DFG Funds New Collaborative Research Center at Freie Universität Berlin
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DFG Funds New Collaborative Research Center at Freie Universität Berlin: Project to Study the Late Growth History of the Earth, Its Moon, and Other Terrestrial Planets. Joint Project with Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Technische Universität Berlin, Museum für Naturkunde, and German Aerospace Center in Berlin - A new Collaborative Research Center (CRC) at Freie Universität aims to provide insights on the late growth history of the Earth, its moon, and other terrestrial planets. The research will be done jointly with scientists at Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Technische Universität Berlin, the Museum of Natural History Berlin, and the German Aerospace Center in Berlin. The project is one of 15 new CRCs to be funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG). The funding will begin in January 2016 for an initial period of four years. The spokesperson for the CRC is Harry Becker from the Geochemistry Group at the Department of Earth Sciences, Freie Universität. As of January 2016 the DFG will be funding a total of 249 Collaborative Research Centers.
