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Adlershof Journal March/April 2021

How time flies… The Technology Park is turning 30:

There's still room for development: 30 isn't old! // How to succeed: Starting a business – then and now // “Cardboardience” instead of audience: Rost Werbetechnik produces the row fillers // …

Adlershof puts you in a good mood: Why kitchenettes and water coolers are vital places for high technology

Essay by Joachim Fahrun, chief reporter at Berliner Morgenpost:

“Adlershof?” said my chief editor. “That’s a bit overcovered.” In the early 2010s, many people, including me, had reported so much on the Technology Park in Berlin’s South East that some eager media consumers thought…

The keeper of the maps and plans of the Science City Adlershof

In conversation with Heike Böhme:

In the late 1980s, she was well on her way to becoming an inventor. Today she is the keeper of the maps and plans of the Science City Adlershof. During the post-reunification period, the 420-hectare area was the last…

The data accelerator

Stefan Meister produces chips for faster internet in Adlershof:

The goddess of wind of the Yoruba people of Nigeria, Oya, is also responsible for transformation. “She tears away the old,” says Stefan Meister, who could indeed compare his work to hers. The doctor of physics has…

All grown up: the Technology Park Adlershof turns 30

An entrepreneur, a scientist, and a project manager take a look back and a look ahead:

Has it really been 30 years?! Yes, indeed. The science and business location Adlershof is having a milestone birthday in March. An entrepreneur, a scientist, and a project manager from Adlershof look back, take stock,…

Accelero Receives EU Eurostars Funding Supporting a Gene Therapy for the Treatment of Lypodystrophy

Accelero Bioanalytics GmbH (“Accelero”) is awarded EUR 136,500 in project grants to support research and development of a gene therapy targeting lypodystrophy. The project called CGT2 is headed by Scandinavian’s…

Experiment reveals new options for synchrotron light sources

SSMB source combines advantages of synchrotron light with the benefits of FEL pulses:

An international team has shown through a sensational experiment how diverse the possibilities for employing synchrotron light sources are. Accelerator experts from the Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin (HZB), the German…

Starting a business – then and now

What Bestec CEO Rainer Hammerschmidt can pass on to the team of the start-up JUNA:

Rainer Hammerschmidt was one of the first entrepreneurs of the Technology Park Adlershof. He enjoys passing on his experience to prospective business founders. Adlershof, thirty years ago. German reunification:…

Spooky materialisation where light beams meet

New processes from Adlershof-based xolo GmbH are revolutionising 3D printing:

The young Adlershof-based xolo GmbH is launching a novel 3D printing process. Their xolography is based on molecules that are fused to form high-precision components under the influence of light beams of different…

Aerospace research has been shaping Adlershof for more than 100 years

In view of the development of the science and technology location, Andreas Schütz, DLR's spokesperson, speaks of “an incredible success”:

Even after 30 years, Andreas Schütz, spokesperson of the German Aerospace Center (DLR), is still amazed when he arrives in Adlershof coming from his office in Berlin-Mitte. While he was working for DLR in Adlershof…

Precision landing of NASA's Perseverance rover on Mars

DLR Adlershof is contributing a wide range of scientific expertise:

On 18 February 2021, NASA initiated the most precise landing ever attempted on the Red Planet. A spacecraft with the Perseverance rover on board entered the Martian atmosphere at just under 19,500 kilometres per hour.…

Knowing what’s inside

The Adlershof-based ASCA GmbH signed a cooperation agreement with the Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing (BAM):

Drug residues in drinking water, food contaminated with pesticides, UV blockers in the Baltic Sea: Residues of chemical substances are found everywhere. The Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing (BAM)…

30 isn't old!

Psychology professor Jule Specht explores how personalities change over the course of life:

It was long believed that personality development is mostly completed at 30. However, results from psychology research show: There is a lot going on beyond one’s 30th birthday – people go through considerable changes,…

An incisive experience in the company's 30-year history

Rost Werbetechnik is fighting for survival and created the “Cardboardience”:

At first glance, it seems like the TV studio is full. Every second audience member, however, is made of cardboard. Since mid-March 2020 well-known German TV shows have been shooting without an audience for safety…

The perfect recipe for efficient perovskite solar cells

HZB team improved the composition of material inks for the simple and cost-effective production of solar cells:

A long-cherished dream of materials researchers is a solar cell that converts sunlight into electrical energy as efficiently as silicon, but that can be easily and inexpensively fabricated from abundant materials.…

Honorary doctorate awarded to Prof. Dr. Heinz-Wilhelm Hübers

The Swedish Chalmers University of Technology honours the scientist from HU Berlin and DLR for his contribution to research in the field of terahertz components:

Dr. Heinz-Wilhelm Hübers is a professor at Humboldt-University Berlin and the director of the Institute of Optical Sensor Systems at Deutsches Zentrum für Luft und Raumfart, DLR (German Aerospace Center), which…

Optimised transistors: creating a metal with laser light

Researchers from the Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society and the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin make discovery that could increase computing power:

From smartphones to computer processors – much of the technology we nowadays use heavily features transistors. They connect many of the different materials that make up these devices, and are essential for any kind of…

World's first video recording of a space-time crystal

With the help of the scanning transmission X-ray microscope MAXYMUS at BESSY II, the first recording of the recurring periodic magnetization structure in a crystal was captured:

A German-Polish research team has succeeded in creating a micrometer-sized space-time crystal consisting of magnons at room temperature. With the help of the scanning transmission X-ray microscope MAXYMUS at Bessy II…

Epimune GmbH and Tanner Pharma Group enter into Distribution Partnership for Latin America

Approvals of in-vitro diagnostic tests for immune cell quantification are expected within the second half of 2021:

Epimune GmbH, a molecular diagnostic company that develops, manufactures and commercializes in-vitro diagnostic tests for immune cell quantification from a drop of blood, announced that it has entered into a license…

PicoQuant releases new MultiHarp 160 – a scalable multichannel event timer and TCSPC unit

Designed for applications requiring up to 64 synchronized inputs without compromises in time resolution and data throughput:

During this years virtual SPIE Photonics West exhibition (March 6-11, 2021), PicoQuant will unveil its latest multichannel event timer: The MultiHarp 160, a plug-and-play time tagger and Time-Correlated Single Photon…