After two years of interruption due to the Corona pandemic, HZB finally hosted summer students again this summer. They came from Pakistan, Colombia, Spain, USA, and Korea. A look behind the scenes of the International Summer Student Programme – ISSP.Read More →
Recently, Lightsources.org asked scientists at light source facilities from all over the world to record a short video statement, pointing out why and how synchrotron light is useful for their research. The outreach campaign is featuring the variety of research done at light sources in a comprehensible way, easy to understand by all citizens. HZB chemist Marion Flatken took part. She is doing her doctorate on perovskite materials for solar cells in Antonio Abate’s team. Why did you take part in the #LightSourceSelfie campaign? For me it’s important to make transparent how we work in research. Actually, this is also in the spirit of HermannRead More →
A few weeks ago, I discovered utterly beautiful pictures in our Twitter timeline: filigree, radially symmetrical structures that looked like art objects. They were tiny corals that had just formed their first skeleton. The pictures had been taken at the BAMline at BESSY. They triggered my curiosity and I contacted the scientist who had posted them. Federica Scucchia replied right away and we arranged to meet next time she would be in Berlin.Read More →
With increasing experience, young scientists will also be involved into new tasks. Postdoc Silvia Mariotti organised tandemPV 2021 in April together with Lars Korte and Steve Albrecht. This was a four-day online workshop with a total of 600 participants from all over the world. Here she reports on how it went:Read More →
Erika Zaiser is working on her doctoral thesis on superalloys at HZB. She studied in Berlin and Tomsk, Russia, and graduated from TU Berlin with a double Master’s degree in physical engineering. She did her Master’s thesis at HZB, and her supervisor at the time, Dr Florian Vogel, is now also supervising her doctorate. However, he now lives in China. In the interview, I asked Erika how such a doctorate over distance is possible. At the end of the interview, Florian also joined in.Read More →
Natalia Gostkowska-Lekner has finished her Master in Nanotechnology in 2018 at Gdansk University of Technology, at the seaside of Poland. She then moved to Berlin for a PhD position. In her free time she enjoys roller skating on the Tempelhofer Feld and playing board games.Read More →
Javier Villalobos studied chemistry in San José, Costa Rica. In his PhD project, he studies catalysts for the oxygen evolution reaction by electrolytic water splitting. He is working on cobalt and manganese oxides as catalysts for oxygen evolution in electrolytic water splitting and analysing these catalysts at BESSY II. And he makes a point in using time wisely.Read More →
Joachim Breternitz is at his office at the University of Potsdam, when my call reaches him. The chemist is a scientist at the HZB Department of Structure and Dynamics of Energy Materials since 2016. He is the scientific day-to-day supervisor of two, soon three, doctoral students.Read More →
Markus Schleuning is a true Berliner, which is a rare condition among the international doctoral students at HZB. He studied physics at TU Berlin and is now doing his doctorate at the HZB Institute for Solar Fuels as part of the international graduate programme HI-SCORE, which includes exchange with partners in Israel.Read More →
Poster sessions can be quite frustrating – for everyone. Cognitive research offers tipps for better academic posters: the key message must be easy to grasp at a glance and inspire questions.Read More →