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Distinguished Service Award for Wolfgang Heinrich
FBH researcher was honoured for outstanding contributions to the IEEE MTT Society and the microwave profession:
Wolfgang Heinrich was honored with the IEEE MTT Distinguished Service Award 2020. The prize recognizes his significant contributions and outstanding service to the IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society and the…
Eight billion world powers and I: On the relationship of the community and the individual
Essay by Nora Lessing, science writer from Berlin:
We call him The Joker. Casually steering his frog-green sports car with one hand, he whizzes past our house every evening, circling the block. He controls his car as well as our destinies: when The Joker comes from…
In conversation with Sanela Schlößer
The event manager and networker at IGAFA is involved in the women's network LaNA:
Bumbar, which is Croatian for ‘bumblebee’, is Sanela Schlößer’s maiden name. She has Croatian roots because her parents came to Germany as guest workers in the 1970s. She was born and raised in Kassel. The non-German…
IT and Electromobility
Lars Zemke solves IT problems and is an advocate for light electric vehicles:
It took a while until he was able to say: ‘I’m slowly becoming an Adlershoferian,’ he says. Just when he got used to saying it, the pandemic drove him out of his office at ‘Am Studio’ located in the former Solon…
Regional and digital
Adlershof-based IT company X-Visual is working with the HTW to create a concept for industrial mixed-reality applications:
Digitisation, virtual reality, and artificial intelligence are revolutionising how industrial facilities are planned, built, and operated. The Adlershof-based software developer X-Visual Technologies has been a…
Paving the way for environmentally friendly corporate fleets
In Adlershof, companies leading the charge for electric vehicles have found pragmatic ways of dealing with the existing hurdles:
The number of registered electric vehicles is on the rise. In Adlershof, too, more and more electric vehicles are being added to company fleets. This raises the question whether expanding the charging infrastructure…
Crisis? What Crisis?
Despite the bleak outlook of economic research institutes, there are companies that continue their path to growth – two examples from Adlershof:
These are difficult times for many companies. Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, economic research institutes are foreseeing a wave of bankruptcies. Despite this bleak outlook, however, there are still many stories with a…
Webinars replacing face-to-face events
BAM gets creative in the wake of the coronavirus crisis:
Need is the mother of invention. The solution is often right in front of us. When the pandemic threw planning into disarray, the team of the Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing (BAM) got pretty…
From company relay race to reflection workshop
Service offering from the Adlershof Health Network for the Science City’s employees:
Annika Huber-Lieske could not reveal to us whether any of the relay race’s colourful teams from last year would be standing on this year’s starting line. But on 3 September 2020, it is indeed ‘ready, set, go’ for the…
A point guard in the quantum world
The Scottish photonics specialist M Squared now has a facility in Adlershof:
M Squared has made a name for itself in the photonics industry as a provider of high-end lasers and instruments for use in quantum technology, biophotonics, and chemical sensing. The Glasgow-based company is now…
Research group of the FU Berlin and the HZB develop new method to shorten computing times
Mathematical tool helps calculate properties of quantum materials more quickly:
Many quantum materials have been nearly impossible to simulate mathematically because the computing time required is too long. Now a joint research group at Freie Universität Berlin and the Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin…
HZB investigated the best electrolyser-photovoltaic combinations
The PECSYS project tested different combinations of materials and technologies:
One of the most promising ways to increase the availability of solar energy is to convert excess production into hydrogen. The PECSYS project has investigated the best possible material and technology combinations to…
Humboldt-University Berlin appoints Jan Lüning
HZB’s Scientific Director was appointed Professor of Electronic Properties of Materials/X-ray Analysis:
Prof. Dr. Jan Lüning, Scientific Director at Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin (HZB), was appointed to an S-W3 professorship at Humboldt University in Berlin in July. The professorship is entitled “Electronic Properties of…
New Collaborative Research Center FONDA seeks new methods for analyzing large data sets
The aim of the joint university research project is an easier and reusable data analysis for the natural sciences:
The recently established Collaborative Research Center “FONDA – Foundations of Workflows for Large Scale Scientific Data Analysis” researches new methods for analyzing large data sets. Such data emerges from…
AEMtec starts construction to expand space in Adlershof
Groundbreaking ceremony for the construction of additional clean room production area of 1500 sqm and office space of 900 sqm:
AEMtec GmbH follows the successful growth course of the past years. In calendar week 28, the first construction work began on the AEMtec site in Berlin, Germany. To serve the increasing requests of a broad customer…
Hope for better batteries
HZB researchers follow live the charging and discharging of silicon electrodess, which promise higher capacities:
Using silicon as a material for electrodes in lithium-ion batteries promises a significant increase in battery amp-hour capacity.The shortcoming of this material is that it is easily damaged by the stress caused by…
Robust laser technology for climate satellites
Ferdinand-Braun-Institut supplies components for the Franco-German satellite MERLIN, which will be used to measure the methane concentration in the Earth’s atmosphere:
The Franco-German satellite MERLIN is due to be launched into space in 2025 to measure the methane concentration in the Earth’s atmosphere – a milestone in climate research. Important components of the LiDAR…
MBI researchers detect new technique to change the oscillation frequency of atoms
Hammer-on technique for atomic vibrations in a crystal:
Vibrations of atoms in a crystal of the semiconductor gallium arsenide (GaAs) are impulsively shifted to a higher frequency by an optically excited electric current. The related change in the spatial distribution of…
New substance library to accelerate the search for active compounds
Substance library of the HZB-MX team is available worldwide for the development of drugs, also in the search for active substances against SARS-CoV-2 :
In order to accelerate the systematic development of drugs, the MX team at the Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin (HZB) and the Drug Design Group at the University of Marburg have established a new substance library. It…
Municipalities are responsible for the expansion of charging infrastructure
Agora Verkehrswende study co-authored by RLI:
In a discussion paper, the Berlin think tank Agora Verkehrswende calls on cities and municipalities to push the construction and distribution of charging points for the rapidly growing number of electric vehicles more…