Awarded Adlershof people and projects

HZB re-certified as a compatibility-friendly company again
Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin has been awarded the seal of quality for its corporate compatibility policy since 2011:
HZB has been certified as a family-friendly employer since 2011. Now the research centre has successfully completed the re-auditing process and developed further measures to promote a life phase conscious working…
Honorary doctorate awarded to Prof. Dr. Heinz-Wilhelm Hübers
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…

Dr. Michael Schneider receives the European XFEL Young Scientist Award
MBI researcher was awarded for his important contributions in three distinct areas pertaining to diffraction experiments with soft x-rays at European XFEL:
X-ray pulses delivered by x-ray free-electron lasers are typically focused to a few-micrometer size in order to achieve extreme x-ray intensities at the sample inside the scientific instrument. In his PhD work,…

European Research Council (ERC) awards Consolidator Grant to Jochen Mikosch
MBI researcher receives 2 million Euro of funding to perform basic research on time-resolved structural dynamics of chemical reactions:
Jochen Mikosch receives a prestigious Consolidator Grant from the European Research Council (ERC). In a highly competitive and thorough procedure it is awarded to established researchers with 7-12 years of experience…

Belyntic GmbH wins Innovation Award Berlin-Brandenburg 2020
“Unique technology for research, development, and production of peptide therapeutics” / Adlershof start-up involved in the development of a vaccine against COVID-19:
Belyntic GmbH is one of this year's winners of the Innovation Award Berlin-Brandenburg. With this award, the jury honors the start-up, located in the Science and Technology Park Berlin-Adlershof, for its "unique…

Oliver Arnhold (Reiner Lemoine Institut) and team win DIN Innovation Award
New DIN guideline accelerates the expansion of the charging infrastructure for electric vehicles:
Oliver Arnhold and the consortium around the DIN SPEC 91433 have won the German Institute for Standardization (DIN) Innovator Award 2020. With these awards, DIN honors special projects and commitments in the field of…

Secure satellite communication – Berlin team wins INNOspace Masters 2019/20
Project “QuMSeC” of TU, HU and FBH becomes overall winner of the DLR innovation competition:
The winners of the INNOspace Masters competition, which is organized by the German Aerospace Center (DLR), have been announced: On 14 October, a Berlin-based team from Technische Universität, Humboldt-Universität and…

Helmholtz-Zentrum is one of the best trainers in Berlin
The Berlin-South Employment Agency awarded the Certificate for Young Talent Promotion 2019/2020 to the HZB:
The Berlin-South Employment Agency has awarded the Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin for an innovative procedure to select applicants for apprenticeships and dual studies not only on the basis of their grades, but also to…

William F. Meggers Award of the SAS presented to FBH authors
The prize recognizes the paper as the outstanding publication of the year 2019 in the journal “Applied Spectroscopy”:
The paper Shifted Excitation Raman Difference Spectroscopy with Charge-Shifting Charge-Coupled Device (CCD) Lock-In Detection was honored with the prestigious William F. Meggers Award of the Society for Applied…

Two Winners of the Falling Walls Lab Adlershof 2020
Dr. Chayanika Das (BAM) and Svea Stephan (KNAUER Wissenschaftliche Geräte) won the Adlershof competition:
Dr. Chayanika Das, Bundesanstalt für Materialforschung und -prüfung (BAM) with Breaking the Wall of MAGNESIUM CORROSION and Svea Stephan, KNAUER Wissenschaftliche Geräte GmbH, with Breaking the Wall of EXPLOITING…
Dr. Raphael Jay has received the Carl-Ramsauer-Award for his excellent dissertation
The physicist studied ultrafast charge transfer dynamics in iron complexes:
Dr. Raphael Jay has received this year's Carl-Ramsauer-Prize of the German Physical Society of Berlin (DPGzB). The prize honours outstanding dissertations in physics and related fields and will be awarded during a…

ERC Starting Grant for Tristan Petit
The researcher is investigating a new class of materials for energy storage at Helmholtz-Zentrum:
Dr. Tristan Petit has received a prestigious Starting Grant from the European Research Council for 1.5 million euros over the next five years. The materials researcher will use the grant to investigate a new class of…

Distinguished Service Award for Wolfgang Heinrich
FBH researcher was honoured for outstanding contributions to the IEEE MTT Society and the microwave profession:
Wolfgang Heinrich was honored with the IEEE MTT Distinguished Service Award 2020. The prize recognizes his significant contributions and outstanding service to the IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society and the…

Maximum capacities at the theoretical limit
Chemist Michael J. Bojdys' proposal for an ERC Proof of Concept Grant for the project “LiAnMAT” has been retained for funding:
On April 27, the European Research Council (ERC) announced the recipients of the Proof of Concept (PoC) Grant scheme: one of them is Michael J. Bojdys, materials chemist and junior research group leader at IRIS…

NASA honors Markus Krutzik
His team developed an instrument that was successfully used to generate ultra-cold atoms on the International Space Station (ISS):
At the end of last year, the Cold Atom Laboratory (CAL) team at Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), USA, received the "NASA Group Achievement Award". This award also honors the achievements of Dr. Markus Krutzik as a…

Felix Willems received Ernst-Eckhard-Koch Award 2019 for his PhD thesis on ultrafast magnetization dynamics
He had analysed ultrafast switching processes using spectroscopic methods at synchrotron sources like BESSY II:
In his research, Willems combined static experiments with synchrotron radiation at BESSY II with femtosecond time-resolved experiments on a laser-based high harmonic generation source at MBI. Via measurements of both…
Paul Rappaport Award presented to FBH authors
The Electron Device Society honored the best work published in last year's IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices:
For the publication “Local 2DEG Density Control in Heterostructures of Piezoelectric Materials and Its Application in GaN HEMT Fabrication Technology” the authors Konstantin Osipov, Joachim Würfl, Ina Ostermay, Frank…

Innovative Training Network iSwitch receives “Étoiles de l'Europe 2019”
IRIS Adlershof members Prof. Norbert Koch and Prof. Stefan Hecht support the project:
The Innovative Training Network iSwitch is awarded the "Étoiles de l'Europe" prize of the French Ministry of Higher Education, Research and Innovation for its outstanding and European-oriented research. With this, the…

Berlin Science Award: Young Talent Award for Steve Albrecht
Governing Mayor honours HZB scientist for outstanding research achievements in the field of novel tandem solar cells:
On November 7, 2019, Michael Müller, Governing Mayor of Berlin and Senator for Science and Research, honoured outstanding research achievements for the twelfth time. Prof. Dr. Steve Albrecht was honoured this year…

Freigeist-Fellowship of the Volkswagen foundation for Dr. Nichol Furey
The physicist will conduct research at IRIS Adlershof and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin:
The mathematicial physicist Nichol Furey (University of Cambridge) has been awarded a Freigeist Fellowship by the Volkswagen Foundation. These Fellowships are aimed at unusual and courageous lateral thinkers from all…