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In conversation with Tobias Hein
The online marketing manager at LUMITOS AG has a close on-off relationship with Technology Park Adlershof:
The Adlershof spirit is hard to shake off. Just ask Tobias Hein. The 40-year-old biotechnologist has maintained a devoted “on-off relationship” with the Technology Park since 2014. Today he works as online marketing…
“Stromberg is a part of me”
How business founder Markus Wogatzki became an extra in the German version of The Office and developed an AI app for Stromberg video quotes:
He’s a superfan of TV cult figure Stromberg and now an extra in the newest remake: Business founder Markus Wogatzki even developed an AI app for Stromberg video quotes. After ten years of radio silence, “Papa” is…
In Memoriam Klaus Thiessen
Optoelectronics specialist and solar energy pioneer:
Professor Klaus Thiessen passed away on 3 July 2025 at the age of nearly 98. The internationally recognised expert in optoelectronics remained a committed bridge-builder between science, industry, and society well…
Laws of nature
Essay by Paul Bokowski, author from Berlin:
The Gerkens live next door. If we consider the house’s inner workings, though, this is not a true statement. Nobody has lived here for longer than them. If anything, I live next door to the Gerkens. They signed their…
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…
Mars in 3D
Using a special camera developed in Adlershof, planetary geologist Daniela Tirsch and her team are mapping planet Mars:
For more than 20 years, the Mars Express probe of the European Space Agency (ESA) has been studying the surface and atmosphere of Mars. On board is Germany’s most significant contribution to the mission: the High…
Too warm for comfort
Climate researcher Tobias Sauter studies the melting of glaciers:
Nowhere are the effects of climate change more visible than in the world’s glaciers. The loss of ice masses is immense. Climate researcher Tobias Sauter investigates how and why the melting of glaciers is…
Crystals and careers
How research is turned into business:
New technologies require one thing above all else. They take time. It takes years for a good idea to grow into a viable spin-off,” says Thomas Schröder, director of the Leibniz Institute for Crystal Growth (IKZ) in…
Time matters
Which research questions call for short measurement times, and which analyses require longer ones? A brief journey through time and the Adlershof campus:
Watching molecular and atomic building blocks while they work? This is made possible by operando studies. Such deep insights at an atomic resolution are facilitated by BESSY II, a research facility operated by the…
Energy from CO₂
A spark is ignited for the future of fuels:
Carbon dioxide is often only ever viewed as a greenhouse gas. However, it can also be an important raw material. The startup Spark e-Fuels hopes to use it to produce synthetic fuels, known as e-fuels. But there is a…
Turning Impairments into Enrichments
How a research project aims to attract more employees with disabilities to the technology park:
Specialist staff are crucial when it comes to helping companies to progress. Although the potential offered by people with disabilities has long been overlooked, things are slowly changing… In some companies, people…
Diodes for Fusion Power Plants
The Ferdinand-Braun-Institut is accelerating the development of a key component:
As part of the “Fusion 2040 – Research on the Way to a Fusion Power Plant” programme, the German government is investing around 1.2 billion euros over the next five years into the development of this climate-neutral,…
Fully charged
The newly founded Berlin Battery Lab (BBL) combines the expertise of three research institutions:
The newly founded Berlin Battery Lab (BBL) combines the expertise of the German Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing (BAM), the Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin (HZB) and the Humboldt University of Berlin (HU)…
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,…
In conversation with Oliver Arnhold
At Localiser, he plans charging infrastructure for electromobility:
A spin off of the Reiner Lemoine Institute (RLI), electromobility and hydrogen expert Localiser describes itself today as the market leader in Germany when it comes to the planning of charging infrastructure. “We’ve…
Broken but not Defeated – The Adlershof Pioneers
After 1990, GDR scientists such as Christine Wedler and Norbert Langhoff turned Adlershof into an economic success story:
After the fall of the Berlin Wall, many scientists in the former East Germany suddenly found themselves without any prospects. This was the case for Christine Wedler and Norbert Langhoff when they had to start over –…
Halfway to Climate Neutrality: What’s the Next Step?
Impulse by Julia Bläsius, Director of German Operations at Agora Energiewende:
Since 1990, Germany has reduced its greenhouse gas emissions by 48 percent – meaning it is almost halfway to achieving climate neutrality. A significant contribution to this comes from wind farms and solar power. In…
A Blueprint for Climate-Resilient Technology Districts
A master plan for climate resilience is intended to prepare Adlershof, as well as other locations, for the future:
Climate change is very much here and so it’s high time to prepare the technology park for the future. How exactly this will be done is currently being worked out with the support of WISTA, with a master plan being…
Staying on the ball
Why Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin's sports campus in Adlershof is being expanded:
With an increasing number of places in sports science courses, the demand for university sports courses is also growing. Because of this, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin is set to expand its Adlershof sports…
A head full of numbers and physics in the heart
Memory athlete Konstantin Skudler on an unusual path between memory palaces and formal logic:
How is it possible to memorise hundreds of numbers in a matter of minutes? And why do emotions help more than sheer discipline? Physicist and memory athlete Konstantin Skudler shares an unusual path between memory…