Funding

The Boekhoven Lab is extremely grateful for continuous support by the TUM and further funding by:

  • the European Commission for an ERC starting grant (Activdrops) and a Consolidator grant (Synlife)
  • The Volkswagenstiftung for a Life? grant (Chem2Info)
  • The Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) for the SFB235 (The emergence of life), SFB863 (Forces in Biomolecular Systems), and the ATUMS graduate school.
  • The Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) for the personal grants: 1. Controlling dissipative molecular assemblies (411722921), 2. Chemical reaction cycles driven by phosphorylating agents (564321781), and 3. Nucleation and Division of Active Droplets (576013390). 
  • The Max Planck Society via the MP School program (Matter to life) for Emirhan Koca, and Pratulya Shah
  • The Institute for Advanced Study, which is funded through the TUM via the Mößbauer program.

    Individual Grants

  • Alexander von Humboldt Foundation for a Postdoctoral Fellowship (Dr. Hector Soria Carrera and Dr. Nils Bäumer)
  • The European Commission for a Marie Curie Fellowship (Dr. Marta Tena-Solsona)
  • The Fonds der Chemische Industrie (FCI) via a Sachkostenzuschüsse.
  • The Fonds der Chemische Industrie (FCI) for a Kekule Fellowship (Dr. Brigitte Kriebisch)
  • The Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes for a fellowship (Leonie Kauling) 
  • The Friedrich-Naumann-Stiftung  (Christian Ibetsberger)
  • The Chinese Scientific Council (Dr. Kun Dai and Dr. Xiaoyao Chen)