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Sabine Kunst Elected President of Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

Current Minister of Science, Research and Culture of the state of Brandenburg will take up her post at HU at the start of the 2016 summer semester:

The Board of Trustees of the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (HU) has appointed Prof. Dr.-Ing. Dr. Sabine Kunst on Jan 19, 2016 as the new president. She is likely to take up her post at the start of the summer …

Pfeiffer Vacuum presents innovative vacuum solutions

Supplier of vacuum technology at the trade fairs Semicon Korea and Semicon China:

Pfeiffer Vacuum, a leading global supplier of vacuum technology, will be exhibiting at the Semicon Korea Trade Fair in Seoul from January 27 to 29 and Semicon China in Shanghai from March 15 to 17. Visitors to the…

Every Farewell is A New Beginning

The future plans of Hardy Rudolf Schmitz, past managing director of WISTA-MANAGEMENT GMBH:

Hardy Rudolf Schmitz was project manager at Boston Consulting, a consulting company, he was managing partner of CompuNet Computer AG, and, for 14 years, managing director of WISTA-MANAGEMENT GMBH. Now the 65-year-old…

In Good Form

The start-up PensatechPharma develops new forms of pharmaceuticals:

PensatechPharma GmbH is a company specialized on innovative forms of pharmaceuticals. It is now looking for new solutions for difficult types of drug administration at its new location in Adlershof. Professor Roland…

Top-level athletics and university – does it go together?

Students from Adlershof en route to the Olympics:

They work hard for the Olympic qualifying and visit lectures at university at the same time – about 15 top-level athletes study on the campus of Humboldt-University (HU) in Berlin Adlershof. For Maria Kurjo and…

Hybrid solar cell could attain record efficiency of 30%

Helmholtz Scientists realize optimum band gap for silicon/perovskite tandem solar cell:

Tandem solar cells based on silicon and perovskites have raised high hopes for future high efficiency solar modules.  A team led by perovskite solar cell pioneer Henry Snaith at the University of Oxford has now shown,…

Analytics simplified

Helmholtz and BAM scientists show alternative method for the representation of microstructures in polycrystalline materials:

Also Raman microspectroscopy in an optical microscope provides the means to determine local crystal orientations of polycrystalline materials over large sample areas. This method can be used alternatively to electron…

Lively Participation at the International Evening

Refugees and potential employers met in Adlershof:

The first international Evening for the integration of refugees into jobs and education took place in the Science and Technology Park Berlin Adlershof on December 16th. Around 50 participants attended the event,…

Helmholtz and HU Scientists explore doped organic semiconductors

Molecules form “mixed crystallites” in the host structure:

Organic semiconductor materials are already being employed today in solar cells and organic LEDs (OLEDs) amongst others. Until now, however, little was known about how the doping molecules are integrated into the…

On the sad occasion of the death of Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Sandner

Former Director of the Max Born Institute for Nonlinear Optics and Short Pulse Spectroscopy died unexpectedly at the age of 66:

The Forschungsverbund Berlin e.V. (FVB) mourns the loss of laser physicist Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Sandner. On December 5th, he died unexpectedly at the age of 66. Wolfgang Sandner shaped the development of the…

Younicos raises record $50 million to finance growth

Energy storage pioneer signs capital round with investments by First Solar and Grupo ECOS:

Market leader Younicos has signed agreements for $50 million in growth capital to further scale its deployment of intelligent energy storage solutions. The funding comes from a consortium that includes First Solar,…

skytron® energy chosen for 9 PV plants in Southeast Asia

55 MWp equipped with leading German supervision and monitoring technology:

skytron energy now provides monitoring and supervision for nine solar PV power plants in Thailand with a total of 55MWp of installed power. The most recently added six plants in Central Thailand have a capacity of…

Filming microscopic and macroscopic changes within materials

The EDDI beamline at BESSY II is now offering even more options:

It has recently become possible to also obtain high-resolution three-dimensional images of microscopic structure with it, up to four such tomographies per second are possible. X-ray diffraction (energy-dispersive…

Adlershof Special 43

Start-up county:

Start-ups on the fast lane // Rocket meets Adlershof // Collaborative innovation //

Start-ups in Berlin – Hype or spearhead of a German Silicon Valley?

Editorial by Alexander von Falkenberg, Managing director High-Tech Gründerfonds Management GmbH:

For some years now, Berlin has been enjoying an impressive boom. In the wake of Germany’s Federal Government, associations, law firms, and established companies have been relocating to the city. Legions of skilled…

Rocket-Ventures meets Adlershof

Berlin is a start-up capital, and now home to over 1,200 of these new companies. This boom is boosted by the trendy scene in Berlin’s city centre. And right in the lead: Rocket Internet. This incubator has set up a…

Digital win-win

Axel Springer Plug and Play promotes sophisticated start-ups:

...like the Adlershof company Phizzard. This has developed a touchscreen solution that customers in shops can use to find clothing quickly in their size. CEO Peer Hohn and Ulrich Schmitz, Managing Director of Axel…

Start-ups in Adlershof

Adlershof provides the perfect location for high tech start-ups with long term plans for sustainable growth:

The greater the precision achieved in the manufacture of aerofoil surfaces, the less turbulence they generate, and the less fuel they need. The optical instrumentation produced by the Berlin start-up 5micron can…

Collaborative innovation

Leading digital – Event brought together high ranking corporate representatives and start-ups in Adlershof:

Disruptions is about innovations and technologies that have the power to shake up entire industrial sectors. According to experts, the automotive and automotive supply industry are most affected. The series of events…

Award for doctoral research on high-precision measurement of magnetic moment of proton

Pfeiffer Vacuum GmbH and GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH present joint doctoral candidate award:

For the second time, Pfeiffer Vacuum and GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung (GSI Helmholtz Center for Heavy Ion Research) have jointly presented a doctoral candidate award. The recipient is Dr. Andreas…