Research

Women now make up more than half of all students at German universities. In subjects such as physics, engineering, and computer science it looks completely different though. Here, most of the students are male. “When you look at the competences of pupils, it doesn’t have to be like this,” say Prof. Dr. Martin Brunner and…

Dr. Matthias Hartlieb has declared war on antibiotic-resistant germs and, together with his colleagues, is researching how the properties of polymers influence their antibacterial effect. Since 2021, he has been group leader of the Emmy Noether Junior Research Group “Polymeric Biomaterials”.

The innoFSPEC transfer lab is dedicated to transferring knowledge from science to industry. At the lab, researchers and innovation departments of industrial companies meet to jointly test and further develop the application of latest research results, as well as to bring new products and technologies to market maturity. In our interview, research associate Dr. Anne…

At the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Polymer Research IAP in the Potsdam Science Park, Dr.-Ing. Murat Tutuş develops technical membranes for industrial use. Membrane technology is versatile and deeply integrated into our lives and work – from water filtration in sewage treatment plants to ventilators in medicine. That is why their sustainability is so important…

Archimedes discovered the law of hydrostatic buoyancy because he himself caused his bathtub to overflow, Isaac Newton is said to have discovered the general law of gravity only with the help of an apple, and Galileo Galilei saw that the Milky Way consists of countless stars with the help of a simple telescope. But the…

A plain and white-painted room in the historic building no. 12 at Neues Palais, one table, three chairs. Nothing suggests that things are about to get stressful here. Or does it? There is a microphone in a stand in front of the table and a mirrored window at one end, through which everything that happens…