Flagship Projects

Research Project

SusMax - Max Planck Network on Sustainable Materials

Partner: The SusMax initiative unites at present a core team of 6 Max Planck Institutes in an interdisciplinary collaboration
Funding period: since 10/2025
Contact: Peter Benner, David Oexle

Max Planck Artificial Intelligence Network

Partner: MPI for Intelligent Systems
Funded by: MPS
Funding period: since 10/2025
Contact: Peter Benner, Kai-Friederike Oelbermann

Smart Process Systems for a Green Carbon-based Chemical Production in a Sustainable Society (SmartProSys)

Partner: SmartProSys PIs
Funded by: Ministry for Science, Energy, Climate Protection and the Environment of the State of Saxony-Anhalt
Fundind period: since 07/2021
Contact: Peter Benner

MaRDI: Mathematical Research Data Initiative

Partner: MaRDI Consortium
Funded by: DFG
Funding period: 2021-2026
Contact: Peter Benner, Jens Saak, Jan Heiland

NFDI4Cat - NFDI for Catalysis-Related Sciences

Partner: NFDI4Cat Consortium
Funded by: DFG
Funding period: 10.2020-09.2025
Contact: Peter Benner

South American Competence Center of Scientific Computing in Health Care and Climate (SaC3)

Funded by: DAAD
Funding period: since 09/2024
Contact: Peter Benner

Linux-Cluster mechthild

Partner: MEGWARE Computer Vertrieb und Service GmbH
Funded by: MPI / MPG
Funding Period: since 12/2017
Contact: Peter Benner, Jens Saak, Martin Köhler

Graduate schools

IMPRS ProEng

Partners: OvGU (FVST, FEIT, FMA, FNW), TU Braunschweig (InES)
Funding period: since 2007
Contact: Peter Benner
Associates: Lihong Feng, Sara Grundel, Sridhar Chellappa, Kirandeep Kour

DFG Research Training Group RTG 2297/1 - MathCoRe

Partner: PD Dr. Averkov, Prof. Benner, Prof. Findeisen, Jun.-Prof. Kahle, Prof. Kaibel, Prof. Kirch, Prof. Nill, Prof. Pott, Prof. Sager, Prof. Schwabe
Funded by: DFG
Funding period: since 2017
Contact: Peter Benner, Sebastian Sager (OvGU)
Associates: Sara Grundel, Jan Heiland, Shaima Monem Abdelhafez, Roman Weinhandl, Steffen Werner

More projects can be found in the team descriptions, where they are associated. Concluded flagship projects are listed on the following pages.