2013 University of Tübingen One of Germany’s Universities of Excellence annual report University of Tübingen Annual Report 1 October 2012 - 30 September 2013 Published by the University President, Professor Bernd Engler Contents Foreword . 3 Sponsorship . 29 Promoting Innovative Researchers . 30 Research . 7 Latest endowed professorship . 30 Meeting the Excellence Challenge . 8 Law Faculty hosts new professorship for Crime Prevention . 30 Getting down to work . 8 Other key sponsorships . 31 Center for Integrative Neuroscience continues its work in the second round of Excellence funding . 8 Generous donation boosts research into treatment of rare diseases . 31 Graduate school professionalizes education research . 9 Table of externally funded professorships . 32 Our institutional strategy – supporting applications for research . 9 University of Tübingen Award for Gips-Schüle Foundation . 35 Rankings . 10 Networks Milestones in malaria research – Tübingen´s Institute of Tropical Medicine at work in Gabon . 10 . 37 World-Class Partnerships Collaborative research centers . 11 . 38 Redefi ning resources and their social dynamics . 11 Building international bridges . 38 Sleep – essential for memory . 12 New Korea culture center – a vote of confi dence in Tübingen´s Asian Studies . 38 DFG-backed research units and clinical research units . 14 Tübingen institute in Japan celebrates 20 years of productive collaboration . 39 Biochemists investigate messenger chemical – hope for new treatment of degenerative disorders . 14 Reinhard Frank Foundation – promoting international exchange in the sciences . 40 Fulbright Distinguished Chair program enriches American Studies in Tübingen . 40 New research projects . 15 Tübingen initiates EU project to promote transcultural Europe . 41 NeurOmics – seeking treatments for rare diseases . 15 International research presented at Humboldt Lectures . 41 Tübingen researchers involved in Human Brain Project . 15 Our partners around the world . 42 Byzantine history of the world to be made accessible . 16 Partners within Germany . 44 European Research Council Grants . 16 Research universities band together in German U15 . 44 ERC Advanced Grants for four University of Tübingen Researchers . 16 Top Mathematics professor shared with Leibniz Association´s world renowned math research institute . 44 ERC Starting Grants for Tübingen Junior Researchers . 18 Collaboration on education and new media with the Leibniz Association . 44 Senior professorships for valuable and experienced researchers . 19 Key research partners in Germany . 45 Current senior professors at the University of Tübingen . 19 Collaboration with commerce . 46 Third-party funding 2003 - 2012 . 20 Dr Boris Hofmann: The pioneer Industry on Campus junior research group leader . 46 Research in brief . 22 Bioinformatics researchers found a company providing seed analyses . 47 Sensational discoveries by Tübingen researchers . 22 Scientifi c and academic careers . 24 DFG-sponsored research training groups . 24 Ambiguity produced and received in new research training group . 25 Seeking explanations in the math of quantum systems . 25 PhD networks . 26 Research prize winners . ..