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Annual Report 2014

FOREWORD Helmholtz – Generating Knowledge for the Digital World 06 PRESIDENT’S REPORT 07 JOINT INITIATIVE FOR RESEARCH AND INNOVATION 10 THIRD ROUND OF PROGRAMME-ORIENTED FUNDING 13 SCIENTIFIC PRIZES AND AWARDS 15 CURRENT HELMHOLTZ RESEARCH PROJECTS 16 Research Field Energy 16 Research Field Earth and Environment 20 Research Field Health 24 Research Field Aeronautics, Space and Transport 28 Research Field Key Technologies 30 Research Field Structure of Matter 34 PERFORMANCE RECORD 38 Resources 38 Scientific Performance 40 Costs and Staff 42 CENTRAL BODIES 46 HELMHOLTZ ASSOCIATION GOVERNANCE STRUCTURE 49 MEMBER CENTRES OF THE HELMHOLTZ ASSOCIATION 50 Publishing Information 51 Cover image: iStockphoto/Strandperle; KIT; NASA; HZI; FZJ; GSI; DLR NOTE ON THE REPORTING PERIOD The Helmholtz Annual Report 2014 describes developments at the Helmholtz Association between 2013 and August 2014. It shows the actual costs of research in 2013 and the Helmholtz Senate’s financing recommendations for 2015–2019 for the programmes in energy research, key technologies research and matter research. The report also presents the financing recommendations for the programme period 2010–2014 for the research fields Earth and Environment, Health, and Aeronautics, Space and Transport. The Annual Report can be downloaded as a PDF at www.helmholtz.de/en/gb14 TABLE OF CONTENTS 31 DATA STORAGE OF THE FUTURE Jülich ­scientists are studying the basic principles of future data storage technologies. Pictured here: the nanospintronics cluster tool 17 PILOT PLANT MAKES BIOGASOLINE Using the bioliq pilot plant, KIT researchers have produced their first batch of gasoline from straw and other organic residues 35 FIRST NEUTRINOS DISCOVERED FROM THE DISTANT COSMOS This research station in the Antarctic is collecting data from the IceCube neutrino detector

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