Supported projects since July 2016

Novel HIV-1 Entry Inhibitors derived from Synthetic Peptide Combinatorial Libraries

Prof. Dr. Jutta Eichler
Friedrich-Alexander-University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
Department Chemie und Pharmazie

Dr. Clemencia Pinilla
Torrey Pines Institute for Molecular Studies


Freeze casting of porous ceramics

Dr. Tobias Fey
Friedrich-Alexander-University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
Lehrstuhl für Werkstoffwissenschaften (Glas und Keramik)

Prof. Dr. Katherine Faber
California Institute of Technology, Pasadena (CALTECH)
Dept. Applied Physics and Materials Science


Soil carbon sequestration and floodplain restoration as strategies for climate change mitigation

Prof. Dr. Peter Fiener
University of Augsburg
Institut für Geographie

Prof. Dr. David R. Smart
University of California, Davis
Department of Viticulture and Enology

Dr. Kristin Steger
University of California, Davis
Department of Viticulture and Enology


Monolithic semiconductor nanolasers integrated on a silicon nanophotonic platform

Prof. Dr. Jonathan Finley
Technische Universität München
Walter Schottky Institut

Dr. Michael Kaniber
Technische Universität München
Walter Schottky Institut

Prof. Dr. Constance Chang-Hasnain
University of California, Berkeley
EECS - Electrical Engineering and Computer Science


INTERMUDE (INTERactive Multi-Display Environments)

Dr. Jens Grubert
University of Passau

Prof. Dr. Aditi Majumder
University of California, Irvine
Department of Computer Science


Spectroscopy of doped layered nanoscale semiconductors

Prof. Dr. Tobias Hertel
University of Würzburg
Institute of Physical Chemistry

Prof. Dr. Tony F. Heinz
Stanford University
Department of Applied Physics


3D-Printing of Concrete Structures

Dr.-Ing. Dirk Lowke
Technische Universität München
Centre for Building Materials

Prof. Dr. Ronald Rael

College of Environmental Design


Image-based personalized modelling of multiple myeloma

Prof. Dr. Bjoern Menze
Technische Universität München
Informatics, Medicine

Prof. Dr. John Lowengrub
University of California, Irvine
Mathematics, Bioengineering


Webly-Supervised Deep Learning for Large-Scale Human Activity Recognition in Videos

Prof. Dr. Nassir Navab
Technische Universität München
Lehrstuhl für Informatik 16 - Informatikanwendungen in der Medizin

Prof. Dr. Silvio Savarese
Stanford University
Department of Computer Science


Probing cholera infection on a chip

Prof. Dr. Kai Papenfort
Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich
Biocenter, Microbiology

Prof. Dr. Albert Siryaporn
University of California, Irvine
Department of Physics


Application of electrospinning techniques on new battery polymers

Prof. Dr. Karl Heinz Pettinger
University of applied sciences Landshut
Technologiezentrum Energie

Prof. Dr. Keith Forward
California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
College of Engineering


Energetics of dislocation microstructures in metals and semiconductors

Dr. Stefan Sandfeld
Friedrich-Alexander-University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
Department of Materials Science

Dr. Giacomo Po
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering


Microfluidics for directed evolution of magnetotactic bacteria

Prof. Dr. Dirk Schüler
University of Bayreuth
Department of Microbiology

Prof. Dr. Dino Di Carlo
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
Department of Bioengineering


Computational Investigation of Cellular Heterogeneity in the Gal pathway in S. Cerevisiae

Prof. Dr. Fabian Theis
Technische Universität München
Dept. of Mathematik - Institute of computational biology (ICB)

Prof. Dr. Hana El-Samad
University of California, San Francisco
Dept of Biochemistry


Patterning gene expression with active fluctuations induced by surface acoustic waves

Prof. Dr. Christoph Westerhausen
University of Augsburg
Lehrstuhl für Experimentalphysik I

Dr. Omar A. Saleh
University of California, Santa Barbara
Materials Department


Large-Scale Problems in Earth Observation

Prof. Dr. Xiaoxiang Zhu
Technische Universität München
German Aerospace Center / Signal Processing in Earth Observation

Prof. Dr. Wotao Yin
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
Department of Mathematics