Junior research groups (R3)

Research groups led by Early Career Researchers, i.e. postdocs at a relatively early career stage (R3), are an important instrument for promoting innovative research and scientific careers. We show you which junior research groups are supported at Humboldt-Universit?t.

Emmy Noether Junior Research Groups

The Emmy Noether Programme of the German Research Foundation offers outstandingly qualified scientists in early career phases the opportunity to qualify for a university professorship by independently leading a group over a period of six years.

Project
DFG Emmy Noether Programm 06/2025 - 06/2028

Organoxenon Compounds as Versatile Oxidizers in Organometallic Chemistry (OrgXeMet)

Project management: Dr. Alberto Perez Bitrian

Project
DFG Emmy Noether Programm 07/2024 - 06/2027

Dragonics

Project management: Dr. Nakib Haider Protik

Project
DFG Emmy Noether Programm 06/2024 - 05/2027

Sound System Epistemologies: Knowledge & gender in practice

Project management: Dr. Stefanie Alisch

Project
DFG Emmy Noether Programm 04/2024 - 09/2027

“No representation without taxation“ – budgetary powers in the multi-level system

Project management: Dr. Ruth Weber

Project
DFG Emmy Noether Programm 04/2024 - 03/2030

A comprehensive platform for sustainable biosynthesis of rare natural products in Pichia pastoris

Project management: Dr. rer. nat. Gita Naseri

Project
DFG Emmy Noether Programm 10/2023 - 09/2026

Nanoscopic Machines Entangle Chemical Structure (NanoMECHs)

Project management: Dr. Michael Kathan

Project
DFG Emmy Noether Programm 01/2022 - 12/2027

Monoaminergic neuromodulation of cortical circuits underlying economic investment decisions

Project management: Dr. Torben Ott

Project
DFG Emmy Noether Programm 12/2021 - 09/2028

What's in a name? Computational modeling and experimental investigations on the non-arbitrariness of word label choices

Project management: Dr. Fritz Günther

Project
DFG Emmy Noether Programm 07/2021 - 06/2026

Morphogenesis of membrane-bound organelles by phase-separated compartments

Project management: Dr. Roland Knorr

Project
DFG Emmy Noether Programm 07/2021 - 06/2028

Eidetic Representations of Natural Language

Project management: Prof. Dr. Alan Akbik

Project
DFG Emmy Noether Programm 03/2021 - 02/2027

Confined carbyne for optoelectronics and optomechanics

Project management: Dr. Sebastian Heeg

Project
DFG Emmy Noether Programm 01/2021 - 12/2026

Adaptive Cortical Organization for Distributed Working Memory Storage

Project management: Dr. rer. nat. Thomas Christophel

Junior Research Groups Clusters of Excellence

As part of the clusters of excellence, R3 groups were set up as independent units within the alliances to enable the leaders to further develop their own profile and leadership skills.

Heisenberg Programme (DFG)

The DFG's Heisenberg Programme is aimed at excellent researchers who meet all the formal requirements for appointment to a permanent professorship. It enables them to further develop their own research profile in a targeted manner and to prepare for an academic leadership position.

Project
DFG Heisenberg Programme 04/2024 - 04/2027

Vision and memory in action

Project management: Dr. Sven Ohl

Project
DFG Heisenberg Programme 04/2023 - 03/2026

Neue Historische Ungleichheitsforschung: Wissen, Diskurse, Praktiken in Westeuropa und der Welt im 20./21. Jahrhundert

Project management: Dr. Felix R?mer, Prof. Dr. Alexander Nützenadel

Project
DFG Heisenberg Programme 07/2022 - 06/2027

Heisenberg-Professorship Food Security in Crises

Project management: Prof. Dr. Tilman Brück

Project
DFG Heisenberg Programme 10/2022 - 09/2027

Sociocultural Transformation at the End of Fossil Fuels

Project management: Dr. Gretchen Bakke

Project
DFG Heisenberg Programme 04/2021 - 03/2026

Higher-point functions and integrability

Project management: Dr. Burkhard Eden

Project
DFG Heisenberg Programme 09/2023 - 08/2026

Heisenberg-Professorship Quantum strings and gauge fields at arbitrary coupling

Project management: Prof. Dr. Valentina Forini

Project
DFG Heisenberg Programme 04/2021 - 02/2027

East-German Hooligans. Continuities and Transformtions of Right-Wing Subcultures from the 1970s till today

Project management: PD Dr. Stefan Wellgraf

Project
DFG Heisenberg Programme 10/2021 - 03/2027

Productive Barriers to Communication in the Literature of the High- and Late Middle Ages

Project management: PD Dr. Beatrice Tr?nca

Project
DFG Heisenberg Programme 06/2022 - 06/2029

Eleutheria: History of the Greek Idea of Freedom: Archaeology of a European Core Concept

Project management: Lothar PD Dr. Willms

Project
DFG Heisenberg Programme 01/2020 - 06/2026

Hope’s Ecstasy: Existence, Possibility and the Non-Correspondence to Future

Project management: Prof. Dr. Hartmut von Sass

Junior research groups funded by federal ministries

The funding of junior research groups by federal ministries is aimed at excellent postdoctoral researchers in the early career phase. They can develop their own research project as group leaders within the framework of the funding programme. In contrast to the open-topic funding line of the Emmy Noether Groups (DFG), the federal ministries call for proposals for groups on specific topics on an irregular basis.

ERC Starting Grants

With the Starting Grant, the ERC funds innovative researchers at early career stages (2-7 years after PhD). As a rule, up to 1.5 million euros are available for this purpose. Funding period: 5 years. To the overview of funded projects.

Contact us

Dr. Christoph Raiser

Referatsleiter - Referent Forschungsf?rderung Stiftungen; DFG: Exzellenzcluster, Heisenberg
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Dr. Valerie Popp

Referentin - Forschungsf?rderung DFG: Emmy Noether, Walter Benjamin, Eigene Stelle; Forschungspreise
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