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Illustration: D. Mahnkopf © WISTA Management GmbH
04.11.2020

Where Fontane stopped rambling: A Technological Switzerland

Essay by Matthias Gerschwitz, a marketing and communications specialist, writer, and satirist:

Do you remember “Die Mundorgel”? The small red book and a collection of songs that people would belt out on bus rides, youth camps, and bonfires? It featured songs full of travelling tales and Wanderlust – which…

Bernd Haase © WISTA Management GmbH
04.11.2020

In conversation with Bernd Haase

A digitisation professional and big fan of the landscape park Johannisthal/Adlershof:

If you want to immerse yourself in the history of the Science City Adlershof, make a stop at Bernd Haase’s DSC Digital Service Center. As a qualified measurement technician, he worked for East German television in the…

Walid Hreich, Falafel Saida © WISTA Management GmbH
04.11.2020

The falafel artist

Walid Hreich supplies Adlershof with Oriental dishes:

Some of his customers now come all the way from Köpenick. Some as far as Tempelhof. And so, it is safe to say that, over the course of three years, this simple food stall in front of the Centre for IT and Media has…

Felix Fiedler © WISTA Management GmbH
04.11.2020

Discover the possibilities!

How an apprentice, a researcher, and a young entrepreneur explore Adlershof:

There is life after work. We wanted to know what young people, who haven’t been working on the site for very long, do in their free time or during their lunch break? Do they have any good tips? A tour for discovering…

Italian cuisine © WISTA Management GmbH
04.11.2020

The culinary diversity of the Science City

From Mediterranean and Italian to Vietnamese – these are Adlershof’s newest restaurants:

Adlershof’s culinary diversity is growing. At three new restaurants, the owners, chefs, and cooks have created their own culinary world and are now luring in customers – not just at lunch time. Two of the showcased…

Production hall Jonas & Redmann © WISTA Management GmbH
04.11.2020

A three-point landing on Segelfliegerdamm

Custom machine building company Jonas & Redmann has a new headquarters in Adlershof:

Custom machine building company Jonas & Redmann will be moving into its new headquarters on Segelfliegerdamm in Adlershof in autumn. Segelfliegerdamm roughly translates to glider pilot causeway, which is a fitting…

Credit © IKZ
03.11.2020

New DFG research group on mixed crystals of lithium niobate and lithium tantalate

IKZ is member of the new research group “Periodic Low-Dimensional Defect Structures in Polar Oxides”:

Dr. Steffen Ganschow of the Leibniz-Institut für Kristallzüchtung (IKZ) is member of the new DFG research group FOR5044 “Periodic Low-Dimensional Defect Structures in Polar Oxides”. The research group will investigate…

projection of a school of fish © schnellebuntebilder
03.11.2020

An era of side effects

The Humboldt Laboratory will open on 7 January 2021 at Humboldt Forum. It will also feature research from Adlershof:

A thinking space, a collaborative research project, and a place where science and the public enter into a dialogue: the Humboldt Laboratory in Berlin-Mitte will open its gates on 7 January 2021. The inaugural…

Josefine Günschel at ZMM © WISTA Management GmbH
03.11.2020

Research as an art, art as research

Light installations, art in buildings, historical monuments: an expedition through Adlershof:

The Technology Park Adlershof in autumn. Shiny new buildings, the doors of high-tech companies and institutes are locked, only few people are outside. Hurrying across the site, it could easily seem like purely…

Marthe Vogt Podcast
16.10.2020

Inspiring women in science

In the Marthe Vogt Podcast of the Forschungsverbund Berlin, junior researchers share stories about their journey into science:

For the majority of women in science, doctoral and postdoctoral phases continue to be the most vulnerable time in their careers. In the new Marthe Vogt Podcast by the Forschungsverbund Berlin (FVB), Natalia…

