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New Guest Relations Manager in Adlershof
Matthias Brandt is the contact person in the International Guest Houses:
Since 01.08.2016, Matthias Brandt is the new Guest Relations Manager at the IGAFA Science Office. He studied Molecular Biomedicine at the University of Bonn and worked as a research fellow at the Institute for…
Lithium-ion batteries with more power
Capacity might be increased by six times:
The capacity of lithium-ion batteries might be increased by six times by using anodes made of silicon instead of graphite. A team from the Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin (HZB) Institute of Soft Matter and Functional…
The next generation of medical devices
SCIENION and Applied Microarrays announce a strategic partnership:
SCIENION AG, a solution provider for precise liquid dispensing applications, and Applied Microarrays, Inc. the recognized leader in manufacturing services for multiplexed testing, today announced a strategic…
French and German Pfeiffer Vacuum employees participate successfully in the Corporate Games
16 medals and 5th place in the overall ranking for the French-German team :
The 4th international “Corporate Games” sporting competition took place in Annecy, France, over the first weekend in July. Any company can register its sports teams for the competitions. The Pfeiffer Vacuum team …
"DemoDay" presents results of Adlershofer Energy Accelerator A2
We are happy to present to you the results of 100 days of hard work with nine excellent startups and three very committed industrial partners. To us, it was a particular success for our programme to be met with such a…
Adlershof Journal July/August 2016
After work: let’s get out of the daily routine!:
Sheep in the City of Science: A place for dreaming // Unjamming heavy metal: How researchers of the German Aerospace Center – DLR are smoothing the traffic flow // Taking a break from the digital bombardment:…
The Art of Flânerie
Essay by Prof. Dr. Holger Rust, Economic Sociologist, Pragmatist and publicist, known as a critic of management methods:
Once an intelligent algorithm will have identified the representative iconography of our time by means of randomly recorded photos of the public scene, the result will be the following: lowered head, focused gaze,…
Struck a chord with the Adlershof Company Run
In conversation with organiser Annika Huber-Lieske:
She is the organiser behind the Adlershof Company Run (Adlershofer Firmenstaffel). Annika Huber-Lieske was responsible for the concept of the running event, which she developed with GSBB Gesundheitssport Berlin…
The inventor
The life of Joachim Feierabend is all about electrical engineering:
“I founded the first private company here on this site.” He did so on the day of the German monetary union. On 1st July 1990, Joachim Feierabend quit his job at the Central Institute for Optics and Spectroscopy to…
Sheep in the City of Science
A place for dreaming:
It’s Saturday in Adlershof. Even a place like this, where 20,000 people work from Monday to Friday, comes to a halt on the weekend. Dilek Güngür went off exploring the area for Adlershof Journal. One can almost smell…
There is life after work
How people from Adlershof spend their time after work:
What do the people of Adlershof do after work? Do they keep working or start relaxing? Can they sit back and unwind? Or is their job firmly stuck in their heads? What does their perfect weekend look like? We asked…
Unjamming heavy metal
How researchers of the German Aerospace Center – DLR are smoothing the traffic flow:
Wacken is a small town in Schleswig Holstein with less than 2,000 inhabitants about 12 kilometres from Itzehoe. The town’s website advertises its undisturbed pastoral surroundings. This is absolutely true on 360 days…
The baker’s fuel
The stuff that makes our bread taste so good:
Flour, sugar, a kneading machine: we are making dough in the lab. One ingredient with a very characteristic smell is essential: yeast. This fascinating organism is the main focus of the VH Berlin e.V. Research…
Looking back
Director Lutz Pehnert on the female presenters of the GDR television and other stories from East Germany:
These young women were the face of GDR television, they shaped TV events, and became “good friends” who were welcome in people’s living rooms. Some of them were nurses, teachers, or doctors, who worked TV presenters…
Taking a break from the digital bombardment
Psychologists from Adlershof have developed a downtime app:
Two thirds of German people are accessible almost anytime and anywhere via smartphones, internet, and social media. Digitalisation has resulted in an accelerated flow of information – and permanent stress, whether at…
Cancer treatment made to measure
The biotech company Barron Biomedical is working on cancer therapy tailored to the patient’s individual needs:
Health and a long life are often traced back to “good genes”. Not only personal lifestyle, but also genetic factors are viewed as main causes for diseases such as cancer. This suggests that the effectiveness of…
Translating accelerator physics into three-dimensional acoustic compositions
Sound artist Gerriet K. Sharma designs sound sculptures of BESSY VSR:
The electron storage ring BESSY II is the backdrop for an extraordinary art project. Sound artist Gerriet K. Sharma of the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz will translate the principles of accelerator…
Fluctuating liquid structure induces ultrabroad infrared absorption
MBI scienstists investigate hydrated protons on ultrafast time scales:
The elusive infrared absorption continuum of protons in aqueous environment has been topic of intense controversial debate since half a century. A team of scientists from the Max Born Institute and the Ben Gurion…
X-ray CoreLab now available
New laboratory space with modernized X-ray diffractometry equipment has been set up at Helmholtz-Zentrum:
All regular HZB scientists as well as visiting scientists can now use the diverse X-ray diffractometry equipment at the X-ray CoreLab, effective immediately. Each instrument is up-to-date with the latest versions of…
PicoQuant expands its VisUV picosecond pulsed laser platform
Modules emitting in the near infrared or with high optical powers are now available:
PicoQuant has introduced two new pulsed laser modules VisUV-1064 and VisUV-532-HP, rounding out the VisUV platform line-up. Up to now, modules based on this platform provided laser pulses at 266 nm, 355 nm, and…