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Nathalie Picqué at the award ceremony during the CLEO conference on 7 May 2024. © Optica
27.05.2024

Nathalie Picqué receives the 2024 William F. Meggers Award

The MBI Director and Professor of Physics at HU Berlin was honored for her path-breaking work on broadband molecular spectroscopy using interfering frequency combs:

The Meggers Award of OPTICA (formerly the Optical Society) was established in 1970 to honour the memory of William F. Meggers, an American physicist specialising in spectroscopy. It is awarded annually in recognition…

CEO Andreas Stadler and Elisabeth Helldorff in the Showroom System 180 © WISTA Management GmbH
24.05.2024

Agile furnishing

System 180 provides people with flexible spatial design:

The pandemic has triggered a surge in flexibility in the professional world. The demands to spaces and furniture are changing. When hybrid work and agile methods bring together diverse teams, it is essential to have…

Physics professor Çiğdem İşsever © WISTA Management GmbH
24.05.2024

How accurate is physics depicted in the movies?

“As long as the film stays in its own logic, I can accept other theories”, says Çiğdem İşsever from HU Berlin:

Caution is required whenever physics appears in films, says Çiğdem İşsever. She dedicates herself to the fundamentals of particle physics at Humboldt Universität’s Lise Meitner House in Adlershof. Entertainment…

IKZ-employees in front of of an image of a BaMgF4 crystal grown at IKZ
24.05.2024

Successful start of the BMBF project "UV-KrisP - Coherent continuous wave radiation in vacuum UV"

IKZ and Fraunhofer IPM will develop a new crystal material together:

Over the next three years, the IKZ will develop a new crystal material together with the Fraunhofer Institute for Physical Measurement Techniques IPM in Freiburg. This material is capable of generating laser radiation…

RLI-CEO Christine Kühnel © WISTA Management GmbH
24.05.2024

The defiant

At the Adlershof-based Reiner Lemoine Institute (RLI), Christine Kühnel is working towards a future in which energy is 100 percent renewable:

The German government just recently cut funding for the Climate and Transformation Fund. This affects Reiner Lemoine Institut (RLI), among many others. “The consequences are dramatic,” says Christine Kühnel, who has…

23.05.2024

RLI designs a digital twin for the local heating market in Berlin

On behalf of the Berlin Senate Department for Mobility, Transport, Climate Protection and the Environment, scientists design a digital heat register:

Berlin is ready to tackle the challenges of climate change and take on a pioneering role in the use of renewable energies. A powerful team of energy market, heat market and digital experts will provide support. On…

Portrait Joachim Sauer
23.05.2024

Prof. Dr. Joachim Sauer receives the Blaise Pascal Medal 2024 in Chemistry

European Academy of Sciences (EURASC) honours the renowned chemist for his outstanding research in the field of catalytic reactions:

Professor Joachim Sauer is honored with the Blaise Pascal Medal in Chemistry for his exceptional contributions to understanding catalytic reactions on the basis of quantum chemistry at all levels and through his…

Illustration of the light-induced electron motion that generates a chiral electron current. Image credit: Ella Maru Studio, Inc. / © MBI
23.05.2024

Scientists decipher the contribution of electrons to molecular chirality

A new approach offers a way to control physical and chemical properties that result from chiral interactions:

A new experimental approach provides the long-awaited tools to understand the role of electrons in the molecular chiral reactivity and offers a way to control physical and chemical properties that result from chiral…

Know-why, -what, -how, -who? Illustration Dorothee Mahnkopf © WISTA Management GmbH
23.05.2024

Know-why, -what, -how, -who? What we need to know about the future world of work

Essay by Katja Ninnemann, Professor of Digitalization and Workspace Management at HTW Berlin:

Faced with current challenges like disruptive technology developments, the increasing shortage of skilled workers, and the after-effects of the coronavirus pandemic, many people are posing questions about the future…

Laser beam in the dark © HZB
17.05.2024

Watching indium phosphide at work

Research team from HZB, TU Ilmenau and Paderborn University gained insights into the electron dynamics in the surface of the semiconductor:

