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.

Fully bleached reef off Isla Iguana in Panama

Fourth global coral bleaching event: ZMT researcher observes the state of reefs in the eastern tropical Pacific

According to scientists from the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the International Coral Reef Initiative (ICRI), the world's coral reefs are currently experiencing another global coral bleaching event. Events like this used to be infrequent, but this is now the second of this magnitude in the last 10 years and the fourth since 1982. Dr Sonia Bejarano from the Leibniz Centre for Tropical Marine Research (ZMT) is part of the Global Coral Reef Monitoring Network which reports how this global ecological crisis is unfolding.

Apr 18, 2024, 7:19:56 PM

Training of brain processes makes reading more efficient

Researchers from the University of Cologne have discovered that a combination of computer modelling, a novel training approach, and artificial intelligence improves reading performance when learning languages / publication in ‘npj Science of Learning’

Apr 18, 2024, 6:06:31 PM

German Academic Association for Business Research (VHB) announces new Publication Media Rating

VHB-R 2024 assesses the quality of academic journals and other publications from the per-spective of business studies in the German-speaking countries.

Apr 18, 2024, 5:35:34 PM

Metallic bipolar plate under a porous transport layer for PEM electrolysis.

Fraunhofer IPT presents system designs for the production of bipolar plates, MEAs and pressure tanks

Green hydrogen is one of the energy sources of the future. In order to produce it in large quantities, store it and convert it back into electrical energy, however, the industry needs efficient and scalable production processes and systems for the required electrolysers and fuel cells. Scientists at the Fraunhofer Institute for Production Technology IPT in Aachen are focusing on both conventional discrete and continuous production processes using roll-to-roll systems (R2R).

Apr 18, 2024, 3:57:22 PM

The membranes also bring advantages for the production of fertilizers. Photo: D O M I N I K J P W via Unsplash

More yield through nanopores

Flow-through reactors packed with enzymes can produce certain chemicals in a gentle and careful way. However, their performance has so far been limited. A research team from the Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon and RWTH Aachen University has now been able to increase the yield a thousandfold. Using a tailor-made nanomembrane, they have succeeded in bringing the molecules to be converted into much closer contact with the enzymes, thereby dramatically increasing the reaction rate. The new process could be used for the sustainable production of phosphate, among other things. The working group presents its results in the journal Nature Communications.

Apr 18, 2024, 3:21:29 PM

View of Książ Castle (in German: Schloss Fürstenstein) from the viewing platform. “Fürstensteiner Grund” is located below the castle in a deeply indented valley.

German-Polish pilot project protects cultural and natural heritage in the “Fürstensteiner Grund”

Dresden/Wrocław. In an exemplary act of cross-border collaboration, TU Dresden and the University of Environmental and Life Sciences in Wrocław (UPWr) have carried out a pilot project to preserve the natural and cultural heritage of the “Fürstensteiner Grund” (a deep valley in Lower Silesia, Poland). On April 17, the successful completion of the project was celebrated – together with all partners – in the impressive setting of Książ Castle, the third-largest castle in Poland.

Apr 18, 2024, 1:56:15 PM