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Sketch of the travelling salesman's problem © HZB
19.03.2024

Where quantum computers can score

A Berlin research team has shown that a certain class of optimisation problems can actually be solved better with quantum computers than with conventional methods:

The travelling salesman problem is considered a prime example of a combinatorial optimisation problem. Now a Berlin team led by theoretical physicist Prof. Dr. Jens Eisert of Freie Universität Berlin and HZB has shown…

HU psychologist Jennifer Haase © WISTA Management GmbH
18.03.2024

Humans and machines are moderately original

HU psychologist Jennifer Haase investigates the creativity of humans and AI systems:

Hereditary genius and sensitive nerves—or is this just a training effect? For more than 15 years, Jennifer Haase’s mind has been occupied with the question of what creativity is and how it can be fostered. She is…

Ultraviolet photon-counting dual-comb spectrometer
18.03.2024

Optical Frequency Combs Make Ultraviolet Spectroscopy More Sensitive and More Precise

New technique enables experiments in the ultraviolet spectral region at very feeble light levels:

In a recent publication in Nature, researchers at the Max Born Institute (MBI) in Berlin, Germany, and at Max-Planck Institute of Quantum Optics in Garching report on a new technique for deciphering the properties of…

Professor Dr. Nathalie Picqué in her natural environment.r, Max-Born-Institut für Nichtlineare Optik und Kurzzeitspektroskopie (MBI) in Berlin
15.03.2024

Nathalie Picqué is the new Director at the Max Born Institute for Nonlinear Optics and Short Pulse Spectroscopy

The physicist will establish the Department of Precision Physics at the institute:

Professor Dr. Nathalie Picqué is establishing a new department as Director at the Max Born Institute for Nonlinear Optics and Short Pulse Spectroscopy (MBI) in Berlin, Germany. Her appointment at the end of 2023 is…

Professor and junior research group leader Janine George © WISTA Management GmbH
15.03.2024

Searching for new materials

How simulations and machine learning are helping BAM to do so:

Using simulation and machine learning, Janine George is on the hunt for more efficient materials to advance the transition to clean energy, or Energiewende. Apart from saving her a lot of time, it helps her find new…

Gallium oxide substrates © IKZ / Volkmar Otto
15.03.2024

IKZ Accelerates Efforts for Energy Efficiency with Advanced Power Conversion Technology

Further development of gallium oxide technology promotes optimisation in high-power and high-voltage applications:

The need for advanced power conversion systems increases as the EU ambitiously pursues net zero emissions. To achieve this, it is necessary to optimize the energy transfer from the grid to daily use and to minimize…

Figures © MBI
14.03.2024

Ultrafast switching with light in correlated materials

Research team manipulates the material’s resistivity with light – a way for opto-electronic ultrafast switching in future microelectronics:

Materials that refuse to fit into theory are often the most fascinating. They challenge researchers to try harder to understand their peculiar behavior, especially when their properties are promising for technological…

Dr. Robert Seidel © HZB / Kevin Fuchs
14.03.2024

ERC Consolidator Grant for HZB researcher Robert Seidel

The project is investigating nanoparticles that are used as catalysts in the production of "green" hydrogen:

Physicist Dr Robert Seidel has been awarded a Consolidator Grant by the European Research Council (ERC). Over the next five years, he will receive a total of two million euros for his research project WATER-X. Seidel…

14.03.2024

Stronger than Nature: Optimised Radicals as Potential Novel Catalysts

Research team redesigns phenoxyl radicals with improved oxidation capacity in the lab:

Nature uses enzymes for various metabolic processes. These biological catalysts are extremely efficient. Biomimetic catalysts based on inexpensive starting materials from the laboratory that can reproduce the…

Lea Leibold and Jonas Minkler, KURO © WISTA Management GmbH
14.03.2024

KURO – A new start-up is breathing life into the construction industry

At the Adlershof Founder’s Lab, the team is developing software designed to make calculations much easier:

A start-up based at Adlershof Technology Park is working to bring about a revolution in the construction industry. Utilising artificial intelligence, the audacious founders are looking to fundamentally change the way…

Draft of the X-ray source BESSY III © HZB
13.03.2024

The future of BESSY

What the Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin is planning for the X-ray source in Adlershof:

At the end of February 2024, a team at HZB published an article in Synchrotron Radiation News (SRN). They describe the next development goals for the light source as well as the BESSY II+ upgrade programme and the…

The Synogate team: Leonel Gouveia, Michael Offel, Philipp Keydel, and Andreas Ley © WISTA Management GmbH
13.03.2024

The chip designers

Blueprints of integrated circuits are being developed in Adlershof:

It should be common knowledge by now that microchips are at the heart of every computer, tablet, or smartphone. They execute the commands that our apps and operating systems give them. But there are still many more…

Johannes Klick, CEO of Alpha Strike Labs © WISTA Management GmbH
11.03.2024

In conversation with Johannes Klick

The managing director of Alpha Strike Labs puts hackers out of business:

Last year, Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin and Berlin’s Museum of Natural History were hit by hacker attacks, and memories of a security breach at the Berlin School of Technology are still quite fresh. “The threat level in…

Manouchehr Shamsrizi © WISTA Management GmbH
09.03.2024

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…

Managing director of NOVENTI Care, Julius Knoche © WISTA Management GmbH
07.03.2024

More time for care through digitalisation

NOVENTI Care develops software to meet the complex requirements of the healthcare industry:

“Digitalisation in care has nothing to do with robots,” says Julius Knoche with a laugh. Whenever the topic comes up, people seem to think of talking automatons with arms and legs to support people with special needs,…

Illustration Digitalisation: Dorothee Mahnkopf © WISTA Management GmbH
06.03.2024

The digital revolution is the autists taking revenge on the narcissists

Essay by Christoph Holz, a self-confessed nerd, a writer, and a keynote speaker:

“Did you really think I was going to be normal?” said Elon Musk, owner of the social media platform X and co-founder of several companies, when he made his appearance on Saturday Night Live. Why is it that IT nerds…

Group photo in front of the IKZ for Winter School 2024
05.03.2024

5th IKZ Winter School connects players from science and industry

50 participants from Germany and abroad met in Adlershof to discuss materials & devices for power electronics:

Power electronics is a booming industry market due to electromobility in automotive and the ramp up of renewable energy supply. The market is characterized by different materials & device technologies depending very…

Susann Niemeyer, Head of the WISTA IT Centres © WISTA Management GmbH
05.03.2024

Blossoming landscapes in IT

Is the digital transformation stalling in Germany? Not in Adlershof it isn’t.:

The campus is well-positioned, and its companies and research facilities are setting standards. Nonetheless, they have not been immune to the shortage of skilled workers. The corridors of GFal Society for the…

Adlershof Journal March/April 2024: Cover
04.03.2024

Adlershof Journal March/April 2024

This is the future: Quantum computing, machine learning and cybersecurity:

In conversation with Johannes Klick, who puts hackers out of business // KURO – A new start-up is breathing life into the construction industry // Valuable breaks: Adlershof’s green canteen …

The research group led by Dr Michael Kathan (2nd from left) © Michael Kathan
29.02.2024

NanoMECHs project at HU Berlin receives 1.5 million euros in funding

Research group at the Department of Chemistry wants to develop molecular machines that produce new materials:

Three young researchers at Humboldt-Universität (HU) have been accepted for Emmy Noether funding from the German Research Foundation (DFG). Dr Michael Kathan, who conducts research in the field of synthetic chemistry…