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Prof. Dr. Julia Lossau
Assistant Professor for Cultural Geography at the Department of Geography at Humboldt University:
Julia Lossau studied geography at the Bayerische Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg and gained a first degree (diploma) from the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn in 1997. After having completed…

Prof. Dr. Peter Rudolph
Coordinator of the competence area “Crystal Growth Technology” at the Leibniz Institute for Crystal Growth (IKZ):
Peter Rudolph is the coordinator of the competence area “Crystal Growth Technology” at the Leibniz Institute for Crystal Growth (IKZ) in Berlin-Adlershof. Peter Rudolph (who got his degree as Electrical Engineer at…
Dr. rer. nat. Sebastian Heinz
The mathematician works at the Weierstrass Institute for Applied Analysis and Stochastics (WIAS) in Berlin:
Sebastian Heinz was born on September 26, 1977 in Berlin and studied mathematics at the Humboldt University of Berlin from 1998 till 2004. He received the Humboldt award of his university for his diploma thesis. He…
Dr. rer. nat. Moshe Weizman
For his Ph.D thesis the physicist explored the properties of laser-crystallized polycrystalline silicon-germanium (SiGe) layers for thin film solar cells:
Born on Febuary 9, 1976 in Jerusalem he received his B.Sc in physics from the Hebrew University at Jerusalem, and wrote his Diploma thesis at the TU Berlin. A scholarship from the Deutsche Bundesstiftung Umwelt …
Dr. rer. nat. Tom Großmann
The chemist developed a signal amplifying method for molecular gene diagnostics at the Humboldt University of Berlin:
He was born in 1978 in Merseburg and studied Chemistry from October 1999 until September 2003 at the Humboldt University of Berlin. He moved to the University of California, Berkeley where he performed studies…
Dr. Ing. Tatjana Čukić
The nominee for the dissertation prize Adlershof 2008 works as a process and development engineer at Global Solar Energy:
Tatjana Čukić, born 1978 in Novi Sad (Serbia), studied Chemical Engineering at the Faculty of Technology at the University of Novi Sad. In 2007 she finished her PhD studies at the Leibniz Institute for Catalysis…
caprotec bioanalytics Completes Series B Financing Round of EUR 4 Million
caprotec bioanalytics GmbH today (Thursday May 13, 2010) announced the closing of a EUR 4 million ($5.1M) Series B Financing Round with existing investors Creathor Venture, IBB Beteiligungsgesellschaft, ERP…
Berlin Adlershof at BIO 2010
May 3-6, Chicago:
WISTA-MANAGEMENT GMBH, develops and operates Germany`s leading Science and Technology Park in Berlin Adlershof, participates in BIO 2010 International Convention: The Global Event for Biotechnology at the Germany…
Berlin Adlershof - Facts and Figures
March 2010:
Berlin Adlershof is one of the most successful high-tech locations in Germany. Embedded in an overall urban development concept, this integrated Science, Business and Media location has been growing on an area of 4.2…
New York Times on Airport Schönefeld and Berlin Business
A $3.4 Billion Investment to Push the Capital's Economy :
A high-technology center in Adlershof, near the new airport in Schönefeld, has attracted 814 firms ranging from biotechnology to media, employing more than 14,000 workers. Read more...

Adlershof Special 12: IT and Media
Of congestion hunters and traffic regulators: Telematic applications for regulating traffic // Center for IT and media ZIM 3: Open ceremony in April // Of men and machines: Users' psychology // Healthy information…

Bits and bytes for all walks of life
What do the capital city, safety, traffic, logistics, health, and administration all have in common? They all work with modern information and communication technologies – technologies that are no longer merely…

Of men and machines
The relationship between man and machine is one of mixed feelings. To understand this you don’t need to have attempted the legendary example of programming a video recorder. “Most of the operating instructions for…

Virtual worlds and the successor to the barcode
IKIPSI doesn’t mean anything, but it sounds good. IKIPSI is a project run by the Adlershof company Software Achkar and is intended to help children in Japan to learn English. Also in museums modern information and…

“Don’t call me a camera”
Forest fires destroy ecosystems and timberland, settlements,and inevitably people’s lives. Moreover they release every year more carbon dioxide than global motor traffic. Utilising the algorithms of the German…

Healthy information Technology
The SOA MED project run by the Humboldt University (HU) Department of Computer Science deals with software architectures for the future. The Fraunhofer Institute FIRST researches into assistance systems for the senior…

Of congestion hunters and traffic regulators
Vehicles that communicate with each other, congestion detectors that process local data from mobile telephones in real time, electronic scarecrows for flight safety – without telematic applications all wheels would…

Smooth flowing processes
Using a Microsoft Visio based application to depict a complex industrial plant would have been inconceivable for the company Hager+Elsässer, yet it was convinced by Visual PlantEngineer from the Adlershof software…

Center for IT and media ZIM 3
The acoustic camera, the Berlin brain-computer interface (a machine that can read minds) and the robodogs are only some examples made in Adlershof. About a hundred companies with over six hundred personnel, the…

Changes to the Management Board of SOLON SE
Stefan Säuberlich is new CEO; Management Board reduced to four members :
The Supervisory Board of SOLON SE has appointed Stefan Säuberlich as the new CEO. Thomas Krupke will continue to be available to the company as a consultant. The company is undergoing a far-reaching restructuring…