MAX-PLANCK-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FORDERUNG DER WISSENSCHAFTEN EV

Forschungsprojekte

• Machine-Assisted Teaching for Open-Ended Problem Solving: Foundations and Applications Computational thinking and problem solving skills are essential for everyone in the 21st century, both for st…
• Increasing Self-Knowledge to Promote Moral Behavior The functioning of societies and the quality of interpersonal relationships heavily depend on moral behaviors…
• Forest vulnerability to compound extremes and disturbances in a changing climate Forests play a crucial role not only in providing breathable oxygen, supporting biodiversity and regulating w…
• Uncovering the core dimensions of visual object representations Our ability to interact with our visual world is a remarkable feat: Despite drastic changes in their visual a…
• Resolving magnetic ORIGINs of the hot solar atmosphere The outer atmosphere of the Sun, the corona, is a unique plasma laboratory. It provides key insights into fun…
• Unravelling the Evolution of Complexes with Ancestral Sequence Reconstruction Almost all proteins perform their functions as part of protein complexes. These assemblies are intricate and…
• Neural circuits for social communication The main objective of this proposal is to understand how vocal communication is used to organize social group…
• Engineering vasoactive probes for brain-wide imaging of molecular signaling Brain function depends on spatiotemporally defined brain-wide signaling via molecules such as neurotransmitte…
• Elucidating and targeting the mechanisms encoded in the genome of long-lived individuals to improve healthy ageing Advancing age is the major risk factor for many serious illnesses, including cancer, cardiovascular disease,…
• The basic principles of polyploidy in plants and animals Many eukaryotes have more than two sets of chromosomes due to whole-genome duplication (WGD) and are called p…
• The (Mis)Perception of Economic Inequality: The Impact of Welfare State Institutions on Social Perception and Preference Formation Aim: PERGAP aims to advance knowledge on the societal causes leading to the (mis)perception of economic inequ…
• Island ecosystem ecology from deep prehistory to the Anthropocene Humans are fragmenting ecosystems into habitat 'islands', causing an unprecedented global collapse of large m…