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Bowls, bagels, burgers

Adlershof’s international food offerings – Part 2:

It’s lunch time in Adlershof: In part two of our lunch spot series, we take a look at three more places to eat. Street food-style burgers Burgers are their passion—and they serve them in Adlershof with good music…

‘Premium dubbing will soon be a thing’

TV+Synchron managing director Jenny Buch on the future of the industry:

Earlier this year, Netflix made headlines in the dubbing industry with an AI clause, leading voice actors to go on strike and boycott assignments for the US streaming giant. What does this mean for the industry’s big…

Sustainable: How WISTA Conventions is reorganising how they work on events

“Sustainability” is somewhat of a catch-all term. For Josephine Balzer, it is remarkably concrete. It manifests in checklists, supply chains, heating controls—and countless spreadsheets. Balzer heads the WISTA…

Between Adlershof and Wroclaw

Networked Assets has been working on building Europe’s digital foundations for 20 years:

Networked Assets was founded in Berlin in 2006 out of a highly pragmatic idea. Four freelancers, who frequently collaborated on various projects, realised that their combined skills were greater than the sum of their…

Tailwind for career planning

The “workhier!” programme equips international students for the next step:

Anyone deep in the final stages of a doctoral thesis can use a bit of support when transitioning into work life. Environmental engineer Dr Janani Venkatraman Jagatha can certainly recommend joining the “workhier!”…

A warm welcome

Angela Ryll has been part of the Technology Park’s history at SENTECH Instruments:

Angela Ryll has been a part of the Technology Park’s history since the outset, as an assistant for SENTECH Instruments. Our author Simon Wolff met her for a walk. It is February, and Adlershof is wrapped in a damp,…

When work ends and anger begins

Psychologist Heidi Mauersberger researches workplace conflict:

Conflict at work is unavoidable and part of most people’s everyday professional life. When handled constructively, it does not need to have negative consequences. Quite the contrary: The clash of different…

Work first, then pleasure

Essay by Martin Hyun, author and former professional ice hockey player:

When I was in lower secondary school, one of my teachers liked to say before exams: “Work makes life sweet. Laziness strengthens the limbs.” At the time, I took this to be one of those old-fashioned sayings, much like…

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,…

Ready for the future

We are taking a look at apprenticeships and advanced training at the Technology Park:

Apprenticeships in Germany are under strain: Companies report unfilled positions and a noticeable shortage of applicants, while many young people are unable to find suitable placements. How do young people start their…

In conversation with Anna Kazubke

The head of HR at special-purpose machinery manufacturer Jonas & Redmann supports staff in their professional development:

Operating all over the world, special-purpose machinery manufacturer Jonas & Redmann requires a broad spectrum of specialists and managers. These include, in particular, engineers in mechanical engineering, electrical…

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…

Adlershof Innovation Booster

Thanks to AI, new technologies are emerging on campus that are driving scientific excellence and strengthening technological autonomy:

Artificial intelligence is accelerating research and driving innovation cycles. In Adlershof, this is giving rise to new technologies that not only advance scientific excellence but also strengthen the technological…

Chatbots at work: Between curiosity and responsibility

How Adlershof companies integrate artificial intelligence into their daily work:

When ChatGPT became publicly available at the end of 2022, people were curious. Many people first experimented with the new chatbot at home. Writing. Asking questions. Using it as a thinking aid. Many quickly…

Efficient training

Alan Akbik, professor of machine learning at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, is working on smarter approaches to language models:

ChatGPT requires vast amounts of data and costs a lot of money. Alan Akbik, professor of machine learning at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, is exploring smarter solutions. No AI was used to generate this essay on the…

“Technology is interchangeable—people are not”

In the age of AI, video-machinery focuses on authentic stories and genuine teamwork:

Based at Studio 20B, video-machinery GmbH delivers high-end TV productions. The driving force behind the company is cameraman and managing director Ansgar Otto. While studying at the Berliner Hochschule für Technik,…

From kimchi to gnocchi

Adlershof’s international food offerings:

As the campus grows, so does its culinary scene with a growing number of lunch spots, bistros and cafés. In this issue, we showcase three of them. Typically Korean: mani mogo Young Mi Park-Snowden says she was…

In conversation with Jens Nachtwei

The psychologist researches and teaches on the changing world of work and human–machine interaction:

“A humane future does not lie in more technology, but in greater human judgement in how we use it,” says engineer and organisational psychologist Jens Nachtwei in his book Zukunft der ARBEIT an der Zukunft, which…

The future is on the line

Essay by Tina Klüwer, AI researcher, founder of an AI company, and author:

“On the line” was a commonly used phrase when answering a telephone in the early days. A sentence uttered with a sense of pride by a select group who owned one of these machines. Where did this new technology come…

Sounds from another dimension

How the Subharchord lives on:

Gerhard Steinke co-developed the Subharchord, one of East Germany’s most enigmatic instruments. Steinke passed away on 26 May 2025, but his work lives on. “Music and sound only come into being through listening. When…