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ERS funded projects are initiated through two approaches. In the open calls, researchers can submit proposals for funding for projects from all RWTH research areas. These projects should aim at identifying and developing new interdisciplinary fields of research.
The topic-oriented calls are for funding projects in fields of research which serve to further develop strategically important research focuses at RWTH. As a result, profiile areas of the university that have already been established are further defined and expanded.
Calls are published at least eight weeks before the submission deadline in an email to all RWTH professors and on the ERS website.
Seed Fund
The seed funding helps researchers pursue new ideas in an interdisciplinary team. The objective is to enable initial publications on the topic and the acquisition of external funding. Projects run for an average of six to twelve months.
Calls are generally published every year. Proposals are submitted via the ERS portal. All proposals that fulfill the formal requirements go through a defined selection process. At the end of the process the ERS selection committee composes a list of nominees to be confirmed by the Rector's Office.
237 projects have been funded thus far with a total volume of 9.1 million euros.
ERS Prep Fund Call 2019
ERS Prep Fund Call: Simulation and data Science
PFSDS004 – Einsatz künstlicher Intelligenz zur Knorpelforschung
Applicants
- Gözde Dursun
Chair and Institute of General Mechanics - Professor Marcus Stoffel
Chair and Institute of General Mechanics - Hannah Lena Siebers
Orthopaedic Clinic, Uniklinik RWTH Aachen - Dr. Jörg Eschweiler
Orthopaedic Clinic, Uniklinik RWTH Aachen
Professors in Charge of the Research Group
- Professor Dr.-Ing. Marcus Stoffel
Chair and Institute of General Mechanics - Professor Dr. med. Björn Rath
Orthopaedic Clinic, Uniklinik RWTH Aachen
PFSDS005 – Identifying Interpretable Subgroups with Exceptional Structural Relations in Big Datasets
Applicants
- Junior Professor Axel Mayer
Institute of Psychology (IfP) - Dr. Florian Lemmerich
Chair for Computational Social Sciences and Humanities (HumTec)
Professor in Charge of the Research Group
- Professor Markus Strohmaier
Chair for Computational Social Sciences and Humanities (HumTec)
PFSDS006 – Intelligent Finite Elements for Structural Dynamics
PFSDS015 – iStrainML: Improving Strain Engineering by Machine Learning
Applicant
- Dr. Ulf Liebal
Institute of Applied Microbiology (iAMB)
Professor in Charge of the Research Group
- Lars Blank
Institute of Applied Microbiology (iAMB)
PFSDS022 – Adjoint-Based Adaptive Sampling for Optimized Data Synthesis in Flow Control Applications
Applicants
- Professor Wolfgang Schröder
Chair of Fluid Mechanics and Institute of Aerodynamics - Professor Uwe Naumann
Chair of Computer Science 12 (Software and Tools for Computational Engineering)
PFSDS023 – MINERALS: Machine learning training set for virtual microscopy
Applicants
- Dr. Joyce Schmatz
Department of Structural Geology, Tectonics and Geomechanics (GED) - Professor Janos Urai
Department of Structural Geology, Tectonics and Geomechanics (GED) - Dr. Christoph von Hagke
Department of Structural Geology, Tectonics and Geomechanics (GED) - Professor Florian Wellmann
Computational Geoscience and Reservoir Engineering (CGRE) - Dr. Simon Virgo
Computational Geoscience and Reservoir Engineering (CGRE) - Professor Bastian Leibe
Computer Vision Group (CVG)
Professors in Charge of the Research Group
- Professor Janos Urai
Department of Structural Geology, Tectonics and Geomechanics (GED) - Professor Florian Wellmann
Computational Geoscience and Reservoir Engineering (CGRE) - Professor Dr. sc. techn. Bastian Leibe
Computer Vision Group (CVG)
PFSDS025 – From Big Data to Process Insight - Remote Sensing Based Model Selection for Natural Hazards Modeling
Applicant
- PD Dr. Julia Kowalski
Aachen Institute for Advanced Studies in Computational Engineering Science
Professor in Charge of the Research Group
- Professor Marek Behr
Aachen Institute for Advanced Studies in Computational Engineering Science
PFSDS026 – Data science based wear prediction
Applicants
- Dr. Torsten Trimborn
Institute of Geometry and Applied Mathematics (IGPM) - Dr. Olaf Dambon
Fraunhofer Institute for Production Technology (IPT) - Professor Georg Jacobs
Institute for Machine Elements and Systems Engineering (MSE)
Professor in Charge of the Research Group
- Professor Dr. Michael Herty
Institute of Geometry and Applied Mathematics (IGPM)
ERS Prep Fund Call: Life Science
PFLS003 – Etablierung einer CLARITY-Plattform für die Aachener Lebenswissenschaften
PFLS004 – Long non-coding RNAs in gene-environmental interactions
Applicants
- Professor Geraldine Zimmer-Bensch
Institute of Biology II, FET - Professor Ivan Costa
Institute for Computational Genomics
Professor in Charge of the Research Group
- Professor Geraldine Zimmer-Bensch
Institute of Biology II, FET
PFLS008 – Development of mucus-degrading enzyme coatings for airway stents
Applicants
- Dr. Anja Lena Thiebes
Department of Biohybrid & Medical Textiles, BioTex, Institute of Applied Medical Engineering - Dr. Felix Jakob
Institute of Biotechnology, BioVI
Professors in Charge of the Research Group
- Professor Stefan Jockenhövel
Department of Biohybrid & Medical Textiles, BioTex, Institute of Applied Medical Engineering - Professor Dr. Ulrich Schwaneberg
Institute of Biotechnology, BioVI
PFLS009 – Hyperthermia convertible chromophores for fluorescence imaging
Applicants
Dr. Srinivas Banala
Institute of Organic Chemistry (IOC)
Dr. Ioana Slabu
Applied Medical Engineering (AME)
Professor Twan Lammers
Experimental Molecular Imaging
Professors in Charge of the Research Group
Magnus Rueping
Institute of Organic Chemistry (IOC)
Univ.-Prof. Dr. T. Schmitz-Rode
Applied Medical Engineering (AME)
PFLS010 – Magnetic field-assisted bioprinting for the fabrication of three-dimensional in vitro tissue models
Applicants
- Professor Matthias Wessling
Chair of Chemical Process Engineering, AVT.CVT - Professor Laura De Laporte
Leibniz Institute for Interactive Materials, DWI
Professor in Charge of the Research Group
- Professor Matthias Wessling
Chair of Chemical Process Engineering, AVT.CVT
PFLS011 – Ultrathin nanofiber as basement membrane mimic for maintenance of a non-inflammatory endothelial phenotype
Applicants
- Professor Andreas Ludwig
Institute of Pharmacology and Toxicology - Dr. Aaron Babendreyer
Institute of Pharmacology and Toxicology - Dr. Smriti Singh
Chair of Textile Chemistry and Macromolecular Chemistry
Professors in Charge of the Research Group
- Professor Andreas Ludwig
Institute of Pharmacology and Toxicology - Professor Martin Möller
Chair of Textile Chemistry and Macromolecular Chemistry
PFLS012 – Automatisierung des stimulierten Geneditings durch Elektroporation am Beispiel von Pseudomonas putida
Applicants
- Dr. Werner Herfs
Chair of Machine Tools, WZL_WM - Professor Lars Blank
Chair of Applied Microbiology, Blank Lab
Professor in Charge of the Research Group
- Professor Christian Brecher
Chair of Machine Tools, WZL_WM
PFLS015 – MEPA - Microbial Evolution of Protein Allocation
Applicants
- Dr. Birgitta Ebert
Institute of Applied Microbiology, iAMB - Tobias Alter
Institute of Applied Microbiology, iAMB - Professor Lars Blank
Institute of Applied Microbiology, iAMB - Professor Jochen Büchs
AVT - Biochemical Engineering, BioVT - Robin Lamm
AVT - Biochemical Engineering, BioVT
Professors in Charge of the Research Group
- Professor Lars Blank
Institute of Applied Microbiology, iAMB - Professor Jochen Büchs
AVT - Biochemical Engineering, BioVT
Approved Seed Fund Projects 2019
Seed Fund – Neuro-Inspired Computing
neuroIC001 – NeuroModelingTalk (NMT) – Approaching the complexity barrier in neuroscientific modeling
- Professor Markus Diesmann
Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine (INM-6), Computational and Systems Neuroscience (INM-6) - Professor Gabriele Gramelsberger
Theory of Science and Technology (TST)
neuroIC002 – Recurrence and stochasticity for neuro-inspired computation
- Juniorprofessor Moritz Helias
Institute for Neuroscience and Medicine 6 (INM-6) - Profissor Abigail Morrison
Institute of Advanced Simulation & Simlab Neuroscience (IAS-6) - Universitätsprofessor Holger Rauhut
Lehrstuhl für Mathematik C
neuroIC003 – Variability of Neural Graph Embeddings
- Professor Martin Grohe
Lehrstuhl Informatik 7 (i7) - Professor Markus Strohmaier
Computational Social Sciences and Humanities (CSSH)
neuroIC005 – From Data to Treasure Maps in Materials Science: A Case Study for Data Driven Hypothesis Generation and Evaluation
- Professor Martin Grohe
Lehrstuhl Informatik 7 (i7) - Professor Leif Kobbelt
Lehrstuhl für Informatik 8 (Computergraphik und Multimedia) - Professor Matthias Wuttig
I. Institue of Physics (IA)
neuroIC006 – Silicon Synapse
- Dr. Dirk Wouters
Institute of Materials 2 (IWE2) - PhD Leticia Maria Bolzani Poehls
Chair of Integrated Digital Systems (IDS) - Professor Tobias Gemmeke
Chair of Integrated Digital Systems (IDS)
neuroIC007 – Towards Increasing the Connetivity in Artificial Neuronal Networks
- Professor Joachim Knoch
Institut of Semiconductor Electronics - Dr. Dirk Wouters
Institute of Materials 2 (IWE2) - Dr. Ilia Valov
Peter Grünberg Institute, FZ Jülich (PGI-7) - Professor Rainer Waser
Lehrstuhl für Werkstoffe der Elektrotechnik II
Open Seed Fund
OPSF496 – Translational Tumor Medicine: From chemical hits to new potential clinical candidates and their bioactivities
Applicants
- Prof. Steffen Koschmieder
Department of Hematology, Oncology, Hemostaseology, and Stem Cell Transplantation, RWTH University Hospital (UKA) - Juniorprof.Giulia Rossetti
Department of Oncology, Hematology and Stem Cell Transplantation - Dr. Nicolas Chatain
Klinik für Hämatologie, Onkologie, Hämostaseologie und Stammzelltransplantation (Med. Klinik IV) - Prof. Carsten Bolm
Lehrstuhl für Organische Chemie II
Professors in Charge of the Research Group
- Prof. Steffen Koschmieder
Department of Hematology, Oncology, Hemostaseology, and Stem Cell Transplantation, RWTH University Hospital (UKA) - Prof. Giulia Rossetti
Department of Oncology, Hematology and Stem Cell Transplantation - Univ.-Prof. Dr.med. Tim Henrik Brümmendorf
Klinik für Hämatologie, Onkologie, Hämostaseologie und Stammzelltransplantation (Med. Klinik IV) - Prof. Carsten Bolm
Lehrstuhl für Organische Chemie II
OPSF497 – Groundwater treatment through nitrate reduction in two-chamber microbial fuel cells
Applicants
- Prof. Lars Blank
Lehrstuhl für Angewandte Mikrobiologie - Dr. David Montag
Institut für Siedlungswasserwirtschaft (ISA)
Professor in Charge of the Research Group
- Univ.-Prof. Dr.-Ing. Johannes Pinnekamp
Institut für Siedlungswasserwirtschaft (ISA)
OPSF500 – Peeking inside the black box of day-to-day challenges in Interdisciplinary Collaborations (PIC)
Applicants
- Prof. Bettina Wiese
Institut für Psychologie - Dr. David Antons
Lehrstuhl für Innovation, Strategie und Organisation
Professor in Charge of the Research Group
- Prof. Torsten-Oliver Salge, PhD
Lehrstuhl für Innovation, Strategie und Organisation
OPSF503 – Mapping intergroup violence: Behavioral motivations and brain activation in intergroup conflict
Applicants
- PhD Sina Radke
Klinik für Psychiatrie, Psychotherapie und Psychosomatik - Juniorprof. Robert Böhm
Juniorprofessur für Decision Analysis
Professors in Charge of the Research Group
- Prof. Frank Schneider
Klinik für Psychiatrie, Psychotherapie und Psychosomatik
OPSF505 – Actuating hydrogel to mechanically direct stem cell fate
Applicants
- Prof. Laura De Laporte
DWI - apl. Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Sabine Neuß-Stein
Institut für Biomedizinische Technologien, Zell- und Molekularbiologie an Grenzflächen; Institut für Pathologie
OPSF506 – Multiskalen-Modellierung der Fluid-Struktur-Interaktion in umformenden Fertigungsverfahren
Applicants
- Prof. Stefanie Elgeti
Lehrstuhl für computergestützte Analyse technischer Systeme (CATS) - Prof. Gerhard Hirt
Lehrstuhl und Institut für Bildsame Formgebung
Professors in Charge of the Research Group
- Prof. Marek Behr
Lehrstuhl für computergestützte Analyse technischer Systeme (CATS)
OPSF507 – Psychoakustik und subjektive Beurteilung drehzahlvariabler, hydraulischer Antriebe
Applicants
- Prof. Katharina Schmitz
Institut für fluidtechnische Antriebe und Systeme (ifas) - Prof. Sabine Schlittmeier
Institut für Psychologie (IfP)
OPSF510 – Characterization of short-range ordering in high entropy alloys
