Bert Meijer specializes in complex molecular systems and their formation. A native of the Netherlands, Meijer is a professor of organic chemistry and conducts research in the field of supramolecular polymers.
Physicist Wolfgang Wernsdorfer was awarded the Leibniz Prize in 2019. He began his career as an apprentice electrician—and learned things he still uses in his current research into the computers of the future.
Platforms at train stations are often very crowded – especially during rush hour. Researcher Maik Boltes and his team want to improve situations like these by seeking effective ways to manage crowds of people.
Helmholtz has a new member. We spoke to Michael Backes, the director of the Helmholtz Center for Information Security, about computer viruses, autonomous driving, patient data—and how to attract employees from Silicon Valley to the state of Saarland in southwestern Germany.
Could job interviews be replaced by a simple brain scan? This just might be possible someday thanks to the methods neuroscientists at Forschungszentrum Jülich are developing. But it’s more likely that they will enable early diagnosis of depression and dementia.
Computer scientist Ali Sunyaev believes that blockchain technology is set to change our society just as much as the Internet has in recent decades. At the Helmholtz Horizons Symposium, he also shared his insights on what this means for science.
Even though there are still “a few problems”, the quantum computer is coming. David DiVincenzo is sure of it.
Barbara Terhal’s research focuses on the computers of the future. They will be many times faster than today’s models. When she tells people outside the field about her work in quantum physics, they often respond with questioning looks. “But it really isn’t that difficult,” she says with a broad American accent.
How does a true quantum computer work, and how far are we from such an application? In this interview, Wolfgang Wernsdorfer of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology talks about the qubit quantum chip and the great expectations associated with it.
For the ELiSE Procedure, the group of scientists and engineers led by Christian Hamm take nature as their model to create building components in an entirely new manner.
