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).



– 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: Natriumionenleitung und Speicherung in anorganisch/organischen Festkörpern (DFG)
Cooperation partner: Prof. Payam Kaghazchi, Forschungszentrum
– 2022-2025: KAROFEST (coordinator, joint project with JLU Giessen and WWU Münster)
– 2021-2024: DIALYSORB (Joint project with BAM and TU Berlin)
– 2021-2023: 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
– 2020-2024: ERC Consolidator Grant (SEED)
– 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)