Research in Germany

Germany is a top destination for PhD students, postdocs, and senior scientists. The website "Research in Germany" helps you to find your way to Germany, to seek for PhD positions, research jobs or funding opportunities. It describes the German research landscape and helps you plan your career and life in Germany. Welcome to Germany - the Land of Ideas!

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There are many good reasons for doing research in  Germany. It is one of the most innovative, stable and well endowed  research nations  and its universities and research institutions are among the best in the world. Values like freedom and diversity as well as social and ecological responsibility are considered important to ensure knowledge gain and societal progress.

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Here you will find a selection of the latest R&D news from German universities, non-university research institutes and industrial research facilities.

Evolution of the most powerful ocean current on Earth

The Antarctic Circumpolar Current plays an important part in global overturning circulation, the exchange of heat and CO2 between the ocean and atmosphere, and the stability of Antarctica’s ice sheets. An international research team led by the Alfred Wegener Institute have now used sediments taken from the South Pacific to reconstruct the flow speed in the last 5.3 million years. Their data show that during glacial periods, the current slowed; during interglacials, it accelerated. Consequently, if the current global warming intensifies in the future, it could mean that the Southern Ocean stores less CO2 and that more heat reaches Antarctica. The study was just released in the journal Nature.
Mar 27, 2024, 6:00:00 PM

New topological metamaterial amplifies sound waves exponentially

Researchers at AMOLF, in collaboration with partners from Germany, Switzerland, and Austria, have realized a new type of metamaterial through which sound waves flow in an unprecedented fashion. It provides a novel form of amplification of mechanical vibrations, which has the potential to improve sensor technology and information processing devices. This metamaterial is the first instance of a so-called ‘bosonic Kitaev chain’, which gets its special properties from its nature as a topological material. It was realized by making nanomechanical resonators interact with laser light through radiation pressure forces.
Mar 27, 2024, 6:00:00 PM

EDA science award for new methods of improving tactical communication

When communication in tactical settings needs to be made secure in highly sensitive and continuously changing environments, how can it be improved? This is the question that has been engaging scientists Johannes Loevenich and Dr Roberto Rigolin F. Lopes. Their work on it has been a success: The European Defence Agency (EDA) has presented the two former Fraunhofer FKIE employees, who now work at Thales Germany, with the “EDA Research, Technology, and Innovation Papers Award 2023” for their newly developed method for solving complex optimisation problems in modern tactical communication systems.
Mar 27, 2024, 5:56:01 PM

Energy crisis in Baltic cod and co.: How eutrophication and climate change alter food webs in the Baltic Sea

The eastern Baltic cod stock is in crisis since years. Despite historically low fishing pressure, it is not recovering. A conclusive explanation for this is still lacking. Scientists from the Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research Warnemünde and the Thünen Institute of Baltic Sea Fisheries now proved for the first time that the food web for cod has lengthened in Baltic Sea regions with large-scale blooms of filamentous blue-green algae, which increasingly occur due to eutrophication and climate change. The cod population therefore has far less energy available than in areas without blue-green algae blooms. If the nutrient regime does not improve, the eastern Baltic cod will not recover.
Mar 27, 2024, 5:44:28 PM

Well prepared for future challenges: Scientific Advisory Board visited GEOMAR on March 25-26

27.03.2023/Kiel. With its fundamental and solutions-oriented research, GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel is very well prepared for continued contributions to scientific progress and societal decision-making. After a two-day visit, the Scientific Advisory Board confirmed the excellence of science at GEOMAR and congratulated the researchers on their achievements. The focus of this year’s visit was on the research divisions “Marine Biogeochemistry” and “Marine Ecology”.
Mar 27, 2024, 4:57:31 PM

New image of the center of our Milky Way: Spiral magnetic fields surround black hole Sagittarius A*

