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Kathrin Goldammer honoured as one of 15 Electric Women
RLI Managing Director is one of the world's most remarkable women working to electrify mobility:
For the fourth time, the Transformative Urban Mobility Initiative (TUMI) acknowledges the world’s most remarkable women in mobility with a dedicated publication, this year honoring them as Electric Women. The 2022…
RLI develops energy transition dashboard for WWF Germany
Digital tool shows important data and facts about the energy transition and makes contexts clearer:
Influence of CO2 emissions on the climate, development of droughts in Germany or the share of renewable energies in the electricity mix – the Reiner Lemoine Institute (RLI) has developed the new energy transition…
Unravelling tautomeric mixtures
Resonant inelastic X-ray scattering (RIXS) at BESSY II provides detailed information on properties and biological function:
A team at HZB has developed a method of experimentally unravelling tautomeric mixtures. Based on resonant inelastic X-ray scattering (RIXS) at BESSY II, not only proportions of the tautomers can be deduced, but the…
From Lab to Fab: World Record Solar Cell Goes from Lab to Industry
Q CELLS and Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin achieve record efficiency of 28.7% for 2-terminal perovskite-silicon tandem solar cell:
Q CELLS and Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin achieve a new world record efficiency for a 2-terminal tandem solar cell combining a mass-production ready silicon bottom cell based on Q.ANTUM technology and a top-cell based on…
New normality, new mindset
Essay by Christoph Burger, psychologist, career advisor and coach for personal development in and around Stuttgart:
Since the beginning of the coronavirus crisis in 2020, we have been longing for a return to normality—the everyday life we are used to, partying together, going on holiday without a worry in the world. But how much of…
The work psychologist
Franziska Kößler investigates employment and health:
Infection or job loss, what is more frightening? Do I feel inspired and enriched by cultural diversity? These are but some of the issues that Franziska Kößler deals with in her everyday academic life. What emotions do…
New world of work at BRAIN BOX BERLIN
The concept of the new office building in Adlershof addresses changing work structures with more spaces for communication and teamwork:
Mega trends like the digital transformation and globalisation are changing work processes and are impacting how, when, and where we will work in the future. More radical than anything else, the coronavirus pandemic…
Video patient education before the op
The start-up medudoc is developing a platform for customisable explainer videos that visualise the most common operations in short sequences:
The medudoc Group creates explainer videos that provide patients with well-founded information about the process and possible risks of medical procedures. The team is growing and on course for more…
It felt like point zero
Production company “Filmgarnitur” realises creative and very personal projects:
Sven Michael Otto and Christoph Rohrscheidt founded the production company “Filmgarnitur” just before the pandemic. Looking back, it was a great chance for creative and very personal projects. Sometimes life just…
Hidden joy, sorrow halved
Psychologists from Adlershof conduct basic research on emotion perception and wearing face masks:
A wrinkled brow, a frowning mouth, a deepening of the tiny wrinkles around the eyes: More than 40 muscles are involved in forming our facial expressions. Emotion researchers summarise the muscles that are responsible…
Bremsstrahlung of black holes and neutron stars from quantum field theory
Physicians developed a new approach to determining gravitational waves:
When two massive objects (black holes, neutron stars, or stars) fly past each other, the gravitational interactions not only deflect their orbits, but also produce gravitational radiation, or gravitational…
High-tech jigsaw puzzles
Berlin Space Technologies produces satellite construction kits:
Exactly 6,768 parts—neatly packed in 60 boxes and meticulously labelled—made the journey from Berlin to far-away Egypt a few weeks ago. “Our customers will use them to build an Earth observation satellite,” says Tom…
Nice and flexible
This is how working at a distance and dealing with constantly changing demands succeeds:
The world of work has been changed substantially by the coronavirus pandemic. Working at a distance and digital meetings have become commonplace. They have done so to everyone’s benefit—as is shown by two companies…
The new normal
How much did our workplaces change during the pandemic?:
Change is the only constant. During the pandemic, this wisdom saying received an additional dimension. How are Adlershof-based companies and institutes dealing with this new world of work? We asked around. We see the…
Adlershof Journal March/April 2022
Everything remains changed … and we remain flexible:
The occupational psychologist: How healthy is your job? // Hidden joy, sorrow halved: What's behind the mask? // Before the op: Video patient education by medudoc
Digital, diverse, and integrated
Diversity in two exciting digital tools:
Diversity in two exciting digital tools: Open Deutsch, based at the Charlottenburg Innovation Centre (CHIC), combines learning German with integration. Inclusify is also a digital tool. Developed by the Federal…
“Everybody feels more comfortable”
How diversity impacts on a positive company culture:
A stronger focus on diversity can be fruitful for an entire company. Two companies, Freudenberg Sealing Technologies GmbH and Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin, have also experienced this, albeit in different ways. Jennifer…
Meet your prejudice
Employees of WISTA Management GmbH met people who share their experiences with prejudice and social exclusion:
For its work in site development and business promotion, WISTA Management GmbH (WISTA) relies on a diverse team, coexistence and tolerance, and the individual development of its staff. This process is supported by the…
In conversation with Michaela Weiske
The HR administrator at Reiner Lemoine Institute ensures a good work climate:
To Michaela Weiske, taking care of employees is the recipe for a well-functioning company. She is an HR administrator at Reiner Lemoine Institute (RLI), which conducts research on the transformation of energy systems…
Good prospects for the commercialisation of perovskite tandem solar cells
Research teams from HZB and ISFH have combined PERC/POLO silicon cells, which are widely used on the market, with perovskite cells for the first time and estimate the efficienciy at 29.5%:
So-called PERC cells are used in mass production of silicon solar cells, they are considered the workhorses of photovoltaics, dominating the market. Now two teams from HZB and the Institute for Solar Energy Research…