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The electricity strategist
Catherina Cader is working towards a clean energy in remote areas:
She is frequently enamoured by images of the nightly earth from space. These bright points of light that lump together in certain places. Beside them, the vast zones of total darkness. Catherina Cader is fascinated by…
A new beginning in the well-known
Two uplifting stories from Adlershof returners:
Now is bad time for a new beginning? Not at all. We spoke to two successful company heads, who, after a time away from Adlershof, launched new careers here as “returners”. Two encouraging stories. It’s a small world.…
A bold start – despite COVID-19
What drives prospective business founders – two teams from the Adlershof Founder’s Lab report:
Making the step to start a company requires courage, even when things are normal. What drives prospective founders to take the step during the epidemic year 2020? – two teams from the Adlershof Founder’s Lab…
The octave magician
Nichol (Cohl) Furey is a researcher at IRIS Adlershof:
Does the word octave sound like music to your ears? For Cohl Furey, it is also full of mathematics. It was love at first sight when the physicist encountered the eponymous, eight-dimensional number system during her…
Two researchers breaking down walls
The biochemist Christian Hackenberger, who seeks and destroys cancer cells, and the chemist Chayanika Das, who fights magnesium corrosion:
Vivid, detailed, and laid-back is how Christian Hackeberger presented himself at the Falling Walls Conference, which was held digitally for the first time. He talks of sniffer dogs and bombs, of super glue and plastic…
Tracing the Anthropocene
Professor of geography Jonas Østergaard Nielsen studies land use changes in an age of global interconnectedness:
“There is nothing left on this earth that is unaffected by human influence,” says Jonas Østergaard Nielsen. Pollution, the extinction of species, climate change – the human species is reshaping the planet and…
A treasure trove of costumes and props
The costumes and props of the Adlershofer Fundus is the place to go for authentic film sets:
The Adlershofer Fundus is an institution of Berlin’s television landscape: both a piece of cultural history and a place where the city’s filmmakers meet. Many well-known film sets were equipped and are still equipped…