Today Professor Emrah Düzel received the 2011 research prize granted by Otto-von-Guericke University at a ceremony commemorating the birthday of the university’s namesake. Awarded only once a year, the university honours her outstanding scientists and their excellent research.

Speaker of the DZNE site Magdeburg awarded with research prize

The theme of water is central to many research projects relating to climate change, the growing global population, energy supply and health matters. The main focus lies on improving water quality and access to water, and ensuring sustainable water resources management, both on a regional level and worldwide. In the new portfolio theme Helmholtz Water Science Network, five Helmholtz Centres are working together with numerous university partners to contribute to solving these major challenges. The Helmholtz Association will provide over €21 million in funding for the project until 2015.

Water Science Network for the future

Although the Moon is so far the only celestial body other than Earth on which a human being has ever walked, the topography of its surface has not been studied comprehensively. This is why NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) has been orbiting the Moon since June 2009, using a wide-angle camera to digitally record its cratered surface.

Flying over the three-dimensional Moon

In the Federal Government's Energy Concept, modern power plants play an important part in the future energy supply. In order to resolve the apparent contradiction between fossil fuels and climate protection, Jülich researchers are developing new types of gas separation membranes to capture the climate-damaging CO2 before it is emitted into the atmosphere.

Jülich Helps Transform the Energy Sector

On Thursday at 7:38 p.m. local time (12:38 CET), after a mission of 17 days, the Chinese spacecraft Shenzhou-8 carrying the German SIMBOX experiment landed on schedule in the Gobi desert in Inner Mongolia.

Shenzhou-8: Safe touch-down with German SIMBOX experiments

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Three-Dimensional Characterization of Catalyst Nanoparticles

The test programme began in Friedrichshafen this week: Jülich climatologists are testing and optimizing the measuring equipment in preparation for the largest research application ever of a Zeppelin NT, starting in May 2012. At that time, the airship will undertake a number of flight missions, each lasting several weeks, coordinated by Jülich researchers. These missions aim to study the atmosphere over the Netherlands, Italy, the Mediterranean Sea, and finally Finland in 2013. The campaign is part of the EU’s PEGASOS project, in which 26 partners from 15 European nations are studying the relationships between atmospheric chemistry and climate change.

Zeppelin NT Flies for European Climate Research

Forschungszentrum Jülich and the Katholieke Universiteit of Leuven are extending their cooperation. To this end, Prof. Mark Waer, rector of the Kathlieke Universiteit, and Prof. Achim Bachem, chairman of the Board of Directors of Forschungszentrum Jülich, have now signed a cooperation agreement. The German ambassador to Belgium, Dr. Eckart Cunz, was present at the ceremony held at the Flemish university.

Jülich and Leuven Extend Cooperation

The EUR 50,000 Meyenburg Award in 2011 goes to physicist Stefan Hell. He is honored for developing a whole new kind of light microscopy which makes it possible for the first time to observe living cells down to nanomolecular scale. The Meyenburg Award will be presented on Thursday, November 17, 2011 at a symposium held at the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ).

From microscopy to nanoscopy: 2011 Meyenburg Award goes to Stefan Hell

Major European suppliers of High Performance Computing (HPC) technologies, Allinea, ARM, Bull, Caps Entreprise, Eurotech, ParTec, STMicroelectronics and Xyratex associated with HPC research centres BSC, CEA, CINECA, Fraunhofer, Forschungszentrum Juelich and LRZ have decided to combine forces to create a European Technology Platform (ETP), building on the previous work of PROSPECT and Teratec.

European industry and research centres join forces to create a European Technology Platform for High Performance Computing