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Daniel Jütte has been awarded Germany’s most prestigious research prize, which provides up to 10 million euros for research in Germany over an initial period of seven years. With Jütte’s appointment, KIT is strengthening its approach to integrative and practice-oriented urban research. Starting in 2027, the leading researcher - currently teaching at New York University - will establish the “Urban Humanities Lab” at KIT. The lab will combine perspectives from the humanities and social sciences with key issues in urban planning, architecture, and the built environment. / 06.2026

Markus Breig, KIT

The DFG is funding Feldmann’s idea as a Reinhart Koselleck Project - designed for highly innovative and high-risk initiatives - with 750,000 euros over five years.  At the Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, Claus Feldmann is investigating how alloys of previously immiscible base metals can be produced using bimetallic nanoparticles as shuttles, thereby exploiting the opportunity to establish entirely new bimetals with unusual properties. / 04.2026

André Biedenkapp, KIT

How can AI systems better transfer their learned behavior to new, previously unknown situations? Dr. André Biedenkapp will be addressing this question at KIT in the coming years and will receive approximately 1.2 million euros over the next three years for this work. Following a successful interim evaluation after the first three years, the DFG has pledged approximately 920,000 euros for an additional three years. / 04.2026

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The research group “DELight – an experiment for the direct search for light dark matter using superfluid helium” is implementing a novel experimental approach. To this end, the six research teams from KIT as well as the Universities of Heidelberg and Freiburg plan to make use of the properties of ultracold helium. To protect against cosmic radiation, the DELight experiment is being set up in an underground laboratory. / 04.2026

Cynthia Ruf, KIT

The KIT convinced reviewers with the concept “Science for Impact” and may continue to bear the title of University of Excellence. This comes with funding totaling up to EUR 105 million over the next seven years. The Excellence Strategy competition is the most demanding university competition in German science. Of the ten presently existing Universities of Excellence and one consortium, nine universities and one consortium will continue to receive funding from January 2027. / 03.2026

Amadeus Bramsiepe, KIT

The KIT was highly successful in Baden-Württemberg’s current round of competition for funding from the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF). KIT obtained a total of EUR 5.855 million for three projects as an applicant and for another as a partner. The funds will be used for a targeted expansion of modern research infrastructure in strategic future fields: in Production Technology, Climate Research, Battery Recycling, and Quantum Communication. / 03.2026