The Department of Mathematics promotes early career researchers by setting up junior research groups for junior professors and postdocs. The Collaborative Research Center Wave Phenomena plays a special role in this by establishing a large number of such groups, .

There currently are the following junior research groups:

• Algebraic and Geometric Topology(TT-Prof. Dr. Manuel Krannich)
• Data-driven methods for partial differential equations (TT-Prof. Dr. Benjamin Unger)
• Geometry of groups (Emmy Noether Program, Dr. Elia Fioravanti)
• Junior research group in the field of geometric group theory and complex geometry(JProf. Dr. Claudio Llosa-Isenrich)
• Numerical methods for nonlinear optics (at SFB 1173, Dr. Benjamin Dörich)
• Numerical methods for wave equations (Emmy Noether Program, Dr. Martin Halla)
• Numerics of PDEs(TT-Prof. Dr. Roland Maier)
• Numerical methods for multiscale problems (at SFB 1173, Dr. Moritz Hauck)
• Stability of periodic waves in dissipative-dispersive systems (at SFB 1173, Dr. Björn de Rijk)
• Vortices and nonlinear waves (at SFB 1173, Dr. Lars Eric Hientzsch)

The Department of Mathematics awards the academic degree of Doctor of Natural Sciences (Dr. rer. nat.) for independent scientific research achievements.

The Habilitation is the recognition of a special qualification for research and teaching (teaching qualification) in the subject of mathematics, on the basis of which the teaching authorization (venia legendi) is granted.

Find out more about the awarding of these titles.