Awarded Adlershof people and projects
22.07.2019
Berlin University Alliance Wins Excellence Status
Second huge success for three major Berlin universities and Charité in the German Excellence Strategy competition:
Major award for Berlin: The Berlin University Alliance has won funding as a group in the Universities of Excellence funding line of the German federal and state governments’ Excellence Strategy. The German Council of Science...
24.06.2019
Steve Albrecht wins the 2019 Karl Scheel Prize
The Physikalische Gesellschaft zu Berlin honours the researcher of the Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin for his work in the field of highly efficient tandem solar cell absorbers made of metal-halide perovskites:
The award will be presented to Prof. Steve Albrecht in Magnus House of the Physikalische Gesellschaft zu Berlin on Friday, June 28, 2019. Albrecht will also deliver a lecture entitled “Highly Efficient Tandem Solar Cell...
21.05.2019
The NEW KILOGRAM: Powered by Adlershof Technology
Leibniz-Institut für Kristallzüchtung (IKZ) helped to replace original masure by new International System of Units (SI):
In addition to Ampere, Kelvin, Mol and Co., the kilogram also is now defined by a natural constant. In concrete terms, this means that the original kilogram, which has been the measure of all things for 130 years, has now...
28.03.2019
Two Million Euros for HU Mathematician Gavril Farkas
ERC Advanced Grant awarded for groundbreaking research in the field of algebraic geometry:
Professor Dr. Gavril Farkas is regarded worldwide as one of the leading mathematicians in the field of algebraic curves. ‘My research is internationally oriented, and my networks have also been shaped by my time in Princeton...
28.03.2019
For the second time, an ERC Advanced Grant has been awarded to Prof. Thomas Elsaesser
Project “Electric Interactions and Ultrafast Structural Dynamics of Biomolecules”:
Thomas Elsaesser receives a prestigious Advanced Grant from the European Research Council (ERC) which supports, for a period of 5 years, basic research on dynamic electric interactions of DNA and RNA with ions and their water...
19.12.2018
Slovenian president awards HZB scientist with "Apple of Inspiration"
The Berlin scientists as the first foreigners receive the prize together with colleagues from the University of Ljubljana:
Marko Jošt, Steve Albrecht and Bernd Rech, researchers at the Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin (HZB) and the Technische Universität Berlin (TUB) receive a rare award today, 19 December 2018 in the slovenian Grand Hall of Presidential...
28.11.2018
Physio-chemist Prof Dr Janina Kneipp is this year’s awardee of the Caroline von Humboldt-Professorship
The renowned professorship is funded with 80,000 euros annually:
The professorship named after Caroline von Humboldt is awarded each year to honour an excellent female professor at HU. It aims at increasing the recognition and visibility of female academics. This year’s awardee is the...
22.11.2018
“Top 40 under 40” - Markus Krutzik awarded by business magazine Capital
Adlershof scientist was honored as an outstanding talent:
The business magazine Capital has selected Dr. Markus Krutzik as a talent in the category "Society and Science" for its "Young Elite - Top 40 under 40". On November 21, the scientist, who researches at Humboldt-Universität zu...
08.11.2018
Dr. Daniela Rupp received the “Mayor‘s Young Talent Award”
The MBI researcher was honored for her achievements in the field of ultra-short-time physics:
In an award ceremony held at the Berlin town hall ("Rotes Rathaus") on Wednesday November 7th, Dr. Daniela Rupp, the leader of the Junior Research Group "Ultrafast Dynamics Dynamics in Nanoplasma" received the Mayor's Young...
24.10.2018
ERC Synergy grant with HZB participation
Novel X-ray microscope to produce microstructural images in situ and in vivo:
An interdisciplinary team of scientists will develop a new imaging method to investigate osteoporosis and other bone diseases in living subjects. Prof. Silke Christiansen, a scientist at HZB and physics professor at Freie...
11.10.2018
Family-friendly employer: Leibniz-Institut für Kristallzüchtung
Adlershof-based research institute receives the certificate for the audit berufundfamilie (work and family audit) again:
On September 30, 2018, the Leibniz-Institut für Kristallzüchtung (IKZ) was awarded the berufundfamilie audit certificate for further three years. The certificate is awarded to the institute for its commitment in the area of...
27.07.2018
Benjamin Fingerhut receives the ERC Starting Grant
The award is granted by the European Research Council (ERC) to support excellent researchers at the beginning of their independent research careers:
Dr. Benjamin Fingerhut, junior group leader at the Max Born Institute (MBI), is recipient of the prestigious ERC Starting Grant 2018. The project addresses ultrafast biomolecular dynamics via a non-adiabatic theoretical...
03.01.2018
Boreal Light is European Food Startup of the Year
Adlershof company wins FoodNexus Startup Challenge :
15 startups from 8 European countries pitched their innovation to experts. The jury unanimously voted for Boreal Light as the winner.. More Information... on Youtube...
20.12.2017
Prof. Dr. Bernd Rech has become a new member of acatech
Accolade and social commitment at the same time:
The German “National Academy of Science and Engineering – acatech” has admitted Prof. Dr. Bernd Rech, an expert in renewable energies, into its circle of members. Bernd Rech has headed the Institute of Silicon Photovoltaics...
08.12.2017
Fresh ideas in particle and dispersion sciences
Nominated for LUM Young Scientist Award 2018:
The 8th International Conference Dispersion Analysis & Materials Testing is hosted by LUM GmbH in Berlin, Germany, from 29-30 January 2018. Here, during this now traditional interdisciplinary event, particle scientists meet...
24.11.2017
Miniaturised spectrometer wins first prize at international conference
Device from Helmholtz laboratory fits a box 10 cm on a side:
A Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin (HZB) team together with experts at Ulm University and the University of Stuttgart have designed an electron spin resonance spectrometer that fits a box 10 cm on a side. The team presented the...
02.11.2017
Distinguished Award 2017 for Novel Materials and their Synthesis
Prof. Norbert Koch was awarded:
At the IUPAC NMS-XIII conference in Nanjing, Professor Dr. Norbert Koch has been awarded the "Distinguished Award 2017 for Novel Materials and their Synthesis "of IUPAC (International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry) and...
27.10.2017
Groundbreaking insights in basic research
Physicist Lisa Torlina receives Marthe Vogt Award for her doctoral dissertation at the Max Born Institute:
The Forschungsverbund Berlin e.V. (FVB) is granting this year’s Marthe Vogt Award to Dr Lisa Torlina for her doctoral dissertation in quantum mechanics. In the course of her work at the Max Born Institute for Nonlinear Optics...
12.10.2017
Award for Prof. Dr. Günter Steinmeyer
Adlershof Physicist has been elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society:
Prof. Dr. Günter Steinmeyer, Head of the Department of Solid State Light Sources at the Max Born Institute and since September 2017 Professor of Nonlinear Ultrafast Optics at the Department of Physics at the...
21.09.2017
WINTURE amongst winners of Startup Bootcamp FoodTech 2017 in Rome
Adlershofs Boreal Light GmbH one of Germany's Top 30 Start Ups:
Boreal Light GmbH with its brand name WINTURE has been selected among the top 9 FoodTech startups in Rome in 2017. That opens the door for many investors to the company as well as finance opportunities and networks. ...