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Priority Programs

The University of Potsdam is coordinating the following German Research Foundation priority programs (PPs):

  • PP 2238 - Dynamics of Ore Metals Enrichment - DOME

    Coordination: Prof. Dr. Max Wilke, Department of Geosciences

    The SPP addresses open questions regarding the dynamics of ore-metals enrichment in nature. The enrichment of metals in nature involves coupled processes of mineral dissolution, fluid/melt transport and precipitation in multi-component systems under changing pressure-temperature conditions; biotic processes may also be important in near-surface environments. The research will cover work on natural ore deposit examples as well as simulation of processes and conditions using laboratory experiments and numerical simulation techniques. Integrated numerical process modeling will aim at extrapolating the short spatial-time scales of laboratory simulations to geologically relevant time scales and regional scale of ore deposits.

  • PP 2026: Geometrie im Unendlichen (Geometry at Infinity)

    Coordinators: Prof. Dr. Bernhard Hanke, University of Augsburg and Prof. Dr. Christian Bär, University of Potsdam, Department of Mathematics

    The priority program will examine problems from differential geometry, topology and geometric analysis in which the behavior at infinity is of essential significance.

  • PP 1927: Iron-Sulfur for Life

    Coordination: Prof. Dr. Silke Leimkühler, Department of Biochemistry and Biology

    This priority program is about the structure and functioning of special metal-bearing enzymes that are responsible for important metabolic functions in all living beings and without which no life would be possible. The influence of iron-sulfur clusters on enzyme activities at the cellular level will be examined. This basic research also provides information on future energy production and possible biotechnological applications of the molecule.

  • PP 1921: Intentional Forgetting in Organizations

    Coordinators: Prof. Dr. Annette Kluge, University of Bochum and Prof. Dr-Ing. Norbert Gronau, University of Potsdam, Professor of Business Information Systems and Electronic Government

    The objectives of the planned priority program are:

    To utilize the mechanisms of human forgetting for a technical and organizational context.

    To further develop the organizational theories existing to date as regards the question of how a fit between the processes, employees, technologies, and structures of the organization and the quantity of information that is generated internally and externally to the organization can be produced in which the information systems in organizations can be empowered to forget.

    To develop interdisciplinary new methods and transmission routes for organizations to find the balance between constantly growing quantities of saved information and a reduction in information by forgetting.