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Adlershof Special 13: 20 years of market success
Innovation at high speed: 175,200 hours of science and technology // World market leader in the niche: Rules for startup companies // “A shed like ours”: Achievements of the Bestec GmbH // “Starry eyed enough“: FMB…

Learning to sell: ENZ Ingenieurbüro and LTB Lasertechnik Berlin
“Curious”, he replied when asked to describe the initial period in retrospect. Following the fall of the Berlin Wall in autumn 1989 it quickly became clear to the qualified engineer Fred Enz that his employer, the…

Volume is a matter of good form: Adlershofer Jünger Audio-Studiotechnik GmbH
Apple utilises this technology for the sound system in its canteen, it forms part of some pop singers’ touring equipment, and virtually every ARD and ZDF studio has it, also for the FIFA World Cup in South Africa. It…

Connecting link for the transport of ideas: Contract research by GNF
For Lutz Hippe the many partners on site make this location worth its weight in gold. For instance, if he needs special analytical investigations, he need only go to the building next door or two floors down:…

“Starry eyed enough”: FMB Feinwerk- und Messtechnik GmbH
Three to four years of hard graft, thought Uwe Schneck, then everything would be running smoothly and he could ease off: In 1990 undoubtedly the greatest miscalculation of his entrepreneurial career. Schneck is a…

“A shed like ours”: Achievements of the Bestec GmbH
“Located in the new Berlin-Adlershof Science and Technology Park, the company Bestec GmbH has been awarded a nuclear fusion research order amounting to one million Deutschmark.“ Totalling 83 words, this brief…

World market leader in the niche: rules for startup companies
How do you become a world market leader? An answer to this question does not necessarily have to come from the executive floors of multinational conglomerates. Also many Adlershof companies have something to say on…
Prof. Dr. Michael W. Linscheid
Vice president for research at the Humboldt University of Berlin:
Michael W. Linscheid was born in Wuppertal in 1948. He studied chemistry at the University of Cologne, and afterwards took his doctoral degree there writing his thesis about “Field Desorption Mass Spectrometry of …
Dr. Erik T. J. Nibbering
Department Head for femtosecond spectroscopy of molecular systems at the Max Born Institute:
Having received his education in the Netherlands, he acquired in 1993 his Ph.D. at the Rijksuniversiteit Groningen on the subject on femtosecond optical dephasing and solvation dynamics in liquids. During a…
Dr. Bernd Eppich
The physicist works at the Optoelectronics Department of the Ferdinand-Braun-Institut für Höchstfrequenztechnik:
Bernd Eppich was born in 1963 in Heilbronn. After his physics studies at TU Karlsruhe, he received his diploma about resonators for solid-state tube lasers from the Solid-State Laser Institute at TU Berlin. During …
Professor Dr.-Ing. Stefan Jähnichen
Director of the Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Architecture and Software Technology FIRST and the Research Group on Software Engineering at the Faculty for Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the TU Berlin:
Born in 1947, Stefan Jähnichen took his Ph.D. in electrical engineering at the Technical University of Berlin in 1979. Since 1991 he has been Director of the Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Architecture and …
Professor Dr. Stefan Eisebitt
Head of the joint research group “Functional Nanomaterials” at the Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie:
After three years of PhD studies at the University of British Columbia, Canada, Stefan Eisebitt obtained his PhD in Physics in collaboration with the Research Center Jülich at the University of Cologne in 1996. In…
Prof. Dr. Ingolf Volker Hertel
Acting as the speaker of the board of IGAFA, the former director of the Max Born Institute has significantly contributed to form the present shape, function and image of Berlin-Adlershof:
Ingolf Volker Hertel was born 1941 June 6, and lived in Radebeul during his early childhood. From the age of 10 he grew up in Freiburg in the South-West of Germany. He attended a traditional grammar school, and - …
Prof. Dr. Ulrich Panne
Professor for Instrumental Analytical Chemistry at the Humboldt University and director of the department of “Analytical Chemistry; Reference Materials” at the BAM Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing:
Ulrich Panne, born in 1964, studied Chemistry with a focus on Analytical Chemistry at the University Dortmund and the UCL London. He received his diploma in analytical chemistry (1989) and changed for his Ph.D. …
Konstantin Wiegandt, physicist
He is working on his PhD thesis at the Humboldt University in the field of the AdS/CFT correspondence:
Konstantin Wiegandt was born in Hamburg in 1981 and grew up in Ahrensburg near Hamburg. After the first year of his studies in Hamburg, he took part in a 1-year exchange program of the Deutsch-Französische …
Pavel Laskov, Ph.D
Project head in the Intelligent Data Analysis department at the Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Architecture and Software Technology FIRST:
Pavel Laskov was born in 1971 in Moscow/Russia and obtained his first degree in Computer and System Engineering in 1994 at the Moscow Institute of Radio, Electronics and Automation. He then spent the next seven…
Dr. Hermann A. Dürr
Head of the department Magnetic Dynamics at the Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie:
Hermann Dürr was born in 1961 in Winterhausen (Germany). He studied physics at the University of Würzburg and the State University of New York at Albany, USA (MSc. 1984, Diploma 1986). In 1990 he obtained his PhD…
Prof. Dr. Heinz-Wilhelm Hübers
The physicist is developing terahertz systems for applications in astronomy, planetary research, and civil security at DLR:
Heinz-Wilhelm Hübers was born in 1965. He studied Physics and Medicine at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität in Bonn. After receiving the Diploma degree in Physics (1991) he worked on a PhD thesis at the…
Dr. Jens Knobloch
The physicist at HZB develops superconducting radio-frequency systems for new light sources and future accelerators:
Usually he smiles, the future head of the Institute „SRF-Technology“ at the Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie (HZB). Almost at the same time when BESSY and the Hahn-Meitner Institut merged in…
Dr. Clemens von Korff Schmising
The physicist's PhD thesis in ultrafast X-ray science was awarded the Lise-Meitner-Preis 2009:
Clemens von Korff Schmising was born in 1977 in the Rhineland where he also grew up. After his ‘Vordiplom’ (BA) in Bayreuth, Bavaria and a stay abroad in St. Andrews in Scotland he returned to Bonn, where in the …