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The crystal grower
Kathleen Schindler works on producing technological crystals:
What drives her, as she puts it, is the pleasure of working with her hands. The appeal of making something. The fascination of the material itself. The same was true during her time at Berlin’s Natural History Museum,…
The research coordinator
Patrick Scheele oversees the scientific direction of Ferdinand-Braun-Institut:
“I wasn’t disappointed,” says Patrick Scheele, looking back on the expectations with which he took up the post of scientific managing director of the Ferdinand-Braun-Institut, Leibniz-Institut für…
The timekeeper
Oliver Fartmann is working on an improved atomic clock:
What are the paths into science and research? “I was quite good at maths, I think,” says Oliver Fartmann. Good enough, at any rate, to catch the attention of his physics teacher at the Archenhold Gymnasium in…
The Solar Consultant
Niklas Albinius shares his knowledge about building with photovoltaics:
Who knows what his career path would have looked like if he hadn’t asked the question? Niklas Albinius’ curiosity was piqued after a lecture on ‘Solar Construction’ at the University of Applied Sciences in Berlin,…
The cosmetics designer
Penélope Jirón develops personal care products from natural ingredients:
She never imagined her professional life to turn out the way it has. “I had sworn never to become self-employed. I saw how exhausting it was for my parents,” says Penélope Jirón. The original plan was to have a steady…
The start-up manager
Maxine Silvestrov manages operations at Quantune Technologies:
Measuring biomarkers without having to insert a needle into a vein and without drawing even a millilitre of blood to send to a lab. Easy, clean, and painless—and useable at any given time. This is a scientific vision…
The IT developer
Georg Wrobel supports digital projects in small and medium-sized companies:
“Rooted in Adlershof” is how Gregor Wrobel describes the institute where he has spent almost his entire career—and the same could be said of him. Wrobel was in his mid-twenties and had just completed his mathematics…
The molecule splitter
Michelle Brown is working on producing green hydrogen:
Splitting water—using electrical energy to break the H₂O molecule into its gaseous components, hydrogen and oxygen, to be exact. Could this process be made cheaper, simpler, and more efficient? This question has…
The molecule sleuth
Carsten Engelhard monitors the reliability of chemical analyses:
Searching for a needle in a haystack. Is that the appropriate metaphor? It could make it easier for a layperson to understand how Carsten Engelhard spends his workdays. In both research and teaching, his home has been…
The digital thinker
Manouchehr Shamsrizi deals with the social impact of technology:
He is not easy to pin down. Not to one field of expertise. Not to one place. Manouchehr Shamsrizi lives with his wife and young daughter in Hamburg-Wellingsbüttel, where he was born into a Persian immigrant family in…