News Archive
Kathrin Goldammer elected board member of Women in Green Hydrogen
RLI Managing Director supports the association in political matters:
RLI Managing Director Kathrin Goldammer has been a board member of Women in Green Hydrogen (WiGH) since February 16th 2024. At an annual meeting in Berlin, the association members elected their first board of…
Valuable breaks
Rico Regner runs the green canteen in Adlershof:
If Rico Regner hadn't listened to his mother's advice, things might have turned out very differently. “Why don't you find out what you actually want to do first,” she said. And so, the then-18-year-old from Berlin…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…