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Women Earn with Beauty, Men with Strength – Prof. Marco Caliendo has researched the relationship between career and bodyweight

With a wasp waist like Heidi Klum’s you can boast in the office – and also earn more. Women with supermodel measurements have higher incomes than …
Björn Huwe and Annelie Fiedler made the moss fit for space. Foto: Annelie Fiedler

Surviving in Space – Why There’s Moss on the ISS

All the lights on campus are off. Only in Björn Huwe’s office a screen is flickering. The biologist is sitting at his desk in the institute building …

Vom Wutbürger zum Partner – Tagung zur Partizipation in der Bürgerkommune

Bürgerhaushalt, Bürgerbegehren, Bürgerinitiative – die Formen politischer Beteiligung sind so vielfältig wie nie zuvor. Unter der Überschrift …
Equipment for EEG experiment. Picture: Thomas Roese

A Window to the Brain – Potsdam Psycholinguists Research Multilingualism

It began with the 1961 German-Turkish recruitment agreement. Many young Turks, who had initially come to Germany as temporary guest workers, ended up …
Cultures are exposed to light of different colors in this incubator. Picture: Andreas Klaer

Factories of the Future – How cells become producers of medicine and biofuels

The term is an oxymoron: synthetic biology. This field of research has been developing very rapidly for some years now, in which biologists, chemists, …
“In the past the only possibility to interfere into local politics was to go the polls,” Franzke says. Voter turnout, however, has been continuously decreasing for years now, the researcher point. Picture: Christian Schwier/Fotolia

“Not Without Us!” – New forms of participatory democracy enrich local policy

Water cannons roll, batons are swung, tear gas is in the air. The Stuttgart Palace Gardens have changed into a place of violence, chaos, rage and …
Hönicke has gathered more than 2,500 ticks over the past three years. Picture: Daniel Rolke

Field Research – The influence of environmental parameters on the infection risk of Lyme disease

They aren’t only bloodsuckers. Ticks can also be dangerous, transmitting serious diseases like Lyme disease and tick-borne encephalitis (TBE). The …
Prof. Dr. Uta Herbst mit den Preisträgern des ersten Verhandlungswettbewerbs der Negotiation Academy Potsdam. Foto: Karla Fritze

Verhandeln auf hohem Niveau – Negotiation Academy zeichnet Wettbewerbsgewinner aus

Die zehn besten Verhandlungstalente aus Berlin und Brandenburg wurden am 3. März 2015 von der Negotiation Academy Potsdam ausgezeichnet. „Wir sind …
Stefanie Krüger and Professor Taubert in the lab. Picture: Karla Fritze

SpiderMAEN – Prof. Andreas Taubert and his team of chemists “spin the silk” from gene to material

SpiderMAEN is the current project of Prof. Andreas Taubert – alluding to the well-known comic superhero. The professor and his research group are not …
Since 2005 researchers have been continuously examining the development of children and adolescents in the PIER study. Picture: Karla Fritze

The Risk Inside – Psychologists examine which traits promote critical development.

The first data was collected in 2005. By now about 3,000 children and adolescents have participated in the PIER (Potsdamer intrapersonale …