SNSF Projects at the 春色直播
Uni Bern researchers participate in around 660 SNSF projects
The Swiss National Science Foundation is the most important third-party funder for researchers at the 春色直播. In 2024 alone, the yearly contribution amounted to around CHF 119 million (Source: UniBE Annual Report). An overview of the number of grants and amount of financing received in the past years is available on the .
Programme grants
National Centres of Competence in Research
- Origin, evolution and characterisation of planets
Director: Willy Benz (Physics Institute)
Duration: 01.06.2014 - 31.05.2026
- Understanding the role of RNA biology in disease mechanisms
Director: Oliver M眉hlemann (Department of Chemistry, Biochemistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences)
Duration: 01.05.2014 - 30.04.2026
National Research Programmes
– Gender Medicine and Health
– Covid-19 in Society
- Advancing 3R – Research, Animals and Society
Sinergia
Co-PI: Axel Rominger
Duration: 01.09.2024 – 31.08.2028
Co-PI: Benoît Zuber
Duration: 01.04.2024 – 31.03.2028
Co-PI: J眉rg Gertsch
Duration: 01.02.2024 – 31.01.2028
Co-PI: Miroslav Novak
Duration: 01.02.2024 – 31.01.2028
Co-PI: Antoine Adamantidis (Clinical Neuroscience)
Duration: 01.09.2023 – 31.08.2027
Co-PI: Hendrik Vogel (Institute of Geology)
Duration: 01.06.2023 – 31.05.2027
Co-PI: Jean-David Gerber
Duration: 01.04.2023 – 31.03.2027
Co-PI: Marianna Kruithof-de Julio (Department for BioMedical Research)
Duration: 01.11.2021 – 31.10.2026
Co-PI: Isabelle Stadelmann-Steffen (Institute of Political Science)
Duration: 01.09.2021 – 31.08.2026
Co-PI: Andrew Macpherson (Department of Visceral Surgery and Medicine)
Duration: 01.05.2022 – 30.04.2026
Co-PI: Philippe Schucht (Department of Neurosurgery)
Duration: 01.04.2022 – 31.03.2026
Co-PI: Volker Heussler (Institute of Cell Biology)
Duration: 01.03.2021 – 28.02.2026
Career grants
SNSF Starting Grants
A list of ongoing SNSF Starting Grants is available on the .
Eccellenza
A list of ongoing Eccellenza Grants is available on the .
PRIMA
A list of ongoing PRIMA projects is available on the .
Ambizione
A list of ongoing Ambizione projects is available on the .
Horizon Europe Transitional Measures
SNSF Advanced, Consolidator and Starting Grants
Advanced Grants
Project title: Global biomass burning reconstruction using ethane in polar ice cores
PI: Hubertus Fischer (Physics Institute)
Project title: Strengthening memory formation for retrieval despite amnesia
PI: Katharina Henke (Institute of Psychology)
Project title: Forward-In-Time Natural Experimental Study of Selection
PI: Catherine Peichel (Institute of Ecology and Evolution)
Consolidator Grants
Project title: Resisting Human Herosion
PI: Elisa Fornalé (World Trade Institute)
Project title: Worldly Indeterminacy
PI: Vera Hoffmann-Kolss (Institute of Philosophy)
Project title: Assessing past and future forest responses to climate change impacts using ancient DNA
PI: Christoph Schw枚rer (Institute of Plant Sciences)
Project title: Ageing and Old Age in the 4th–6th cent. Roman Empire: Religious, Legal, Social and Physical Dimensions
PI: Anna Usacheva (Institute of Historical Theology)
Project title: Searching for physics beyond the standard model in low-energy precision observables
PI: Martin Hoferichter (Institute for Theoretical Physics)
Project title: Religious Interaction and Co-Production: Jews, Christians and Muslims in the Entangled Early Medieval Occident
PI: Katharina Heyden (Institute of Historical Theology)
Project title: Global Bones. Entangled Histories, Transfers and Translations in the Early Modern Age
PI: Urte Krass (Institute of Art History)
Starting Grants
Project title: Rescuing the untapped paleogenomic information preserved in ice caves to disclose long-term genetic variability of mountain vegetation
