Independent Research Grant

The following researchers and initiatives are funded in 2022:

1. Jan Bartsch (Mathematics and Statistics)
   Project title: A Monte Carlo framework for optimal control problems governed by multi-species plasma models
   Funding: 6.452,00 €
2. Anamaria Bentea (Linguistics)
   Project title: Gender agreement in native and L2 French processing: Effects of structure and linear distance
   Funding: 6.901,60 €
3. Saswati Ganguly (Physics)
   Project title: Statistical mechanics of non-equilibrium processes in defect-rich ordered solids
   Funding: 6.708,80 €
4. Eva Lievens (Biology)
   Project title: The effect of parasite dose on within-host dynamics: patterns and prediction through meta-analysis
   Funding: 4.966,00 €
5. Lars-Jochen Thoms (History)
   Project title: digiKON - Digital Knowledge of Science Students at University of Konstanz
   Funding: 6.933,60 €
6. Mikhail Volkov (Physics)       
   Project title: Structural dynamics of chemically engineered 2D materials
   Funding: 6.928,00 €

7. Sidney Carls-Diamante (Philosophy)
   Project title: Creative drive in bipolar disorder
   Funding: 1.500 €

The following researchers and initiatives are funded in 2021/2022:

1. Maik Bieleke (Sports Science)
   Research project: Developing and validating a scale for assessing individual differences in the inclination towards physical effort – “Need for Physical Effort” (NPE)
   Funding: 6875,7 €
    
2. Aneesh Bose (Biology/CASCB)
   Research project: Kin selection versus ecology in determining the structure of complex animal societies
   Funding: 6990,4 €
    
3. Anna Czypionka (Linguistics)
   Research project: The role of timing and inter-individual variation in NPI licensing illusions;
   Funding: 5.100 € in 2021 and 750 € in 2022
    
4. Ana Isabel del Arco Ochoa (Biology)
   Research project: Microbial-mediated protection against virus infections Funding: 6984 €
    
5. Mohsen Jenadeleh (Computer and Information Science)
   Research project: Visually lossless compression for JND-based video quality assessment using crowdsourcing
   Funding: 6791,2 €
    
6. Ana Isabel Lopez Garcia (Politics and Public Administration)
   Research project: Migration, Tax evasion and Bribery: Evidence from a Conjoint Experiment in Mexico
   Funding: 6.724 €
    

7. Elnaz Rashidian Nejad (History)
   Research project: Revisiting Firuzabad (South Fars, Iran); a complementary study of material culture and reassessment of published and unpublished material.
   Funding: 700€ for the year 2021 and 5.800 € for 2022

8. Andreas Spitz (Computer and Information Science)
   Research project: Crowdsourcing the Collection and Identification of Predatory Academic Junk Mail
   Funding: 4.550 € in 2021 and 2.366 € in 2022

The following researchers and initiatives are funded in 2021:

1. Rory Archer (History)
   Research project: Between opportunity and crises: A Oral History of Serbian labour migration to Greece (1990-2010).
   Funding: 2.340,00 euros
2. Hanja Brandl (Biology/CASCB)
   Research project: Correlating early life and present stress to differences in aggression in a group living bird, the Siberian jay
   Funding: 6.557 euros
3. Diana Galos (Sociology)
   Research project: New Tools in the HiringProcess? Social Media and Discriminationbased on Social Class
   Funding: 5.375 euros
4. Javier Martinez Canto (Politics and Public Administration)
   Research project: The political representation of left-behindplaces
   Funding: 5.324,40 euros
5. Luca Mechelli (Mathematics and Statistics)
   Research project: Efficient model order reduction for modelpredictive control of non-linearinput-output dynamical systems
   Funding: 6.200,20 euros
6. Georg Müller (Mathematics and Statistics)
   Research project: Efficient Simulation of a Spatiotemporal SIR Model
   Funding: 5.825 euros
7. Baiba Renerte (Economics)
   Research project: From Homo Economicus to Homo Prospectus: Bringing “cathedral thinking” to the boardroom
   Funding: 5.760 euros
8. Joanna Ruszkiewicz (Biology)
   Research project: NAD+supplementation in the protection against genotoxic stress in vivo
   Funding: 6.990 euros
9. Katrin Vogt (Biology)
   Research project: Deciphering the neural circuit underlying decision making in responseto conflicting cues
   Funding: 7.000 euros
10. Susanne Wisshak (Economics)
    Research project: tba
    Funding: 6.820 euros

The following researchers and initiatives were funded in 2020:

