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Here we cover all sorts of events and news from the Max Planck Institute of Microstructure Physics

„I think the impossible is what we should strive for.”

Prof. Stuart Parkin talks about the future of data storage in the podcast Agents of Tech 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

Simon Arnold embarks on his research exchange to UC Santa Barbara

IMPRS PhD student Simon Arnold will begin a three-month research exchange in March to establish and strengthen collaboration between the NISE department at the Max Planck Institute, led by Prof. Stuart Parkin, and the Orchestrating Physics for Unconventional Systems (OPUS) laboratory at the… more

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Woltersdorf will head the "Magnetic Microscopy and Spin Dynamics" Fellow Group at the Max Planck Institute until the end of 2029. The research aims to create the basis for future applications in information storage and processing. 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

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Prof. Ke Zou earned his PhD at Pennsylvania State University and is an assistant professor at the University of British Columbia. As ​a Humboldt Research Fellow he is visiting our institute. In this interview he speaks about his time in Germany and the advantages of the Humboldt Research Fellowship… 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

<span><span><span>Dr. Li Wan wins ERC Starting Grant</span></span></span>

The European Research Council (ERC) has announced the awardees for the 2024 Starting Grants. One of these prestigious grants, worth 2.16 million Euros, is awarded to Dr. Li Wan, postdoctoral researcher at the Max Planck Institute of Microstructure Physics in Halle. His ERC grant “FastE-Chiral” willmore

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Andriy Styervoyedov explains how a new German-Ukrainian Core of Excellence aims to help rebuild Ukrainian research more

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