Dr. Cosima Schuster Programme Director

Engineering Sciences 1
E-mail: cosima.schuster@dfg.de Telephone: +49 (228) 885-2271 Telefax: +49 (228) 885-713320

Kennedyallee 40
53175 Bonn

Scientific Areas of Responsibility

Main Contact
4.31-05 Glass, Ceramics and Derived Composites
4.32-02 Biomaterials
4.32-03 Thermodynamics and Kinetics as well as Properties of Phases and Microstructure of Materials
4.32-04 Computer-Aided Design of Materials and Simulation of Materials Behaviour from Atomic to Microscopic Scale
Deputy Contact
4.31-01 Metallurgical, Thermal and Thermomechanical Treatment of Materials
4.31-04 Mechanical Properties of Metallic Materials and their Microstructural Origins
4.31-06 Polymeric and Biogenic Materials and Derived Composites
4.32-01 Synthesis and Properties of Functional Materials

Coordinated Programmes (scientific matters)

Exzellenzcluster
2082 3D Matter Made to Order (3DMM2O)
Graduiertenkolleg
2423 Fracture across Scales: Integrating Mechanics, Materials Science, Mathematics, Chemistry, and Physics
2723 Materials-Microbes-Microenvironments (M-M-M): Antimicrobial biomaterials with tailored structures and properties
2868 D³ - Data-driven design of resilient metamaterials
SFB/Transregio
225 From the fundamentals of biofabrication towards functional tissue models
298 Safety Integrated and Infection Reactive Implants
Sonderforschungsbereich
1027 Physical modeling of non-equilibrium processes in biological systems
1394 Structural and Chemical Atomic Complexity: From Defect Phase Diagrams to Material Properties
1548 FLAIR - Fermi Level Engineering Applied to Oxide Electroceramics

Coordinated Programmes (procedural matters)

Forschungsgruppe
2804 The Materials Science of Teeth in Function: Principles of Durable, Dynamic Dental Interphases
5250 Mechanism-based characterization and modeling of permanent and bioresorbable implants with tailored functionality based on innovative in vivo, in vitro and in silico methods
5380 Functional surfaces through adiabatic high-speed processes: Microstructure, mechanisms and model development - FUNDAM³ENT
5657 Bioinspired anti-fatigue: enhancing materials science structural properties by abstracting naturally-grown fatigue resistance
5701 Identification of the formation mechanisms of white etching cracks and fine granular dark areas during fatigue loading – parallels and differences (White and Dark)