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Max Planck Institute is part of the new Cluster of Excellence with up to 64.5 million euros in funding

The “Center for Chiral Electronics”, Excellence Cluster in Materials Science, is a joint initiative of the Max Planck Institute of Microstructure Physics in Halle, Martin Luther University, the Freie Universtät Berlin and the University of Regensburg. more

Dr. Niels Schröter receives the prestigious Early Career Scientist Prize

The International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP) has awarded the 2025 C10 Early Career Scientist Prize to Dr. Niels Schröter, recognizing his transformative contributions to the field of condensed matter physics. more

The Max Planck Synergy Grantees 2024 (from top left to bottom right): Benedetta Ciardi, Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics; Torsten Enßlin, Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics; Alessandra Buonanno, Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics; Xinliang Feng, Max Planck Institute for Microstructure Physics; Axel Kleinschmidt, Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics; Joël Ouaknine, Max Planck Institute for Software Systems; Florian Luca, Max Planck Institute for Software Systems; Angel Rubio, Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter; Petra Schwille, Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry; Alexander Herbig, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology; Herwig Baier, Max Planck Institute for Biological Intelligence; Jennifer Li and Drew Robson, Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics; Aneta Koseska, Max Planck Institute for Neurobiology of Behavior – CAESAR; Alec Wodtke, Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences.

With twelve Synergy Grants, the Max Planck Society claims top spot in the ERC ranking more

<span><span><span>Research project 2DPolyMembrane receives 10 Million Euro </span></span></span>

Scientists from the Max Planck Institute of Microstructure Physics in Halle receive the prestigious Synergy Grant of the European Research Council to work jointly on 2DPolymembrane. more

<span><span><span><span>Dr. Wenhui Niu won the Arthur K. Doolittle Award</span></span></span></span>

Dr. Wenhui Niu, Minerva Fast Track group leader in Max Planck Institute of Microstructure Physics, won the 2024 Fall Arthur K. Doolittle Award from the ACS Division of Polymeric Materials: Science and Engineering (PMSE). more

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