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Magnets for smart minds
Why tech hubs will continue to be important drivers of growth:
Are technology parks becoming obsolete in an era of hybrid work? Not at all. Head to Adlershof to experience how tech hubs bring together smart minds to create thriving companies. Soon, JPT Peptide Technologies GmbH…
Cleaner coatings for ships
Clean Ocean Coatings is developing an environmentally friendly alternative:
“Water is life, and that life will inevitably show itself,” says Christina Linke. Any object that ends up in the ocean will soon be colonised. First, a biofilm forms, followed by algae, and eventually barnacles. “In…
No two days are the same
They are three out of 34,000: What it means to work in Germany’s largest technology park:
Monday, 7.30 amStephan Möllers has been up for two hours. Setting off from Panketal, he’s now on the S8 train on his way to Adlershof. At Storkower Straße station, Alina Schmalz gets on the train, too. A few moments…
Stünzi’s sense of snow
HU scientist Simone Maria Stünzi studies the vegetation in permafrost soils:
At the Earth Observation Lab of Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (HU), scientist Simone Maria Stünzi investigates how vegetation interacts with permafrost soil and how these processes are changing against the backdrop…
Dr Kathrin Goldammer becomes professor at the Berlin School of Economics and Technology
From summer semester 2025, the Managing Director of the Reiner Lemoine Institute will become a professor at the HTW Faculty Engineering – Energy and Information:
Dr. Kathrin Goldammer complements the Bachelor’s and Master’s degree programs in Renewable Energy with many years of practical experience in the energy industry and expertise in applied energy research. Goldammer has…
The IT developer
Georg Wrobel supports digital projects in small and medium-sized companies:
“Rooted in Adlershof” is how Gregor Wrobel describes the institute where he has spent almost his entire career—and the same could be said of him. Wrobel was in his mid-twenties and had just completed his mathematics…
In conversation with Daniel Rosón Eichelmann
Network manager in the technology centres at WISTA Management GmbH:
Daniel Rosón Eichelmann believes that the right spaces are vital for people to connect and create new things together. He is passionate about well-designed public spaces and unconventional work environments that…
UNITE Sciences e. V. officially founded by 19 scientific institutions from Berlin-Brandenburg
The innovation network aims to promote entrepreneurial talent in the region and accelerate technology transfer:
UNITE Sciences e.V. was officially founded on March 4, 2025, with the ceremonial signing of the articles of association. The non-profit association unites 19 renowned universities, colleges and non-university research…
Determine bike friendliness with ‘Bikeability’
DLR transport researchers publish tool for comparing bike friendliness:
Cycling is an integral part of the transport transition, thus research into the willingness to use the bicycle as a means of transport is increasingly coming into focus. While many studies include the concept of…
A promising future for innovation spaces worldwide
Essay by Ebba Lund, Chief Executive Officer of IASP:
The International Association of Science Parks and Areas of Innovation (IASP) is a mission-driven non-profit dedicated to supporting our global community of Science and Technology Parks (STPs), Innovation Districts…
A morning at ST3AM
Vox pops from the new world of work:
Every person needs a “third place”, wrote the American sociologist Ray Oldenburg in 1989. Unlike a person’s home or place of work, The Great Good Place, as he called it, functions somewhat like the café in the sitcom…
Mars’ northern ice cap is young
Geophysical investigations reveal surprising results:
To understand the properties of the rocky mantle beneath Earth's continents, researchers use a little geophysical trick: they measure how fast large areas of land, once covered by kilometres of ice during the last ice…
Berlin instrument flies to the Moon with IM-2 mission
New lunar mission to demonstrate search for water ice at Moon's south pole:
In the early hours of 27 February 2025, at 00:30 Central European Time, the IM-2 mission launches, carrying the Athena lander from the US New Space company Intuitive Machines on its second mission to the Moon. On…
HZB team analyses mesoporous silicon
The modification of the semiconductor promises great potential for technical applications:
Silicon is the best-known semiconductor material. However, controlled nanostructuring drastically alters the material's properties. Using a specially developed etching apparatus, a team at HZB has now produced…
Innovative battery electrode made from tin foam
The material could make lithium batteries more robust and efficient:
Metal-based electrodes in lithium-ion batteries promise significantly higher capacities than conventional graphite electrodes. Unfortunately, they degrade due to mechanical stress during charging and discharging…
IKZ and HU Berlin open Joint Laboratory JAMA
The laboratory offers state-of-the-art infrastructure for research in the fields of solid-state physics and materials science:
The Joint Laboratory for Advanced Magneto-Transport Adlershof (JAMA) was officially opened on January 29, 2025. The new laboratory is a joint project of the Leibniz-Institut für Kristallzüchtung (IKZ) and the…
Perovskite solar cells under stress test
Research team identifies thermal stresses as the key to long-term stability:
Perovskite solar cells are highly efficient and low cost in production. However, they still lack stability over the decades under real weather conditions. An international research collaboration led by Prof. Antonio…
Building block of the catalyst for oxygen formation in photosynthesis reproduced
HZB and HU take an important step towards a complete understanding of photosynthesis:
In a small manganese oxide cluster, teams from HZB and HU Berlin have discovered a particularly exciting compound: two high spin manganese centres in two very different oxidation states and. This complex is the…
Leading Sasol scientist appointed as Industrial Research Fellow at HZB
The closer cooperation is intended to accelerate the innovation cycle for sustainable fuel technologies:
Within the CARE-O-SENE project, HZB is cooperating with the South African company Sasol on innovative catalysts for sustainable aviation fuels (SAF). Now, the collaboration is intensifying: Dr. Denzil Moodley, a…
How heat and cold affect Mercury
Recent research findings from the smallest planet in the Solar System:
Mercury is the smallest of the eight planets in the Solar System, the closest to the Sun, and unusually, it has no atmosphere. Together, these factors make it a unique case in planetary research. The German Aerospace…