Indium phosphide is a versatile semiconductor. The material can be used for solar cells, for hydrogen production and even for quantum computers – and with record-breaking efficiency. However, little research has been…

Lukas Kunath and Marina Schmitz at Studentendorf © WISTA Management GmbH
16.05.2024

Living like in a village community

The Student Village Adlershof opened ten years ago:

Wood-clad façades with an accordion look, colourful blinds, and floor-to-ceiling windows: Construction on the Student Village Adlershof was completed ten years ago. Since then, 400 students from all over the world…

Daniela Theile, HZB © WISTA Management GmbH
15.05.2024

In conversation with Daniela Theile

The user coordination officer at the Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin works as a volunteer swimming coach:

Around 31 million Germans give back to society through volunteer work. Helmholtz employee and swimming coach Daniela Theile is one of them. She waxes lyrically: “How many people have the key to a public swimming…

DLR researcher Jörn Helbert © WISTA Management GmbH
14.05.2024

A stroke of luck – The meteorite from the Havelland

Planetary researcher Jörn Helbert examined the very rare object in the DLR laboratory:

Sunday, 21 January 2024. It’s about half past two. The night over Brandenburg is clear when, suddenly, a fiery streak illuminates the sky. A chunk of a rock from space, half a metre long and weighing about 140 kilos,…

Plances-Team Christopher Liebau (left) and Tim Schröder © WISTA Management GmbH
13.05.2024

The rainmakers – Flourishing balconies for a greener city

A start-up team in Adlershof is developing a smart watering system for balconies:

With great precision, the start-up Plances—funded by the Adlershof Founder’s Lab (AFL)—will deliver valuable moisture to the balconies of renters across the city. Their mission: Greener, more liveable cities in which…

Artwork. Source DALL·E 2 from OpenAI
08.05.2024

How our knowledge of artists influences our perception of their works

A new study from Humboldt-Universität approaches the question from a psychological perspective:

A neurocognitive study by researchers at the Institute of Psychology at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (HU) shows that negative knowledge about an artist influences the perception of the artwork, regardless of the…

Adlershof Journal May/June 2024
07.05.2024

Adlershof Journal May/June 2024

A seedbed of creative minds – What makes the work environments in Adlershof unique?:

Agile furnishing: System 180 provides people with flexible spatial design // The rainmakers: Flourishing balconies for a greener city // A stroke of luck: The meteorite from the Havelland

WISTA-CEO Roland Sillmann © WISTA Management GmbH
07.05.2024

An ecosystem for talent

The "ST3AM" at the Adlershof campus is a place where people can work in a more flexible, creative and interdisciplinary way:

At the university campus in Adlershof, a new hub called ST3AM is taking shape where people can work on ideas that will truly drive humanity forward in a more agile, creative, and interdisciplinary way than other…

Sculpture “Neuron Accelerator” © Peter Sandhaus
26.04.2024

A sculpture in front of BESSY II: The neuron accelerator

An art installation will be erected in front of the entrance to the BESSY building, which invites people to sit down and exchange ideas:

Art on buildings is one of the requirements for publicly funded construction projects. HZB is also bound by this requirement. For the three construction projects EMIL, BERLinPro and the testing hall, the HZB…

THz line scanner with detectors for inline quality control © FBH/P. Immerz
26.04.2024

FBH has developed a terahertz line scanner for plastic components

World's first line scanner with monolithically integrated terahertz detectors for industrial applications:

The Ferdinand-Braun-Institut has developed a terahertz line scanner for plastic components, enabling cost-effective realization of larger scan line lengths in industrial environments. For the first time, the…

25.04.2024

IRIS beamline at BESSY II extended with nanomicroscopy

The new nanoscope enables nanospectroscopy and nanoimaging of structures smaller than a thousandth of the diameter of a human hair:

The IRIS infrared beamline at the BESSY II storage ring now offers a fourth option for characterising materials, cells and even molecules on different length scales. The team has extended the IRIS beamline with an end…