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DFG funds new Research Training Group „Rethinking Quantum Field Theory“
The group based in the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin will be funded with about 4 Mio Euro:
The Research Training Group (RTG) “Rethinking Quantum Field Theory” is based in the Physics Department and the IRIS Adlershof of Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (HU). From April 2020, it will be funded by the German…
Berlin Science Award: Young Talent Award for Steve Albrecht
Governing Mayor honours HZB scientist for outstanding research achievements in the field of novel tandem solar cells:
On November 7, 2019, Michael Müller, Governing Mayor of Berlin and Senator for Science and Research, honoured outstanding research achievements for the twelfth time. Prof. Dr. Steve Albrecht was honoured this year…
Adlershof know-how in the fight against malaria
X-ray microscopy at BESSY II reveals how antimalaria-drugs might work:
Malaria is one of the most threatening infectious diseases in the world. An international team has now been able to investigate malaria pathogens in red blood cells in vivo using the BESSY II X-ray microscope and the…
Joint project “ForMikro-GoNext” launched
Semiconductor material beta-gallium oxide offers the best prerequisites for next-generation power electronics:
The recently launched joint project “ForMikro-GoNext” of the Leibniz-Institut für Kristallzüchtung (IKZ), the Ferdinand Braun Institut, Leibniz-Institut für Höchstfrequenztechnik (FBH), the University of Bremen and…
New instrument at BESSY II commences user operation
The powerful measurement station for photoelectron spectroscopy and microscopy has been developed in the Russian-German Laboratory:
A new instrument became available to the users of BESSY II on Oct. 28, 2019. The new beamline and apparatus for spin- and angular-resolved photoemission in the Russian-German Laboratory at BESSY II have successfully…
Adlershof Journal November/December 2019
Working together, winning together: our strategy for success:
High-strength printing: High-purity silicon carbide with 3D printers // Science as a location factor: Interview with Berlin’s governing mayor Michael Müller // Secret places: Time travelling through hidden places in…
Prepared for the champions league: Adlershof is ready to contribute to the Grand Challenges
Essay by Roland Sillmann, head of WISTA Management GmbH and WISTA.Plan GmbH:
Adlershof achieved the mission it once set for itself. The site’s numbers are excellent. In 2018, the growth rate of Adlershof-based companies was at twelve percent, twice as high as that of the Chinese economy. The…
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…