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“Stromberg is a part of me”
How business founder Markus Wogatzki became an extra in the German version of The Office and developed an AI app for Stromberg video quotes:
He’s a superfan of TV cult figure Stromberg and now an extra in the newest remake: Business founder Markus Wogatzki even developed an AI app for Stromberg video quotes. After ten years of radio silence, “Papa” is…
In Memoriam Klaus Thiessen
Optoelectronics specialist and solar energy pioneer:
Professor Klaus Thiessen passed away on 3 July 2025 at the age of nearly 98. The internationally recognised expert in optoelectronics remained a committed bridge-builder between science, industry, and society well…
Long-term stability for perovskite solar cells: a big step forward
A Teflon-like layer ensures exceptional stability and consistent efficiency:
Perovskite solar cells are inexpensive to produce and generate a high amount of electric power per surface area. However, they are not yet stable enough, losing efficiency more rapidly than the silicon market…
BAM and University of Birmingham extend strategic research partnership
Thematische Schwerpunkte sind Energie, Additive Fertigung, Umwelt- und Lebenswissenschaften sowie Chemie und Materialien:
The Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing (BAM) and the University of Birmingham (UoB) are continuing their successful strategic research partnership. The Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), originally…
The timekeeper
Oliver Fartmann is working on an improved atomic clock:
What are the paths into science and research? “I was quite good at maths, I think,” says Oliver Fartmann. Good enough, at any rate, to catch the attention of his physics teacher at the Archenhold Gymnasium in…
Two precision mechanics from HZB are Berlin's best trainees
Edgar Lunk and Fiete Buchin completed their training with top results:
Two former apprentices from the HZB workshop have achieved something remarkable: Fiete Buchin and Edgar Lunk completed their training as precision mechanics, taking first and second place in all of Berlin. In this…
Mars in 3D
Using a special camera developed in Adlershof, planetary geologist Daniela Tirsch and her team are mapping planet Mars:
For more than 20 years, the Mars Express probe of the European Space Agency (ESA) has been studying the surface and atmosphere of Mars. On board is Germany’s most significant contribution to the mission: the High…
MBI researchers characterise ultrashort VUV light pulses with electron FROG
New technique enables complete analysis of femtosecond pulses in the vacuum ultraviolet range:
A team of researchers at the Max Born Institute managed to fully characterise few-femtosecond-long light pulses tunable in the vacuum ultraviolet. These results unlock the possibility for studying valence electron…
Too warm for comfort
Climate researcher Tobias Sauter studies the melting of glaciers:
Nowhere are the effects of climate change more visible than in the world’s glaciers. The loss of ice masses is immense. Climate researcher Tobias Sauter investigates how and why the melting of glaciers is…
Electromobility: Saving costs and facilitating the energy transition through bidirectional charging
Analysis by the Reiner Lemoine Institute published on behalf of the Agora Verkehrswende think tank:
Feeding electricity from vehicle batteries into the grid can be financially worthwhile for users of e-cars and at the same time serve the electricity sector. This is illustrated by an analysis by the think tank Agora…
Breakthrough in attosecond science
Research team from MBI and DESY develops a plasma lens that can focus attosecond pulses, thereby overcoming significant limitations:
A team of researchers from the Max Born Institute (MBI) in Berlin and DESY in Hamburg has demonstrated a plasma lens capable of focusing attosecond pulses. This breakthrough substantially increases the attosecond…
Crystals and careers
How research is turned into business:
New technologies require one thing above all else. They take time. It takes years for a good idea to grow into a viable spin-off,” says Thomas Schröder, director of the Leibniz Institute for Crystal Growth (IKZ) in…
Energy of charge carrier pairs in cuprate compounds
Measurements at BESSY II contribute to a better understanding of high-temperature superconductivity:
High-temperature superconductivity is still not fully understood. Now, an international research team at BESSY II has measured the energy of charge carrier pairs in undoped La₂CuO₄. Their findings revealed that the…
Time matters
Which research questions call for short measurement times, and which analyses require longer ones? A brief journey through time and the Adlershof campus:
Watching molecular and atomic building blocks while they work? This is made possible by operando studies. Such deep insights at an atomic resolution are facilitated by BESSY II, a research facility operated by the…
Art with conviction
Core human values are made visible at the ST3AM workspaces in Adlershof and Charlottenburg:
Art in offices is often little more than a meaningless splash of colour on the wall. But it can be done differently. With a clear colour concept, artist Sarah Masura and interior designer Urve Liivak joined forces to…
Trailblazing spirit without role models
A book series about East Germany takes up the success story of the Adlershof Technology Park:
Adlershof is more than a tech site. It’s a symbol of what East Germany can achieve when courage, creativity and political will come together. The book series Denke ich anOstdeutschland … takes up this theme. When the…
Electrocatalysis with dual functionality – an overview
Synchrotron sources provide insights into complex reactions and can thus help in the development of hybrid electrolysers:
Hybrid electrocatalysts can produce green hydrogen, for example, and valuable organic compounds simultaneously. This promises economically viable applications. However, the complex catalytic reactions involved in…
Adlershof Journal November/December 2025
A question of time: How we oscillate between the speed of light and Zen:
ESSAY by Paul Bokowski: Laws of natureIN CONVERSATION WITH Tobias Hein, online marketing manager at LUMITOS AG, has a close on-off relationship with Technology Park AdlershofPORTRAIT The timekeeper: Oliver Fartmann is…
YSGAG: A Breakthrough Substrate for Quantum Magnonics from IKZ
New material allows quantum experiments at low temperatures:
Dr. Christo Guguschev and his team from the Leibniz-Institut für Kristallzüchtung (IKZ), in collaboration with international partners, has developed and demonstrated a new diamagnetic substrate material, nearly…
Ladies Network Adlershof (LaNA) presents: Prof. Dr. Sangeeta Sharma
Head of the Department of Theory of Dynamics in Quantum Materials at the Max Born Institute for Nonlinear Optics and Short-Pulse Spectroscopy (MBI) at FVB e.V.:
Growing up in Delhi, India, the physicist dreamed of working as an engineer like her father. As she became older, she discovered her passion for theoretical aspects and began studying physics. Today, she is very…