Press releases
News and views on research at the Helmholtz Association - this is the place to look for all the press releases issued by the Helmholtz Association Research Centres. A comfortable search function helps you to view specific news items from the Helmholtz Research Centres in chronological order. Older press releases since 2003 can be found in our archive or on the website of the relevant Helmholtz Research Centre.
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22 May 2013, Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY
Today, at the Berlin Science Park Adlershof, DESY commissioned the first telescope prototype of the Cherenkov Telescope Array CTA. In an inauguration ceremony, Professor Sabine Kunst, science minister of the German federal state of Brandenburg, Dr. Karl Eugen Huthmacher, head of department at the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research BMBF, Professor Helmut Dosch, chair of the DESY board of directors, and Professor Christian Stegmann, head of the DESY institute in Zeuthen, jointly commissioned the prototype. In the coming months, the fully functional full-scale model of the medium-sized of the planned three CTA telescope types will be used to test all functions for future operation at the CTA facility.
21 May 2013, External partners
The European Energy Research Alliance supports the European Commission's proposal to strengthen coordination of activities in the Strategic Energy Technology Plan (SET-Plan) as proposed in the recent communication on Energy Technologies and Innovation.
21 May 2013, German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE)
The European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) has elected biochemist Frank Bradke of the DZNE as one of its new members. According to the EMBO, 52 scientists joined the organization as new members this year along with Prof. Bradke. Members of the EMBO are considered the world’s most renowned molecular biologists.
17 May 2013, Helmholtz Centre Potsdam - GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences
GFZ researchers have shown that, by using global positioning systems (GPS) to measure ground deformation caused by a large underwater earthquake, they can provide accurate warning of the resulting tsunami in just a few minutes after the earthquake onset. For the devastating Japan 2011 event, the team reveals that the analysis of the GPS data and issue of a detailed tsunami alert would have taken no more than three minutes.
16 May 2013, Forschungszentrum Jülich
Jülich/Stuttgart, 16 May 2013 – Two biotechnologists from Forschungszentrum Jülich were presented with one of three Innovation Awards of the German BioRegions in Stuttgart yesterday. Georg Schendzielorz and Stephan Binder from the Institute of Bio- and Geosciences (IBG-1) received the award, which is endowed with € 2000, for their application-oriented idea on the topic of sensors for efficient biocatalysis.
