Constructor University
School of Science
Department of Physics and Earth Sciences
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Campus Ring 1
28759 Bremen
Deutschland
GERiT
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28759 Bremen
Projects
Heisenberg Fellowships
Completed projects
Biologische Meereskunde
(Applicant
Thomsen, Laurenz
)
Physik
(Applicant
Schupp, Peter
)
Physikalische Chemie
(Applicant
Materny, Arnulf
)
Priority Programmes
Current projects
Multi-fidelity, active learning strategies for exciton transfer among adsorbed molecules
(Applicants
Kleinekathöfer, Ulrich
;
Zaspel, Peter
)
The role of fenitising fluids in the formation of Nb, Zr and REE ore deposits
(Applicants
Horn, Ingo
;
Schmidt, Christian
;
Veksler, Ph.D., Ilya
)
The role of p-T conditions, host rock lithology, phase separation, and organic compounds on metal mobility and metal sulfide deposition in spatially resolved hydrothermal vent areas
(Applicants
Kasemann, Simone A.
;
Koschinsky, Andrea
)
Completed projects
Biosignatures in precipitates and altered rocks at hydrothermal systems of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge: organic geochemistry, microbiology and petrography
(Applicants
Perner, Mirjam
;
Petersen, Sven
;
Seifert, Richard
)
Current Systems around Terrestrial Planets: EOF Analysis and Modeling
(Applicant
He, Maosheng
)
Der Chirale Metall-Isolator-Übergang in Quanten-Hall-Systemen in Abhängigkeit von Unordnung und Korrelationen
(Applicant
Kettemann, Stefan
)
Effects of time-dependent perturbations on the electron transport through single molecules
(Applicant
Kleinekathöfer, Ulrich
)
Femto-/Pikosekunden-Laseruntersuchung und -kontrolle chemischer Reaktionen einfacher Quantensysteme unter variablen Umgebungsbedingungen
(Applicant
Materny, Arnulf
)
Femtosekunden-zeitaufgelöste kohärente Vierwellenmisch-Spektroskopie zur zustandsselektiven Untersuchung molekularer Dynamik einfacher Systeme
(Applicant
Kiefer, Wolfgang
)
Gas chemistry and carbon cycling at hydrothermal systems along the Mid-Atlantic Ridge: time- and space-referenced biogeochemical and isotopic investigations
(Applicant
Seifert, Richard
)
Geomagnetic variations during periods of terrestrial magnetic field polarity reversals
(Applicant
Glaßmeier, Karl-Heinz
)
Hydrothermal Fluids at the Mid-Atlantic Ridge (15°N and 4-11°S) as Media for the Transport of Energy and Mass from the Crust into the Hydro- and Biosphere
(Applicants
Garbe-Schönberg, Carl-Dieter
;
Koschinsky, Andrea
)
Longstern study of hydrothermalism and biology at the Logatchev field, Mid-Atlantic Ridge at 15°N (revisit 2005) M64/2
(Applicant
Koschinsky, Andrea
)
Mikro- und nanostrukturierte organische Feldeffekt-Transistoren: Skalierungsverhalten und Grenzflächeneigenschaften
(Applicant
Wagner, Veit
)
Mineralogische, geochemische und biologische Untersuchungen an Hydrothermalsystemen des Mittelatlantischen Rückens zwischen 14°45`N und 15°05`N (Forschungsantrag M 60/3)
(Applicant
Koschinsky, Andrea
)
Multi-spacecraft analysis toolkit for Swarm
(Applicant
Vogt, Joachim
)
Multi-Spacecraft Investigations of Coupling at Auroral Latitudes (MuSICAL): Field-Aligned Current Energetics and Scales
(Applicant
Vogt, Joachim
)
Nonabelian structures on D-branes and M-branes
(Applicant
Schupp, Peter
)
Non-detrital Gallium and Aluminum in Early Precambrian Marine Chemical Sediments and the Potential Use of the Ga/Al Ratio as a Geochemical Proxy for Metal Sources and Relative Fluxes to the Early Ocean
(Applicant
Bau, Michael
)
Origin of coastal facies Banded Iron Formation, Barberton Greenstone Belt (3.2 Ga)
(Applicant
Köhler, Inga
)
Potential role of alkaline aqueous fluids in the formation of supergene and low-temperature hydrothermal mineralizations: experiments and natural analogues
(Applicant
Bau, Michael
)
Studies of paleomagnetospheric processes: Structure and dynamics of the geomagnetic environment in space during polarity transitions
(Applicant
Vogt, Joachim
)
Tectono-magmatic evolution and fluid geochemistry and biology in hydrothermal vent fields of the Mic-Atlantic between 4 and 11°S m (M64/1)
