The research group FOR 2316 started October 1, 2015 as announced in a DFG press release of that day. October 15 the news made it to the web-site of Wuppertal University.
In November 2018 the research group FOR 2316 was positively evaluated. The work
on the projects of the second funding period started in October 2019 with new PhD students and a new postdoc.