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Younicos joins team Aggreko
Storage pioneer partners with the world’s leading provider of modular, mobile power:
Aggreko is excited to announce its £40m agreement to acquire Younicos, a global market leader in the development and deployment of integrated energy systems, based on battery storage. This acquisition strengthens our…

Adlershof Journal July/August 2017
Entering the Job Market: Opportunities for the Next Generation:
Living in the Laboratory: The Max-Born-Institute secures future physics lab technicians // Generation Z: No desire for the rat race // From Dahlem to Adlershof: Technology park welcomes biotech companies // …

Generation Z: A case for a different way of dealing with this slightly different generation
Essay by Christian Scholz, economic scientist and professor at Saarland University:
As a convinced member of the baby boomers, I could have never imagined such a thing. For the Generation Z born after 1990, the civil service makes the top of the list of the most sought-after employers Of course, we…

WiNS Adlershof – New programme designed to jumpstart women in natural science
In conversation with programme coordinator Petra Metz:
She has been the coordinator of WiNS Adlershof (Women in Natural Sciences Adlershof) since March 2017, a new programme designed to jumpstart women in natural science. After graduating as a teacher for German and…

Caring for Talent
Thorsten Rohwedder fosters young mathematicians:
His job description reads “teacher for special tasks”. You could also say: Thorsten Rohwedder’s job is talent care. He likes using an agricultural image to describe what he does. It’s just nice, he says, to “help…

Boosting Apprenticeships in Adlershof
How the companies of the Science City recruit future apprentices:
Adlershof is awaiting the next apprenticeship term, which is a good time to ask local companies about how they recruit future professionals, which qualifications they require and the quality of access to qualified…

Getting into High-Tech
An invitation to the STEM job fair in Adlershof:
As a high-technology site, Adlershof depends on smart people. A trade fair on 4th July 2017 enables companies recruiting apprentices to meet high-school students from the region. Apprenticeships and high-tech – how…

From Dahlem to Adlershof
Two new companies in Adlershof, Alacris Theranostics GmbH and Clinical Laserthermia Systems GmbH, are committed to fighting cancer:
He will miss the view of Dahlem’s Botanical Garden, says Bodo Lange. Apart from that, the manager of the company Alacris Theranostics sees moving from Dahlem to Adlershof as very positive. WISTA-MANAGEMENT GMBH’s…

Retirement? No, thanks
Reinhard Mann and his team at auvisign GmbH provide their customers with video and sound:
New Year’s Eve or the World Cup party at the Brandenburg Gate, large church conventions or the German gymnastics festival – Reinhard Mann, Johannes Raack and their auvisign team provide their customers with the…

Living in the Laboratory
The Max-Born-Institute secures future physics lab technicians:
How curiosity, love of experimentation and meticulousness are helping Josefin Fuchs to complete her apprenticeship as a physics lab technician at the Max-Born-Institute. Josefin Fuchs loves physics. “I was already a…

No Need to Travel Far for Cool Jobs
How Adlershof supports career transitions between science, business and management:
Due to its hundreds of high-tech companies, leading research institutes and start-up hubs, Adlershof is a land of opportunity for students and graduates of Berlin’s Humboldt-Universität. Most often, they are not aware…
MagForce AG Announces Successful Share Capital Increase from Authorized Capital
MagForce AG, a leading medical device company in the field of nanomedicine focused on oncology, today successfully completed the capital increase from authrized capital resolved on June 28, 2017. The Company’s share…

A “perfect” attosecond experiment
Physicists manage to completely describe the quantum-mechanical wave function of an ionized electron:
Novel experiments using ultrafast pulses are currently revolutionizing laser physics research. They deliver unprecedented insights into matter – into the structure and dynamics of electrons in atoms, molecules and in…
eagleyard continues to grow
EUR 2’0 million Investment into Automation and Laser Diode Assembly Technology:
eagleyard Photonics GmbH is expanding its technology platform with additional equipment for both, flexible tailoring and automated manufacturing of semiconductor laser diodes. In continuation of its R&D and production…

eagleyard charms small satellite MERLIN
Helping measuring methane gas concentration for a better understanding of climate change:
eagleyard Photonics GmbH enables SpaceTech GmbH/Immenstaad to build the LIDAR Frequency Reference Unit for German-French small satellite mission MERLIN (Methane Remote Sensing LIDAR Mission). With a scheduled launch…

New lab for electrochemical interfaces at BESSY II
Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin (HZB) is establishing together with the Max-Planck-Gesellschaft (MPG) the „Berlin Joint Lab for Electrochemical Interfaces“ (BElChem):
The Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin (HZB) is establishing a joint lab together with the Max Planck Society (MPS) to study electrochemical phenomenon at solid/liquid interfaces. The Berlin Joint Lab for Electrochemical…

Extremely versatile – Tailored diode lasers, from the chip to the system
FBH presents its capability at “Laser World of Photonics” trade show and accompanying “CLEO Europe” conference:
The Ferdinand-Braun-Institut (FBH) presents novel developments and advances of its diode lasers and UV light-emitting diodes (LEDs) at the “Laser World of Photonics”. The event is hosted in Munich from June 26 – 29,…

BabyLux, the light that brightens the lives of premature babies
First results of the European project BabyLux obtained in Milan and Copenhagen are encouraging:
For the first time, two advanced biophotonic technologies – near-infrared time-resolved spectroscopy (TRS) and diffuse correlation spectroscopy (DCS) – have been combined and the already tested prototypes were…

Trends and pathways to high-efficiency perovskite solar cells
Scientists from Helmholtz-Zentrum provide an overview of the advancement of the class of materials in renowned scientific journal:
Perovskite solar cells have been the big surprise over the last while: inside of only a few years, their efficiency level has been increased from just under 10 % to fully 22 %. There has never been such rapid progress…
Healthy cooking with inexpensive gas sensors
SCIENION and the COLODOR consortium announce the development of sensors for the detection of toxic volatile organic compounds in modern cooking equipment:
SCIENION AG announced its first steps into direct marketing of consumer products. SCIENION, with four other partners, are developing technology for inexpensive sensing of toxic compounds in the gasphases of airfryers…