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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 …
Auf dem Foto ist Elmar Kriegler zu sehen, Leiter der Forschungsabteilung „Transformationspfade“ am Potsdam-Institut für Klimafolgenforschung (PIK) mit einem Fokus auf das Forschungsfeld „Klimaschutz- und nachhaltige Entwicklungspfade“ und Professor für Integrated Assessment of Climate Change an der Universität Potsdam. Das Foto ist vom PIK/Karkow.

33 Questions to “interface researcher” Prof. Dr. Elmar Kriegler

What can we do to stop climate change? Why has so little of it been implemented so far? And why does science not always get through to politics? Elmar …
Graduates of our international master's degree program CLEWS will be trained to become experts in the field of climate science research in order to address the consequences of global warming in a science-based manner with regard to research, politics, and the public. | Image: Vera Öztürk

CLEWS – International master's program on climate, earth, water and sustainability launches

The University of Potsdam offers for the first time this fall an interdisciplinary master's program that will directly address the most pressing …

Double Success – Funding Extension for the DFG Collaborative Research Centers at the University of Potsdam

The German Research Foundation (DFG) positively reviewed the two Collaborative Research Centers at the University of Potsdam and approved their …
Galaxy simulation | Photo: AIP/Pfrommer

Astrophysicists Lutz Wisotzki and Christoph Pfrommer Receive ERC Advanced Grants

The European Research Council ERC has awarded two jointly appointed professors of the Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam (AIP) and the …
A systematic comparison shows that serial synchrotron crystallography (SSX) and serial femtosecond crystallography (SFX) can yield data of equivalent quality. This opens new collaborative opportunities exploiting the advantages of both light sources to study biomolecular dynamics. | Image credit: Jörg Harms (MPSD)

Seeing protein crystals in a different light – Serial protein crystallography at XFELs and synchrotrons opens up new avenues

An international team of researchers from Germany, UK and Canada with participation of the University of Potsdam, has found that two of the worlds …
Optical fiber tips mounted with different functional nanomaterials (gold nanostructures, porous silicon, stimuli-responsive hydrogels). | Photo: Thomas Roese

With Light and Nanoparticles – Blazing a trail to the future of medicine

In the 21st century, it is often promised, medical treatment will be personalized, with diagnoses and therapies tailored to the needs of the …
Artistic representation of two inspiralling neutron stars shortly before their collision. | Image credit: N. Moldenhauer

Colliding stars reveal fundamental properties of matter and space-time

Combining various observational data of neutron-star collisions with nuclear-physics calculations, Tim Dietrich, Astrophysics Professor at the …
Levke Caesar | Photo: privat

Weakening Gulf Stream – Levke Caesar receives Publication Prize of Leibniz-Kolleg Potsdam 2020

The physicist Dr. Levke Kathrin Caesar is awarded the Publication Prize for young scientists 2020 by the Leibniz-Kolleg Potsdam. Caesar receives the …
Artist‘s view of heat transport in a trilayer metal composite material. | Image credit: Felix Stete/Jan Pudell

Hot Electrons – a very special form of heat transport in metals

When heating a platinum layer on nanometer scales, heat can be transferred by hot electrons through a copper layer into a nickel layer without …