Rohini Kumar grew up in the Ganges plain in northern India. Now he works at the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ in Leipzig.
Her fascination with solid state physics brought Elizabeth Green from Florida to the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf in Germany. She was able to bring not just her research, but also her husband.
Is there a secret receipt, how to become a successful researcher? Do young scientists of today really need advice from experienced researcher or is every career different?
More than 8,500 foreign research scientists are working at Helmholtz Centres all across Germany. We would like to introduce a few of them in this new series.
What are the advantages of citizen participation in scientific projects? Where are the limitations? Advocates as well as pundits come together for a discussion
A fisherman finds a 101-year-old message-in-a-bottle and sells it for thousands of euros. But can his story really be true? One reader has his doubts – and contacts the editorial office at Helmholtz Perspektiven. An investigation to uncover the truth.
A contribution taken from the Journal of Unsolved Questions (JUnQ)
Two female scientists, one at the beginning of her career, the other at the end,
met to talk.
How does digitalisation change the world of science? We spoke to Lambert Heller from the Open Science Lab about Open Access, the Impact Factor and a new operating system for science
In Berlin, scientists discussed whether free will actually exists