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Scientists – the secret stars
Why researchers are not as hyped as musicians or athletes:
Essay by Paulina Czienskowski, freelance journalist who writes for Welt am Sonntag, stern, Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung, and Berliner Morgenpost Let’s start with a quiz: who is Takaaki Kajita? Aziz…
Physicist with her own research group on solar fuels
In conversation with Kathrin Aziz-Lange:
She originally wanted to become a documentary film maker. It was Kathrin Maria Aziz-Lange’s childhood dream. However, she then studied physics and got a PhD. Because it opens up infinite possibilities, she says. Now…
Global traveller
Magdalena Böck sells high-end technology on four continents:
At first she didn’t want to stay longer than six months. Meanwhile she’s been “in this great city” for six years. From Austria to Berlin: “I’m your classic economic refugee,” says Magdalena Böck. Did she flee from…
Search, find, foster
Seeking talent at the Technology Park Adlershof:
Finding, fostering, and maintaining talent is a pivotal challenge of our knowledge-based society. Science and business must cooperate to not let good ideas go to waste in laboratories. Adlershof offers ways to study…
Excited by Yawning
“Jugend forscht“ – the science and technology competition shows the curiosity and passion of young people for science:
They research the emotional connectedness of yawning and feelings triggered by robots – students and other young people research their own questions with curiosity, imagination, and enthusiasm. The Science City…
A clear view of the future work place
How to maintain highly skilled professionals:
enspira Connect GmbH supports companies in tapping into the unused potential of employees and executives and in improving their strategic positioning. “From Adlershof, for Adlershof” is the motto of its founder Hubert…
Passions and Proportions
Christian Schmidt is a violin maker, musician, and painter:
A virgin’s urine for the varnish, wood from trees cut on new moon – there are many myths surrounding the Lombardic violin maker families Amati, Stradivari or Guaneri. All over the world these musical names make the…
Sabine Kunst Elected President of Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Current Minister of Science, Research and Culture of the state of Brandenburg will take up her post at HU at the start of the 2016 summer semester:
The Board of Trustees of the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (HU) has appointed Prof. Dr.-Ing. Dr. Sabine Kunst on Jan 19, 2016 as the new president. She is likely to take up her post at the start of the summer …
Pfeiffer Vacuum presents innovative vacuum solutions
Supplier of vacuum technology at the trade fairs Semicon Korea and Semicon China:
Pfeiffer Vacuum, a leading global supplier of vacuum technology, will be exhibiting at the Semicon Korea Trade Fair in Seoul from January 27 to 29 and Semicon China in Shanghai from March 15 to 17. Visitors to the…
Every Farewell is A New Beginning
The future plans of Hardy Rudolf Schmitz, past managing director of WISTA-MANAGEMENT GMBH:
Hardy Rudolf Schmitz was project manager at Boston Consulting, a consulting company, he was managing partner of CompuNet Computer AG, and, for 14 years, managing director of WISTA-MANAGEMENT GMBH. Now the 65-year-old…
In Good Form
The start-up PensatechPharma develops new forms of pharmaceuticals:
PensatechPharma GmbH is a company specialized on innovative forms of pharmaceuticals. It is now looking for new solutions for difficult types of drug administration at its new location in Adlershof. Professor Roland…
Top-level athletics and university – does it go together?
Students from Adlershof en route to the Olympics:
They work hard for the Olympic qualifying and visit lectures at university at the same time – about 15 top-level athletes study on the campus of Humboldt-University (HU) in Berlin Adlershof. For Maria Kurjo and…
Hybrid solar cell could attain record efficiency of 30%
Helmholtz Scientists realize optimum band gap for silicon/perovskite tandem solar cell:
Tandem solar cells based on silicon and perovskites have raised high hopes for future high efficiency solar modules. A team led by perovskite solar cell pioneer Henry Snaith at the University of Oxford has now shown,…
Analytics simplified
Helmholtz and BAM scientists show alternative method for the representation of microstructures in polycrystalline materials:
Also Raman microspectroscopy in an optical microscope provides the means to determine local crystal orientations of polycrystalline materials over large sample areas. This method can be used alternatively to electron…
Lively Participation at the International Evening
Refugees and potential employers met in Adlershof:
The first international Evening for the integration of refugees into jobs and education took place in the Science and Technology Park Berlin Adlershof on December 16th. Around 50 participants attended the event,…
Helmholtz and HU Scientists explore doped organic semiconductors
Molecules form “mixed crystallites” in the host structure:
Organic semiconductor materials are already being employed today in solar cells and organic LEDs (OLEDs) amongst others. Until now, however, little was known about how the doping molecules are integrated into the…
On the sad occasion of the death of Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Sandner
Former Director of the Max Born Institute for Nonlinear Optics and Short Pulse Spectroscopy died unexpectedly at the age of 66:
The Forschungsverbund Berlin e.V. (FVB) mourns the loss of laser physicist Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Sandner. On December 5th, he died unexpectedly at the age of 66. Wolfgang Sandner shaped the development of the…
Younicos raises record $50 million to finance growth
Energy storage pioneer signs capital round with investments by First Solar and Grupo ECOS:
Market leader Younicos has signed agreements for $50 million in growth capital to further scale its deployment of intelligent energy storage solutions. The funding comes from a consortium that includes First Solar,…
skytron® energy chosen for 9 PV plants in Southeast Asia
55 MWp equipped with leading German supervision and monitoring technology:
skytron energy now provides monitoring and supervision for nine solar PV power plants in Thailand with a total of 55MWp of installed power. The most recently added six plants in Central Thailand have a capacity of…
Filming microscopic and macroscopic changes within materials
The EDDI beamline at BESSY II is now offering even more options:
It has recently become possible to also obtain high-resolution three-dimensional images of microscopic structure with it, up to four such tomographies per second are possible. X-ray diffraction (energy-dispersive…