(Applicant
Koschinsky, Andrea
)
The Influence of Phase Separation on the Ca isotope Composition and Fluxes in Hydrothermal Systems
(Applicant
Eisenhauer, Anton
)
Triple oxygen, triple silicon, and trace elements of cherts for the reconstruction of d18O of seawater deep in time
(Applicant
Pack, Andreas
)
Research Grants
Current projects
Brownian Dynamics Simulations including Explicit Atoms for Modeling Transport through Nanopores
(Applicant
Kleinekathöfer, Ulrich
)
Computational nanopore redesign for the sensing of chiral peptide isomers
(Applicant
Kleinekathöfer, Ulrich
)
Excitation Energy Transfer in a Photosynthetic System with more than 100 Million Atoms
(Applicants
Kleinekathöfer, Ulrich
;
Zaspel, Peter
)
Graded geometry, gravity and tensor fields
(Applicant
Schupp, Peter
)
Historical and emerging contaminant trace elements and isotopes. Sources, fluxes and cycling of Pb isotopes, Pt, Tl, Te, Ag and Gd in the oceans – a contribution to GEOTRACES
(Applicants
Achterberg, Eric
;
Koschinsky, Andrea
)
Interactions of trace metals with dissolved organic matter and colloids in the Amazon and Pará River estuaries and associated plume as key processes for trace metal fluxes into the Atlantic
(Applicant
Koschinsky, Andrea
)
Molecular modeling of charge transfer in heme-containing systems: a time-dependent view
(Applicant
Kleinekathöfer, Ulrich
)
Topological Phases in Nonlinear Oscillatory Systems
(Applicant
Meyer-Ortmanns, Hildegard
)
Trace metal-Organic matter interactions in seawater: Exploring the impact of seawater chemistry on trace metal speciation in a warming and acidifying ocean.
(Applicant
Zhu, Kechen
)
Completed projects
Ab initio description of the quantum mechanics in light-harvesting complexes of purple bacteria
(Applicant
Kleinekathöfer, Ulrich
)
Biogeochemistry of trace elements in the southeast Atlantic Ocean; a German contribution to the International GEOTRACES Programme
(Applicants
Achterberg, Eric
;
Koschinsky, Andrea
)
Coupled heteroclinic networks
(Applicant
Meyer-Ortmanns, Hildegard
)
Development of a consistent thermodynamic model of trace element - organic matter interactions in the Ocean.
(Applicants
Gledhill, Martha
;
Koschinsky, Andrea
)
Die redoxabhängige Fraktionierung von Selen und Tellur in geochemischen Systemen und ihre mögliche Anwendung als Paläo-Redox-Proxy
(Applicant
Koschinsky, Andrea
)
Dynamically Generated Hierarchies in Games of Competition and the Role of Stochastic Fluctuations
(Applicant
Meyer-Ortmanns, Hildegard
)
Efficient algorithms for the simulation of the non-adiabatic exciton transfer dynamics in light-harvesting systems
(Applicants
Elstner, Marcus
;
Kleinekathöfer, Ulrich
)
Femto-/Pikosekunden-Laseruntersuchung und -kontrolle chemischer Reaktionen einfacher Quantensysteme unter variablen Umgebungsbedingungen
(Applicant
Materny, Arnulf
)
Femtosekunden zeitaufgelöste Vierwellenmisch-Techniken als Alternative zu herkömmlichen Anregungs-Abfrage-Schemata zur Analyse komplexer Moleküldynamik in der Gasphase
(Applicant
Materny, Arnulf
)
Frequency-resolved nonlinear spectroscopy with spectrally broad femtosecond pulses using optimal control schemes
(Applicant
Materny, Arnulf
)
Geochemistry of natural and anthropogenic rare earth elements in rivers with emphasis on the Rhine River and its tributaries
(Applicant
Bau, Michael
)
Gravitation und nichtkommutative Raum-Zeit Strukturen
(Applicant
Schupp, Peter
)
Hierarchische Netzwerke: Dynamik und Evolution
(Applicant
Meyer-Ortmanns, Hildegard
)
Influence of hydroxamate siderophores on redox-sensitive trace elements and their isotopes and their relevance for the application of redox proxies in paleo-climate reconstruction studies
(Applicants
Bau, Michael
;
Weyer, Ph.D., Stefan
)
Input, particle reactivity, and (bio)geochemical cycling of the transition metals from subgroups IV, V, and VI (Ti-Zr-Hf, V-Nb-Ta, Cr-Mo-W) in the Atlantic
(Applicant
Koschinsky, Andrea
)
Investigating biomass - adsorbent bead interactions from real-life EBA by AFM forcedistance measurements and by DLVO theories.
(Applicants
Fernández-Lahore, Hector Marcelo
;
Fritz, Jürgen
)
Investigation of the energetic and dynamic properties of the electronic enhancement mechanism of the surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS)
(Applicant
Materny, Arnulf
)
Ion and antibiotics transport through the phosphate specific outer membrane porins OprP and OprO
(Applicants
Benz, Roland
;
Kleinekathöfer, Ulrich
)
Itinerant Spin-Dynamics in Structures of Reduced Dimensionality
(Applicant
Kettemann, Stefan
)
Mass Transport Models on Networks
(Applicants
Janke, Wolfhard
;
Meyer-Ortmanns, Hildegard
)
Molecular modeling of spectroscopy and quantum phenomena in light-harvesting complexes
(Applicant
Kleinekathöfer, Ulrich
)
Nichtlineare Vierwellenmischspektroskopie mit Femtosekunden-Laserpulsen im optischen Nahfeld
(Applicant
Materny, Arnulf
)
On the Role of Frustration in Couplex Dynamical Systems
(Applicant
Meyer-Ortmanns, Hildegard
)
Physical Aging in Oscillatory and Excitable Systems
(Applicant
Meyer-Ortmanns, Hildegard
)
Rare earth elements and yttrium (REY) in glacial meltwaters and their potential impact on the REY distribution in Modern and Precambrian seawater
(Applicant
Bau, Michael
)
Riverine fluxes of high field strength elements Zr, Hf, Nb, Ta into the oceans and their impact on the Hf isotopic composition of seawater
(Applicant
Schmidt, Katja
)
Selective Passivation of Electrical Defects in Metal Oxides
(Applicants
Röschenthaler, Gerd-Volker
;
Wagner, Veit
)
Sequestration of phytochemicals by leaf beetles: Selective transport proteins and their influence on diversification processes in plant-herbivore interactions
(Applicant
Burse, Antje
)
Simulation of ion transport and substrate translocation through nanopores
(Applicant
Kleinekathöfer, Ulrich
)
The CME source region in LOFAR related simulations: Numerical studies of Coronal Mass Ejections to prepare observations of the LOw Frequency ARay
(Applicant
Vogt, Joachim
)
Thermodynamics and Dynamics of Disordered Quantum Spin Systems with Long Range Interactions
(Applicant
Kettemann, Stefan
)
Time-dependent description of charge transport in molecular wires: bottom-up-approach
(Applicants
Elstner, Marcus
;
Frauenheim, Thomas
;
Kleinekathöfer, Ulrich
)
Research Fellowships
Completed projects
Investigation of reductive chromium removal and associated stable isotope fractionation within the Oxygen Minimum Zone offshore Peru
(Applicant
Nasemann, Philipp
)
Major Research Instrumentation
Completed projects
Compute cluster for scientific computing
Collaborative Research Centres
Completed projects
Quantenphasenübergänge durch Wechselspiel von Kondo-Effekt und Superaustauschwechselwirkung in magnetischen Clustern und Spinketten
(Project Heads
Ginzburg, Alexander
;
Kettemann, Stefan
;
Lichtenstein, Alexander
)
Ramanspektroskopie an Nanostrukturen
(Project Heads
Kiefer, Wolfgang
;
Materny, Arnulf
;
Schmidt, Georg
)
Spin-Bahn-Wechselwirkung und magnetische Streuung im Elektronentransport in Quantensystemen reduzierter Dimensionalität
(Project Heads
Kettemann, Stefan
;
Kramer, Bernhard
)
Temperature and quantum fluctuations in magnetic nanoparticles
(Project Heads
Kettemann, Stefan
;
Potthoff, Michael
;
Vedmedenko, Elena
)
Research Training Groups
Completed projects
GRK 690: Charge Density: Theory and Experiment
(Spokesperson
Engels, Bernd
)
GRK 1620: Models of Gravity
(Spokespersons
Kunz-Drolshagen, Jutta
;
Lämmerzahl, Claus
)
GRK 2247: Quantum Mechanical Materials Modelling - QM³
(Spokesperson
Frauenheim, Thomas
)
Clusters of Excellence
Completed projects
EXC 309: The Ocean in the Earth System
(Spokesperson
Schulz, Michael
)
Clusters of Excellence (ExStra)
Current projects
EXC 2077: The Ocean Floor – Earth’s Uncharted Interface
(Spokespersons
Dubilier, Nicole
;
Hinrichs, Kai-Uwe
;
Pälike, Ph.D., Heiko
;
Schulz, Michael
)
