DFG Heisenberg project post-mortem

This post is an excerpt from the formally non-public part of my DFG Heisenberg grant final report (about half of the actually interesting part). I hope it will help people do better. Some personal information has been redacted. The backstory In 2018, when I first submitted a Heisenberg program proposal, funding was declined. One referee report was full of misinformation and misinterpretations, the…