Research Profile
The research profile of the WWU Münster is marked by a considerable number of research focal points of proven excellence – in the humanities (including the Theological Faculties), law, business administration, natural sciences, mathematics and medicine.
Cluster of Excellence | Collaborative Research Centres (SFB) | Priority Programmes | Groups of Young Academics |
Post graduate programme | Research Centres and Academic Institutions
Cluster of Excellence
Collaborative Research Centres (SFB)
- Extracellular matrix: biogenesis, assembly and cellular interactions (SFB 492)
- Symbolic communication and social Value systems from the Middle Ages to the French Revolution (SFB 496)
- Molecular cell dynamics: intracellular and cellular migration (SFB 629)
- Molecular Cardiovascular Imaging (MoBil) - from Mice to Men (SFB 656)
- Synergetic Effects in Chemistry - From Additivity towards Cooperativity (SFB
858)
- Furcht,
Angst und Angsterkrankungen (SFB-Transregio 58)
- Multilevel Molecular Assemblies - Structure, Dynamics and Functions (SFB-Transregio 61)
- Mesial Temporal Lobe Epilepsies (SFB-Transregio 3)
(Speaker: Professor Dr. Christian Steinhäuser, University of Bonn)
Priority Programmes
- Global Differential Geometry
- Host-Parasite Coevolution - Rapid Reciprocal Adaptation and its Genetic Basis
- Science and the General Public: Understanding Fragile and Conflicting Scientific Evidence
- The First 10 Million Years of the Solar System - a Planetary Materials Approach
Groups of Young Academics
- Growth of proto-planetary bodies
- European civil societies and multilevel governance
- Reliability of encoding and the processing of visual motion information
- Biological structures and processes on the nanoscale
- Alexandrov geometry and its applications
- Norm and Narrativity in Ancient Civilisations
Post graduate programme
- Social symbolism in the Middle Ages
- Analytical topology and metageometry
- Molecular bases of dynamic cellular processes
- Knowledge Acquisition and Knowledge Exchange with New Media (Virtual post graduate programme)
- Molecular interactions of pathogenous with biotic and abiotic surfaces
- Civilian social processes of communication from the 19th century until presence in Germany and the Netherlands
International Research Training Groups
- Complex Functional Systems in Chemistry: Design, Development and Applications,
Münster - Nagoya (Japan) - Generation of Supramolecular Functional Cavities -
Container Molecules, Macrocycles and Related Compounds
Münster - Amsterdam/Leiden (Netherlands) - Semantic Integration of Geospatial Information
Münster - Bremen - Buffalo (USA)
Graduate Schools
- International NRW Graduate School of Chemistry
- Graduate School of Politics
- Graduate School Practices of Literature
Research Centres and Academic Institutions
- CeNoS - Center for Nonlinear Science
- Centre for Environmental Research
- Centre for the History and Culture of the Eastern Mediterranean
- Centre for Netherlandic Studies
- Centre for Religious Studies
- Centre for Nanotechnology - CeNTech
- European Institute of Molecular Imaging
- European Research Center for Information Systems (ERCIS)
- FOKUS - The Interdisciplinary Research Center for Cooperative Functional Systems
- Institute for Research on the Early Middle Ages
- Interdisciplinary Centre for Electronic Microscopy and Microanalysis, ICEM
- International Centre for Talent Research
- International Centre for German-Russian Legal Studies
- Language Centre
- Max Planck Institute for Molecular Biomedicine
- Science Network for Water
- Teacher Training Centre
