Laura Canil discovered her passion for visual science communication while working on her PhD at HZB. First, she illustrated her own results, then those of her colleagues. Now, she is ready to work for other scientific teams. An interview with Laura about her career choice as a freelance scientific illustrator.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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →