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Prof. Dr. Norbert Koch

Professor for "Supramolecular Systems" at the Institut für Physik at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin:

Norbert Koch studied Physics at the Technische Universität Graz and was also awarded his doctor’s degree there. After spending one year as scientific assistant at the Joanneum Research GmbH in Weiz, he spent two years…

Dr. Florin Popescu

Engineer and brain researcher at the Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Architecture and Software Technology FIRST:

There, as a postdoc, he's doing research on theoretical questions about machine learning. Seen very practically, his work might one day help people who are paralysed from the neck down, because of a disease for…

Prof. Dr. Ralf Jaumann

Director of the DLR/NASA Regional Planetary Image Facility and deputy director of the DLR Institute of Planetary Research:

Ralf Jaumann was born in Bietigheim-Bissingen in 1954. He studied geology at the Ludwig-Maximilian-University of Munich (LMU) and earned his doctoral degree there in1989 with a thesis about the chemical and…

Sulfurcell: Deal for 16MW in China and India

New forms of thin-film solar:

Sulfurcell has reported deals to sell 16 megawatts of panels in Asia: 10 megawatts will go to China and 6 megawatts will go on commercial roofs in New Delhi. Read more: Greentech Media. ContactSULFURCELL…

Success story Adlershof

It has now been twenty years since “liquidation” had loomed for the 5,500 employees at the Akademie’s location in Berlin Adlershof. The premises presented a bleak prospect. Many were convinced that there was going to…

Adlershof Special 13: 20 years of market success

Innovation at high speed: 175,200 hours of science and technology // World market leader in the niche: Rules for startup companies // “A shed like ours”: Achievements of the Bestec GmbH // “Starry eyed enough“: FMB…

Learning to sell: ENZ Ingenieurbüro and LTB Lasertechnik Berlin

“Curious”, he replied when asked to describe the initial period in retrospect. Following the fall of the Berlin Wall in autumn 1989 it quickly became clear to the qualified engineer Fred Enz that his employer, the…

Volume is a matter of good form: Adlershofer Jünger Audio-Studiotechnik GmbH

Apple utilises this technology for the sound system in its canteen, it forms part of some pop singers’ touring equipment, and virtually every ARD and ZDF studio has it, also for the FIFA World Cup in South Africa. It…

Connecting link for the transport of ideas: Contract research by GNF

For Lutz Hippe the many partners on site make this location worth its weight in gold. For instance, if he needs special analytical investigations, he need only go to the building next door or two floors down:…

“Starry eyed enough”: FMB Feinwerk- und Messtechnik GmbH

Three to four years of hard graft, thought Uwe Schneck, then everything would be running smoothly and he could ease off: In 1990 undoubtedly the greatest miscalculation of his entrepreneurial career. Schneck is a…

“A shed like ours”: Achievements of the Bestec GmbH

“Located in the new Berlin-Adlershof Science and Technology Park, the company Bestec GmbH has been awarded a nuclear fusion research order amounting to one million Deutschmark.“ Totalling 83 words, this brief…

World market leader in the niche: rules for startup companies

How do you become a world market leader? An answer to this question does not necessarily have to come from the executive floors of multinational conglomerates. Also many Adlershof companies have something to say on…

Prof. Dr. Michael W. Linscheid

Vice president for research at the Humboldt University of Berlin:

Michael W. Linscheid was born in Wuppertal in 1948. He studied chemistry at the University of Cologne, and afterwards took his doctoral degree there writing his thesis about “Field Desorption Mass Spectrometry of …

Dr. Erik T. J. Nibbering

Department Head for femtosecond spectroscopy of molecular systems at the Max Born Institute:

Having received his education in the Netherlands, he acquired in 1993 his Ph.D. at the Rijksuniversiteit Groningen on the subject on femtosecond optical dephasing and solvation dynamics in liquids. During a…

Dr. Bernd Eppich

The physicist works at the Optoelectronics Department of the Ferdinand-Braun-Institut für Höchstfrequenztechnik:

Bernd Eppich was born in 1963 in Heilbronn. After his physics studies at TU Karlsruhe, he received his diploma about resonators for solid-state tube lasers from the Solid-State Laser Institute at TU Berlin. During …

Professor Dr.-Ing. Stefan Jähnichen

Director of the Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Architecture and Software Technology FIRST and the Research Group on Software Engineering at the Faculty for Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the TU Berlin:

Born in 1947, Stefan Jähnichen took his Ph.D. in electrical engineering at the Technical University of Berlin in 1979. Since 1991 he has been Director of the Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Architecture and …

Professor Dr. Stefan Eisebitt

Head of the joint research group “Functional Nanomaterials” at the Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie:

After three years of PhD studies at the University of British Columbia, Canada, Stefan Eisebitt obtained his PhD in Physics in collaboration with the Research Center Jülich at the University of Cologne in 1996. In…

Prof. Dr. Ingolf Volker Hertel

Acting as the speaker of the board of IGAFA, the former director of the Max Born Institute has significantly contributed to form the present shape, function and image of Berlin-Adlershof:

Ingolf Volker Hertel was born 1941 June 6, and lived in Radebeul during his early childhood. From the age of 10 he grew up in Freiburg in the South-West of Germany. He attended a traditional grammar school, and - …

Prof. Dr. Ulrich Panne

Professor for Instrumental Analytical Chemistry at the Humboldt University and director of the department of “Analytical Chemistry; Reference Materials” at the BAM Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing:

Ulrich Panne, born in 1964, studied Chemistry with a focus on Analytical Chemistry at the University Dortmund and the UCL London. He received his diploma in analytical chemistry (1989) and changed for his Ph.D. …

Konstantin Wiegandt, physicist

He is working on his PhD thesis at the Humboldt University in the field of the AdS/CFT correspondence:

Konstantin Wiegandt was born in Hamburg in 1981 and grew up in Ahrensburg near Hamburg. After the first year of his studies in Hamburg, he took part in a 1-year exchange program of the Deutsch-Französische …