1. Liam Beiser-McGrath (Politics and Public Administration)
   Research project: The Political Economy of Technological Innovation and Climate Change
   Funding: 7.000 euros
2. Vlad Demartsev (Biology)
   Research project: Remote acoustic grooming in meerkats: selectivity of response and turn-taking efficiency as a function of social tie strength
   Funding: 3.050 euros
3. Stephanie Dimitroff (Psychology)
   Research project: The effect of early life adversity on relaxation experiences as indexed by psychophysiological reactivity
   Funding: 6.845 euros
4. Guillermo González-Rubio (Chemistry)
   Research project: Laser-Assisted Synthesis of Colloidal Alloy Nanoparticles
   Funding: 6789,85 euros
5. David Koll (Economics)
   Research project: The impact of divorce laws in the short and long run
   Funding: 6.900 euros
6. Sebastian Krapp (Mathematics)
   Research project: Analysis without the Archimedean Property
   Funding: 2.706 euros
7. Philipp M. Lutscher (Politics and Public Administration)
   Research project: Propaganda in Crisis-Ridden Autocracies
   Funding: 3.500 euros
8. Bing Ni (Chemistry)
   Research project: Transformation of amorphous metal sulfides into well-defined crystalline nanostructures via a secondary nucleation mechanism
   Funding: 6.948 euros
9. Claudia Pogoreutz (Biology)
   Research project: Characterizing antimicrobial and anti-inflammatory properties of shark skin bacterial isolates
   Funding: 6.092 euros
10. Katharina Zahner (Linguistics)
    Research project: Getting the question: How German infants acquire intonational contrasts
    Funding: 6.594 euros

The following initiatives were prolonged in 2021 due to the Corona pandemic limitations:

1. Vlad Demartsev (Biology)
   Research project: Remote acoustic grooming in meerkats: selectivity of response and turn-taking efficiency as a function of social tie strength
   Funding: 3.050 euros
2. Guillermo González-Rubio (Chemistry)
   Research project: Laser-Assisted Synthesis of Colloidal Alloy Nanoparticles
   Funding: 6789,85 euros
3. Claudia Pogoreutz (Biology)
   Research project: Characterizing antimicrobial and anti-inflammatory properties of shark skin bacterial isolates
   Funding: 6.092 euros

The following researchers and initiatives were funded in 2018:

1. ​Ariane Bertogg (History and Sociology)
   Research project: Spousal Influence on Retirement Timing in Europe
   Funding:  1,140 euros
2. Caroline Bonnes (Economics)
   Research project: Approaches to Teaching of Workplace Trainers – A Video Study
   Funding: 3,694 euros
3. Samuel Carleial (Psychology)
   Research project: Programming the Event Checklist Threats to Human Life Scale as a Smartphone and Tablet Application​
   Funding: 4,740 euros
4. M. Eugenia Delgado (Biology)
   Research project: LRH1/NF-kB Interactions and their Role in the Regulation of Intestinal Tissue Homeostasis
   Funding:  5,000 euros
5. Tim Kuhlmann (Psychology)
   Research project: Smartphone Sensor Data: What Information Does It Provide for Social Scientists?
   Funding:  4,905 euros
6. ​Javier Lazaro Tapia (Biology)
   Research project: ​Development of a System to Monitor Heart Rate, Body Temperature, Activity and Movement in Wild Hedgehogs
   Funding:  4,463 euros
7. ​Liang Li (Biology)
   Research project:​ Quantitive Analysis of Energy Cost of Schooling Fish with High Fidelity Robotic Fish Model
   Funding:  4,990 euros
8. Yanjie Liu (Biology)
   Research project: Does Artificial Light at Night Promote on Plant Invasion? ​
   Funding:  4,450 euros
9. Melanie Nagel (Politics and Public Administration)
   Research project: ​Knowledge Transfer in Climate Policy
   Funding:  2,461 euros
10. Melisa Olave (Biology)
    Research project: The Genomic Landscape of Hybridization
    ​ Funding:  4,987 euros
11. ​Mialy Razanajatovo (Biology)
    Research project: ​Is Heterospecific Pollen Transfer More Frequent between Phylogenetically Related and Functionally Similar Alien and Native Species?
    ​Funding:  5,000 euros

The following researchers and initiatives were funded in 2017:

1. Doris Forster (Law)
   Research project: The Legal Need of Publicity in Private Law
   Funding: 4,874 euros
2. Hanhe Lin (Computer and Information Science)
   Research project: Paired Comparison for Subjective IQA via Crowdsourcing
   Funding:  5,000 euros
3. Taniesha Burke (Psychology)
   Research project: Children’s Perspectives of their Covert and Overt Resistance Strategies to Parental Requests and Rules
   Funding: 3,047 euros
4. Morgane Nouvian (Biology)
   Research project: Association vs. Improved Detection: Dissecting the Mechanisms of Learning
   Funding: 4,793 euros
5. Peter Haffke (Psychology)
   Research project: On the Effects of (Deficient) Color Perception on Aesthetic Preference Judgments
   Funding: 4,322 euros
6. Cristina Ruiz Agudo (Chemistry)
   Research project: Damage to Concrete Structures Due to Sodium Carbonate Crystallization
   Funding: 4,993 euros
7. Andra Toader (Politics and Public Administration)
   Research project: Transforming Dissimilar Mental Models into Creative Outcomes Using Conceptual Combination
   Funding: 4,363 euros
8. Vlad Hosu (Computer and Information Science)
   Research project: Adaptive Crowdsourcing Strategies for Effective Quality Assessments of Large Multimedia Datasets
   Funding: 3,000 euros

