Supported projects since January 2021

Imaging the brain in action – establishing tools for the large-scale investigation of sensorimotor processing in behaving animals

Dr. Jan M. Ache
University of Würzburg
Biozentrum Universität Würzburg

Prof. Dr. Mark Frye
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
Department of Integrative Biology and Physiology


Hardware-Assisted Secure Distributed Transaction Processing

Prof. Dr. Pramod Bhatotia
Technische Universität München
Chair for Decentralized Systems Engineering at the Informatics Department

Prof. Dr. Natacha Crooks
University of California, Berkeley
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences


Formation Dynamics of Structurally Complex Chiral Hybrid Halide Perovskites for Efficient Sustainable Energy Applications

Dr. Felix Deschler
Technische Universität München
Walter Schottky Institute Center for Nanotechnology and Nanomaterials

Dr. Carolin M Sutter-Fella
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Chemical Sciences Division


PRIMAL: Privacy-Preserving Federated Machine Learning

Prof. Dr. Alexandra Dmitrienko
University of Würzburg
Institute of Computer Science II

Prof. Dr. Farinaz Koushanfar
University of California, San Diego
Jacobs School of Engineering


Ultrafast “fluid-to-solid” transitions in concentrated suspensions

Prof. Dr. Torben Gädt
Technische Universität München
Lehrstuhl für Bauchemie - Fakultät Chemie

Prof. Dr. Gaurav N. Sant
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
Samueli School of Engineering


Complementary structural measurements for organic thin films

Prof. Dr. Eva Herzig
University of Bayreuth

Dr. Chenhui Zhu
University of California, Berkeley
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Advanced Light Source


Next Generation Tools for Rational Metabolic Engineering

Prof. Andreas Kremling
Technische Universität München
Department of Mechanical Engineering

Prof. Michael A. Savageau
University of California, Davis
Department of Microbiology & Molecular Genetics


In2O3/Pd(111) Catalysed CO2 Hydrogenation: Observation of In situ Surface Reconstruction

Prof. Dr. Barbara A. J. Lechner
Technische Universität München
Depatment Chemie

Dr. Monika Blum
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Advanced Light Source


AI in DH: Designing and Developing Machine Learning Tools for the (Digital) Humanities

Prof. Dr. Andreas Maier
Friedrich-Alexander-University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
Computer Science Department 5 - Pattern Recognition Lab

Prof. Dr. Peter Bell
Friedrich-Alexander-University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
Philosophische Fakultät - Kunstgeschichte

Prof. Dr. Fabian Offert
University of California, Santa Barbara
Humanities and Fine Arts


Deep learning reconstruction with known operators for high-resolution CT

Prof. Dr. Andreas Maier
Friedrich-Alexander-University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
Computer Science Department 5 - Pattern Recognition Lab

Prof. Dr. Adam Wang
Stanford University
Radiological Sciences Laboratory


AI-augmented Cloud Tomography for next-generation Remote Sensing of Cloud Properties to Improve Short-Term Solar Energy Forecasting

Prof. Dr. Bernhard Mayer
Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich
Lehrstuhl für Experimentelle Meteorologie

Prof. Dr. Katherine L. Bouman
California Institute of Technology, Pasadena (CALTECH)
Department of Computing and Mathematical Sciences


Enhancing Safe Predictive Control with Learning-based Methods for Automated Vehicles

PD Dr.-Ing. habil. Dirk Wollherr
Technische Universität München
Chair of Automatic Control Engineering

Prof. Dr. Francesco Borrelli
University of California, Berkeley
Department of Mechanical Engineering


Endowing Artificial Intelligence with Control-Theoretic Guarantees: Data-Based Optimization in Real Time for Dynamic Systems

Prof. Dr. Enrique Zuazua
Friedrich-Alexander-University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
Department of Mathematics, Chair for Dynamics, Control

Prof. Dr. Miroslav Krstic
University of California, San Diego
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering