News Archive

Let’s Move!
Kickboxing, Aqua Fitness and the running community in Adlershof:
Taking the bike to work, yoga during lunchbreak, a quick run in the park after work or a football match with co-workers – there are many opportunities for the “brainworkers” of the Science City Adlershof to move and…

Stomach Drops and Cooking Spray
Hofmann & Sommer researches active substances in drugs, food and cosmetics in Adlershof:
While the history of Hofmann & Sommer hails back to 1906 in Königsee-Rottenbach in Thuringia, the company’s research department is an Adlershof youngster. For two years now, the department has been experimenting on…

HZB launches the HI-SCORE international research school
In collaboration with universities and research insitutions in Germany and Israel:
The Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin (HZB) is establishing the Helmholtz International Research School HI-SCORE, which will be oriented towards solar energy research. To accomplish this, HZB is collaborating with the Weizmann…

Nano-Tracking Plaques
Researchers from Adlershof and the Charité, Europe’s largest university clinic, are working on advancing the use of element microscopes:
Modern medical imaging aims at looking into the human body and assessing the condition of the circulatory system and organs as accurately as possible. It deals with potentially life-saving questions. Is a heart attack…

Breaking Down Walls
Young scientists presented ideas for the world of tomorrow at the first Falling Walls Lab Adlershof:
Breaking down walls of biomarker sensing: how to detect biomarkers in a drop of blood using laser analysis and DNA origami. This is the ultra-condensed version of the idea of Christian Heck, a biochemist at SALSA, the…

Affordable Energy Worldwide
Autarsys is building storage batteries for decentralised energy supply:
Small Third World villages, islands cut off from the rest of the world, remote luxury wellness resorts: Autarsys can deliver noiseless and clean energy to every corner of the earth. Their idea is ready to take over…

The crucial first few femtoseconds
MBI researchers tackle long-standing problem of few-femtosecond internal conversion:
Observing the crucial first few femtoseconds of photochemical reactions requires tools typically not available in the femtochemistry toolkit. Such dynamics are now within reach with the instruments provided by…

Missing link between new topological phases of matter discovered
Materials researchers are studying semiconductors with exciting properties:
HZB-Physicists at BESSY II have investigated a class of materials that exhibit characteristics of topological insulators. During these studies they discovered a transition between two different topological phases, one…

eagleyard appointed new Chief Technology Officer
Dr. Dirk Schumann starts as new CTO and Managing Director from October 2017:
eagleyard Photonics GmbH announced a change in Management beginning with the new fiscal year: Dr. Thomas Laurent handed over his position as CTO to Dr. Dirk Schumann who also will be part of the Management. Dr.…

Photon counting camera LINCam now available from PicoQuant
The LINCam from Photonscore which operates in the time domain is now part of PicoQuant’s detector line-up with single photon sensitivity:
PicoQuant proudly announces the inclusion of the LINCam, a photon counting camera manufactured by Photonscore, to its line up of single photon sensitive detectors. The LINCam is a single photon counting device working…

Photonik Tage Berlin Brandenburg to take place in Adlershof
Most important photonics industry event in the federal capital region:
For the first time, the Science and Technology Park Berlin-Adlershof will host the Photonik Tage Berlin Brandenburg (Photonics Days Berlin Brandenburg) on the 18th and 19th October 2017. The 400 to 500 expected…

Award for Prof. Dr. Günter Steinmeyer
Adlershof Physicist has been elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society:
Prof. Dr. Günter Steinmeyer, Head of the Department of Solid State Light Sources at the Max Born Institute and since September 2017 Professor of Nonlinear Ultrafast Optics at the Department of Physics at the…

Jayesh Goyal appointed Managing Director of Younicos
Stephen Prince continues to support the business transition as an advisor:
Chief Commercial Officer Jayesh Goyal has been appointed as Managing Director of Younicos, as the Energy Storage Pioneer continues to be integrated into Aggreko, the world’s leading provider of modular, mobile power,…

High power within 4 cycles
Demonstration of record parameters in the generation of ultrashort infrared pulses:
A novel light source provides infrared pulses of 75 femtoseconds duration at a wavelength of 5 micrometer and a repetition rate of 1 kilohertz. A multi-stage optical parametric amplifier in combination with a compact…

Adlershof Special 48
Targetting tomorrow:
A District on the Upswing: Where Rudower Chaussee Turns into Eisenhutweg // Historical Land for Future Growth: The Reassigning of the „Müller Erben“ Premises // A Powerful Cluster: New projects are enhancing the…

Adlershof – Cranes As Far As The Eye Can See
Editorial by Katrin Lompscher, Senator for Urban Development and Housing:
For more than two decades, construction cranes have been spinning in Adlershof. The location in the southeast of Berlin is developing magnificently and extremely dynamically. A city within the city has evolved, with…

Smack in the Middle of It
Rudower Chaussee has developed into one of Adlershof‘s bustling lifelines:
After a year’s rest from work, Katrin Julia Riks has re-joined Adlershof Projekt GmbH. She is looking forward to her daily way to the office on Rudower Chaussee: “It’s amazing how much this street has changed in such…
Precision for Medicine Acquires Epiontis
Leading Immune Monitoring and Epigenetic Technology Service Provider :
Precision for Medicine, part of the Precision Medicine Group, announced today it has acquired Berlin-based Epiontis GmbH, a next-generation European specialty laboratory providing immune monitoring services through…

New Technology for the fastest mobile communication ever
Ferdinand-Braun-Institut demonstrates its capability in III-V electronics at „Productronica“.:
FBH components are used, among others, for the future mobile communications standard 5G and for industrial as well as biomedical applications. The institute presents, for example, heterointegrated chips for terahertz…

NUBIS: Space Efficient Offices in a new building on Franz-Ehrlich-Straße
Trusted Real Estate quality seal and AA+ rating for outstanding space efficiency and highly flexible usability:
Over a total of three construction phases, PROJECT Immobilien are currently erecting an office building on Franz-Ehrlich-Straße, right at the Adlershof train station crossing. First occupancy in the first construction…