The following researchers and initiatives were funded in 2017:

1. Georgiana Caltais (Computer and Information Science)
   Research project: Generation of Causes through Automata Learning (GCAL)
   Funding: 3,000 euros
2. Doris Forster (Law)
   Research project: The Legal History of Comparative Law - Reasons for Theory and Methods in Practice in Past, Present and Future
   Funding: 3,000 euros
3. Maria Hidgévi (History)
   Research project: Energy Efficiency and Mobility in Hungary 1968-1989: Knowledge Management and Business Innovation
   Funding: 2,980 euros
4. Andreas Kautt (Biology)
   Research project: Revealing Genome-Wide Divergence at the Earliest Stages of Sympatric Speciation in Midas Cichlids by Whole-Genome-Resequencing
   Funding: 3,000 euros
5. Hanhe Lin (Computer and Information Science)
   Research project: UKID: A Large-Scale Natural Image Quality Database
   Funding:  2,500 euros
6. Philip Rathgeb (Politics and Public Administration)
   Research project: When Populism meets Capitalism: The Distributive Policy Impact of the Radical Right in Europe
   Funding:  3,000 euros
7. Alexandra Zinke (Philosophy)
   Research project: Dimensions of Doubt: On Suspending Judgment
   Funding: 3,000 euros

The following researchers and initiatives were funded in 2016:

1. Hannah Burger (Biology)
   Research project: Chemical Communication and Speciation in the Bee Taxa Colletes
   Funding: 3,060 euros
2. Daniel Münch (Biology)
   Research project: Modification of Drosophila Food Selection Behavior by Modulation of Labeled Line Olfactory Sensory Neurons
   Funding: 2,976.80 euros
3. Geoffroy Aubry (Physics)
   Research project: Multiple Light Scattering in a Disordered Assembly of Monodisperse High Refracting Index Nanospheres
   Funding: 3,000 euros
4. Tina Bögel (Linguistics)
   Research project: How Frequency Influences the Strength of Prosodic Boundaries
   Funding: 2,570 euros
5. Georgiana Caltais (Computer and Information Science)
   Research project: Causality Checking in Software-Defined Networks (CSDN)
   Funding: 3,000 euros
6. Amber Makowicz (Biology)
   Research project: Mechanisms of Kin Recognition in a Unisexual Fish
   Funding: 3,000 euros
7. Verena Seibel (Sociology)
   Funding for conducting a vignette pilot study about welfare chauvinism among immigrants
   Funding: 2,878.65 euros
8. Andreas Weiler (Computer and Information Science)
   Funding for designing an evaluation toolkit for Twitter event detection techniques,
   Funding: 2,952.72 euros

The following researchers and initiatives were funded in 2015:

1. Georgiana Caltais (Computer and Information Science)
   Research project: A Process Algebraic Approach to Causality Checking (PAACC)
   Funding: 3,000 euros
2. Louis-Solal Giboin (Sports Science)
   Research project: Understanding the Neural Control of Balance
   Funding: 1,740 euros
3. Annette Hautli-Janisz (Linguistics)
   Research project: Debating in The Economist – An Automatic Discourse Analysis
   Funding: 3,000 euros
4. James Odendal (Chemistry and Physics)
   Research project: Dynamic Non-Equilibrium Self-Assembly vs. Static Self-Assembly
   Funding: 3,000 euros
5. Astrid Rohwedder (Biology)
   Research project: The Role of RNA in Memory and Learning
   Funding: 2,600 euros
6. Ioana Salvarina (Biology)
   Research project: Past Diet of African Small Mammals Revealed with Stable Isotopes on Museum Collections
   Funding: 3,000 euros
7. Gudrun Winter (Biology)
   Research project: Biochemical and Physiological Characterization of Arginine Degrading Enzymes in Arabidopsis
   Funding: 3,000 euros
8. Thomas Woehler (Sociology)
   Research project: Development of a Software Tool which Facilitates Geocoding with OSM Data
   Funding: 2,320 euros
9. Maria Zhukova (Literature)
   Research project: TV-Discourse in Film and Literature in 1960-90th in Russia
   Funding: 1,890 euros