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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
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... moreLuminous Gas Halos – Astrophysicists research galaxy envelopes in the young universe
It is a journey to the beginning of our being. The hunt for galaxies in the young universe and for what surrounds these heavenly worlds is in full... more
Borderless View into the Universe
Professor Christian Stegmann Uses Gamma-Ray Telescopes to Look for Cosmic Accelerators There is one appointment after the other. Christian Stegmann hurries down the corridor, a hard hat under his arm. There is a lot of construction work... more