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Kinderhaus Bienennest © WISTA Management GmbH
08.07.2021

Gardeners in the beehive

A glimpse into everyday life of a sustainable daycare centre:

Protecting plants and animals, being mindful of fellow human beings, treating each other peacefully, not wasting food, and recycling—we look inside a daycare centre to see how Adlershof’s youngest are learning about…

Christian Adam, BAM © WISTA Management GmbH
08.07.2021

The future is circular

Phosphorus, iron, and rare earths — the Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing (BAM) is investigating how important materials can be preserved and reused:

Talking to Christian Adam, an air of the eternal lies in the room. Our conversation is about continuous cycles that recovers materials and saves resources. Sparing the environment is one important goal of the circular…

Pascal Kraft and Hannah Prawitz at the uni garden in Adlershof © WISTA Management GmbH
07.07.2021

Paper cups today, a greener university tomorrow

A student initiative is improving sustainability at Berlin’s Humboldt University:

They are committed to a more sustainable university: A student initiative to establish a sustainability office at Humboldt-University brings together young activists from geography, European ethnology, computer…

Mike Zimmermann, Lichthaus © WISTA Management GmbH
07.07.2021

“Building this studio was a dream of mine”

One of Europe’s largest XR (extended reality) studios is being created in Adlershof’s Science City:

Head lighting technician Mike Zimmermann and his company Lichthaus Berlin GmbH are pioneers of environmentally friendly movie production. Productions at the new studio in Adlershof are 100 percent…

Roland Stoer, WINDnovation © WISTA Management GmbH
06.07.2021

Specialised in wind harvest

Adlershof's WINDnovation is thinking in terms of recycling when designing rotor blades:

Since its founding in autumn 2007, WINDnovation Engineering Solutions GmbH has truly lived up to its name: The Adlershof-based company has developed over 300 different rotor blades and an array of turbines for…

FAIRmat team © Christina Färber
05.07.2021

FAIRmat: Lifting the treasure trove of materials data

Consortium led by HU professor Claudia Draxl aims to facilitate access to materials science data:

The FAIRmat consortium, led by Claudia Draxl, Professor at the Humboldt-Universität, is one of the projects selected today by the Joint Science Conference (GWK) in a multi-stage competition for the National Research…

DESY researcher © DESY/Christian Schmid
01.07.2021

Synchrotrons accelerate corona research

Research funding is key – Information by the German Committee Research with Synchrotron Radiation:

Synchrotron light sources were originally built to study particles. Today, they are even used in the fight against COVID-19. The projects are as diverse as the fields of the synchrotron users, who come from…

Nu2 Lu­pi pla­netary system, Credit: ESA
30.06.2021

CHEOPS char­ac­teris­es three plan­ets with some ex­traor­di­nary prop­er­ties

DLR planetary researchers support the mission and help with data analysis:

The European Space Agency (ESA) space telescope Characterising ExOPlanet Satellite (CHEOPS) has been observing a previously known planetary system. With the high-precision measurements performed by CHEOPS, its three…

praseodymium orthoscandate crystal © Cornell University
29.06.2021

World record in electron microscope resolution with crystals from the IKZ

Special crystals show atoms with the highest level of detail :

An international team of researchers has succeeded in achieving the world's highest electron microscope resolution to date. The Leibniz-Institut für Kristallzüchtung provided the decisive material for this world…

Katharina-Boll-Dornberger-Straße © WISTA Management GmbH
29.06.2021

A place of well-being

About the status quo of residential construction in Adlershof’s Science City and what else is planned:

Sabrina Böttcher is the group leader of the Special Department Residential Construction-Project Management and Urban Land-Use Planning at the Senate Department for Urban Development and Housing. In the WISTA magazine…

Cover Photon Science Roadmap, © Vlnr: HZDR/S.Floss, HZB/S.Steinbach und DESY / C.Schmid
28.06.2021

Tailwind for top research in Germany

Research centers of the Helmholtz Association present upgrade strategy for accelerator-based facilities:

Three research centres in the Helmholtz Association have developed a joint future plan for the research conducted at the scientific light sources they operate in Hamburg, Berlin and Dresden. The upgrades proposed in…

mini greenhouses © PlattenBaum
28.06.2021

Growing communities and vegetables

Feeding cities sustainably and strengthening social cohesion – that's what PlattenBaum UG is planning:

It’s about growing fresh vegetables on the outside of panel houses, meeting people in greenhouses and community gardens, and the universal power of connecting through gardening. Maayan Strauss and Kerem Halbrecht…

XUV-Spot, Credit: Balázs Major
28.06.2021

Honey, we shrunk the intense XUV laser

International team of scientists with MBI participation demonstrates new concept for generating XUV radiation:

An international team of researchers has demonstrated a new concept for the generation of intense extreme-ultraviolet (XUV) radiation by high-harmonic generation (HHG). Its advantage lies in the fact that its…

Visualisation © AFF Architekten Berlin
28.06.2021

Space as a third teacher

The construction of a new school on Hermann-Dorner-Allee in Adlershof brings together modern architecture with modern teaching concepts:

Asked about his childhood school, Jens Wadle, district head for new school buildings at HOWOGE Wohnungsbaugesellschaft mbH, remembers “a school bulding with little green areas and open spaces”. The words “uninviting…

Kathrin Goldammer © RLI
17.06.2021

Dr. Kathrin Goldammer is spokeswoman for the energy technology cluster

The RLI Managing Director has been appointed as spokesperson for the joint energy technology cluster of the states of Berlin and Brandenburg:

RLI Managing Director Kathrin Goldammer has been appointed by Berlin’s Senator for Economic Affairs Ramona Pop and Brandenburg’s Minister of Economic Affairs Prof. Jörg Steinbach as spokesperson for the Energy…

Renske van der Veen © Irene Böttcher-Gajweski/MPIBC
03.06.2021

Renske van der Veen heads new department “Atomic Dynamics in Light-Energy Conversion” at HZB

The researcher studies catalytic processes that enable the conversion of solar energy into chemical energy:

From June 2021, Dr. Renske van der Veen is setting up a new research group at HZB. The chemist is an expert in time-resolved X-ray spectroscopy and electron microscopy and studies catalytic processes that enable the…

interferometer setup/HU Berlin
03.06.2021

A New Light on Quantum Science

Research team has, for the first time, directly measured the particle exchange phase of photons:

A research team of the Institute of Physics of the Humboldt University of Berlin together with cooperation partners Max Born Institute (Berlin) and DLR Institute of Optical Sensor Systems (Berlin) has, for the first…

Photo and Raman microscopy image: Dariz/Schmid
02.06.2021

Research team elucidates complex spectrum of trace compounds in the first artificial pigment of mankind

Early Medieval Egyptian blue in laser light:

Art technologist Dr. Petra Dariz and analytical chemist Dr. Thomas Schmid (School of Analytical Sciences Adlershof SALSA at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and Bundesanstalt für Materialforschung und -prüfung BAM)…

28.05.2021

Prospects of opening up for Berlin’s universities and colleges

More presence on campus possible again from June:

In view of the steadily falling incidence values, preparations are being made for initial steps to open up the universities and colleges in Berlin. After more than a year of operating largely in digital mode, and with…

video screenshot
27.05.2021

Insights into Research Training Group „Rethinking Quantum Field Theory“

New video about the promotion of early-career researchers at IRIS Adlershof:

Last year, the Research Training Group (RTG 2575) “Rethinking Quantum Field Theory”, funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG), has started its work. The graduate programme for young academics is based at the…