Two “clusters of excellence” were awarded to the University of Konstanz, “The Politics of Inequality: Perceptions, Participation and Policies” and the “Centre for the Advanced Study of Collective Behaviour”. Ulf-Dietrich Reips is a principal investigator in the inequality cluster and a member of the collective behavior cluster. The research aims at questions that can only be answered in interdisciplinary collaboration and was awarded with substantial funding for 7 years (and likely extension to 14 years).