Grants

Our research is supported by the German Research Foundation (DFG), the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), the European Research Council (ERC) and by individual scholarships. We also closely cooperate with the Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin (HZB).

– 2024-2026: ENTISE (joint project with 13 national partners under the lead of Varta AG)

– 2023-2026: Untersuchung der spontanen Wechselwirkung der Elemente Kohlenstoff und Schwefel (DFG)

Cooperation partner: Prof. Marc Armbrüster, TU Chemnitz

– 2023-2026: NASEFEST (joint project with HZB, U Münster, JLU Giessen)

– 2023-2026: KAFEBAR (joint project with U Münster, JLU Giessen and Wolfram Chemie)

– 2023-2026: NATTER (joint project with JLU Giessen, WWU Münster, HZB, FSU Jena and Heraeus)

– 2023-2026: TRANSITION_Transfer (joint project with ZSW, FSU Jena und HIU)

– 2023-2026: PCEforNB (joint project with Fraunhofer IKTS and Fraunhofer IAP)

– 2023-2025: Aufklärung von Substitutionseffekten in Na[Li1/3Mn2/3]O2 mit O3 Struktur zur Speicherung von Na in Batterien (DFG)

Cooperation partner: Prof. Payam Kaghazchi, Forschungszentrum Jülich

– 2022-2025: KAROFEST (coordinator, joint project with JLU Giessen and WWU Münster)

– 2021-2024: DIALYSORB (Joint project with BAM and TU Berlin)

– 2020-2024: ERC Consolidator Grant (SEED)

Former Grants

– 2021-2024: Na ion storage and conduction in solid-state inorganic/organic structures (SIOS, DFG-DST program)

Cooperation partner Prof. Aninda Jiban Bhattacharyya, National Center for Nanoscience and Technology, Bangalore

– 2022-2023: TOMOFestBattLab

Cooperation partner: Ingo Manke, Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin

– 2019-2022: TRANSITION (partner within a joint research project lead by HIU)

– 2019-2022: NASEBER (partner within a joint research project lead by Volkswagen)

– 2018-2021: LIBRA (Joint research projects with partners from Spain (Rojo group) and Japan (Komaba group). Funded over the EIG Concert Japan Initiative

– 2017-2022: Sodium-ion storage in carbon nanomaterials (DFG-NSFC program)

Cooperation partner Prof. Zhao, National Center for Nanoscience and Technology Beijing

– 2017 – 2020: Redoxchemie ternärer Graphitinterkalationsverbindungen (DFG) Theorie und Experiment (Projektnummer 298787956).

Cooperation partner Prof. Mollenhauer / Justus-Liebig-University Giessen

– 2016-2019: Thermodynamik und Kinetik von Konversionsreaktionen in neuen, natriumbasierten Batteriesystemen (Projektnummer 257682551)

– 2016-2019: FELIZIA (partner within a joint research project lead by BMW)