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INTEGRATIVE RESEARCH INSTITUTE
FOR THE SCIENCES
2nd Euro-Mediterranean Brokerage & Venturing Event – Field Trip
Nikolai Puhlmann
February 26, 2015
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
One of Germany’s top Research Universities
Offers all main disciplines of humanities,
social and cultural sciences, human medicine,
mathematics & natural sciences
Approx. 35.000 students
6.000 students from abroad
5.000 new students each year
Over 465 tenured professors
Three Campuses…
Central Campus
Arts & Humanities
Northern Campus
Life Sciences & Sports Sciences,
Agriculture
Campus Adlershof
Natural Sciences &
Mathematics
ADLERSHOF Campus
Departments of Humboldt-Universität…
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Chemistry
Physics
Computer Sciences
Geography
Mathematics
Psychology
… close to research and business
10 extra-university research institutes
> 400 technology orientated companies
ADLERSHOF Campus
Isn‘t that enough?
Why do we need an additional institute?
Why do we need
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ADLERSHOF Campus
Disciplinary departments are indispensable, however…
Challenges do not care about scientific disciplines …
…and borders cannot be fully understood by looking at
them from one side only.
IRIS ADLERSHOF in a Nutshell
• Integrative Research Institute
with physicists, chemists, mathematicians and computer scientists
• Excellent research facilities, including OPen Access Labs (OPAL)
• Elements of an Institute for Advanced Studies
• Graduate and postgraduate education programs
• Integrated into the university, but open to strategic partners
ADLERSHOF Campus
Competences:
• Modern Optics
• Molecular Systems
• Mathematical Physics
• Computation in the Sciences
Driving Forces:
Human Curiosity & Addressing Global Challenges
Coin with Janus Head, ca. 220
Driving Forces:
Human Curiosity & Addressing Global Challenges
Q: How to describe the world at
Q: How to develop extremely efficient
extremely short and extremely long
optically, electronically, and chemically
length and time scales, and
active systems and processes in order to
in well defined yet complex systems?
cope with limited natural ressources?
Research Fields
Space - Time - Matter
© CMS/Cern 2012
Hybrid Materials
Research Field:
Hybrid Materials for Optics and Electronics
organic
anorganic
Hybrid Systems
• Combining the advantages of different material classes
• Compensating the disatvantages
• New effects & better functionality
Research Field:
Hybrid Systems for Optics and Electronics
• CRC 951 „Hybrid Inorganic/Organic Systems for Opto-Electronics“
• Graduate School of Analytical Sciences Adlershof
• Helmholtz-Energy-Alliance "Anorganic/organic HybridSolarcells and -Techniques for die Photovoltaics"
• Einstein - Professorship
Research Field:
Space – Time - Matter
… structure of space, time and matter on very small and very large scales
© CMS/Cern 2012
The Theory of Everything – the „Weltformel“ …
Research Field:
Space – Time - Matter
• CRC 647 „Space – Time - Matter“
• Berlin Mathematical School
• Graduate Research School "Mass - Spectrum - Symmetry"
• Alexander von Humboldt-Professorship
The IRIS Members
Currently 18 Members from
Department of Chemistry
Department of Physics
Department of Mathematics
Department of Computer Science
Chairman
M. Ballauff
O. Benson
J. Brüning
C. Draxl
T. Elsaesser
J.C. Freytag
Partners
S. Hecht
C.Limberg
R. von Klitzing
J. Plefka
J. Kramer
J.P. Rabe
D. Kreimer
A. Reinefeld
J. Sauer
N. Koch
M. Staudacher
Cooperation partners
AEI
ATOTECH
BAM
BASF
BMS
CCSA
Chiba U
CMP
CRC 647
Max-Planck-Institut für Gravitationsphysik (Albert-Einstein-Institut)
Atotech Deutschland GmbH
Bundesanstalt für Materialforschung und -prüfung
BASF - The Chemical Company
Berlin Mathematical School
Center of Computational Sciences Adlershof
Chiba University - Graduate School of Advanced Integration Science
Center for Mathematical Physics (geplant)
Collaborative Research Center (Sonderforschungsbereich) 647
Space - Time - Matter. Analytic and Geometric Structures
CRC 951 Collaborative Research Center (Sonderforschungsbereich) 951
Hybrid Inorganic/Organic Systems for Opto-Electronics
ETH Zürich
FBH
FHI
FOKUS
FU Berlin
HZB
Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich
Ferdinand-Braun-Institut, Leibniz-Institut für Höchstfrequenztechnik
Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft
Fraunhofer-Institut für Offene Kommunikationssysteme
Freie Universität Berlin
Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie GmbH
HZMO Humboldt Zentrum für Moderne Optik
IAP Fraunhofer-Institut für Angewandte Polymerforschung
IKG Bild Wissen Gestaltung. Ein interdisziplinäres Labor
(Image Knowledge Gestaltung. An Interdisciplinary Laboratory)
IKZ
JLSR
MATHEON
MBI
MPI-KG
MPI-P
NUS
OPAL
PDI
PlasmaChe
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Princeton U
SALSA
TAU
TU Berlin
UNICAT
U Potsdam
WISTA
ZIB
Leibniz Institut für Kristallzüchtung
Joint Laboratory for Structural Research
DFG-Forschungszentrum MATHEON
Max-Born-Institut für Nichtlineare Optik und Kurzzeitspektroskopie
Max-Planck-Institut für Kolloid- und Grenzflächenforschung
Max-Planck-Institut für Polymerforschung
National University of Singapore
OPen Access Laboratory
Paul-Drude-Institut für Festkörperelektronik
PlasmaChem GmbH
Princeton University
School of Analytical Sciences Adlershof
Tel Aviv University
Technische Universität Berlin
Cluster of Excellence "Unifying Concepts in Catalysis"
Universität Potsdam
WISTA Management GmbH
Konrad-Zuse-Zentrum für Informationstechnik Berlin
Infrastructure
• Research Building
(in the planning)
• Joint Facilities
• Service-oriented Branch Office
The IRIS Research Building…
Department of
Chemistry
Mathematics &
Computer Sciences
Image © 2013 Geocontent
Image © 2013 Geobasis-DE/BKG
Physics
Department
The IRIS Research Building…
Floor Plan: Nickl & Partner Architekten AG
The IRIS Research Building…
Rendering: Nickl & Partner Architekten AG
The IRIS Research Building…
Space for excellent research facilities
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ca. 2,500 m2 for Labs
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Large Integrative Lab with clean room
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ca. 2,200 m2 offices, common rooms
and seminar rooms
Rendering: Nickl & Partner Architekten AG
Joint Facilities
• Joint Lab for Structural Research (HU, HZB, TU)
• OPen Access Labs
- for Advanced Materials
- for Analytical Sciences
The IRIS Research Building…
Thank you for your attention….