Speaker of the Excellence Cluster is Wolfgang Ertmer, Deputy Spokesman is Karsten Danzmann.
In addition, the technology is also suitable for use in surveying projects, such as for future gravity field satellite missions.
These clocks are required for applications in precision geodesy such as the GNSS (Global Navigation Satellite System) and for highly accurate measurements of Earth's gravity.
The newly developed technologies should be used for measurements, which shall answer the fundamental questions of theoretical physics of time and space.
It includes in addition to many especially for laser experiments planned laboratories three major equipments: a freefall simulator, a fiber-drawing system and an atomic fountain.