Research Units

A Research Unit (FOR) comprises several researchers who collaborate in a specific medium-range project which, in terms of its thematic, temporal and financial scope, extends beyond the funding options available under the Individual Grants Programme or the Priority Programme of the German Research Foundation (DFG). The following Research Units are currently based at the University of Cologne:

 Faculty Management, Economics and Social Sciences

FOR 1371: Design and Behaviour – Economic Engineering of Firms and Markets
Prof. Dr. Axel Ockenfels
Department of Economics
Tel. +49 221 470-5761

FOR 1882: Psychoeconomics. Interacting Decision Processes and Their 
Consequences for Economic Performance (gemeinsam mit der Universität 
Konstanz)
Prof. Dr. Carlos Alós-Ferrer
Wirtschaftliche Staatswissenschaften
Tel.: +49-221-470 8303

 Faculty of Medicine 

Clinical Research Unit (KFO):

KFO 219: Basal-Ganglia-Cortex-Loops: Mechanisms of Pathological Interactions and Therapeutic Modulation
Prof. Dr. G. R. Fink
Clinic and Policlinic of Neurology
Tel. +49 221 478-4015

 Faculty of Arts and Humanities

FOR 1501: Resilience, Collapse and Reorganisation in the Savannahs of Eastern and Southern Africa
Prof. Dr. Michael Bollig
Institute of Ethnology
Tel. +49 221 470-5623


FOR 1063: Causation, Laws, Dispositions and Explanations at the Interface of Science and Metaphysics
Prof. Dr. A. Hüttemann
Department of Philosophy
Tel. +49 221 470-2957

 Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences

FOR 885: Neuronal Protein Turnover (in collaboration with Hamburg University)
Prof. Dr. T. Hoppe
Institute for Genetics
Tel. +49 221 470-1503

 

Subprojects

 

 Faculty of Medicine 

FOR 535: Xenotransplantation
Prof. Dr. M. Hallek
Department I of Internal Medicine
Tel. +49 221 478-4400

 

 Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences

FOR 630: Biological Function of Organometallic Compounds
Prof. Dr. H.-G. Schmalz
Institute of Organic Chemistry
Tel. +49 221 470-3063


FOR 806: Interfering with Intracellular Protein-Protein Interactions – Probing Protein Functions with Small Molecules
Prof. Dr. H.-G. Schmalz
Institute of Organic Chemistry
Tel. +49 221 470-3063

FOR 845: Self-Organized Nanostructures by Low Energy Ion Beam Erosion
Prof. Dr. Th. Michely
Institute of Physics II
Tel. +49 221 470-5829