Third Party Funding
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2026 - 2034 | DFG Research Training Group: Perceiving and Interacting with Materials and Objects in Naturalistic Environments (PIMON). One of 12 PIs, (coordinators: Katja Fiehler & Daniel Kaiser, Justus-Liebig- University Giessen) |
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2026 - 2033 | DFG Excellence Cluster: The adaptive mind (TAM EXC3066). One of 25 PIs, (coordinators: Roland Fleming & Katja Fiehler, Justus-Liebig- University Giessen) |
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2026 - 2030 | HORIZON 2020 framework MSCA Doctoral Networks, EXPLORA: "Perception of materials, objects and spaces through active EXPLORAtion", Coordinator, Total Budget: 4.2 Mio Euro |
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2021 - 2025 | Cluster project: Cardinal Mechanisms of Perception (SFB TR 135) funded by the DFG. PI of Project B8: “Integration of Prior Knowledge and Sensory Information in the Perception of Material Qualities”: Total Budget: B8 Budget: 329,000 Euro (coordinator Karl Gegenfurtner, Justus-Liebig University Giessen) |
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2021 - 2025 | Cluster project: The adaptive mind, funded by the state of Hesse (HMWK). One of 24 PIs Total Budget: 7,400,000 Euro (Project Budget: 204,000 Euro) (coordinator Karl Gegenfurtner, Justus-Liebig-University Giessen) |
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2017 - 2021 | EU FP7 ’People’ Program: Marie Sklodowska-Curie Innovative Training Networks 2017, DyViTo: Dynamics in Vision and Touch - the look and feel of stuff, Partner Budget: 120,000 Euro, Total ITN Budget: 2,834,000 Euro (coordinator Marina Bloj, Bradford University) |
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2014 - 2019 | Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (Sofja Kovalevskaja Award), Project Title: Perceiving Material Qualities - Brain Mechanisms and Dynamics, Budget: 1,628,000 Euro |
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2012 - 2016 | EU FP7 ’People’ Program: Marie Curie Initial Training Network 2012, PRISM: Perceptual Representation of Illumination, Shape and Materials, Partner Budget: 226,000 Euro, Total ITN Budget: 3,011,566 Euro (coordinator Roland Fleming, JLU Giessen) |
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2013 - 2017 | TUBA GEBIP (Turkish Academy of Sciences Outstanding Young Scientist Award), approximately 28,000 Euro |
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2012 - 2015 | TUBITAK 1001 Research Grant, Assessing structural and functional architecture of the human brain through investigating influences of genetically rooted central nervous system disorders, PI. Budget: 316,000 YTL (approximately 150,000 Euro) |
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2009 - 2013 | European Commission Marie Curie International Reintegration Grant, Visual Perception of Surface Material Properties - Computational and fMRI investigations of spatio- temporal cues to perceived shininess, PI. Budget: 100,000 Euro. |
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2009 - 2012 | TUBITAK (The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey) 1001 Research Grant, Analysis of the influence of novel neurodevelopmental movement disorder mutations on the functional and structural organization of the visual and motor systems, Co-PI. Budget: 360,000 YTL (approximately 220,000 Euro) |
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2009 - 2012 | TUBITAK 1001 Research Grant, Assessing neural activity and functional connectivity in human cortex associated with contextual influences on visual perception, Co-PI. Budget: 330,000 YTL (approximately 200,000 Euro) |







