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Dr. Lisa-Marie Kern and congratulants, Foto:MBI
24.11.2023

Carl-Ramsauer Award for PhD student from MBI

Dr Lisa-Marie Kern receives the prize of the Berlin Physical Society for her outstanding dissertation:

Each year, the Berlin Physical Society bestows the Carl-Ramsauer Award to a maximum of four PhD students from Berlin and Brandenburg universities. Dr Lisa-Marie Kern from TU Berlin is one of the 2023 prizewinners who…

The ANH team with the award of the IEEE Photonics Society © FBH/G. Gurr
14.11.2023

Securing skilled personnel in the high-tech sector – internationally recognized

Jens Hofmann (proANH e.V.) honoured with the “IEEE Technical Skills Educator Award” of the IEEE Photonics Society:

Jens Hofmann, Chairman of the Board of proANH e.V., has been awarded the IEEE Technical Skills Educator Award. The IEEE Photonics Society presented the prize yesterday evening at its annual conference in Orlando,…

Research facility BESSY II © Silvia Steinbach / HZB
13.11.2023

HZB aims to become greenhouse gas neutral by 2035

The research institute presents verified greenhouse gas balance as a basis for savings measures:

HZB is aware of its social responsibility. Now, HZB’s Greenhouse Gas Report is here, after being externally verified, and identifies the main sources of emissions. The report provides the basis for significantly…

Tibidabo welcomes LLA Instruments in the team © LLA Instruments
13.11.2023

Tibidabo Scientific Industries Announces the Acquisition of LLA Instruments

The Adlershof-based LLA Instruments specialises in products that support various applications in the detection and identification of materials:

Tibidabo Scientific Industries Ltd (“Tibidabo”), a global leader in highly differentiated technology for scientific research, aerospace, and industrial markets, announced the successful acquisition of LLA Instruments…

Robert Scheibe and the NachbarschaftsBOX © WISTA Management GmbH
13.11.2023

Marketplace + drop-off station + package service point

The NachbarschaftsBox, or neighbourhood box, set up by Berliner Stadtreinigung (BSR), Berlin’s municipal waste company, and Charlottenburger Baugenossenschaft, a housing cooperative, has countless functions:

For people who live in Berlin, it’s a familiar sight. “Zu verschenken” (to give away) is scribbled on cardboard boxes in front of buildings or on hallways. They often contain books, shoes, children’s clothes, and…

Design schematic of the VUVR beamline, top right: monochromator grating during adjustment © PTB
10.11.2023

New beamline for VUV radiometry

Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt increases availability for different measurement tasks at the Metrology Light Source:

A new beamline for radiometry in the vacuum ultraviolet spectral range (VUVR) was successfully commissioned at the Metrology Light Source (MLS). By quickly redirecting the radiation to three different measuring…

Scene from the filming of SOKO Wismar © WISTA Management GmbH
10.11.2023

Berlin is on the Baltic

“SOKO Wismar” is investigating in Adlershof:

The police station of the fictional special investigations unit “SOKO Wismar” of the eponymous crime series is a long way away from the seaside town of Wismar. It’s located in Studio 20c in Berlin Adlershof, 260…

Illustration discussion: D. Mahnkopf © WISTA Management GmbH
09.11.2023

That’s not what it’s about

Essay by Dilek Güngör, journalist and writer from Berlin:

Vera says she won’t have time on Wednesday. Vera says she had been there every Wednesday so far, and was often the first, which was because she had the shortest way from the office to Beppo’s, she knew that. The rest…

Kathrin Buchholz, LLBB © WISTA Management GmbH
09.11.2023

In conversation with Dr Kathrin Buchholz

The environmental engineer is head of public relations at the Berlin-Brandenburg State Laboratory:

“Communication with a focus on science” is the metier of environmental engineer Kathrin Buchholz. She has worked for the scientific office of the Adlershof-based research network IGAFA, headed the business office of…

[Translate to English:] ©WISTA Management GmbH
08.11.2023

Materially enabling the circular economy

At TechConnect Adlershof, scientific institutions, innovators, and companies discussed how new materials enable a circular economy:

