• The Washington D.C. office was founded in 2002. We maintain close ties with North American funding organizations, facilitate transatlantic research projects, and help to shape science policy dialogue.
• The New York office was founded in 2007. Our focus is on marketing research funding (an effort made jointly with German partner organizations). We facilitate contact between scientists and researchers in Germany and North America, support early-career researchers here on a DFG fellowship, and organize outreach activities to showcase German research regionally.
• The San Francisco office, founded in 2023, taps into a region that is home to North America’s top public universities and impactful innovation ecosystems.
   

Tasks

• To maintain and extend contacts with current and former German DFG award holders in the United States. The goal is both to facilitate the return of young researchers to Germany and to establish networks with researchers who choose to stay in the United States, and also to motivate them for lasting collaboration with Germany.
• To expand and support cooperation with partner organisations in the USA working in the field of science and research policy, especially the National Science Foundation (NSF), the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).
• To provide US universities and research institutions with information on Germany as a location of science and research and on opportunities for research cooperation between the two countries, especially within the scope of DFG-funded projects and programmes.
• To expand and foster contacts with US DFG alumni, such as Mercator visiting professors and researchers who worked on DFG-funded projects in Germany.
• To follow science and research policy developments in the United States and identify and assess the fields relevant to the DFG with respect to basic research.