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Dean Caren Tischendorf uses complex calculations to predict flow processes – and supports other women in finding their path into the natural sciences:

Caren Tischendorf of Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (HU) makes sure everything stays in perfect flux – both women in the natural sciences and electrons, gases, and chemical substances in materials, supply networks,…

A cornerstone for 1000-fold improved communication rates to bridge long distances:

Diamond material is of great importance for future technologies such as the quantum internet. Special defect centers can be used as quantum bits (qubits) and emit single light particles that are referred to as single…

European Research Counsil stellt 2,2 Mio. Euro für das Projekt GraWFTy zur Forschungen in der Gravitationswellenphysik zur Verfügung:

Jan Plefka receives a prestigious Advanced Grant from the European Research Council (ERC). He and his team at the Department of Physics and IRIS Adlershof of HU Berlin will receive 2.2 million euros over the next five…

Positive development despite interlocking crises/ Remarkable increase particularly in employment:

Despite various interlocking crises, the Science and Technology Park in Berlin Adlershof was able to grow significantly in 2022. Revenues and budgetary resources increased to €3.63 billion (2021: €3.21 billion),…

Berlin Adlershof is Germany’s largest and most successful science and technology park as well as Berlin’s largest media location – embedded in an overall urban development concept. Spanning an area of 4.61km², the…

In the Water4Whom project, HU scientists study the effects of mega-dams:

“Colombian mega-dams are creating a new hydro-social reality,” says Prof. Tobias Krüger, Co-Director of IRI THESys and Principal Investigator in the Water security for Whom? research project. “The question that…

HU Berlin, German Aerospace Center, Ferdinand-Braun-Institut, and IRIS Adlershof are involved in the projects:

Quantum technologies promise a variety of completely new applications. In addition to quantum computers, quantum sensing and quantum communication are among the areas of quantum technology in which the first, also…

The FOSSGIS conference in Adlershof:

FOSSGIS, the leading conference on free and open-source software for geoinformation systems in the German-speaking countries, will take place at Erwin Schrödinger Centre between 15–18 March 2023. Organisers include…

IKZ joins hands with HU and DLR to reveal new physical properties at the quantum limit and to develop a technological base for new generation single-electron devices:

Germanium (Ge) has been demonstrated as the purest material that human beings could prepare among all semiconductor materials. Ultra-high purity germanium (u-HPGe) crystalline material with a net charge carrier…

Researchers are investigating hybrid materials at the new Center for the Science of Materials Berlin (CSMB):

A place of innovation: Researchers of Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and other Berlin-based research institutes are investigating new materials as part of the new Center for the Science of Materials Berlin (CSMB).…

In conversation with Julia von Blumenthal, who has been president of Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (HU) since 1 October 2022:

Adlershof Journal: What priorities have you set for your term in office? Julia von Blumenthal: We as a society are facing enormous challenges due to the multitude of current crises and developments – just think for a…

The “GreenCHEM” initiative aims to establish the capital’s metropolitan region as a European centre for green chemistry:

Three universities, two chemical companies, and a growing network of industry and research are planning to establish the capital’s metropolitan region as a European centre for green chemistry. The federal government…

Researchers from HZB, Hereon, HU and BAM succeed in observing solid-state batteries during charging and discharging:

Solid-state batteries enable even higher energy densities than lithium-ion batteries with high safety. A team led by Prof. Philipp Adelhelm and Dr. Ingo Manke succeeded in observing a solid-state battery during…

A team of researchers has investigated how the personality of executives changes before and after being promoted:

People with executive tasks typically exhibit certain distinctive characteristics – this has been shown in several studies. As yet, it hasn’t been traced how executives change in the years before and after being…

Federal Ministry of Research and Education is funding the "TomoFestBattLab" project with 1.86 million euros:

At HZB, a laboratory for automated X-ray tomography on solid-state batteries is being set up. The special feature: 3D data during charge/discharge processes (operando) can be evaluated quickly and in a more versatile…