He has been involved in several collaborative research centers and since 2011 he is the head of the collaborative research center SFB 910 of the Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) with the topic Control of Self-Organizing Nonlinear Systems.
Er wirkte in vielen Verbundforschungsprojekten mit und ist seit 2011 Sprecher des Sonderforschungsbereiches SFB 910 der Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) zum Thema Control of Self-Organizing Nonlinear Systems.