaker: Prof. Dr. George Craig (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München)
TRR 152: TRiPs to Homeostasis: Maintenance of Body Homeostasis by Transient Receptor Potential Channel Modules
Speaker: Prof. Dr. Thomas Gudermann (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München)
TRR 127: Biology of Xenogeneic Cell and Organ Transplantation – From Bench to Bedside
Speaker: Prof. Dr. Eckhard Wolf (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München)
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Are you planning to submit a proposal for a collaborative project?
The National Research Funding Support offers advice on applications for
Collaborative Research Centers/Transregios,
Research Training Groups,
Priority Programs and
Research Units.
TUM supports professors who are preparing proposals with TUM as the lead coordinator/spokesperso with the TUM Seed Fund.