Research team has, for the first time, directly measured the particle exchange phase of photons:
A research team of the Institute of Physics of the Humboldt University of Berlin together with cooperation partners Max Born Institute (Berlin) and DLR Institute of Optical Sensor Systems (Berlin) has, for the first…
Early Medieval Egyptian blue in laser light:
Art technologist Dr. Petra Dariz and analytical chemist Dr. Thomas Schmid (School of Analytical Sciences Adlershof SALSA at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and Bundesanstalt für Materialforschung und -prüfung BAM)…
More presence on campus possible again from June:
In view of the steadily falling incidence values, preparations are being made for initial steps to open up the universities and colleges in Berlin. After more than a year of operating largely in digital mode, and with…
New video about the promotion of early-career researchers at IRIS Adlershof:
Last year, the Research Training Group (RTG 2575) “Rethinking Quantum Field Theory”, funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG), has started its work. The graduate programme for young academics is based at the…
Launch of the first Einstein Research Unit of the Berlin University Alliance on the topic of quantum computing:
Quantum computers are seen as one of the key technologies of the 21st century. How can they revolutionize the computational power of computers? What new insights do they offer for high energy physics or quantum…
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…
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…
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 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…
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…
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…
Researchers from HU, MBI, and the University of Central Florida (USA) have identified criteria for robust transport:
Originally discovered in condensed matter systems, topological insulators are two-dimensional materials that support scattering-free (uni-directional) transport along their edges, even in the presence of defects and…
Psychology professor Jule Specht explores how personalities change over the course of life:
It was long believed that personality development is mostly completed at 30. However, results from psychology research show: There is a lot going on beyond one’s 30th birthday – people go through considerable changes,…
The Swedish Chalmers University of Technology honours the scientist from HU Berlin and DLR for his contribution to research in the field of terahertz components:
Dr. Heinz-Wilhelm Hübers is a professor at Humboldt-University Berlin and the director of the Institute of Optical Sensor Systems at Deutsches Zentrum für Luft und Raumfart, DLR (German Aerospace Center), which…
Researchers from the Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society and the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin make discovery that could increase computing power:
From smartphones to computer processors – much of the technology we nowadays use heavily features transistors. They connect many of the different materials that make up these devices, and are essential for any kind of…
Joint laboratory in the IRIS research building of the HU in Adlershof to further promote catalysis research in Berlin:
Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin (HZB) and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (HU) have signed a cooperation agreement with the aim of establishing a joint research laboratory for catalysis in the IRIS research building of HU in…
Nichol (Cohl) Furey is a researcher at IRIS Adlershof:
Does the word octave sound like music to your ears? For Cohl Furey, it is also full of mathematics. It was love at first sight when the physicist encountered the eponymous, eight-dimensional number system during her…
The biochemist Christian Hackenberger, who seeks and destroys cancer cells, and the chemist Chayanika Das, who fights magnesium corrosion:
Vivid, detailed, and laid-back is how Christian Hackeberger presented himself at the Falling Walls Conference, which was held digitally for the first time. He talks of sniffer dogs and bombs, of super glue and plastic…
Professor of geography Jonas Østergaard Nielsen studies land use changes in an age of global interconnectedness:
“There is nothing left on this earth that is unaffected by human influence,” says Jonas Østergaard Nielsen. Pollution, the extinction of species, climate change – the human species is reshaping the planet and…
Adlershof start-up develops novel printing process that can produce smooth surfaces at high speed:
It looks like science fiction but in fact could be the future of 3D printing: A blue slice of light wanders through a liquid, while light projections emerge through the window of a glass vessel. Resembling the…