Winners InnoSpace Masters © HU Berlin
15.10.2020

Secure satellite communication – Berlin team wins INNOspace Masters 2019/20

Project “QuMSeC” of TU, HU and FBH becomes overall winner of the DLR innovation competition:

The winners of the INNOspace Masters competition, which is organized by the German Aerospace Center (DLR), have been announced: On 14 October, a Berlin-based team from Technische Universität, Humboldt-Universität and…

Honoured for outstanding training © Agentur für Arbeit, Berlin-Süd
13.10.2020

Helmholtz-Zentrum is one of the best trainers in Berlin

The Berlin-South Employment Agency awarded the Certificate for Young Talent Promotion 2019/2020 to the HZB:

The Berlin-South Employment Agency has awarded the Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin for an innovative  procedure to select applicants for apprenticeships and dual studies not only on the basis of their grades, but also to…

FBH authors @FBH/P. Immerz
13.10.2020

William F. Meggers Award of the SAS presented to FBH authors

The prize recognizes the paper as the outstanding publication of the year 2019 in the journal “Applied Spectroscopy”:

The paper Shifted Excitation Raman Difference Spectroscopy with Charge-Shifting Charge-Coupled Device (CCD) Lock-In Detection was honored with the prestigious William F. Meggers Award of the Society for Applied…

PicoQuant’s team in China © PicoQuant
13.10.2020

PicoQuant GmbH strengthens local presence in China

Chinese customers benefit from a website in Chinese and a strong local presence:

To better serve its growing Chinese customer base, PicoQuant GmbH now has an official Chinese website that offers first-hand information about PicoQuant products and applications. Together with 20 trained sales and…

Experimental hall BESSY II © HZB/M. Setzpfand
07.10.2020

University of Kassel and HZB establish Joint Lab for the use of artificial intelligence

New experimental methods will be developed and the analysis of data from experiments performed at BESSY II will be significantly improved:

Every year, nearly 3000 user groups from around the world visit the electron storage ring BESSY II to study an immense variety of materials using the brilliant X-ray light the ring generates. “In the research of…

Magnetization skyrmion wirl. MBI
07.10.2020

Twisting magnetization with light

Laser pulses enable faster creation of skyrmions in magnets:

A team of scientists led by the Max Born Institute (MBI), Berlin, Germany, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, USA, has demonstrated how tiny magnetization patterns known as skyrmions can…

Dr. Das © BAM
06.10.2020

Two Winners of the Falling Walls Lab Adlershof 2020

Dr. Chayanika Das (BAM) and Svea Stephan (KNAUER Wissenschaftliche Geräte) won the Adlershof competition:

Dr. Chayanika Das, Bundesanstalt für Materialforschung und -prüfung (BAM) with Breaking the Wall of MAGNESIUM CORROSION and Svea Stephan, KNAUER Wissenschaftliche Geräte GmbH, with Breaking the Wall of EXPLOITING…

Scheme © Stefan Eisebitt/Max Born Institute
01.10.2020

Atom-Billiards with X-Rays

A new Approach to look inside of Molecules:

Since the early days of quantum mechanics, it is known that photons also possess momentum. The photon’s ability to transfer momentum was used in a novel approach by scientists of the Max Born Institute, Uppsala…

30.09.2020

A sec­ond DLR study on COVID-19 and mo­bil­i­ty

Pub­lic trans­port wanes in pop­u­lar­i­ty, pri­vate trans­port gains in im­por­tance:

Public transport is losing ground in Germany, while the importance of individual means of transport, especially private cars, is increasing. These are the key findings of the second survey conducted by the German…

CHEOPS © ESA/ATG medialab
30.09.2020

First measurement results of the CHEOPS space tele­scope were published

WASP-189b is one of the hottest exoplanets known to date:

Initial measurements made by the European CHaracterising ExOPlanet Satellite (CHEOPS) space telescope indicate that the giant planet, WASP-189b, located 326 light years from Earth, glows as hot as a small star as it…