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Adlershof Journal July/August 2024
Science, community and smart living: News from the neighbourhood:
In conversation with Oliver Igel, district mayor of Treptow-Köpenick // »There is quite a bit of hugging«: Inclusion for 45 years at Berlin-Chemie // Building bridges: Crossing Adergestell on foot or by bike …
The runner
Jessica Gosse is an engineer as well as an experienced relay runner:
It was the 2013 Girl’s Day, a career event for young girls in STEM subjects, when Jessica Gosse decided on her future career path. The then 14-year-old got a sneak peek into what it meant working for the…
»There is quite a bit of hugging«
Practising inclusion for 45 years: people with disabilities put the finishing touches on the pharmaceutical packaging at Berlin-Chemie:
Packaging medicines, folding instructions, sticking on labels: At Berlin-Chemie’s Social Enterprise Department in Adlershof, these tasks are performed by people with mental or physical disabilities. They are an…
Technology, teamwork, tinkering
The Repair Café brings nostalgic items back to life:
The Technology Park Adlershof is well-known for finding solutions to challenges like climate change and builds on local networks to do so. Since November last year, there is a new service in Alt-Adlershof that ties in…
Building bridges
Crossing Adergestell on foot or by bike:
27 January 2024. Adlershof is fast asleep when, a few minutes before 4 am, a giant crane lifts a delicate structure up from Adlergestell, the main street cutting through Adlershof. The structure hanging from the hook…
New life for old clothes
The German Clothing Foundation is creating a CharityLab at Am Studio 16:
Those seeking refugee from war, displacement, and disaster often come with nothing more than the clothes on their back. For around 70 years now, the German Clothing Foundation has been helping people in these and…
Adlershof was a huge playground to me
How his neighbourhood turned actor Moritz Russ into an artist:
First, Adlershof, then the whole world? Both a visionary and an artist, Moritz Russ could make it happen. His youth in Adlershof opened doors to the world of art. Russ is a jack-of-all-trades, writes poetry, turns…
Erasmus+ project educates Young people about Biodiversity through WebToons
BioYouToon by Impact Grid (IG) e.V.:
On the 26th of June 2024 Impact Grid organized a workshop in its premises in Adlershof to develop storylines for the Webtoon comics. Webtoons serve as the primary medium for communication and education within the…
New Method for Absorption Correction to Improve Dental Fillings
By combining the laboratory infrastructures at BAM and HZB, more accurate measurements can be conducted:
A research team led by Dr. Ioanna Mantouvalou has developed a method to more accurately depict the elemental distributions in dental materials than previously possible. The used confocal micro-X-ray fluorescence…
AEMtec announces a major advancement in their wafer back-end manufacturing capabilities
The Adlershof-based company has implemented Electroless Under Bump Metallization (UBM) equipment in its own facility:
AEMtec GmbH from Adlershof specialises in the development, industrialisation and production of complex microelectronic and optoelectronic modules through to complete systems. The UBM process is an integral part of the…
Novel Raman spectroscopy technique for investigation of thin films and surfaces
Enhanced surface-to-bulk Raman signal ratio using a transferable porous gold membrane:
In a recent collaboration of the Emmy Noether Research Group "Physics of low-dimensional systems" around IRIS Adlershof member Dr. Sebastian Heeg at HU Berlin, researchers from the Leibniz-Institut für…
Breakthrough in Gravitational Wave Physics
Black Hole Scattering at Unprecedented Precision:
In a groundbreaking achievement, an international team led by IRIS Adlershof member Jan Plefka has computed the dynamics of two black holes scattering off each other at the highest level of precision ever attained.…
Black holes from the perspective of particle physics
Gustav Mogull receives the Karl Scheel Prize of the Physikalische Gesellschaft zu Berlin, endowed with 5,000 euros:
Gustav Mogull, a postdoctoral researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute/AEI) in Potsdam and at Humboldt University in Berlin, investigates mathematical methods and…
Quantum state mixing in photobiology
New insight from ultrafast terahertz Stark spectroscopy:
The membrane protein bacteriorhodopsin is a proton pump, in which proton transport is initiated by the light-induced isomerization of the chromophore retinal. The molecular quantum states involved in this ultrafast…
Open letter to BNetzA: Making network data more usable
25 organisations around the Reiner Lemoine Institute call for more transparent data to increase efficiency in the energy transition and grid expansion:
In an open letter, the Reiner Lemoine Institute, together with an alliance of research, industry and associations, appeals to Germany’s Federal Network Agency Bundesnetzagentur (BNetzA) to make grid data even more…
MXenes for energy storage: Chemical imaging more than just surface deep
Scanning X-ray microscopy (SXM) at MAXYMUS beamline of BESSY II enables the characterization of layered materials in complex systems:
A new method in spectromicroscopy significantly improves the study of chemical reactions at the nanoscale, both on surfaces and inside layered materials. Scanning X-ray microscopy (SXM) at MAXYMUS beamline of BESSY II…
Best of “Adlershof Journal”: How Adlershof tackles Grand Challenges
The world is facing major challenges: mobility, the energy transition, digitalisation and global health are just some of the issues for which innovative solutions are needed. We also want to leave a planet worth…
New joint leadership for BESSY II
Andreas Jankowiak as new Technical Director and Facility Spokesperson Antje Vollmer share management responsibilities:
Prof. Andreas Jankowiak has been appointed Technical Director of BESSY II with a term of office of three years as of 1 June 2024 by resolution of the HZB board od directors. Antje Vollmer will start her second term as…
Customized solutions addressing skilled labor shortage
Ferdinand-Braun-Institut and the Aus- und Weiterbildungsnetzwerk Hochtechnologie (Advanced Training Network for High Technology) are committed to promoting young talent:
The Ferdinand-Braun-Institut, in collaboration with the Aus- und Weiterbildungsnetzwerk Hochtechnologie (Advanced Training Network for High Technology) (ANH Berlin), is committed to securing the next generation of…
Real-time situation maps for disaster management
DLR creates live situation maps for international exercise for the first time and analyses data with open source AI:
From 21 to 25 May 2024, the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR) took part in the international disaster relief exercise ACHILLES 2024 in Switzerland. For the first time, a team…