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Dr. Chafik Meliani

Head of the “power amplifiers” group at the Ferdinand-Braun-Institut für Höchstfrequenztechnik:

Chafik Meliani, born 1974 in Algeria, studied semiconductor physics for electronic devices at the University of Blida (Algeria). He received his PhD degree from the Université Denis-Diderot Paris, France. In this …

Dr. rer. nat. Rudolf J. Schneider

In his working group „Immunochemical Methods“ at BAM everything spins around antibodies:

Rudolf Schneider (born in 1963) studied chemistry at the Technical University Munich. By chance, while looking for an interesting topic for his diploma thesis, he stumbled into his present working area: …

Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Janina Kneipp

Her research interest lies in the utilization of sensitive spectroscopic methods for analytical chemistry:

Janina Kneipp received her diploma and doctorate from the Free University Berlin. In her dissertation work she studied brain tissue by means of infrared-microspectroscopy and applied this method successfully to the…

Dr. rer. nat. Franziska Emmerling

The chemist at the Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing (BAM) works on crystallization and aggregation phenomena by means of synchrotron radiation:

Born in Bad Dürkheim in 1975 Franziska Emmerling finished her PhD thesis in inorganic solid state chemistry at the Albert-Ludwig University of Freiburg in 2003. Her work dealt with the synthesis and structural …

Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Katja Werheid

Assistant professor for Clinical Gerontopsychology at the Department of Psychology at the Humboldt University of Berlin:

Since October 2008, Katja Werheid holds an assistant professorship for Clinical Gerontopsychology at the Department of Psychology at the Humboldt University of Berlin. After studying Psychology in Muenster, …

Prof. Dr. Julia Lossau

Assistant Professor for Cultural Geography at the Department of Geography at Humboldt University:

Julia Lossau studied geography at the Bayerische Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg and gained a first degree (diploma) from the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn in 1997. After having completed…

Prof. Dr. Peter Rudolph

Coordinator of the competence area “Crystal Growth Technology” at the Leibniz Institute for Crystal Growth (IKZ):

Peter Rudolph is the coordinator of the competence area “Crystal Growth Technology” at the Leibniz Institute for Crystal Growth (IKZ) in Berlin-Adlershof. Peter Rudolph (who got his degree as Electrical Engineer at…

Dr. rer. nat. Sebastian Heinz

The mathematician works at the Weierstrass Institute for Applied Analysis and Stochastics (WIAS) in Berlin:

Sebastian Heinz was born on September 26, 1977 in Berlin and studied mathematics at the Humboldt University of Berlin from 1998 till 2004. He received the Humboldt award of his university for his diploma thesis. He…

Dr. rer. nat. Moshe Weizman

For his Ph.D thesis the physicist explored the properties of laser-crystallized polycrystalline silicon-germanium (SiGe) layers for thin film solar cells:

Born on Febuary 9, 1976 in Jerusalem he received his B.Sc in physics from the Hebrew University at Jerusalem, and wrote his Diploma thesis at the TU Berlin. A scholarship from the Deutsche Bundesstiftung Umwelt …

Dr. rer. nat. Tom Großmann

The chemist developed a signal amplifying method for molecular gene diagnostics at the Humboldt University of Berlin:

He was born in 1978 in Merseburg and studied Chemistry from October 1999 until September 2003 at the Humboldt University of Berlin. He moved to the University of California, Berkeley where he performed studies…

Dr. Ing. Tatjana Čukić

The nominee for the dissertation prize Adlershof 2008 works as a process and development engineer at Global Solar Energy:

Tatjana Čukić, born 1978 in Novi Sad (Serbia), studied Chemical Engineering at the Faculty of Technology at the University of Novi Sad. In 2007 she finished her PhD studies at the Leibniz Institute for Catalysis…

caprotec bioanalytics Completes Series B Financing Round of EUR 4 Million

caprotec bioanalytics GmbH today (Thursday May 13, 2010) announced the closing of a EUR 4 million ($5.1M) Series B Financing Round with existing investors Creathor Venture, IBB Beteiligungsgesellschaft, ERP…

Berlin Adlershof at BIO 2010

May 3-6, Chicago:

WISTA-MANAGEMENT GMBH, develops and operates Germany`s leading Science and Technology Park in Berlin Adlershof, participates in BIO 2010 International Convention: The Global Event for Biotechnology at the Germany…

Berlin Adlershof - Facts and Figures

March 2010:

Berlin Adlershof is one of the most successful high-tech locations in Germany. Embedded in an overall urban development concept, this integrated Science, Business and Media location has been growing on an area of 4.2…

New York Times on Airport Schönefeld and Berlin Business

A $3.4 Billion Investment to Push the Capital's Economy :

A high-technology center in Adlershof, near the new airport in Schönefeld, has attracted 814 firms ranging from biotechnology to media, employing more than 14,000 workers. Read more...

Adlershof Special 12: IT and Media

Of congestion hunters and traffic regulators: Telematic applications for regulating traffic // Center for IT and media ZIM 3: Open ceremony in April // Of men and machines: Users' psychology // Healthy information…

Bits and bytes for all walks of life

What do the capital city, safety, traffic, logistics, health, and administration all have in common? They all work with modern information and communication technologies – technologies that are no longer merely…

Of men and machines

The relationship between man and machine is one of mixed feelings. To understand this you don’t need to have attempted the legendary example of programming a video recorder. “Most of the operating instructions for…

Virtual worlds and the successor to the barcode

IKIPSI doesn’t mean anything, but it sounds good. IKIPSI is a project run by the Adlershof company Software Achkar and is intended to help children in Japan to learn English. Also in museums modern information and…

“Don’t call me a camera”

Forest fires destroy ecosystems and timberland, settlements,and inevitably people’s lives. Moreover they release every year more carbon dioxide than global motor traffic. Utilising the algorithms of the German…