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Adlershof Journal May/June 2021
Good news: our science community is not running out of ideas:
New reality: unusual avenues in public relations // Visual surprises: commercials from Angry Hamster film // Meatball from the bioreactor: mushroom-based meat alternatives //
“Oh, so you have time to do that?” I do, indeed, and I will now tell you why
Essay by Josef Zens, head of public relations at the GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Helmholtz Centre Potsdam:
The whole pandemic thing is tricky. It’s possible that Bill Gates is behind it all. Seeing as he is in control of the World Health Organisation, it would be easy for him to force vaccinations on people around the…
The well-known and the new voice of Adlershof
In conversation with Peter Strunk & Cindy Böhme, corporate spokespersons of the WISTA Management GmbH:
Name: Peter Strunk Occupation: Historian Born in: 1955 Lives in: Berlin Schöneweide With him, it’s all about the (hi)story. Peter Strunk is well-known as the voice of the Adlershof Technology Park. For over 20 years,…
How to communicate in a crisis?
A field report from the WISTA communications team following a year of the coronavirus pandemic:
How do humans react to danger? With fight, flight, or playing dead. When Germany was suddenly shut down on 14 March 2020 and the operating company of Adlershof Technology Park with it, which choice did the…
The atom catcher
Markus Krutzik studies the basics and applications of high-precision measurement technology:
When he moved to Berlin for his PhD in 2009, Markus Krutzik heard his supervisor say: “We will move to Adlershof soon.” The Frankfurt native had never heard of that place. It is now a decade ago that his academic and…
Seeing is believing
Another cancellation of the “Long Night of the Sciences” – How can science communication also succeed digitally?:
Planning was at full steam, when it was suddenly cancelled in late April: The “Long Night of the Sciences” will, again, not take place this year as usual. We asked the organisers how digital science communication can…
Promoting community involvement by walking on water
The experimental laboratory “AnthropoScenes” will kick off on 1 July:
Knowledge transfer, an exchange on a level playing field, civic participation: Modern science aims not just at communicating its findings but also discuss with a non-scientific audience. It should be open to input…
The new reality
Replacing analogue with digital and hybrid – unusual avenues in public relations:
“Book a Scientist” is the name of a event series by the Leibniz Association. It involves interested parties discussing their favourite subject with a researcher for 25 minutes. “This is a nice format, especially…
Meatballs from the bioreactor
Mushlabs GmbH uses fungal cells for producing a vegan meat alternative:
Fungi are highly efficient recyclers of plant waste, which they convert into proteins and other important nutrients. The young Hamburg-based company Mushlabs GmbH is developing a bioreactor process in which fungal…
Two movie buffs and a hamster do advertising
Explainer videos are more than moving-image manuals:
Size doesn’t matter according to Willi Haninger, CEO and creative producer at Angry Hamster UG. Haninger and his business partner Marina Izquierdo work with a team of ten freelancers. “Our strength is that we tend to…
Graphic design solutions for humanities content
The Visualink editor from the Adlershof start-up Whim_GbR is a tool for creating digital charts to improve teaching:
Wen-Min Ji not only studied philosophy, biology, and architecture, but is also very good at drawing. Working as a student assistant at Humboldt-University’s philosophy institute, the 28-year-old used her talents to…
Researchers starting companies
Berlin pools its start-up activities in the Science & Startups network to promote science spin-offs:
The economic potential of science spin-offs is indisputable. Despite government incentives, however, their number remains comparatively low. Berlin is now pooling together all its start-up promotion activities in a…
Diode lasers meet soil crumbs
Why portable Raman systems are now used in agriculture – the RaMBo measuring system from the Laser Sensors Lab at the Ferdinand-Braun-Institut in Adlershof:
Last November, it was finally done. The RaMBo measuring system was deployed for the first time on a field in Potsdam-Marquardt. Its goal: to determine the nutrient content of the soil. Phosphorus and nitrogen, in…
ICULTA is becoming a flagship of the UV LED community
Review of the 2021 edition of the International Conference on UV LED Technologies & Applications:
For the second time, ICULTA – the ‘International Conference on UV LED Technologies & Applications’ – presented a forum for the UV LED community to exchange ideas and results on cutting-edge topics. The program of last…
ASTI Mobile Robotics aims to create more than 120 new jobs in 2021
The digital transformation has accelerated enormously due to the pandemic and ensures exponential growth for the robotics company:
In the first quarter of 2021, the ASTI Mobile Robotics Group added more than 40 people to #teamASTI, aiming to strengthen its workforce and, in this way, meet the current mobile robotics market demands while also…
New X-ray microscope put into operation at BESSY II
MYSTIIC offers higher precision and more options for scanning surfaces and investigating bulk samples in transmission:
A new X-ray microscope has started operation at the Energy Materials in situ Lab (EMIL). It is a scanning transmission X-ray microscope designed to examine both sample surfaces and bulk sample. With the soft X-ray…
Direct observation of the ad- and desorption of guest atoms into a mesoporous host
Research at the PTB X-ray beamline of the HZB BESSY II synchrotron lays the foundations for new insights into energy materials:
Battery electrodes, storage devices for gases, and some catalyst materials have tiny functional pores that can accommodate atoms, ions, and molecules. How these guest atoms are absorbed into or released from the pores…
BAM researches the risks of tiny polymer particles
The toxicity of micro- and nanoplastics is being investigated in two large EU projects:
Particularly fibrous particles of micro- and nanoplastics are suspected of being harmful. They enter the human body via the air we breathe or the food we eat. Initial data indicate that they could lead to irritation…
Real-time optical distance sensing of up-conversion nanoparticles with a precision of 2.8 nanometers
Team of researchers demonstrated ultra-precise localization and tracking of fluorescent nanoparticles:
Sub-diffraction limited localization of fluorescent emitters is a major goal of microscopy imaging. It is of key importance for so-called super-resolution, a technique that was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in…
New DFG project on neuromorphic applications of ferroelectric layers
IKZ researchers investigate the relationship between structural and electrical changes during switching of ferroelectric layers:
Ferroelectric films are used for a variety of technological applications, such as non-volatile memory devices or ferroelectric field effect transistors (FeFETs). These applications exploit their property of exhibiting…