Psychology professor Jule Specht explores how personalities change over the course of life:
It was long believed that personality development is mostly completed at 30. However, results from psychology research show: There is a lot going on beyond one’s 30th birthday – people go through considerable changes,…
The Swedish Chalmers University of Technology honours the scientist from HU Berlin and DLR for his contribution to research in the field of terahertz components:
Dr. Heinz-Wilhelm Hübers is a professor at Humboldt-University Berlin and the director of the Institute of Optical Sensor Systems at Deutsches Zentrum für Luft und Raumfart, DLR (German Aerospace Center), which…
Researchers from the Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society and the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin make discovery that could increase computing power:
From smartphones to computer processors – much of the technology we nowadays use heavily features transistors. They connect many of the different materials that make up these devices, and are essential for any kind of…
Joint laboratory in the IRIS research building of the HU in Adlershof to further promote catalysis research in Berlin:
Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin (HZB) and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (HU) have signed a cooperation agreement with the aim of establishing a joint research laboratory for catalysis in the IRIS research building of HU in…
Nichol (Cohl) Furey is a researcher at IRIS Adlershof:
Does the word octave sound like music to your ears? For Cohl Furey, it is also full of mathematics. It was love at first sight when the physicist encountered the eponymous, eight-dimensional number system during her…
The biochemist Christian Hackenberger, who seeks and destroys cancer cells, and the chemist Chayanika Das, who fights magnesium corrosion:
Vivid, detailed, and laid-back is how Christian Hackeberger presented himself at the Falling Walls Conference, which was held digitally for the first time. He talks of sniffer dogs and bombs, of super glue and plastic…
Professor of geography Jonas Østergaard Nielsen studies land use changes in an age of global interconnectedness:
“There is nothing left on this earth that is unaffected by human influence,” says Jonas Østergaard Nielsen. Pollution, the extinction of species, climate change – the human species is reshaping the planet and…
Adlershof start-up develops novel printing process that can produce smooth surfaces at high speed:
It looks like science fiction but in fact could be the future of 3D printing: A blue slice of light wanders through a liquid, while light projections emerge through the window of a glass vessel. Resembling the…
The Institute of Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (IOP) and IRIS Adlershof start a joint PostDoc program:
The Institute for Physics (IOP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and the IRIS Adlershof of the Humboldt University in Berlin have now established a joint PostDoc program and launched a first round of…
The network of nine universities becomes an integral part of the Leibniz Institute IPN under the direction of the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin:
The German Centre for Mathematics Teacher Education (DZLM) will be a part of the newly established department “Subject-related knowledge transfer” at the Leibniz Institute for Science and Mathematics Education (IPN)…
For the first time in the history of the HU, the Council elects a female president for a second term of office:
Prof. Dr-Ing. Dr Sabine Kunst was re-elected by the Council of the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (HU) on 17th November 2020, with 30 votes in favour, 18 against, and 5 rejected votes. Sabine Kunst has been President…
The Humboldt Laboratory will open on 7 January 2021 at Humboldt Forum. It will also feature research from Adlershof:
A thinking space, a collaborative research project, and a place where science and the public enter into a dialogue: the Humboldt Laboratory in Berlin-Mitte will open its gates on 7 January 2021. The inaugural…
In the Marthe Vogt Podcast of the Forschungsverbund Berlin, junior researchers share stories about their journey into science:
For the majority of women in science, doctoral and postdoctoral phases continue to be the most vulnerable time in their careers. In the new Marthe Vogt Podcast by the Forschungsverbund Berlin (FVB), Natalia…
Project “QuMSeC” of TU, HU and FBH becomes overall winner of the DLR innovation competition:
The winners of the INNOspace Masters competition, which is organized by the German Aerospace Center (DLR), have been announced: On 14 October, a Berlin-based team from Technische Universität, Humboldt-Universität and…
The Research Training Group (RTG) 2575 “Rethinking Quantum Field Theory” funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) has started its work:
The Research Training Group 2575 “Rethinking Quantum Field Theory”, funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG), has started its work. Due to the pandemic, the hiring of the first two cohorts was delayed until…
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…
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…
Professor Jürgen P. Rabe, director of the Integrative Research Institute for the Sciences IRIS Adlershof, about building bridges, joint labs, and a new research building:
Ten years of IRIS Adlershof: what exactly goes on here? Jürgen P. Rabe: It all begins with asking good questions – questions that impose themselves on us, that we can provide answers to by using our scientific…
How the Integrative Research Institute for the Sciences IRIS Adlershof supports many different technology start-ups :
For almost two decades now, Prof. Emil List-Kratochvil has been dealing with a technology that many think holds a promise for the future: printed electronics. The Austrian-born solid-state physicist has been…
A graduate school in Adlershof offers top qualification and turns teams into families:
Advanced materials are a cutting-edge field. Diodes, solar cells, transistors, and storage elements – they are all based on state-of-the-art electronic materials. The products containing these ‘advanced and novel…