Jongwoo and his team from Seoul are “friendly users”. This name is given to scientists who do their experiments on a pristine machine, before it goes into user operation. Back in Korea we called them to hear more about their special beamtime and what it means for their battery research.Read More →
How do we benefit from neural networks? How do they make our work easier? And in what concrete scenarios can these algorithms be used? These were questions that were dealt with by around 50 participants, from six countries, at the Machine Leaning Summer School of Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin.Read More →
Denis comes from Russia. He tells us how he got into energy materials at HZB and how he keeps this passion going thanks to a good balance between science, sport and music.Read More →
When we talk to Gopi he sits in his family’s backyard in India, a long postponed vacation time in January. PhD student in Eva Unger’s group he shares about the importance to reconnect to nature as well as keeping focussed during his PhD.Read More →
Chemistry student in the 80s in Hamburg, Iver works now as senior scientist at PVcomB/HZB, the competence centre photovoltaics in Berlin. Training the young generation of researchers is very important to him and he likes also learning from them.Read More →
Group leader at the Institute of Silicon Photovoltaics at HZB, this Taiwanese physicist did his master’s degree in his home country before moving to the USA for his PhD and Postdoc. One of Yu-Tsung’s convictions he wants to share with its students is staying centred towards their own research interests and knowing their topic on the top of their heads. Read More →
A native of Portland (Oregon), Katherine Mazzio received her PhD in a dual degree program in Materials Science and Engineering and Nanotechnology at the University of Washington in 2014. For her, obtaining a PhD is a critical training step to becoming a scientist. Right now, she supervises two PhD students, a master student and helps out whenever it is needed in her group.Read More →
Marion is 27 years young and started her PhD in Antonio Abate’s group in September 2018. She is passionate about getting to the bottom of things, has worked in industry and loves running and playing volleyball. In this interview she tells us more about her experience as a PhD student.Read More →
Lars Korte works at the photovoltaics departement at HZB. He talks about his experience during the Corona Lockdown and afterwards when we went back to work.Read More →
Many colleagues work on site, others continue to work from home. These different working environments will continue to accompany us in the coming weeks. Therefore, we will introduce people telling us what it means to be back in the lab as well as people who continue working from home. Today we ask Rowshanak Irani, postdoctoral researcher at the HZB Solar Fuels Institute based in Wannsee. How did you start the lockdown period? I was lucky, as I had my PhD viva a few weeks before the lockdown. At HZB when you do your PhD in three years you get a contract extension for six months;Read More →