PI: Maria Leunda Esnaola (Institute of Plant Sciences)
Project title: Through a Glass, Darkly: How to Study Authoritarian Regimes
PI: Franziska Keller (Institute of Communication and Media Studies)
Project title: Cracking the neural code shaping emotional memories during sleep
PI: Mattia Aime (Department of Physiology)
Project title: Pediatric digital health towards data-driven precision therapy
PI: Sarah Br眉ningk (Department of Radio-Oncology)
Project title: Bit Philology
PI: Frau Elena Spadini (Walter Benjamin Kolleg)
Project title: Moving up or stepping down? The influence of social closure mechanisms on workplace career development in the intersection between gender, migration and social background
PI: Benita Combet (Institute of Social Anthropology)
Project title: Medieval and Early Modern Mediterranean Mathematics
PI: Eleonora Sammarchi (Unit for the Study of the Middle East and Muslim Societies)
Project title: Range of influence of staphylococcal phages in bacterial populations
PI: Elena Gomez Sanz (Institute of Veterinary Bacteriology)
Project title: Exploring the role of the prefrontal cortex in remembering and forgetting
PI: Jessica Peter (University Hospital of Old Age Psychiatry and Psychotherapy)
Project title: Access to the Chemical Makeup of Europa's Presumed Habitats
PI: Audrey Vorburger (Physics Institute)
Project title: Leveraging water isotope observations to establish robust constraints for precipitation efficiency
PI: Franziska Scholder-Aemisegger (Institute of Geography)
Projekttitel: Improving diagnoses by understanding the collaborative and cognitive processes of medical teams
PI: Juliane Eva K盲mmer (Departement of Emergency Medicine)
Project title: Arrhythmogenic Cardiomyopathy: Investigation of new mechanisms and therapeutic targets
PI: Camilla Schinner (Department for BioMedical Research)
Project title: Understanding Socio-Economic Complexity in Eastern Mediterranean Protohistory: Dynamics of Production, Technology and Territorial Networks on Cyprus during the 2nd Millennium BCE
PI: Teresa B眉rge (Institute of Archaeological Sciences)
Project title: Tracing Labour in Islamicate Legal Traditions
PI: Serena Tolino (Unit for the Study of the Middle East and Muslim Societies)
Project title: The Circumference of Violence – Tracing the normalisation and brutalisation of violence across Europe’s shifting external borders
PI: Charles Heller (Institute of Sport Science)
Project title: Mechanisms of peripheral vision in complex decision-making
PI: Christian Vater (Institute of Sport Science)
Project title: The emergence of self-harm in the first decades of life: a biopsychosocial perspective on developmental dynamics, risk and protective factors
PI: Annekatrin Steinhoff (University Hospital of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychotherapy)
Project title: Charting Antarctic Ice Sheet evolution via the ice sheet's internal stratigraphy
PI: Johannes Sutter (Physics Institute)
Project title: Integrating modeling and experiments to study species coexistence in metacommunities
PI: Xiang-Yi Li Richter (Institute of Ecology and Evolution)
Project title: Advancing research on extreme humid heat and health
PI: Ana Maria Vicedo Cabrera (Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine)
Project title: Coordination of host-microbe interactions by crosstalk with anti-glycan antibodies in inflammatory bowel diseases
PI: Bahtiyar Yilmaz (Department for BioMedical Research)
Project title: Alcohol-specific Inhibition Training in Alcohol Use Disorder: Biomarkers, Effective Application, Moderating Effects of Brain Plasticity
PI: Maria Stein (Institute of Psychology)
Project title: Women's Global 1990s: Networks, Activism, and Politics
PI: Sibylle Marti (Institute of History)
Swiss Postdoctoral Fellowships
A list of the current SNSF Postdoctoral Fellows is available on the .
