Interdisciplinary research in groups is both ZiF's central task and most important asset. The topics of our research groups are manifold and cover many different disciplines.
On these pages you will find our longer-term research groups – explore them to learn about current, past, and future research projects at ZiF. The shorter formats, like Workshops, can be found in our event calendar.
Mariana Prandini Assis
Nayla Luz Vacarezza
January 2025
Franz-Josef Arlinghaus
Marion Eggert
Ulla Kypta
Jörg Quenzer
April - September 2025
Jean-Philippe Bouchaud
Valentina Ros
August - December 2025
Gerd Mühlheußer (Hamburg, GER)
Herbert Dawid (Bielefeld, GER)
Sabine Gless (Basel, SUI)
Alexandra Scheele (Bielefeld, GER)
Julia Roth (Bielefeld, GER)
Heidemarie Winkel (Bielefeld, GER)
Kay O'Halloran (Liverpool, GBR)
John Bateman (Bremen, GER)
Mehul Bhatt (Örebro, SWE)
Mathias Albert (Bielefeld, GER)
Heidi Tworek (Vancouver, CAN)
Tobias Werron (Bielefeld, GER)
Internalizing Borders: The Social and Normative Consequences of the European Border Regime
Volker M. Heins (Essen, GER)
Sabine Hess (Göttingen, GER)
Dana Schmalz (Heidelberg, GER)
Frank Wolff (Osnabrück, GER)
Experimenting in Open Systems – on the Epistemology of Living Labs
Matthias Bergmann (Frankfurt/Main, GER)
Stephan Böschen (Aachen, GER)
Gabriele Gramelsberger (Aachen, GER)
Wolfgang Krohn (Bielefeld, GER)
Anne Schwenkenbecher (Murdoch U, AUS)
Remco Heesen (London School of Economics and Political Science, UK)
Chad Hewitt (Lincoln U, NZ)
Consent-Based Rape Legislation in Practice: Challenging Judicial Core Values
Åsa Wettergren (Gothenburg, SWE)
Moa Bladini (Gothenburg, SWE)
Sara Uhnoo (Gothenburg, SWE)
The Future of Musical Knowledge in the Age of Machine Learning
Miriam Akkermann (Dresden, GER)
Eamonn Bell (Durham, UK)
Nikita Braguinski (Berlin, GER)
Ulf Büntgen (Cambridge, UK)
Normalizing the Far Right
Paula Diehl (Kiel, GER)
Birgit Sauer (Vienna, AUT)
Svenja Ahlhaus (Hamburg, GER)
Matthias Hoesch (Münster, GER)
Susanne Mantel (Saarbrücken, GER)
Petra Sußner (Berlin, GER)
Breaking Confines
Martin Carrier (Bielefeld University, GER)
Armin Gölzhäuser (Bielefeld University, GER)
Global Contestations of Women's and Gender Rights
Alexandra Scheele (Bielefeld University, GER)
Julia Roth (Bielefeld University, GER)
Heidemarie Winkel (Bielefeld University, GER)
Reinhold Kliegl (University of Potsdam, GER)
Harald Baayen (Eberhard Karls University Tübingen, GER)
Douglas Bates (University of Wisconsin, USA)
Max Albert (Justus Liebig University Gießen, GER)
Guido Bünstorf (University of Kassel, GER)
Martin Carrier (Bielefeld University, GER)
Rolf König (Bielefeld University, GER)
Cornelis Menke (Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, GER)
Niels Taubert (Bielefeld University, GER)
Multimodal Rhetoric on Online Media Communications
John Bateman (Bremen University, GER)
Mehul Bhatt (Örebro University, SWE)
Kay O'Halloran (University of Liverpool, UK)
John Mohr (Tribute)
Werner Schneider (Bielefeld, GER)
Helge Ritter (Bielefeld, GER)
Matthias Buschmeier (Bielefeld, GER)
Katharina von Kellenbach (St. Marys City, USA)
Ulrike Davy (Bielefeld, GER)
Lutz Leisering (Bielefeld, GER)
Ursula Mense-Petermann (Bielefeld, GER)
Thomas Welskopp (Bielefeld, GER)
Anna Zaharieva (Bielefeld, GER)
Erdmute Alber (Bayreuth, GER)
David Warren Sabean (Los Angeles, USA)
Simon Teuscher (Zürich, SUI)
Tatjana Thelen (Wien, AUT)
Martin Diewald (Bielefeld, GER)
Rainer Riemann (Bielefeld, GER)
Reinold Schmücker (Münster, GER)
Thomas Dreier (Karlsruhe, GER)
Pavel Zahrádka (Olomouc, CZE)
Frank Riedel (Bielefeld, GER)
Chris Shannon (Berkeley, USA)
Mirjam Künkler (Princeton, USA)
Hanna Lerner (Tel Aviv, ISR)
Shylashri Shankar (New Delhi, IND)
