U Bremen Excellence Chairs
Since 2019 international experts conduct research and build up their own research groups as 'U Bremen Excellence Chairs' together with university colleagues within U Bremen Excellence Chairs program.
Seven Excellence Chairs started their research projects in January 2019, three of them at MARUM within the Cluster of Excellence „The Ocean Floor – Earth‘s Uncharted Interface”. Four more Excellence Chairs were assigned in January 2020 at the university.
The U Bremen Excellence Chairs program is funded with 1 mio euros annualy within the scope of the Excellence Strategy of Germany’s federal and state governments. The funds were granted to the university in addition to MARUM’s successfull cluster of excellence application.
The program underscores the strong international networking of existing research strengths and enhances their visibility. It promotes the University of Bremen’s internationalisation efforts on a high level. Excellence Chairs are primarily established in the University’s High-Profile Areas and further areas of high potential.
Chair-holders are outstanding experts in their disciplines and represent bridgeheads for collaboration with leading institutions worldwide. As ‘U Bremen Excellence Chairs‘ they are regularly present at the University of Bremen over a period of four years and establish their own working groups here. They are closely integrated in the University’s subject areas and are eligible to supervise doctoral candidates.

U Bremen Excellence Chairs
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Name (alphabet. order) | Home institution | Research at U Bremen | in collaboration with | host | Period of time |
University of Crete | Impacts of emissions and feedbacks to the Earth system | Faculty 01 (Environmental Physics) | Mihalis Vrekoussis | 2020-2023 | |
National University Singapore | Selective Auditory Attention | Minds, Media, Machines | Tanja Schultz | 2019-2022 | |
École Fédérale Polytechnique de Lausanne | New materials on demand | MAPEX | Lucio Colombi Ciacchi | 2019-2022 | |
Utrecht University | Marine carbon cycle and carbon transport | MARUM | Kai-Uwe Hinrichs | 2019-2022 | |
California Institute of Technology | Microbial communities | MARUM | Kai-Uwe Hinrichs | 2019-2022 | |
Aalborg University | Wireless space communication | Faculty 01 (Communications Engineering) | Armin Dekorsy | 2019-2022 | |
Institute for Human Sciences, Vienna/Graduate Institute for International and Development Studies, Geneva | Soft Authoritarianisms | WoC | Michi Knecht, Ingo Warnke | 2019-2022 | |
University College London | Human-Computer-Interactions: AI in healthcare | MMM | Johannes Schöning | 2020-2023 | |
Harvard Medical School/Boston Children’s Hospital | Mitochondrial dynamics | Faculty 02 (Molecular Genetics) | Rita Groß-Hardt | 2020-2023 | |
Harvard University | Study of Social Networks | SOCIUM | Betina Hollstein | 2020-2023 | |
University of Copenhagen/University of Cambridge | Fossile DNA | MARUM | Michal Kucera | 2019-2022 |