Junior Research Groups

This page provides an overview of the junior research groups based at Universität Hamburg. Visit their webpages for more information about the individaul projects and junior research group leadership.

Emmy Noether Programme (German Research Foundation)

Emancipatio Rabbinica. The Role of Rabbinic Literature in Debates surrounding Jewish Status in the Modern Period (1600–1900) in the Italian, German, and Eastern European Contexts

Group leader: Prof. Dr. Ze’ev Strauss
Faculty of Humanities, Institute for Jewish Philosophy and Religion
Term: 2023 – 2029

Topological Quantum Field Theories in more than 3 Dimensions

Group leader: Dr. David Reutter
Faculty of Mathematics, Informatics and Natural Science, Department of Mathematics
Term: 2022 – 2028

Vertex Algebras Associated with 2- and 4-Dimensional Conformal Field Theories

Group leader: Dr. Sven Möller
Faculty of Mathematics, Informatics and Natural Science, Department of Mathematics
Term: 2022 – 2028

The Evolution of Islamic Societies (c.600-1600 CE): Algorithmic Analysis into Social History

Group leader: Dr. Maxim Romanov
Faculty of Humanities, Department of Asia-Africa Studies
Term: 2021 – 2027

Investigation of Allosteric Mechanisms by Time-Resolved Serial Synchrotron Crystallography

Group leader: Dr. Pedram Mehrabi
Faculty of Mathematics, Informatics and Natural Sciences, Department of Physics
Term: 2021 – 2027

Social Contexts of Rebellion in the Early Islamic Period (SCORE)

Group leader: Dr. Hannah-Lena Hagemann
Faculty of Humanities, Asien-Afrika-Institut
Term: 2020 – 2026

Ocean Life on the Brink: Quantifying the Collapse of Shallow Marine Ecosystems during the Permo-Triassic Climate Crisis

Group leader: Dr. William Foster
Faculty of Mathematics, Informatics and Natural Sciences, Department of Earth System Sciences
Term: 2020 – 2026

Prediction in Communication

Group leader: Dr. Helen Blank
Faculty of Medicine, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf
Term: 2020 – 2026

The role of LIN28A in brain development and pediatric brain tumors

Group leader: Prof. Dr. Julia Neumann
Faculty of Medicine, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf
Term: 2019 – 2025

Molecular Mechanisms of Membranous Nephropathy – New Avenues Towards an Individualized Therapy

Group leader: Dr. Nicola Tomas
Faculty of Medicine, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf
Term: 2018 – 2023

Searching for Displaced Signals of Naturalness

Group leader: Jun.-Prof. Dr. Gregor Kasieczka
Faculty of Mathematics, Informatics and Natural Sciences, Department of Physics
Term: 2018 – 2024

Relevance

Group leader: Dr. Stephan Krämer
Faculty of Humanities, Department of Philosophy
Term: 2018 – 2024

'Fear Profiles': Identifikation und Charakterisierung von individuellen Verläufen von Angst und Furcht

Group leader: Dr. Tina Barbara Lonsdorf
Faculty of Medicine, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf
Term: 2018 – 2023

Validating MRI-based in-vivo histology

Group leader: Dr. Siawoosh Mohammadi
Faculty of Medicine, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf
Term: 2017 – 2023

BMBF junior groups

ACCESS Institutional Barriers to Higher Education – Social Inequality, Admissions Systems and their Consequences

Group leader: Dr. Florian Hertel
Faculty of Business, Economics and Social Sciences, Department of Socioeconomics
Term: 2021 – 2026

Multiliteralität als Arbeitsmarktressource – Soziale Erwerbsbedingungen multiliteraler Kompetenzen und deren Transformierbarkeit in ökonomisches Kapital (MARE) (in German only)

Group leader: Dr. Irina Usanova
Faculty of Education, Department EW1
Term: 2021 – 2026

Secondary Use of Healthcare Data

Group leader: Dr. Sylvia Nürnberg
Faculty of Medicine, Institute for Applied Medical Informatics
Term: 2021 – 2024

Bioökonomie als gesellschaftlicher Wandel – Meat the Economy – Die Fleischindustrie als Teil der Bioökonomie: Internationalisierung, Arbeitsgeographien und hegemoniale Strategien (in German only)

Group leader: Dr. Christin Bernhold
Faculty of Mathematics, Informatics and Natural Sciences, Department of Earth System Sciences
Term: 2023 – 2028