Stefan Huster (Bochum, GER)
Thomas Schramme (Hamburg, GER)
Werner Schneider (Bielefeld, GER)
Wolfgang Einhäuser-Treyer (Marburg, GER)
Leonid Bogachev (Leeds, GBR)
Benjamin Bolker (Hamilton, CAN)
Yuri Kondratiev (Bielefeld, GER)
Otso Ovaskainen (Helsinki, FIN)
Jürg Fröhlich (Zürich, SUI)
Philippe Blanchard (Bielefeld, GER)
Andrea Bender (Freiburg, GER)
Sieghard Beller (Paderborn, GER)
Jörg Bergmann (Bielefeld, GER)
Heike Egner (Klagenfurt, AUT)
Volker Wulf (Siegen, GER
Jan C. Joerden (Frankfurt (Oder), GER)
Eric Hilgendorf (Würzburg, GER)
Felix Thiele (Bad-Neuenahr-Ahrweiler, GER)
Sebastian Thies (Bielefeld, GER)
Josef Raab (Duisburg-Essen, GER)
Olaf Kaltmeier (Bielefeld, GER)
Heinz-Gerhard Haupt (Bielefeld, GER)
Wilhelm Heitmeyer (Bielefeld, GER)
Martin Carrier (Bielefeld, GER)
Wolfgang Krohn (Bielefeld, GER)
Alfred Nordmann (Darmstadt, GER)
Gregor Schiemann (Wuppertal, GER)
Peter Weingart (Bielefeld, GER)
Ipke Wachsmuth (Bielefeld, GER)
Günther Knoblich (Newark, USA)
Friedrich Götze (Bielefeld, GER)
Yuri Kondratiev (Bielefeld, GER)
Michael Röckner (Bielefeld, GER)
Hans J. Markowitsch (Bielefeld, GER)
Birgitt Röttger-Rössler (Göttingen, GER)
Rudolf Ahlswede (Bielefeld, GER)
Matthias Raith (Magdeburg, GER)
Joachim Rosenmüller (Bielefeld, GER)
Walter Trockel (Bielefeld, GER)
Philippe Blanchard (Bielefeld, GER)
Ricardo Lima (Marseille, FRA)
Ludwig Streit (Bielefeld, GER)
Rui Vilela Mendes (Lisbon, POR)
Werner Güth (Berlin, GER)
Joachim Frohn (Bielefeld, GER)
Hartmut Kliemt (Duisburg, GER)
Reinhard Selten (Bonn, GER)
Gertrude Lübbe-Wolff (Bielefeld, GER)
Günter Dux (Freiburg, GER)
Frithjof Karsch (Bielefeld, GER)
Burkhard Monien (Paderborn, GER)
Helmut Satz (Bielefeld, GER)
Jürgen Hinze (Bielefeld, GER)
Ulrich Heinzmann (Bielefeld, GER)
Hansjürgen Loesch (Bielefeld, GER)
Wilhelm Raith (Bielefeld, GER)
Dieter Heyer (Kiel, GER)
Rainer Mausfeld (Kiel, GER)
Jörn Rüsen (Bielefeld, GER)
Holk Cruse (Bielefeld, GER)
Helge Ritter (Bielefeld, GER)
Reinhard Fiehler (Bielefeld, GER)
Elisabeth Gülich (Bielefeld, GER)
Ulrich Majer (Göttingen, GER)
Heinz-Jürgen Schmidt (Osnabrück, GER)
Christopher Habel (Hamburg, GER)
Gert Rickheit (Bielefeld, GER)
Peter Weingart (Bielefeld, GER)
Walter Deuber (Bielefeld, GER)
Andreas Dress (Bielefeld, GER)
Bernhard Korte (Bonn, GER)
Peter Bieri (Bielefeld, GER)
Eckart Scheerer (Oldenburg, GER)
Dieter Grimm (Bielefeld, GER)
Reinhard Selten (Bonn, GER)
Jürgen Kocka (Bielefeld, GER)
Thomas Dorfmüller (Bielefeld, GER)
Herbert Heuer (Bielefeld, GER)
Odmar Neumann (Bielefeld, GER)
Wolfgang Prinz (Bielefeld, GER)
Andries Frans Sanders (Aachen, GER)
Ludwig Streit (Bielefeld, GER)
Helmut Satz (Bielefeld, GER)
Lorenz Krüger (Berlin, GER)
Franz-Xaver Kaufmann (Bielefeld, GER)
Lothar Nellessen (Kassel, GER)
Stephan Quensel (Bremen, GER)
Horst Schüler-Springorum (München, GER)
Friedrich Specht (Göttingen, GER)
Wilhelm Voßkamp (Bielefeld, GER)
Jürgen Hinze (Bielefeld, GER)
1. Philosophy and History
Reinhart Koselleck (Bielefeld, GER)
2. Theory of Science
Reinhard Selten (Bielefeld, GER)
3. History of Science
Peter Weingart (Bielefeld, GER)
4. Economic History
Jürgen Kocka (Bielefeld, GER)
5. International Economic Law
Norbert Horn (Bielefeld, GER)
6. Structures and Models in Physics and Mathematics
Helmut Satz (Bielefeld, GER)
Klaus lmmelmann (Bielefeld, GER)
Otfried Kießler (Bielefeld, GER)
Friedrich Ortmann (Bremen, GER)
Hans-Uwe Otto (Bielefeld, GER)
Hans Thiersch (Tübingen, GER)
Reinhart Koselleck (Bielefeld, GER)
Norbert Horn (Bielefeld, GER)
Jürgen Kocka (Bielefeld, GER)
Helmut Satz (Bielefeld, GER)
Ludwig Streit (Bielefeld, GER)
Norbert Horn (Bielefeld, GER)
Harald Weinrich (Bielefeld, GER)
Hermann Korte (Bielefeld, GER)
Harald Weinrich (Bielefeld, GER)