Research Areas
The Humanities/Theology
- Musicology
- Free Floater Junior Research Group Music, Conflict, and the State, Prof. M. J. Grant
- Linguistics
- Free Floater Junior Research Group Nominal Phrases in Intensional Contexts, Prof. Magdalena Schwager
- Theology/Islamic Studies
- Junior Research Group Piety and Paideia. Religious Traditions and Intellectual Culture in the World of the Roman Empire 1st - 4th century CE, Prof. Tobias Georges, Courant Research Centre Education and Religion from Early Imperial Roman Times to the Classical Period of Islam (EDRIS)
- Junior Research Group Education at the Crossroads: Pagan, Jewish, and Christian - Discourses in Late Antiquity, Prof. Ilinca Tanaseanu-Döbler, Courant Research Centre Education and Religion from Early Imperial Roman Times to the Classical Period of Islam (EDRIS)
- Junior Research Group Revelation, Reason and Identity Education in Early and Classical Islam (from the seventh to the thirteenth century CE), Prof. Jens Scheiner, Courant Research Centre Education and Religion from Early Imperial Roman Times to the Classical Period of Islam (EDRIS)
Economics
- Development Economics
- Junior Research Group Development Economics, Prof. Marcela Ibañez Diaz, Courant Research Centre Poverty, Equity and Growth in Developing Countries: Statistical Methods and Empirical Analyses
- Agricultural Economics
- Junior Research Group Agricultural Economics in Developing and Transition Countries, Prof. Xiaohua Yu, Courant Research Centre Poverty, Equity and Growth in Developing Countries: Statistical Methods and Empirical Analyses
Life Sciences
- Ecology/Biodiversity
- Free Floater Junior Research Group Biodiversity, Macroecology, and Conservational Biogeography, Prof. Holger Kreft
- Psychology/Linguistics
- Free Floater Junior Research Group Language Acquisition, Prof. Nivedita Mani
- Geobiology/Biology/Palaeontology
- Junior Research Group Geomicrobiology and Biosignatures in the Deep Biosphere, Prof. Sharmishtha Dattagupta, Courant Research Centre Geobiology – Development of Early Life and Organic-matter-controlled Rock- and Mineral-forming Processes
- Junior Research Group Evolution of the Metazoa, Prof. Daniel Jackson, Courant Research Centre Geobiology – Development of Early Life and Organic-matter-controlled Rock- and Mineral-forming Processes
- Junior Research Group Evolution of Landplants and the Development of Terrestrial Ecosysytems, Prof. Alexander Schmidt, Courant Research Centre Geobiology – Development of Early Life and Organic-matter-controlled Rock- and Mineral-forming Processes
- Biology/Psychology
- Junior Research Group Social Evolution in Primates, Prof. Julia Ostner, Courant Research Centre Evolution of Social Behaviour: Comparative Studies of Human and Non-Human Primates
Natural Sciences
- Chemistry
- Free Floater Junior Research Group Computational Chemistry and Biochemistry, Prof. Ricardo Mata
- Synthetic Biology
- Free Floater Junior Research Group Applied Synthetic Biology, Prof. Heinz Neumann
- Mathematics
- Free Floater Junior Research Group Discrete Differential Geometry, Prof. Max Wardetzky
- Junior Research Group Non-commutative Geometry and Mathematical Physics, Prof. Dorothea Bahns, Courant Research Centre Higher Order Structures in Mathematics
- Junior Research Group Tropical Algebraic Geometry, Prof. Hannah Markwig, Courant Research Centre Higher Order Structures in Mathematics
- Junior Research Group Topology and Differential Geometry, Prof. Chengchang Zhu, Courant Research Centre Higher Order Structures in Mathematics
- Physics
- Junior Research Group Nanoscale Imaging of Cellular Dynamics, Prof. Sarah Köster, Courant Research Centre Nanospectroscopy and X-Ray Imaging
- Junior Research Group Nano-Optics and Ultrafast Dynamics, Prof. Claus Ropers, Courant Research Centre Nanospectroscopy and X-Ray Imaging