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20.12.2024

Long-term psychological study on parenthood and well-being

Kids or no kids – men and women are equally satisfied across almost the entire lifespan:

Having children makes people happy, especially women – this is a common societal belief. But how do mental health, well-being and feelings of loneliness change in parents compared to women and men without children…

20.12.2024

Progress in Power Electronics with Beta-Gallium Oxide

Joint project “ForMikro-GoNext” with participation of IKZ and FBH successfully completed:

In the joint project “ForMikro-GoNext”, beta-gallium oxide (β-Ga₂O₃) was further developed as a pioneering semiconductor material for efficient power electronics. The partners made significant progress along the…

17.12.2024

German Research Funding Atlas 2024: FVB institutes perform very well

Funding increased by more than 28% in 2020-2022 compared to the previous period:

The institutes of the Forschungsverbund were able to increase the amount of DFG funding they acquired compared to previous years. According to the German Research Founding Atlas 2024, between 2017 and 2019, the seven…

Processes of crystal growth © IKZ Berlin
13.12.2024

IKZ has joined the international Einstein Telescope collaboration

Growing particularly large silicon crystals will support the construction of a gravitational wave observatory:

The Einstein Telescope (ET) is a planned next-generation gravitational wave observatory in Europe, designed to detect and study gravitational waves with unprecedented sensitivity. It will use a network of underground…

Antje Vollmer, spokeswoman for BESSY II and project lead of the BESSY II+ project
12.12.2024

Modernisation of BESSY II light source

Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin presents the BESSY II+ upgrade programme:

At the 2024 meeting for the users of the electron storage ring BESSY II, Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin (HZB) presented the BESSY II+ upgrade programme. It enables world-class research at BESSY II to be further expanded and…

[Translate to English:] Dr. Kazuki Morita (links), Dr. Qingping Wu (rechts), HZB Berlin
12.12.2024

Two Humboldt-Fellows join HZB

Kazuki Morita and Qingping Wu contribute their expertise in materials and energy research at HZB:

In 2024, two young scientists joined HZB as Humboldt Fellows. Kazuki Morita joined Prof. Antonio Abate's group and brings his expertise in modelling and data analysis to solar energy research. Qingping Wu is an expert…

BepiColombo's first images of Mercury in thermal infrared
11.12.2024

Planet Mercury seen ‘in a different light’ for first time

Fifth flyby of Mercury by BepiColombo space probe:

Mercury is the innermost and smallest of the eight planets. Outwardly, it bears a strong resemblance to Earth's Moon, but the planet differs considerably from it in terms of its structure and composition. Planetary…

Logo: CP Nigeria
10.12.2024

Community-driven mini-grids in Nigeria

RLI research project shows ways to sustainably electrify rural regions:

In the project ‘Communities of Practice Nigeria’ (CP Nigeria), researchers from Reiner Lemoine Institute (RLI), together with experts from partner organizations, have developed results for the promotion of clean and…

06.12.2024

ERC Consolidator Grant for quantum physicist Tim Schröder

2.5 million euros funding for the research project „Multidimensional Hyperentangled Photon Graph States“:

Prof. Dr. Tim Schröder from the Departement of Physics at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and the Ferdinand-Braun-Institut, Leibniz-Institut für Höchstfrequenztechnik (FBH), has been awarded a Consolidator Grant from…

05.12.2024

Why an economical Iridium catalyst works so well

An HZB team revealed that the special chemical environment in the P2X catalyst promotes water splitting during electrolysis:

Iridium-based catalysts are needed to produce hydrogen using water electrolysis. Now, a team at HZB has shown that the newly developed P2X catalyst, which requires only a quarter of the Iridium, is as efficient and…

A girl looks through a magnifying glass.
03.12.2024

20 years of promoting science in the school lab

38,000 schoolchildren visited the school lab at the Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin:

Twenty years ago, on 29 November 2004, Klaus Böger, then Senator for Education in Berlin, opened one of the capital's first school laboratories. Since then, Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin (HZB), in cooperation with the…

Sascha Neinert with the prize and a certificate © FBH
03.12.2024

Award for FBH researchers from MyoQuant project

At the Berlin Quantum Pioneer Days the young scientists were awarded the jury prize:

A successful week came to an end for Sascha Neinert and Kirti Vardhan. The two young scientists from the Joint Lab Integrated Quantum Sensors (IQS) were awarded the jury prize of the Berlin Quantum Pioneer incubation…

Public transport at the bus station in Bensheim
28.11.2024

High-performance charging for e-buses in public transport also possible without grid expansion

Successful outcome of the ‘Buffered-HLL’ pilot project for energy- and cost-efficient charging with flywheel mass storage systems:

The nationwide pioneering pilot project ‘Buffered-HLL’ for energy- and cost-efficient high-performance charging with flywheel mass storage for electric buses in local public transport successfully concludes its…

Diagram of the s-SNOM measurement © PTB
27.11.2024

Absolute measurement of electronic properties with a THz nanoprobe

At PTB, a novel calibration approach for scattering-type scanning near-field optical microscopy has been developed:

In scattering-type scanning near-field optical microscopy (s-SNOM), THz radiation (e.g. from the electron storage ring MLS) is focused onto a metallised probe to enable THz-spectroscopy below the diffraction limit on…

Dr. Gustav Uhre Jakobsen © sevens[+]maltry
26.11.2024

Tiburtius Prize 2024 for Gustav Uhre Jakobsen

The physicist receives a recognition award for his dissertation on quantum field theory at the HU:

Gustav Uhre Jakobsen, a postdoc at the Humboldt University of Berlin and in the Astrophysical and Cosmological Relativity Department at the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute,…

MagSQuant project team with Dr Christo Guguschev © IKZ
20.11.2024

Advanced low-loss materials for quantum technologies

Kick-off for the ‘MagSQuant’ project coordinated by IKZ:

The joint project ‘Low-loss materials for integrated magnonic-superconducting quantum technologies’ (MagSQuant) is the start of a new initiative to significantly increase the performance and scalability of…

Nanotomography images of an LRTMO particle taken at the TXM of BESSY II before the first charging cycle and after 10 charging cycles © HZB
20.11.2024

Battery research with the HZB X-ray microscope

Experiments at BESSY II have clarified chemical changes in lithium-ion batteries:

New cathode materials are being developed to further increase the capacity of lithium batteries. Multilayer lithium-rich transition metal oxides (LRTMOs) offer particularly high energy density. However, their capacity…

Marina Salmon and Romy Sanne © WISTA Management GmbH
15.11.2024

New energy, new connections

Introducing an innovative world of work, ST3AM is now opening on the Adlershof campus:

Wealthy regions offer talent, technology—research, development, and academia—, tolerance—communities that practice openness and diversity—, and land available for development. This is complemented by other ecological…

Adlershof Journal Cover
14.11.2024

Adlershof Journal November/December 2024

Old values, new perspectives: Uniting the power of generations:

The molecule sleuth: Carsten Engelhard monitors the reliability of chemical analyses //  Deciding together: Stefan Jonas and Lutz Redmann have been running a special-purpose machinery company //  Interim tenant with…

DFFB Director Wolf Plesmann © WISTA Management GmbH
13.11.2024

Interim tenant with potential

The German Film and Television Academy Berlin is moving to Adlershof:

Early next year, the German Film and Television Academy Berlin GmbH (DFFB) will vacate its premises at Potsdamer Platz, Berlin’s hub for culture and media, as its lease there expires. The DFFB has found temporary…