The department deals with both third-party funded projects and LIAG funded projects. The work is divided among the method-specific research fields of the department and the topics in the main research areas of the institute.

• PALOPA
• JET
  Integrated Understanding of the Early Jurassic Earth System and Timescale
• NamCo
• REFINE
• REgine
  Geophysical-geological based reservoir engineering for deep-seated carbonates
• Riedstadt
  Geoarchive for past climate dynamics
• Chronostratigraphy and geomagnetics in loess-paleo soil sequences from Iran
  Comparison with geomagnetic proxies along a precipitation gradient south of the Caspian Sea
• NFDI Pilot
• Cooperation with China University of Geosciences

• SIP-Archive
  Web-based SIP-archive for data backup and research
• SIP Core Holder
  Development of a core holder for consolidated and unconsolidated rocks to determine their complex electrical properties
• Lake Chalco
  Multi-parameter analysys of downhole-measurements in lake sediments as part of an ICDP-Drilling in Mexico City
• Multi-Scale NMR
  Development of new and unconventional nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) applications to link measurements between laboratory, borehole and field scale

• AstroTrias
• MONICA
• LION
  High-resolution proxy data from Cashmere loess
• REGROUP
  Multi-proxy dataset of soil samples from Serbia
• 3D pore space structuresI+II
  Pore space analysys of "unconventional reservoir rocks" and reservoir sandstones using µ-CT Data
• Geothermal levels
  Investigation of additional target horizons for the geothermal utilisation of the GeneSys well
• Rock magnetics Heidelberg
  Magnetostratigraphic analysis of fluvial sediments of Plio-/Pleistocene
• Lake Ohrid I
  Multi-parameter analysys of downhole-measurements in lake sediments as part of an ICDP-Drilling in the border area of North Macedonia and Albania
• GEBO B4
• Lake Ohrid II
  Extended multi-parameter analysys of downhole-measurements in lake sediments as part of an ICDP-Drilling in the border area of North Macedonia and Albania
• Lake Towuti
  Multi-parameter analysys of downhole-measurements in lake sediments as part of an ICDP-Drilling in Indonesia
  Geoparameters from well logging and their uses
• Borehole NMR
  Development of a narrow NMR borehole tool for hydrological questions
• Lake Van
  Multi-parameter analysys of downhole-measurements in lake sediments as part of an ICDP-Drilling in Turkey
• ANDRILL
  Southern McMurdo Sound Project
• Archaeomagnetic colluvial sediments
  Pilot study on the applicability of the archaeomagnetic dating method on colluvial sediments from the western Cologne Bay area via paleomagnetic sampling and analysis
• Chronostratigraphy and geomagnetics on loess-paleo soil sequences in Hungary
  Work on sediments from the last glacial period in Süttő (northern Hungary) and much later sequences in part in Beremend (southern Hungary).
• Chronostratigraphy and geomagnetics in loess-paleo soil sequences in Croatia
  Loess-paleo soil sequences overlying early Pleistocene (?), red soils (aeolian red clays) Work on lines from the island of Susak and the northern Cape of Istria (Savudrija).