The funding includes positions for about 40 academic staff, doctoral researchers and postdocs. The scientists of the Technical University of Munich will continue their successful work together with researchers from the Max Planck Institutes for Physics, Astrophysics, and Extraterrestrial Physics, Garching, as well as the Institute of High Energy Physics, Vienna, and the Atominstitut of TU Vienna. New principal investigators are: Philipp Eller (TUM), Julia Harz (TUM), Uli Haisch (MPP) and Erwin Jericha (TU Vienna).
Overall, the DFG Approval Committee approved the establishment of eleven new Collaborative Research Centers from July 1, 2021, and extended 27 ongoing SFBs for a further funding period.