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14.01.2025

Studying together what belongs together

The new BA-level study course IMP at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin combines three core scientific subjects: computer science, mathematics, and physics:

When Laura Michaelis sought to enroll at Humboldt University in 2016, she was initially uncertain. She was interested in the natural sciences but didn't want to commit to just one discipline. This was before the…

07.01.2025

Romantic relationships are more important for men than for women

Analysis of more than 50 studies reveals unexpected gender differences:

Most of us probably assume that romantic relationships are more important for women than for men. In any case, romantic relationships are a much more popular topic in women's magazines than in magazines aimed at men.…

07.01.2025

Supercharging talent

How the Technology Park in Adlershof supports the next generation of STEM professionals:

According to a study, around one-fifth of young people aged ten to 16 have a ‘fear of mathematics.’ This applies equally to most STEM subjects. Why? And what can we do about it? For Tobias Bohnhardt, these findings…

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…

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…

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…

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,…

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…

Winner of this year’s poster prize, Juliane Scholl from BAM, within a group of people

13.11.2024

Adlershof Research Forum 2024: Innovations and strategic impulses for the science campus

AFF poster prize was awarded to Juliane Scholl:

Almost 100 scientists, young researchers and founders came together to the Adlershof Research Forum on 11.11.2024 at Erwin Schrödinger Centre to discuss current developments and challenges facing the science location…

HU psychologist Markus Wettstein © WISTA Management GmbH

13.11.2024

Feeling ever younger

Researchers of Berlin’s Humboldt-Universität show: People today feel younger than the generations before them:

A glance in the mirror tells us that felt age must not match our chronological age. A 37-year-old suffering from sciatica might exclaim: “I feel like I’m 80!” But how old do 70-year-olds feel whizzing by on racing…

07.11.2024

Scientists caution irreversible climate damages when it comes to overshooting 1.5°C

A study coordinated by Humboldt-Universität has analysed so-called overshoot scenarios and warns of their consequences for the climate and the environment:

Even if it is possible to reverse the rise of global temperatures after a temporary overshoot of 1.5°C, some climate damages triggered at peak warming will be irreversible. These are the findings of 30 scientists…

Cover of the final report © IRIS Adlershof

29.10.2024

Research institute IRIS Adlershof ended

After 15 years, the funding phases for the “Integrative Research Institute for the Sciences” at HU Berlin have been completed:

Since its founding in 2009, the Integrative Research Institute for the Sciences of Humboldt University in Berlin – IRIS Adlershof – looks back on 15 years of successful work. IRIS Adlershof has developed into an…

The Chiquitano dry forest in Bolivia © Tobias Kümmerle/HU Berlin

25.10.2024

HU Geographer studies investments in environmental and biodiversity conservation in South America

Cross-national analysis shows how funds can be used more efficiently to protect tropical forests:

Scientific studies on the protection of tropical rainforests and dry forests show three trends over the last few decades: since the 1990s, the forest cover has shrunk by an estimated 65,000 to 95,000 km2. At the same…

Pauline Münch, Structure | Anthroposcenes © WISTA Management GmbH / Tina Merkau

10.09.2024

The flow directions of science communication

A research project from Berlin uses transdisciplinary formats to start a conversation with people from the region:

“In some places, there will be too much water, in some too little, and water in general will be more polluted.” At the Einstein Research Unit Climate and Water under Change (CliWaC), researchers from various…

Magnosco team © WISTA Management GmbH / Tina Merkau

02.09.2024

Science und Society

How research and innovation secure our future:

Without research and innovation, our society would stagnate. The institutes and companies in Adlershof show how it can be done differently every day anew. We will take an in-depth look at how they secure our future…