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Co-responsible for the ifp’s steep growth trajectory
In conversation with food chemist Carolin Poweleit:
She’s a food chemist with an appetite for travelling and visiting other countries. Her way of working is highly structured but never goes without using her imagination. She’s is an identical twin but is completely…
Mission 2030
How do we keep the Technology Park Adlershof on a road to success?:
Things are going smoothly in Adlershof. To make sure this continues, WISTA Management GmbH is thinking about ways to keep the site on a road to success – and to make it even better. It is seldom good to rest on one’s…
Science as a location factor
Michael Müller, Berlin’s governing mayor and senator for higher education and research, talked to us about recruiting new talent, how Berlin’s ‘Zukunftsorte’ bridge gaps, and how Adlershof is expanding its universities for future PE teachers:
Adlershof Journal: Mr. Governing Mayor, please gaze into your crystal ball: what will the Berlin as hub for science and research look like in 2030? It will certainly be more modern, more international, and more…
The activist
Andrea Lübcke researches molecules and campaigns against climate change:
She strongly disagrees that the issues she deals with on a day-to-day basis are exceptionally hard to grasp. Take a femtosecond, for example. What’s hard to grasp about that? It’s not hard if you try to imagine that a…
This house is a robot
Auricon Technische Dienste GmbH specialises in building automation:
The mission statement of Auricon Technische Dienste GmbH could be broken down as follows: if nobody receives a call from a guest staying at a hotel, the staff did a good job. Auricon specialises in building…
Let there be… a new light
Scientists from Max Born Institute, Israel Institute of Technology and TU Berlin synthesized light with new intrinsic chirality to tell mirror molecules apart:
Light is the fastest way to distinguish right- and left-handed chiral molecules, which has important applications in chemistry and biology. However, ordinary light only weakly senses molecular handedness. Researchers…
Entangled quantums and perfect crystals
Two Adlershof-based researchers are being granted 1.5 million each by the European Research Council:
What Tim Schröder and his team are doing is essentially staging a relay race between light particles, which, upon reaching the finish line, transmit a message composed of different quantum states. These messages are…
All new at Allianz: From financial technologies to working from home
The insurance company’s new building is at the forefront of implementing new ideas for a modern working environment:
The moment finally arrived on 20 September: the new Allianz Campus in Berlin, which has been under construction near Adlershof’s S-Bahn station since 2016, saw its official opening. As early as May, months before the…
High-strength printing
A PSC start-up team is producing high-purity silicon carbide with 3D printers:
For a tenured professor to give up his position to start up a business, he must be extremely convinced of his idea. This is exactly what happened to Sigmund Greulich-Weber when he founded PSC Technologies GmbH in…
Secret places
Time travelling through the Egg Room, the magnificent director’s office, and other hidden places:
A neon-lit corridor, cold and long, leads up to the director’s office – decorated with all kinds of insignia of power. The R1 building with its rather austere exterior was once home to the television broadcaster of…
Space-compatible systems for satellite applications
Ferdinand-Braun-Institut at the “Space Tech Expo Europe” (STEE) in Bremen, 19 - 21 November 2019:
FBH has extensive experience in the development and fabrication of diode laser modules for space applications. These modules have repeatedly proven their capability in experiments carried out under zero-gravity…
IRIS Adlershof and Institute of Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences want to intensify their scientific collaboration
Second workshop took place in Dongguan, Guangdong:
The Institute of Physics (IOP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and IRIS Adlershof want to intensify their scientific collaboration. After the first joint workshop at IRIS Adlershof on June 25./26. the second…
BESSY II-Team observed Dynamic pattern of Skyrmions
New possibilities for energy-efficient data processing:
Tiny magnetic vortices known as skyrmions form in certain magnetic materials, such as Cu2OSeO3. These skyrmions can be controlled by low-level electrical currents – which could facilitate more energy-efficient data…
Helmholtz Association promotes cooperation between HZB and Slovenia
The research focus is on the characterization of tandem solar cells made of perovskite and silicon. :
A HZB team has successfully raised funds from the “Helmholtz European Partnering Program” of the Helmholtz Association to expand cooperation with partners of the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. Currently, most…
Forward or backward? New pathways for protons in water or methanol
Scientists at Max Born Institute Berlin and Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg publish new findings:
A collaborative ultrafast spectroscopy and ab initio molecular dynamics simulations study, as recently published by scientists of the Max Born Institute of Nonlinear Optics and Short Pulse Spectroscopy (MBI) and the…
Freigeist-Fellowship of the Volkswagen foundation for Dr. Nichol Furey
The physicist will conduct research at IRIS Adlershof and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin:
The mathematicial physicist Nichol Furey (University of Cambridge) has been awarded a Freigeist Fellowship by the Volkswagen Foundation. These Fellowships are aimed at unusual and courageous lateral thinkers from all…
Prize of the European Microwave Association 2019 awarded to Wolfgang Heinrich
The head of the research area III-V electronics at FBH is honored for his outstanding engagement:
Making microwave research visible and connecting the players in research and industry – this has been Wolfgang Heinrich's driving force for many years. For his outstanding engagement, the head of the research area…
Humboldt Research Fellowship for Prof. Carlos-Andres Palma
The scientist will support materials research at the Department of Physics and at IRIS Adlershof:
Professor Carlos-Andres Palma has been awarded a Humboldt Research Fellowship for Experienced Researchers. The fellowship provides funding for international experts to make extended research visits to Germany. At IRIS…
Julius Upmeier zu Belzen is winner of the Falling Walls Lab Adlershof 2019
With around 30 applications, Adlershof was again the most successful lab in Germany:
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…
The tradition goes on: Richard-Sebastian Moeller was awarded this year’s LUM Young Scientist
Nominated research work contributes to a better understanding of particle adhesion on surfaces:
LUM GmbH hosts since 2011 periodically the international scientific conference for researchers and users of particle and dispersion measuring technologies. Since 2013 areas of expertise in materials testing are also…