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Eat your way through Adlershof

Adlershof is expanding its culinary opportunities and tending changing demands:

Whether you’re looking for bagels, wraps, salads, curry and rice, or Königsberger Klopse, a German favourite: Adlershof is expanding its culinary opportunities and tending to changing demands. Food in the Science City…

A temporary home

Angelina Fischer benefits from all the new services provided in the Science City:

Looking out of the window, one can see trees, lawn, a small road, the landmarked façade of a classic modern building. “I like that it is so quiet. It’s not as busy as Berlin-Mitte,” says Angelina Fischer. “I prefer it…

The Blue Rabbit’s Best Friend

Christian Bahrmann, host on the children’s television channel KiKA, is promoting a healthy diet with the catering company Optimahl:

Christian Bahrmann originally wanted to become a teacher. English and geography. His career as a musician in the band “Die Durchlauferhitzers”, who played cover songs from The Rolling Stones and The Police, never…

Swift inertial measuring

The company Resonic’s high-precision procedure determines the mass properties of engines, satellites and cars:

Resonic, a young company from Adlershof, has developed a unique high-precision procedure to simply determine the mass properties of engines, satellites, cars and many other things. We visited their workshop. A car…

Adlershof has come a long way

In conversation with Sabine Kunst, president of Humboldt-Universität, about the university’s natural science campus:

Sabine Kunst became the president of the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (HU) in May this year. A conversation about the challenges faced by the long-standing university, the role of the HU’s campus in Adlershof, the…

The good smile and the bad

How other people’s body language interacts with what we know about their biography:

What shapes our first impression upon looking into a person’s face? Humboldt scholarship holder Julia Baum examines how other people’s body language interacts with what we know about them as part of the research group…

Films from the Nanoworld

Stefan Eisebitt uses ultrafast light pulses to turn off or reverse magnetisation:

Stefan Eisebitt gets to the bottom of things. He uses ultrafast light pulses to not only examine the properties of matter in their “resting state”, but also to see how the excitement of electrons affects the…

Learn, learn and keep learning

LUM successfully started education offensive 2016 in China:

In collaboration of LUM GmbH Berlin and its Chinese subsidiary LUM (Changzhou) Instruments Co., Ltd. (LUM China), first the local Chinese sales partners were technically trained for all LUM product lines for …

PicoQuant – Counting Photons since 20 Years

Company celebrates 20 years of excellence in time-resolved optical instrumentation:

In 1996, four young scientists and engineers set themselves the goal to develop optical instrumentation designed by scientists for scientists and thus founded the company PicoQuant.  Support from the Federal Ministry…

From Wafer to End Product in Under 8 Weeks

AEMtec expands portfolio to include one-stop services for microchip placement:

AEMtec GmbH, a member company of the international technology group exceet, has expanded its value chain in microchip placement. The experienced electronics specialist, which maintains its own cleanroom …

Methodology advance at HZB

Ionic liquids simplify laser experiments on liquid samples:

An HZB team has developed a new approach to conduct photoemission spectroscopy of molecules in solution. This has been difficult up to now because the sample needed to be situated in vacuum – but liquids evaporate.…

Ocean rogue waves: a mystery unveiled?

MBI researchers report new approach to the measurement of wave motion:

Rogue waves are extremely high ocean waves that exceed the significant wave height by more than a factor of 2. Extreme waves are also very rare; less than one in 100,000 waves exceeds the rogue wave criterion.…

New combinations of materials for producing magnetic monopoles

Materials system for future energy-efficient data storage:

An international collaboration at BESSY II has discovered a new method to inscribe exotic magnetic patterns such as magnetic monopoles into thin ferromagnetic films. Such unconventional orientation of magnetic…

The Plasma Start-up

Homogeneous layers and precise structuring for opto- and microelectronic components:

The Golares GmbH is a newly established spin-off of the Leibniz-Institute for Crystal Growth (IKZ). At the Centre for Photonics and Optics in Adlershof, two founders are advancing a procedure for high-precision and…

Quantum Friction: Beyond the local equilibrium approximation

Scientists from HU and Max-Born-Institute report on detailed new physical insights:

Systems out of thermodynamic equilibrium are very common in nature. In recent years they have attracted constantly growing attention because of their relevance for fundamental physics as well as for modern…

Sicoya won the European Photonics Start-up challenge at Micro Photonics

The company received a cash prize of €4,000, a business coaching package worth €1,500, and various promotions in industry journals. In the competition, which is part of the European outreach program Photonics4All,…

Younicos' battery park project to triple its capacity

Groundbreaking for expansion of the Schwerin battery power plant:

Mecklenburg-Vorpommern’s Minister of Energy, Christian Pegel, was in attendance on 5th October as German utility WEMAG, in partnership with storage software leader Younicos, began the construction on a project that…

Adlershof Special 47

The Berlin mixture: Adlershof´s got it all:

A magnet for new firms //  Road map for the future //  Smart living concepts //

Adlershof has the right mix

Editorial by Prof. Dr.-Ing. Engelbert Lütke Daldrup, State Secretary in the Senate Department for Urban Development and the Environment:

The science, business and media hub in the south-east of Berlin is booming and gradually becoming a lively and vibrant district. There is an increasing number of occasions to get an idea of the progress of various…

Rudower Chaussee: a good mix

New projects and arrivals show just how attractive Adlershof’s high street has become:

When it was announced that project developer Corpus Sireo would be building a new administrative building for the financial services company Allianz on Rudower Chaussee, with 60,000 square metres of rentable office…