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Prof. Dr. Tim Dietrich

Astrophysicist Prof. Dr. Tim Dietrich receives IUPAP Early Career Scientist Prize

A good start in 2023: Astrophysicist Prof. Dr. Tim Dietrich receives IUPAP Early Career Scientist Prize in General Relativity and Gravitation and a …
Freigeist Fellow Felix Lang at Campus Golm

The Ultimate Semiconductor – Felix Lang develops solar cells and radiation detectors for outer space and medicine

Dr. Felix Lang prefers to work in the lab rather than at the computer. „When we test our solar cells, you can see immediately whether they are good or …
Simulation of two merging neutron stars, each with a mass of 1.35 solar masses. From red to blue, increasing densities are shown.

Tim Dietrich receives ERC Starting Grant for exploring binary neutron stars

Tim Dietrich, seit 2020 Professor für Theoretische Astrophysik an der Universität Potsdam und Max-Planck-Fellow am Max-Planck-Institut für …
Prof. Dr. Dieter Neher (left) and Prof. Dr. Bernd Müller-Röber (right)

The Best in the World – Scientists from the University of Potsdam Again Among Most Cited Researchers

Two scientists from the University of Potsdam are among the absolute top group of the most cited researchers in their field worldwide. This year’s …
Simulation of a neutron-star/black-hole coalescence in which the neutron star is tidally disrupted during the merging process.

Einstein Put To the Test – Gravitational Wave Researcher Prof. Tim Dietrich Is Dealing With Heavy Weights In Space

Tim Dietrich is only 34 years young and has already had a remarkable scientific career: In 2017, PhD thesis with distinction at Friedrich Schiller …
Innovation Center InnoFSPEC Potsdam

From Research to Application – innoFSPEC Opens Its Own Transfer Laboratory

Applications of fiber optic spectroscopy and sensor technology developed at innoFSPEC , the Potsdam Center for Innovation Competence, range from …
Prof. Karoline Wiesner

33 Questions to Prof. Dr. Karoline Wiesner

What connects ant colonies and the Internet, financial markets and the human brain? They are complex systems – a comparatively new field of research, …
Humboldt Fellow Dr. Anuradha Samajdar

Fascinating Universe – Humboldt Fellow Anuradha Samajdar on Analysis of Gravitational Waves

Since January 2022 Dr. Anuradha Samajdar has been a Humboldt Fellow in the Theoretical Astrophysics research group at the Institute of Physics and …
Artistic View of a white dwarf merger.

Rare Stellar Wedding – Astronomers find stars covered in helium burning ashes

Astronomers of the Universities of Potsdam and Tübingen discovered puzzling star surfaces covered with carbon and oxygen which might have formed in a …
A team led by Prof. Dr. Markus Gühr has observed charge motions in light-excited molecules of thiouracil, a modified nucleobase.

Watching the charge move in photoexcited molecules

An international research team led by Markus Gühr’s group at the University of Potsdam performed laser experiments at Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron …