Research projects list

Funded research projects

EU-funded projects

ERC grants and other EU-funded projects

SMART - Sponge Microbiome’s Adaptation and Resilience to Thermal Stress
project management
Gert Wörheide
funding period
2025 - 2027
support program
EU Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions - MSCA 101153869
employees
Anshika Singh
FloW - Floodplain Weathering
project management
Aaron Bufe
funding period
2025 - 2030
support program
ERC Starting Grant - STG 101164120
employees
Hao-Wei Huang
MacDrive - Which Factors Drive Macroevolutionary Rates of Speciation and Extinction?
project management
Sebastian Höhna
funding period
2023 - 2027
funding line
ERC Starting Grant - STG 101043187
staff
Besanta Khakurel
MODERATE - Magma Outgassing During Eruptions and Geothermal Exploration
project management
Yan Lavallée
funding period
2022 - 2027
support program
ERC Consolidator Grant - COG 101001065
employees
Julia Schunke
PHAST - A physics-based study of ice stream dynamics
project management
Elisa Mantelli
funding period
2023 - 2028
support program
ERC Starting Grant - STG 101076793
co-funded by the Alfred Wegener Institute AWI
employees
Emma Chizzali
Tilly Woods
TREAD - Data and Processes in Seismic Hazard
Part of a joint project
subproject management
Alice Gabriel
funding period
2023 - 2026
support program
Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions - MSCA 101072699
employees
Rachel Preca Trapani
EAVESDROP - Experimental access to volcanic eruptions: Driving Observational Potential
project management
Donald Dingwell
funding period
2019 - 2025
support program
ERC Advanced Grant - ADG 834225
IMPROVE - Interdisciplinary training of volcano scientists
Teil des Verbundprojektes
Projektleitung
Bettina Scheu
Förderzeitraum
2021 - 2025
Förderprogramm
Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions - MSCA 858092
Mitarbeitende
ehemalig: Roberto Davoli
ChEESE-2P - Center of Excellence for Exascale in Solid Earth - Geodynamics and glacier modeling move to the exascale
Part of a joint project
subproject management
Alice Gabriel
funding period
2023 - 2026
support program
EU JU Research and Innovation Actions - RIA 101093038
co-financed by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)
employees
Thomas Ulrich
Mathilde Marchandon
Claudia April

DFG-funded projects

Priority programs, graduate colleges, collaborative research centers, research grants, and other DFG-funded projects

Laboratory experiments of geochemical outgassing on exoplanets
Part of EXC 2094 ORIGINS: From the origin of the universe to the first building blocks of life
project management
Yan Lavallée
funding period
2026 - 2032
support program
DFG Project as part of the Cluster of Excellence - EXC 2094 (390783311)
employees
Ocean deoxygenation effects on dissolved organic matter sequestration in a changing ocean (OXYGEDOM)
project management
Gonzalo Gomez-Saez
funding period
2022 - 2028
support program
DFG Emmy Noether Junior Research Group - ENP 491444019
employees
Marit Renken
Barbora Chylíková
Formerly: Ömer Coskun
Deformation and instability on volcanic flanks due to compaction of eruptive deposits
project management
Edgar Zorn
funding period
2026 - 2031
support program
DFG Emmy Noether Junior Research Group - ENP 561282832
employees
Energy extraction through active thermomechanical processing of reservoir rock [HEATER2]
Part of SPP 1006: Infrastructure area - International Continental Scientific Drilling Program (ICDP)
KMT@icdp
project management
Jackie Kendrick, Anthony Lamur
funding period
2025 - 2028
support program
DFG research grant SBH 560482374 as part of SPP 1006: Infrastructure area - International Continental Scientific Drilling Program (ICDP)
employees
Isabella Achhammer
Magnetofossilation: Formation and preservation of magnetosomes in sediments
Part of SPP 2404 DeepDyn
project management
William Orsi (proposed by Sophie Roud)
funding period
2024 - 2027
support program
DFG research grant SBH 521548970 as part of SPP 2404
employees
Maja Bajic
Coupling of the dynamics of the Earth's core and mantle / Core-Mantle-Coup
Part of SPP 2404 DeepDyn
project management
Peter Bunge and others
funding period
2023 - 2026
support program
DFG research grant SBH 521319093 as part of SPP 2404
employees
Ingo Stotz
Ribozyme trapping in ferruginous chemical gardens
Part of TRR392: Molecular evolution in prebiotic environments
project management
William Orsi
funding period
2024 - 2027
support program
DFG research grant SBH 537081362 as part of the TRR 392 project
employees
Hanna Dienstbier
Further subprojects at LMU
SBH 537079661 (Scheu)
SBH 537079258 (Weidendorfer)
Near-surface geothermal systems: Physicochemical factories for molecular evolution (B04)
Part of TRR392: Molecular evolution in prebiotic environments
project management
Bettina Scheu
funding period
2024 - 2027
support program
DFG research grant SBH 537079661 as part of the TRR 392 project
employees
Daniel Weller
Further subprojects at LMU
SBH 537081362 (Orsi)
SBH 537079258 (Weidendorfer)
Magmatic enrichment of prebiotic elements (B03)
Part of TRR392: Molecular evolution in prebiotic environments
project management
Daniel Weidendorfer
funding period
2024 - 2027
support program
DFG research grant SBH 537079258 as part of the TRR 392 project
employees
Peter Hofer
other subprojects
SBH 537081362 (Orsi)
SBH 537079661 (Scheu)
Natural and experimental approaches to the behavior of Re in the Earth's crust: Part B - Hydrothermal Re transport and Mo-Re fractionation
Part of SPP 2238 DOME: Dynamics of Ore Metal Enrichment - DOME
project management
Sandro Jahn
funding period
2024 - 2027
support program
DFG research grant SBH 521623052 as part of SPP 2238
employees
Ahmad Haghi
other subprojects
SBH 521731223 (Jahn)
Molecular simulations of speciation in carbonatite fluids at the magmatic-hydrothermal transition
Part of SPP 2238 DOME: Dynamics of Ore Metal Enrichment - DOME
project management
Sandro Jahn
funding period
2024 - 2026
support program
DFG research grant SBH 521731223 as part of SPP 2238
employees
Jan Dreschmann
other subprojects
SBH 521623052 (Jahn)
Carbonatite metasomatism in the deep Earth's crust: High-pressure experiments on melt-rock interactions and findings from the Ivrea-Verbano Zone borehole (ICDP, "DIVE")
Part of SPP 1106 ICDP: Infrastructure Area - International Continental Drilling Program (ICDP)
project management
Daniel Weidendorfer
funding period
2023 - 2026
support program
DFG research grant SBH 518061393 as part of SPP 1006
employees
Carsten Jentzsch
CYBERSHAKE - CyberShake and SeisSol for physics-based simulations of fault ruptures and ground motions at the eastern edge of the Adriatic Plate using supercomputing
Part of SPP 2497: Geohazards and Deformation of Lithospheric Plates: The Eastern Continental Margin of the Adriatic Plate (DEFORM)
project management
Claudia April
funding period
2026 - 2029
support program
DFG research grant SBH 560293909 as part of SPP 2497
jointly responsible
Heiner Igel
Collision to subduction; From the Dinarides-Hellenides to ocean-continent transition at the Kefalonia Transform Fault System – a two-phase 'Large-N' Exp
Part of SPP 2497: Geohazards and Deformation of Lithospheric Plates: The Eastern Continental Margin of the Adriatic Plate (DEFORM)
project management
Beth Kale
funding period
2026 - 2029
support program
DFG research grant SBH 560303125 as part of SPP 2497
KYMA - A multiscale, self-consistent framework for tsunami and earthquake modeling of the Kefalonia fault system using supercomputing and machine learning: Towards physics-based tsunami hazard assessment, urgent response, and new tools.
Part of SPP 2497: Geohazards and Deformation of Lithospheric Plates: The Eastern Continental Margin of the Adriatic Plate (DEFORM)
project management
Thomas Ulrich
funding period
2026 - 2029
support program
DFG research grant SBH 560284584 as part of SPP 2497
High-energy ions in space
project management
Elena Kronberg
funding period
2023 - 2026
funding line
DFG Heisenberg Grant 516641019
Investigation of the Kefalonia fault using seismic wavefield analyses: seismicity, amphibious arrays, local gradients, and rotations (KAROS)
Part of SPP 2497: Geohazards and deformation of lithospheric plates: the eastern continental margin of the Adriatic Plate (DEFORM)
project management
Felix Bernauer, Joachim Wassermann, and others
funding period
2026 - 2029
support program
DFG research grant SBH 560302439 as part of SPP 2497
staff
Energy input into the ionosphere/thermosphere from the magnetic tail
Part of FOR 5405: Magnetosphere, ionosphere, plasmasphere, and thermosphere as a coupled system (MIPT)
project management
Elena Kronberg
funding period
2024 - 2028
support program
Project 462853228 in the DFG Research Group FOR 5405 (MIPT)
employees
Simon Mischel
Electrons from the plasma layer and their effects on ring current, ionosphere, and thermosphere dynamics
Part of FOR 5405 MIPT
project management
Elena Kronberg
funding period
2024 - 2028
support program
Project 462853228 in the DFG Research Group FOR 5405 MIPT
employees
Dmitrii Gurev
Geophysical modeling of vertical motion processes using geodetic and geological observations as boundary conditions
Part of GRK 2698 UPLIFT
project management
Hans-Peter Bunge,
Stuart Gilder,
Heiner Igel,
Anke Friedrich,
and others
funding period
2022 - 2026
support program
Graduate College GRK 2698 UPLIFT 440512084
employees
Dieke Gerritsen
Ricardo Shyu
Spatio-temporal monitoring of permafrost at the Zugspitze (Germany) using seismic interferometry and wave field gradients
project management
Fabian Lindner
funding period
2021 - 2025
support program
DFG Research Grant SBH 464282872
Unraveling the skeleton-based killifish fossil record from Eurasia
project management
Bettina Reichenbacher
funding period
2022 - 2025
support program
DFG Research Grant SBH 514821779
employees
Andrea Herbert Mainero
Tomography of near-surface subsurface on planetary objects using adaptive networks
project management
Heiner Igel
funding period
2023 - 2026
support program
DFG Research Grant SBH 517291159
employees
Paleomagnetism of Tertiary volcanic rocks from Germany
subproject management
Florian Lhuillier
funding period
2023 - 2026
support program
DFG Research Grant SBH 517539177
employees
Sandra Hahn
Yuchen Chi
The influence of active tectonic structures on geohazards and ecosystem dynamics in the Mara catchment area, Tanzania
project management
Simon Kübler
funding period
2024 - 2027
support program
DFG Research Grant SBH 540549900
employees
Purohit Chintan
A new paleontological and evolutionary context for the diversity of today's European Gobiidae
project management
Bettina Reichenbacher
funding period
2024 - 2027
support program
DFG Research Grant SBH 544460165
employees
Elena Bauer
PYTON: Analysis of textures of pyroclastic samples to understand volcanic eruption behavior
project management
Ulrich Küppers
funding period
2024 - 2027
support program
DFG Research Grant SBH 541925548
employees
Carolina Figueiredo
Identification, targeted extraction, and determination of the origin of magnetic micro- and nanoparticles in fine dust
project management
Stuart Gilder
Claudia Trepmann
funding period
2024 - 2027
support program
DFG Research Grant SBH 533425261
employees
Felix Ostermeier
ChemTrail – Sensory stimulation to accelerate the development of fish communities on destroyed coral reefs
project management
Gerrit Nanninga
funding period
2024 - 2027
support program
DFG Research Grant SBH 544382465
Researching the origin of magnetite in the human brain
project management
Stuart Gilder
funding period
2022 - 2025
support program
DFG Research Grant SBH 470880236
employees
Leon Kaub
Comparative study of carbon in natural and synthetic titanates
project management
Melanie Kaliwoda
funding period
2024 - 2027
support program
DFG Research Grant SBH 454774606
employees
Fabio Joseph
Understanding the properties of chorus waves in Earth's inner magnetosphere and their effects on electrons in the Van Allen radiation belts
project management
Stuart Gilder
funding period
2024 - 2027
support program
DFG Research Grant SBH 520916080
employees
Artem Smirnov
Testing the habitability of alkaline hydrothermal vents in a simulated Hadean ocean environment
project management
William Orsi
funding period
2023 - 2026
support program
DFG Research Grant SBH 514893408
employees
Vanessa Helmbrecht
Characterization of the deformation of the East Adriatic Plate through improved resolution of 3D tomography and earthquake moment tensors under
project management
Joachim Wassermann
funding period
2022 - 2025
support program
DFG Research Grant SBH 498815186
Rapid removal of sulfur dioxide during explosive volcanic eruptions
project management
Yan Lavallée, Jeremie Vasseur
funding period
2025 - 2027
support program
DFG Research Grant SBH 540863172
employees
Iphigenia Anagnostopoulos
Geotectonic vs. anthropogenic influences of environmental changes in the Naivasha and Elmenteita lake basins (East Africa)
project management
Simon Kübler
funding period
2024 - 2027
support program
DFG Research Grant SBH 547402363
HYPO-TZ - Generation and verification of hypothetical structures of the seismic transition zone in the Earth's mantle
project management
Bernhard Schuberth
funding period
2024–2027 (Phase 1: 2019–2024)
support program
DFG Research Grant SBH 433009203
employees
Gabriel Robl
Taxophylogeny of calcareous sponges (TAXOCALC)
project management
Oliver Voigt, Gert Wörheide
funding period
2025 - 2028
support program
DFG Research Grant 559126114
Long-term cooling-induced volcanic instability
project management
Jackie Kendrick
funding period
2025 - 2028
support program
DFG Research Grant 555278243
employees
Mathieu Colombier
co-responsible persons
Janine Birnbaum, Yan Lavallée

Projects funded by the federal and state governments

Research funding from the federal and state governments

ReMol - Reservoir model of the Molasse Basin
project manager
Joachim Wassermann
funding period
2024 - 2027
sponsored by
StMWi - Bavarian State Ministry of Economic Affairs, Regional Development, and Energy
employees
Xinyu Jiang
CoMPS
CoMPS: Multiphysics simulations for geodynamics on heterogeneous exascale supercomputers
project manager
Marcus Mohr
funding period
2022 - 2025
sponsored by
BMFTR - Federal Ministry of Research, Technology, and Space: New Methods and Technologies for Exascale High-Performance Computing (SCALEXA)
Project Structural Geology and Volcanism in the Bavarian Basement (STRUCTIV)
project manager
Anke Friedrich
funding period
2022 - 2026
sponsored by
LFU - Bavarian State Office for the Environment, financed by StMUV - Bavarian State Ministry for the Environment and Consumer Protection
employees
Alina Ludat
GPU Performance and Feature Enhancement of the Earthquake Cycle Simulation Software Tandem
Competence Network for Scientific High Performance Computing in Bavaria (KONWIHR)
project management
Alice Gabriel
funding period
sponsored by
StMWK - Bavarian State Ministry of Science and the Arts
employees
Piyush Karki
Geothermal Energy Alliance Bavaria
project manager
Joachim Wassermann
funding period
2025 -
sponsored by
StMWK - Bavarian State Ministry of Science and the Arts
ecoBay – Robotics and genetic monitoring for early diagnosis of biodiversity in Bavarian lakes.
project manager
Gert Wörheide
funding period
2026 - 2030
sponsored by
StMWK - Bavarian State Ministry of Science and the Arts as part of the Bavarian Network for Climate Research 2 (bayklif2)
ecoBay – Robotics and genetic monitoring for early diagnosis of biodiversity in Bavarian lakes.
project manager
Gert Wörheide
funding period
2026 - 2030
sponsored by
StMWK - Bavarian State Ministry of Science and the Arts as part of the Bavarian Network for Climate Research 2 (bayklif2)

Other projects

Other projects funded by various sponsors

ecoBay – Robotics and genetic monitoring for early diagnosis of biodiversity in Bavarian lakes.
project manager
Gert Wörheide
funding period
2026 - 2030
sponsored by
StMWK - Bavarian State Ministry of Science and the Arts as part of the Bavarian Network for Climate Research 2 (bayklif2)
Krafla Magma Testbed
Project Manager
Yan Lavallée
Funding period
2021-2027
Sponsored by
International Continental Drilling Program (ICDP)
ODIN - Optical Detection Interferometry
project manager
Felix Bernauer
funding period
2025 - 2026
project partners
MAÅGM
sponsored by
ESA Invitation to Tender - ITT "Ultra-high performance gyroscope for future X-ray interferometer missions"
employees
Andreas Brotzer
ODIN - Optical Detection Interferometry
project manager
Felix Bernauer
funding period
2025 - 2026
project partners
MAÅGM
sponsored by
ESA Invitation to Tender - ITT "Ultra-high performance gyroscope for future X-ray interferometer missions"
employees
Andreas Brotzer
Population genomics of the endemic Red Sea sponge Diacarnus erythraenus: implications for bioproduct discovery and holobiont resilience to changing environments (GEDIS)
project manager
Gert Wörheide
funding period
2024 - 2026
sponsored by
LMU-TAU Research Cooperation Program (LMU Excellence Strategy)
Ecological risk management in the genomic era – early detection and genetic mapping of the keystone Red Sea corallivore Crown-of-Thorns seastars (GENSTAR)
project manager
Gert Wörheide
funding period
2026
sponsored by
LMU-TAU Research Cooperation Program (LMU Excellence Strategy)

Completed projects

Past and completed projects

Transient magma permeability and gas flow: a combined experimental and theoretical model
project manager
Yan Lavallée
funding period
2022 - 2025
sponsored by
NERC - Research Grant NE/T007796/2
From genomes to macroevolution: Development of phylogenetic methods for gene tree, species tree, and divergence rate estimation
project management
Sebastian Höhna
funding period
2018 - 2025
support program
DFG Emmy Noether Junior Research Groups ENP 401011686
employees
Wenjie Zhu
Research into the filtration capacity of common metal hydroxide foams and special residues using analytical methods, and development of a process for the phase conversion of hydroxides into oxides
ZIM - Central Innovation Program for SMEs
project management
Soraya Heuss-Assbichler
funding period
project partners
sponsored by
BMWK - Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Protection of the Federal Republic of Germany
employees