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Berlin Adlershof: Facts and Figures
The Berlin Adlershof Science City is one of the most successful high-technology sites in Germany and Berlin’s largest media site. It is home to 1,072 companies and scientific institutions (Dec 2017) on an area of…
Important progress in solar-to-hydrogen conversion
Nanostructuring increases efficiency of metal-free photocatalysts by factor eleven:
Polymeric carbon nitrides exhibit a catalytic effect in sunlight that can be used for the production of hydrogen from solar energy. However, the efficiency of these metal-free catalysts is extremely low. A team at the…
A spinning top of light
MBI researchers develop a new method for the characterization of extremely short light pulses:
Short, rotating pulses of light reveal a great deal about the inner structure of materials. An international team of physicists led by Prof. Misha Ivanov of the Max Born Institute for Nonlinear Optics and Short Pulse…
Adlershof Journal March/April 2018
Women in Tech: The Technology Park‘s Feminine Side:
How CyberMentoring and researcher tandems work // Ladies first: Successful female high-tech entrepreneurs in senior management positions // It doesn’t get any cooler: An off-grid refrigerator // …
Work for All: Why full-time working mums work full-time differently than full-time working dads
Essay by Dilek Güngör, writer and a journalist from Berlin:
We call working mums, working mums – but are there any mums that don’t work? Procreation is hard work, so is pregnancy, not to mention giving birth. The moment they cross that off the list in the delivery room, it…
Committed Advocate of Equal Opportunities
In conversation with Mara Oßwald, physicist and co-organizer of the conference „I, Scientist“:
A passionate physicist, black belt martial artist and trainer, committed advocate of equal opportunities and a mother-to-be – Mara Oßwald is clearly full of girl power. It seems her day has more than 24 hours. The…
Do women network differently?
On role models and the guide to self-marketing:
There it is again that much maligned cliché! Even here in Adlershof. There are not enough women in STEM university courses, even less female professors in university departments and hardly any women among the…
Ladies first!
Successful female high-tech entrepreneurs in senior management positions:
Women in senior management positions in business and science continue to be in short supply. The same applies to Adlershof. But there are some notable exceptions, which we want to present in the following as examples…
The Building Specialist
Jennifer Grabsch takes care of real estate in Adlershof:
She remembers the surprised looks and confused inquiries from when she was still at university: “I had to explain again and again what I was studying.” Facility management – isn’t that just a euphemism for becoming a…
Researching Big Cities
An Adlershof-based geographer takes a close look at the consequences of gentrification:
Her research topic regularly makes the headlines. Ilse Helbrecht’s focus is on gentrification, a global process that also leads to heated debates and vocal protesting in Berlin. “We are talking about a process in…
More Security in Consumer Protection
A story of growth of the ifp – the Institute for Product Quality:
What is in the things that I use every day? In my food. In the water. Consumers are becoming increasingly sensitive to quality as EU food laws are becoming stricter. The ifp Institute for Product Quality in Adlershof,…
Kickstarting Women’s Careers in Research
Mentoring programmes bring together like-minded women and foster academic careers:
One works as a mentor sparking the enthusiasm of girls for STEM subjects, while the other joined a tandem partnership with a renowned Swedish researcher, who shares her valuable experiences. They both represent a…
A thick, rocky river
The artist Lisa Premke turns space into sound:
“There are sounds,” says Lisa Premke, “that are like frequencies stored deep in our subconscious.” The “thick, rocky river” is the sound of her own blood. She first heard it during a medical exam and made it the…
A² Accelerator enters its 3rd round
The topic is “Smart City:
The A² Adlershof Accelerator is entering its third round. This time the topic is “Smart City”. We are looking for start-ups, who are working specifically on smart city issues, on the interface of such issues, or on…
Best of two worlds: combining optical tweezers with time-resolved confocal microscopy
PicoQuant and Ionovation now offer an integrated platform that combines microscopy and force spectroscopy:
As a joint development, PicoQuant and Ionovation combined time-resolved microscopy and optical tweezers in a single system. Both instruments retain their individual functionalities but can also be used together, thus…
Hidden talents: Converting heat into electricity with pencil and paper
Helmholtz researchers use simple constituents for thermoelectric components:
Thermoelectric materials can use thermal differences to generate electricity. Now there is an inexpensive and environmentally friendly way of producing them with the simplest of components: a normal pencil, photocopy…
Research team suceeded in identifying the chirality of molecules with a new method
Twisting electrons can tell right-handed and left-handed molecules apart:
Identifying right-handed and left-handed molecules is a crucial step for many applications in chemistry and pharmaceutics. An international research team (CELIA-CNRS/INRS/Berlin Max Born Institute/SOLEIL) has now…
Ecoligo.investments opens solar-battery project in Philippines for investment
Core of the system is a 124.2 kWh battery, supplied by Adlershof-based energy storage specialist Autarsys:
A project to power an off-grid eco resort in the Philippines has opened for investment on the crowdinvesting platform www.ecoligo.investments. Private investors will refinance the solar-plus-storage system, which has…
40-year controversy in solid-state physics resolved
Samarium hexaboride is a trivial surface conductor:
An international team at BESSY II headed by Prof. Oliver Rader has shown that the puzzling properties of samarium hexaboride do not stem from the material being a topological insulator, as it had been proposed to be.…
The interaction of ribonucleic acid and water
MBI scientists use vibrational spectroscopy to analyze biomolecular systems:
Ribonucleic acid (RNA) plays a key role in biochemical processes which occur at the cellular level in a water environment. Mechanisms and dynamics of the interaction between RNA and water were now revealed by…