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Environmentally friendly mobility for a booming neighbourhood
Electric engines and shuttle services aim to take the pressure off local traffic:
‘Mobility is changing the way we work and the offices we work in,’ says Dirk Germandi. As the managing director of the real estate company Projektgesellschaft Gartenstadt Adlershof, Brain Box Berlin (BBB) is much more…
Batteries vs. fuel cells
The Reiner Lemoine Institute compiled an overview of the advantages and disadvantages:
Over the past few years, traffic and transportation are Germany’s only sectors where greenhouse gas emissions are increasing. Switching to electric cars is an important countermeasure to this trend. There are…
Electric scooters are a rare sight in Adlershof
We look at why:
Electric scooters were officially made legal in Germany in June 2019. Since then, they have become all the rage but also the subject of much heated debate. They quickly became an everyday part of life in the city…
New imaging method developed at HZB
Tomoscopy provides insights into dynamic processes with over 200 3D X-ray images per second:
An international research team at the Swiss Light Source (SLS) has set a new tomography world record using a rotary sample table developed at the HZB. With 208 three-dimensional tomographic X-ray images per second,…
PicoQuant celebrates 25 years of Single Molecule Workshop
This years edition of the workshop hosts an impressive line-up of renowned speakers, including two Nobel prize laureates:
This year marks the 25th anniversary of PicoQuant’s annual workshop on “Single Molecule Spectroscopy and Super-resolution Microscopy in the Life Sciences”. The celebratory event, taking place in Berlin from September…
HZB researchers unveil “secret ink” on ancient Nile papyrus
Non-destructive examination of the fragile papyrus with Bessy II:
Researchers from the Egyptian Museum and Papyrus Collection, Berlin universities and Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin studied a small piece of papyrus that was excavated on the island of Elephantine on the River Nile a little…
German Russian collaboration further strengthened at HZB
New Research Group to Investigate Quantum Materials for Future Information Technologies:
HZB physicist Jaime Sanchez-Barriga can establish a "Helmholtz-RSF Joint Research Group". Over the next three years he will receive additional funding from the Helmholtz Association and the Russian Science Foundation…
IKZ researcher Dr. Reinhard Uecker receives Frank Prize from the International Organization for Crystal Growth (IOCG)
Award for new findings in the field of crystal growing:
Prof. Dr. Darrell Schlom, Cornell University, USA, and Dr. Reinhard Uecker, Leibniz-Institut für Kristallzüchtung (IKZ), Germany, received the Frank Prize of the International Organization for Crystal Growth (IOCG)…
Caroline Berlage, a student at PicoQuant, wins Physik-Studienpreis by the Physikalische Gesellschaft zu Berlin
The prize was awarded for her outstanding master’s degree in Physics:
Caroline Berlage, a former student at PicoQuant, is one of this year’s winners of the prestigious Physik-Studienpreis awarded by the Physikalische Gesellschaft zu Berlin. Caroline studied Physics at the…
Berlin University Alliance Wins Excellence Status
Second huge success for three major Berlin universities and Charité in the German Excellence Strategy competition:
Major award for Berlin: The Berlin University Alliance has won funding as a group in the Universities of Excellence funding line of the German federal and state governments’ Excellence Strategy. The German Council of…
More versatile materials
Article of IRIS junior research group leader Michael J. Bojdys published in Nature Communications:
The IRIS junior research group leader Michael J. Bojdys and his international team have achieved a great success: Their article “Real-time optical and electronic sensing with a β-amino enone linked,…
New approaches in standardized sun protection factor determination of sunscreens
Project team in the 'Advanced UV for Life' consortium presents measurement system for non-invasive determination:
In June 2019, a meeting of ISO committee "Cosmetics" (ISO/TC 217) working group "Sun protection test methods" (WG 7) was held in Brussels. Prof. Dr. Jürgen Lademann, head of the “Center of Experimental and Applied…
Research team at HZB investigates electronic processes of metal atoms and their ligands for the first time
Short X-ray pulses of Bessy II were used to analyze charge transfer within transition metal dyes:
Transition-metal complexes in dye-based solar cells are responsible for converting light into electrical energy. A model of spatial charge separation within the molecule has been used to describe this conversion.…
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What (scientific) walls are falling at Adlershof?
Apply now for the Falling Walls Lab!:
Great minds, 3 minutes, 1 day Falling Walls Labs take place globally throughout the year. The Lab is a platform for excellent academics, entrepreneurs and professionals from all disciplines who get the opportunity…
Experimental physicists redefine ultrafast, coherent magnetism
For the first time ever, physicists have been able to change the magnetic moment of a material using a light wave within one femtosecond – the fastest magnetic event ever observed:
For the first time ever, experimental physicists have been able to influence the magnetic moment of materials in sync with their electronic properties. The coupled optical and magnetic excitation within one…
Adlershof Journal July/August 2019
New Freedom: How We Work:
Pharma Parship: The Other Job Search // Fluoride Innovation: Fire-Proof Cooperation Project // PhoCatZo: New Ways in Wastewater Treatment //
Summertime at the office: When even the computers communicate in silence
Essay by Dilek Güngör, writer and journalist from Berlin:
Our office has two bathrooms. One of them has a shower, the other one even has a bathtub. I’ve never seen anybody bathing in it and have never bathed in it myself, which is a pity. I love taking baths. It’s not the…
“Pharma Parship”
In conversation with Katrin Sirach, provider of the professional partner agency optinoo:
Freedom is the highest good for Katrin Sirach. This might be one reason why she gave up a high-paid job at a pharmaceutical company with a corporate university to jump in the deep end. There, she founded optinoo GmbH…
Designing the future
Sven Bauer builds ‘experience models’ in Adlershof:
Two comfortable car seats, a steering wheel, a front window, brakes and an accelerator. Wheels are all that’s missing. This particular vehicle, however, won’t need them. Its route is purely virtual. What it does need…
Create, not manage
What drives entrepreneurs in Adlershof:
The Adlershof campus is one of the most successful technology parks in the country. And for good reasons. The most important are its resourceful, courageous, highly motivated risk-taking entrepreneurs. We wanted to…