Here is an  overview * of components that make up the OvG University’s research profile.

The current research profile of the OvG University is defined by the following areas of special interest:

Centres of excellence (temporally only in German):

•  Neurosciences (Medizinische Fakultät, Fakultät für Naturwissenschaften)
•  Dynamic Systems (Fakultät für Mathematik, Fakultät für Verfahrens- und Systemtechnik) 
•  Automotive (Fakultät für Maschinenbau zusammen mit anderen Fakultäten)
  

DFG (German Research Foundation) special areas of research:

•  Transregional Collaborative Research Centre SFB/TR 3 "Mesial Temporal Lobe Epilepsies"
  Chair: Professor Dr. C. Elger, Bonn
  Coordination for Magdeburg: Prof. Dr. Hermann Hinrichs (FME)
  e-mail: hermann.hinrichs@medizin.uni-magdeburg.de
  Tel: (0391)67/15885, Fax: (0391)67/15819
  e-mail: hermann.hinrichs@medizin.uni-magdeburg.de
  Participating institutions: University of Bonn (federführend), Berlin, Freiburg, Magdeburg
  
  
•  The active auditory system
  Chair: Prof. Dr. Klump, Oldenburg
  Vice Chair in Magdeburg: Prof. Dr. Thomas Münte
  Tel: (0391)67/18469, Fax: (0391)67/11947
  e-mail: thomas.muente@medizin.uni-magdeburg.de
  Participating institutions: University of Oldenburg and Magdeburg

DFG (German Research Foundation) research groups:

•  Membrane Supported Reaction Engineering
  Chair: Professor Dr. Seidel-Morgenstern
  web: Membrane Supported Reaction Engineering
  
  
•  Electromagnetic Compatibility of Electrotechnological Processes with Pulsed Power
  Chair: Professor Dr. Nitsch
  web: Electromagnetic Compatibility of Electrotechnological Processes with Pulsed Power
  
  
•  Methods from Discrete Mathematics for the Synthesis and Control of Chemical Processes
  Chair: Professor Dr. Weismantel
  web: Methods from Discrete Mathematics for the Synthesis and Control of Chemical Processes
  
  
• Regulation of Immunological Processes by Membrane proximal Signaling Modules
  Chair:  Professor Dr. Schraven
  web: Regulation of Immunological Processes by Membrane proximal Signaling Modules

 

DFG (German Research Foundation) postgraduate programme:

 Research training group on Micro-Macro-Interactions in Structured Media and Particle Systems  
Speaker: Professor Dr. Gerald Warnecke,
e-mail: gerald.warnecke@mathematik.uni-magdeburg.de
fon: ++49 391 67 185 87, Fax: ++49 391 67 180 73
web: http://www.uni-magdeburg.de/gkmm/
Participating institutions: FNW, FMA, FMB, Faculty of Process and Systems Engineering (FVST)

 Cell-cell Communication in neural and immune systems topological organisation of signal transduction
Speaker: Prof. Dr. Michael Naumann
fon: ++49 391 67 132 27, Fax: ++49 391 67 133 12
e-mail: naumann@medizin.uni-magdeburg.de
Speaker: Prof. Dr. Eckhart D. Gundelfinger
fon: ++49 391 62 632 28, Fax: ++49 391 62 632 29
e-mail: gundelfinger@ifn-magdeburg.de

Further postgraduate programmes:

•  Center for qualitative Education-, Consultation and Social Research
  (Graduate College of Hans-Böckler-Stiftung)
  Speaker: Professor Dr. Marotzki,
  e-mail: winfried@marotzki.de
  fon: ++49 391 67 168 50, Fax: ++49 391 67 168 50
  web: http://www.zbbs.de/
  Participatinginstitutions: Martin-Luther-University ofHalle-Wittenberg, Departmentof Education; Otto-von-Guericke Universityof Magdeburg, FGSE

Central projects funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research:

•  Magdeburg - Integrated research group „neurosciences“ & „immunology and molecular medicine of inflammation“
  Chair: Professor Dr. Reiser
  Participating institutions: FME
  

•  BMBF-Center for Advanced Imaging
  Chair: Professor Dr. Heinze

Main Areas of Research:

• Non-Linear Systems
  Speaker: Prof. Dr. St. C. Müller,
  Participating institutions: FNW, FMA, FMB, FEIT, FVST, FGSE, FME
  

• Intelligent Sensor-Actuator Systems
  Sprecher: Prof. Dr. Michaelis,
  Beteiligte Fakultäten/Einrichtungen: FEIT, FNW, FMB, (FIN, FME)
  

• Integrated environmental protection engineering
  Speaker: Prof. Dr. Tomas,
  Participating institutions: FMB, Faculty of Computer Science (FIN), FGSE, Faculty of Economics and Management (FWW), FNW, FEIT
  

• New Materials, Processes, Products and Information Technologies  
  Speaker: Prof. Dr. Clos,
  Beteiligte Fakultäten/Einrichtungen: FNW, FEIT, FMB, FVST, (FMA)
  

•  Societies in the Process of Transformation: Europeanization and Globalization
  Speaker: temporaly: Prof. Dr. Schrader,
  Beteiligte Fakultäten/Einrichtungen: FGSE (FME, FWW)

* only in German