A new series of observations by the Event Horizon Telescope collaboration measuring the degree of polarization in the emitted light shows that the black hole Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*) in the center of our Milky Way is surrounded by strong, spiral-shaped magnetic fields. Such a magnetic structure is likely produced by magnetized plasma falling onto Sgr A* and is similar to that of M87*. This important result suggests that all black holes may have strong magnetic fields and that Sgr A*, like M87*, may emit a particle jet that has not yet been revealed. The team led by Luciano Rezzolla, Goethe University Frankfurt, was significantly involved in the interpretation of the new measurements.
Mar 27, 2024, 3:00:00 PM

Evolution of the most powerful ocean current on Earth

The Antarctic Circumpolar Current plays an important part in global overturning circulation, the exchange of heat and CO2 between the ocean and atmosphere, and the stability of Antarctica’s ice sheets. An international research team led by the Alfred Wegener Institute have now used sediments taken from the South Pacific to reconstruct the flow speed in the last 5.3 million years. Their data show that during glacial periods, the current slowed; during interglacials, it accelerated. Consequently, if the current global warming intensifies in the future, it could mean that the Southern Ocean stores less CO2 and that more heat reaches Antarctica. The study was just released in the journal Nature.
Mar 27, 2024, 6:00:00 PM

New topological metamaterial amplifies sound waves exponentially

Researchers at AMOLF, in collaboration with partners from Germany, Switzerland, and Austria, have realized a new type of metamaterial through which sound waves flow in an unprecedented fashion. It provides a novel form of amplification of mechanical vibrations, which has the potential to improve sensor technology and information processing devices. This metamaterial is the first instance of a so-called ‘bosonic Kitaev chain’, which gets its special properties from its nature as a topological material. It was realized by making nanomechanical resonators interact with laser light through radiation pressure forces.
Mar 27, 2024, 6:00:00 PM

EDA science award for new methods of improving tactical communication

When communication in tactical settings needs to be made secure in highly sensitive and continuously changing environments, how can it be improved? This is the question that has been engaging scientists Johannes Loevenich and Dr Roberto Rigolin F. Lopes. Their work on it has been a success: The European Defence Agency (EDA) has presented the two former Fraunhofer FKIE employees, who now work at Thales Germany, with the “EDA Research, Technology, and Innovation Papers Award 2023” for their newly developed method for solving complex optimisation problems in modern tactical communication systems.
Mar 27, 2024, 5:56:01 PM

Energy crisis in Baltic cod and co.: How eutrophication and climate change alter food webs in the Baltic Sea

The eastern Baltic cod stock is in crisis since years. Despite historically low fishing pressure, it is not recovering. A conclusive explanation for this is still lacking. Scientists from the Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research Warnemünde and the Thünen Institute of Baltic Sea Fisheries now proved for the first time that the food web for cod has lengthened in Baltic Sea regions with large-scale blooms of filamentous blue-green algae, which increasingly occur due to eutrophication and climate change. The cod population therefore has far less energy available than in areas without blue-green algae blooms. If the nutrient regime does not improve, the eastern Baltic cod will not recover.
Mar 27, 2024, 5:44:28 PM

Well prepared for future challenges: Scientific Advisory Board visited GEOMAR on March 25-26

27.03.2023/Kiel. With its fundamental and solutions-oriented research, GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel is very well prepared for continued contributions to scientific progress and societal decision-making. After a two-day visit, the Scientific Advisory Board confirmed the excellence of science at GEOMAR and congratulated the researchers on their achievements. The focus of this year’s visit was on the research divisions “Marine Biogeochemistry” and “Marine Ecology”.
Mar 27, 2024, 4:57:31 PM

New image of the center of our Milky Way: Spiral magnetic fields surround black hole Sagittarius A*

A new series of observations by the Event Horizon Telescope collaboration measuring the degree of polarization in the emitted light shows that the black hole Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*) in the center of our Milky Way is surrounded by strong, spiral-shaped magnetic fields. Such a magnetic structure is likely produced by magnetized plasma falling onto Sgr A* and is similar to that of M87*. This important result suggests that all black holes may have strong magnetic fields and that Sgr A*, like M87*, may emit a particle jet that has not yet been revealed. The team led by Luciano Rezzolla, Goethe University Frankfurt, was significantly involved in the interpretation of the new measurements.
Mar 27, 2024, 3:00:00 PM
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