Current Projects
List of ongoing projects focusing on basic research being carried out at the FIT.
Future Field "Adaptive and Active Polymer Materials"
PhosphotoSupraChem
- Principal Investigator: Dr. Charalampos Pappas
- Period: 01.01.2024 – 31.12.2028
- Funding: ERC Starting Grant
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InnoChem – Innocent Deelectronation Chemistry
- Principal Investigator: Prof. Dr. Ingo Krossing
- Period: 01.10.2022 – 30.09.2027
- Funding: ERC Advanced Grant
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Droplet behaviour on switchable and adaptive soft and hard spiropyran-based materials
- Principal Investigator: Dr. Dorothea Helmer
- Period: 01.06.2023 – 31.05.2026
- Funding: DFG
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livMatS projects from Area B
- Spokespersons: Prof. Dr. Jürgen Rühe, Prof. Dr. Anna Fischer, Prof. Dr. Thomas Speck
- Period: 01.01.2019 – 31.12.2025
- Funding: DFG under Germany’s Excellence Strategy – EXC-2193/1 – 390951807
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- livMatS subprojects at FIT
Dynamic chemical networks: steps towards living materials
- Principal Investigator: Dr. Charalampos G. Pappas
- Period: 01.10.2020 – 30.09.2025
- Funding: DFG
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Coupling Effects in Re-Programmable Micro-Matter
- Principal Investigator: Prof. Dr. Jürgen Rühe
- Period: 01.09.2022 – 31.12.2025
- Funding: DFG
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Development of a miniaturized analysis platform for quantitative and time-resolved high throughput-analysis of signaling kinetics in cancer cells
- Principal Investigator: Prof. Dr. Jürgen Rühe
- Period: 01.09.2022 – 30.08.2025
- Funding: DFG
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An audible sound approach to peptide systems chemistry
- Principal Investigator: Dr. Charalampos G. Pappas
- Period: 01.07.2022 – 30.06.2025
- Funding: DFG
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Interactive and Programmable Materials (IPROM)
- Principal Investigator: Prof. Dr. Jürgen Rühe & Prof. Dr. Bastian E. Rapp
- Period: 01.02.2020 – 31.01.2025
- Funding: Carl Zeiss Foundation
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Elastocaloric Cooling Based on Tailored Rubber Films
- Principal Investigator: Prof. Dr. Jürgen Rühe
- Period: 01.02.2022 – 30.01.2025
- Funding: DFG
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Future Field "Biomimetic, Biobased and Bioactive Materials Systems"
Glycan Mimetics for Cell Glycocalyx Reconstitution: a polymer chemist’s approach to fight infection (GLYMCE)
- Principal Investigator: Prof. Dr. Laura Hartmann
- Period: 01.01.2024 – 31.12.2028
- Funding: ERC Consilidator Grant
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livMatS projects from Area C
- Spokespersons: Prof. Dr. Jürgen Rühe, Prof. Dr. Anna Fischer, Prof. Dr. Thomas Speck
- Period: 01.01.2019 – 31.12.2025
- Funding: DFG under Germany’s Excellence Strategy – EXC-2193/1 – 390951807
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- livMatS subprojects at FIT
MERGE - Diagnostik und Verlaufskontrolle tödlich verlaufender Erkrankungen des Zentralnervensystems mit Multiplex-CRISPR
- Principal Investigator: Dr. Can Dincer
- Period: 01.04.2021 – 31.03.2024
- Funding: BMBF
DELIVER – Data-driven Engineering of Sustainable Living Materials
- Principal Investigator: Prof. Dr. Thomas Speck
- Period: 01.01.2023 – 31.12.2024
- Funding: Carl Zeiss Stiftung
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Future Field "(Micro)Systems for Energy Conversion, Storage and Energy-autonomy"
eCO2Capture
- Principal Investigator: Dr. Severin Vierrath
- Period: 01.09.2024 – 31.08.2027
- Funding: Vector Stiftung
OBELIX – Oberflächen unter Feldbedingungen: Analyse der Limitierungen für neuartige c-Si Solarzellen
- Principal Investigator: Prof. Dr. Stefan Glunz
- Period: 01.03.2024 – 28.02.2027
- Funding: BMWK
All-Solid-State CO2-Elektrolyse mit höherer Effizienz & geringeren Kosten
- Principal Investigator: Dr. Severin Vierrath
- Period: 01.03.2020 – 28.02.2026
- Funding: Vector Stiftung
livMatS projects from Area A
- Spokespersons: Prof. Dr. Jürgen Rühe, Prof. Dr. Anna Fischer, Prof. Dr. Thomas Speck
- Period: 01.01.2019 – 31.12.2025
- Funding: DFG under Germany’s Excellence Strategy – EXC-2193/1 – 390951807
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- livMatS subprojects at FIT
Future Field "New Materials: Societal Challenges"
livMatS projects from Area D
- Spokespersons: Prof. Dr. Jürgen Rühe, Prof. Dr. Anna Fischer, Prof. Dr. Thomas Speck
- Period: 01.01.2019 – 31.12.2025
- Funding: DFG under Germany’s Excellence Strategy – EXC-2193/1 – 390951807
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- livMatS subprojects at FIT
Polymer chemistry and materials – Renewable photoresponsive polymers
- Principal Investigator: Dr. Céline Calvino
- Period: 01.03.2024 – 28.02.2025
- Funding: Vector Stiftung
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Core Facility "Imaging of Materials Systems"
In-situ electrochemical (scanning) transmission electron microscopy - Understanding in-operando dynamics of electrocatalysts on the nanometer scale
- Principal Investigator: Prof. Dr. Anna Fischer
- Period: 01.01.2021 – 31.12.2025
- Funding: Momentum - Förderung für Erstberufene (VolkswagenStiftung)
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Core Facility "Modelling and Simulation of Materials Systems"
Dual-responsive organo-sulfur network cathodes for stable high capacity polymer batteries
- Principal Investigator: PD Dr. Michael Walter
- Period: 01.04.2024 – 31.03.2027
- Funding: DFG
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