When someone like Patrick Teuffel matter-of-factly uses the words “ongoing progress” to describe the workings of his industry - instead of the ubiquitous “ongoing process” – it says very clearly something about how…

Mario Koddenbrock with the blood pump of a ventricular assist device © WISTA Management GmbH
07.11.2023

Let’s talk about AI

Mathematician Mario Koddenbrock uses artificial intelligence to develop practical everyday solutions:

Mario Koddenbrock, a mathematician and an expert in pattern recognition at the Society for the Advancement of Applied Computer Science, investigates artificial intelligence (AI) and develops real-world applications…

Michael Ullrich, CEO at MO-SPACE © WISTA Management GmbH
06.11.2023

MO-SPACE: communicating securely with quanta

With his start-up, aerospace engineer Michael Ullrich wants to provide the highest standard for secure communication:

Not everything that rushes through the airwaves is intended for other people’s eyes and ears. Administration, businesses, and the military have always relied on information being confidential. Because of this,…

HU geographer Jakob Engel © WISTA Management GmbH
06.11.2023

The trail of the roses

Jakob Engel investigates supply chains at the Department of Geography at Humboldt-Universität:

On his research journeys, he would hear people say, “We don’t do email in Africa!” Time and time again, Engel had to become quite inventive to obtain the information he needed for his studies. In his doctoral thesis,…

BESSY II laboratory © HZB/Silvia Steinbach
06.11.2023

Happy Birthday BESSY II

A conversation about 25 years of the high-brilliance radiation source in Adlershof:

BESSY II is a synchrotron, a storage ring, a high-brilliance radiation source. Or as Bernd Rech puts it: a high-tech X-ray microscope. For 25 years, it has been helping researchers from all over the world to uncover…

Cover: Adlershof Journal November/December 2023
03.11.2023

Adlershof Journal November/December 2023

Everything but blah blah blah: how the campus communicates:

The traffic manager: Katharina Marienhagen looks after Berlin's traffic lights // MO-SPACE: Communicating securely with quanta // Happy Birthday BESSY II: 25 years of high-brilliance radiation source …

Katharina Marienhagen © WISTA Management GmbH
01.11.2023

The traffic manager

Katharina Marienhagen and her team look after more than 2,100 traffic lights in Berlin:

Two hours of Berlin traffic, day after day. From the far northwest to the far southeast in the morning, and back again in the evening. Once Katharina Marienhagen has reached her desk in Adlershof via Falkensee, the…

Students HU psychology © WISTA Management GmbH
01.11.2023

Are we consuming too much media? Where’s the time going?

How do Adlershof students and staff feel about their own communication behaviour and media consumption? A survey:

We asked the students and staff at Adlershof’s research institutions and companies about how their communication behaviour, the way they deal with social media and their time perception has changed. One thing left us…

Illustration MoS₂ lattice structure © Martin Künsting/HZB
31.10.2023

Neutralising electronic inhomogeneity in cleaved bulk MoS₂

HZB team investigated properties of molybdenum disulphide that can function as a photocatalyst in green hydrogen production:

Molybdenum disulphide (MoS₂) is a highly versatile material that can function, for example, as a gas sensor or as a photocatalyst in green hydrogen production. Although the understanding of a material usually starts…

Project manager Jakob Gemassmer © RLI
27.10.2023

Grid-friendly charging: How e-cars help with the energy transition

With the open source software SpiceEV, the Reiner Lemoine Institute has found a way for electric cars to support the power grid as rolling storage units:

Electric vehicles not only draw electricity from the grid, they can also help make more electricity from renewable energies usable. They serve as rolling storage units and offer high potential for load-side…

Special conference MPK-Ost © HZB / M. Setzpfandt
23.10.2023

“This is where the future lays”

Special conference of the East German Minister-Presidents as guests at HZB:

With a strong commitment to further investment in research and innovation, the special conference of the East German Minister-Presidents came to an end on 19 October 2023. The special conference, chaired by Saxony's…