National Programs (Selection)

• Risk Management of Extreme Flood Events
• Kontinentales Tiefbohrprogramm der BRD
• Dynamics of Sedimentary Systems under Varying Stress Regimes: The Example of the Central European Basin System
• Climate and Weather of the Sun-Earth-System (CAWSES)
• Synthesis, 'in situ' characterisation and quantum mechanical modelling of Earth Materials, oxides, carbides and nitrides at extremely high pressures and temperatures
• Mass Transport and Mass Distribution in the Earth System
• Integrierte Analyse zwischeneiszeitlicher Klimadynamik (Interdynamik)
• Atmospheric and Earth system research with the "High Altitude and Long Range Research Aircraft" (HALO)
• Earth Rotation and Global Dynamic Processes
• Rift Dynamics, Uplift and Climate Change in Equatorial Africa: Interdisciplinary Research linking Asthenospere, Lithosphere, Biosphere and Atmosphere
• Nanoscale Processes and Geomaterials Properties
• Stress field development and stress transfer in volcanic regions

Collaborative Research Centres
 

• SFB Transregio 38 - Strukturen und Prozesse der initialen Ökosystementwicklung in einem künstlichen Wassereinzugsgebiet

Graduate schools
 

• Graduate school Metrik - Model-Based Development of Technologies for Self-Organizing Decentralized Information Systems in Disaster Management
• Graduate school 1364 - Interctions between tectonics, climate and biosphere in the African-Asian monsoonal region