Overview
As part of the programme funded by the university allowance, international experts and leading figures in their respective scientific fields are appointed as U Bremen Excellence Chairs and granted membership rights at the university by the university president. The five currently funded Excellence Chairs, supported through the university allowance, distinguished themselves in an application process by demonstrating the excellence of their collaborative work with their hosting professors at the University of Bremen, for a three-year period. Additional Excellence Chairs are located within the Excellence Clusters.
| Name (alphabet.) | Field | Area | Host | Period | |
| Charles Cockell | UK Centre for Astrobiology | Astrobiology | The Martian Mindset | Cluster | 2026-2032 |
| Maria Kanakidou | University of Crete | Impacts of emissions and feedbacks to the Earth system | Faculty 1 (Environmental physics) | Mihalis Vrekoussis | 2026-2028 |
| Haizhou Li | National University Singapore | Selective Auditory Attention | Minds, Media, Machines (MMM) | Tanja Schultz | 2026-2028 |
| Nicola Marzari | ?cole Fédérale Polytechnique de Lausanne | Machine learning models | The Martian Mindset | Lucio Colombi Ciacchi | 2026-2028 |
| Jack Middelburg | Utrecht University | Marine carbon cycle and carbon transport | The OceanFloor (Cluster) | Kai-Uwe Hinrichs | 2026-2028 |
| Victoria Orphan | California Institute of Technology | Microbial communities | The OceanFloor (Cluster) | Kai-Uwe Hinrichs | 2026-2028 |
| Petar Popovski | Aalborg University | Wireless space communication | Faculty 1 (Communications Engineering) | Armin Dekorsy | 2026-2028 |
| Shalini Randeria | Central European University Vienna | Politics of Hope: Social Movements for New Democratic Futures | WoC | Alisha M. B. Heinemann, Ingo Warnke | 2026-2028 |
| Mario L. Small | Columbia University | Study of Social Networks | SOCIUM | Betina Hollstein | 2026 -2028 |
| Anna Valente | The University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland | Brain-machine interaction | The Martian Mindset | Cluster | 2026-2032 |
| Eske Willerslev | University of Copenhagen / University of Cambridge | Fossile DNA | The OceanFloor (Cluster) | Michal Kucera | 2026-2032 |
Please follow the link to view the U Bremen Excellence Chairs from 2019-2025.