Applicants
- Dr. Wenwen Song
Lehrstuhl und Institut für Eisenhüttenkunde (IEHK) - Prof. Wolfgang Bleck
Lehrstuhl und Institut für Eisenhüttenkunde (IEHK) - Dr. Aurel Radulescu
Jülich Centre for Neutron Science (JCNS)
Professors in Charge of the Research Group
- Prof. Wolfgang Bleck
Lehrstuhl und Institut für Eisenhüttenkunde (IEHK)
Applicants
- Dr. Leif Johannsen
Institut für Kognitions- und Expermentalpsychologie, Institut für Psychologie - Dr. Denise N. Stephan
Institut für Kognitions- und Expermentalpsychologie, Institut für Psychologie - Prof. Iring Koch
Institut für Kognitions- und Expermentalpsychologie, Institut für Psychologie - Prof. Cornelius Bollheimer
Lehrstuhl für Geriatrie und Altersmedizin - Dr. João Pedro Batista
Lehrstuhl für Geriatrie und Altersmedizin
Professors in Charge of the Research Group
- Prof. Iring Koch
Institut für Kognitions- und Expermentalpsychologie, Institut für Psychologie - Prof. Dr. med. Cornelius Bollheimer
Lehrstuhl für Geriatrie und Altersmedizin
OPSF516 – Genome in a day
Applicants
- Prof. Ingo Kurth
Humangenetik - Prof. Tobias Gemmeke
Lehrstuhl für Integrierte Digitale Systeme und Schaltungsentwurf (IDS) - Prof. Regina Dittmann
Lehr- und Forschungsgebiet Technologie der Oxidelektronik (FZ Jülich
Professors in Charge of the Research Group
- Univ.-Prof. Dr.-Ing. Tobias Gemmeke
Lehrstuhl für Integrierte Digitale Systeme und Schaltungsentwurf (IDS)
OPSF519 – Untersuchung und Optimierung der Randzoneneigenschaften bei der elektrochemischen Metallbearbeitung von Eisen-Aluminiden zur Verbesserung der Oxidationsbeständigkeit OREGANO
Applicants
- Prof. Daniela Zander
Lehrstuhl für Korrosion und Korrosionsschutz / Gießerei Institut - Dr. Andreas Klink
Werkzeugmaschinenlabor WZL der RWTH Aachen (WZL)
Professor in Charge of the Research Group
- Prof. Dr.-Ing. Thomas Bergs MBA
Werkzeugmaschinenlabor WZL der RWTH Aachen (WZL)
OPSF524 – Manufacturing of In-Volume Modifications in GaAs for Guidance of Photons Emitted by GaAs-Qubits
Applicants
- Dr. Arnold Gillner
Chair of Laser Technology / Fraunhofer ILT - Prof. Beata Kardynal
Peter Grünberg Institut – Halbleiter-Nanoelektronik (PGI-9)
Professor in Charge of the Research Group
- Prof. Reinhart Poprawe
Chair of Laser Technology / Fraunhofer ILT
OPSF525 – Robust Energy Transition
Applicants
- Juniorprof. Christina Büsing
Lehrstuhl II für Mathematik - Prof. Arie Koster
Mathematics II, Discrete Optimization - Dr. Martin Robinius
Institute of Energy and Climate Research, Electrochemical Process Engineering (IEK-3) - Dr. Heidi Heinrichs
Institute of Energy and Climate Research, Electrochemical Process Engineering (IEK-3)
Professors in Charge of the Research Group
- Arie Koster
Mathematics II, Discrete Optimization - Detlef Stolten
Institute of Energy and Climate Research, Electrochemical Process Engineering (IEK-3)
OPSF527 – Intelligent Data Acquisition for Predictive Simulations of Natural Hazards due to Rapid Landslides
Applicants
- Dr. Julia Kowalski
Aachen Institute for Advanced Studies in Computational Engineering Sciences (AICES) - Prof. Florian Amann
Department of Engineering Geology and Hydrogeology (LIH) - Dr. Anja Dufresne
Engineering Geology and Hydrogeology (LIH) - Prof. Holger Schüttrumpf
Department and Institute of Hydraulic Engineering and Water Management
Professors in Charge of the Research Group
- Florian Amann
Department of Engineering Geology and Hydrogeology (LIH) - Univ.-Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Rafig Azzam
Engineering Geology and Hydrogeology (LIH)
OPSF537 – UHPAM - Ultra High Performance Additive Manufacturing in Construction
Applicants
- Prof. Sigrid Brell-Cokcan
Individualized Building Production - Prof. Michael Raupach
Institut für Baustoffforschung
Professor in Charge of the Research Group
- Prof. Sigrid Brell-Cokcan
Individualized Building Production
OPSF544 – Photoredox: New light source for initiating photoredox catalytic polymerization reactions
Applicants
- Dr. Arnold Gillner
Chair of Laser Technology / Fraunhofer ILT - Prof. Marcel Liauw
Lehrstuhl für Technische Chemie und Petrolchemie
Professor in Charge of the Research Group
- Prof. Reinhart Poprawe
Chair of Laser Technology / Fraunhofer ILT