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World Record Efficiency – Important progress in all-perovskite tandem solar cells
Improving solar cells to increase their energy efficiency is necessary to become independent from fossil energy sources. Prof. Dewei Zhao from Sichuan... morePotsdam Joins ELLIS, the European AI Network of Excellence
ELLIS, the European Laboratory for Learning and Intelligent Systems, today announced the inclusion of Potsdam as a new region in the prestigious... more
Astrophysicist Prof. Dr. Tim Dietrich receives IUPAP Early Career Scientist Prize
A good start in 2023: Astrophysicist Prof. Dr. Tim Dietrich receives IUPAP Early Career Scientist Prize in General Relativity and Gravitation and a... more
The Ultimate Semiconductor – Felix Lang develops solar cells and radiation detectors for outer space and medicine
Dr. Felix Lang prefers to work in the lab rather than at the computer. „When we test our solar cells, you can see immediately whether they are good or... more
Einstein Put To the Test – Gravitational Wave Researcher Prof. Tim Dietrich Is Dealing With Heavy Weights In Space
Tim Dietrich is only 34 years young and has already had a remarkable scientific career: In 2017, PhD thesis with distinction at Friedrich Schiller... more
33 Questions to Prof. Dr. Karoline Wiesner
What connects ant colonies and the Internet, financial markets and the human brain? They are complex systems – a comparatively new field of research,... more
Fascinating Universe – Humboldt Fellow Anuradha Samajdar on Analysis of Gravitational Waves
Since January 2022 Dr. Anuradha Samajdar has been a Humboldt Fellow in the Theoretical Astrophysics research group at the Institute of Physics and... more
Rare Stellar Wedding – Astronomers find stars covered in helium burning ashes
Astronomers of the Universities of Potsdam and Tübingen discovered puzzling star surfaces covered with carbon and oxygen which might have formed in a... more
33 Questions to “interface researcher” Prof. Dr. Elmar Kriegler
What can we do to stop climate change? Why has so little of it been implemented so far? And why does science not always get through to politics? Elmar... more