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BRAIN CITY BERLIN
From A for Adlershof to Z for Zuse Institute Berlin: Discover the multi-faceted Science Metropolis.
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Diversity, interdisciplinarity, dense research opportunities.
Berlin is one of the most exciting locations for science and research.
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FACTS & EVENTS
Save the dates: Student Orientation Week 2023
From 5 to 9 June 2023, Berlin’s universities are once again inviting students to information events, some of which last several days.
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INSIGHTS TRANSFER – STORIES
"Basic research is the basis for innovation"
Brain City interview: Prof. Dr. Emmanuelle Charpentier, Nobel Laureate and Managing Director of the Max Planck Unit for the Science of Pathogens.
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STARTUP TRANSFER – STORIES
The chemistry lab in the cloud
The Berlin start-up Quantistry makes chemical experiments in digital space possible with the help of Artificial Intelligence and quantum chemical…
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FACTS & EVENTS
TU professor Dr. Bénédicte Savoy receives Berliner Wissenschaftspreis
The Young Scientist Award (Nachwuchspreis) also went to a researcher from TU Berlin: Dr. Anja Maria Wagemans.
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14.04.2023 Prof. Dr. Peter Konhäusner
GISMA Business School
International connectivity, creative exchange, specialists in many exciting niches: Berlin is a nucleus for innovation, a living tree of knowledge and a network of cultures, experiences and perspectives.
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Prof. Dr. Meike Jipp
Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt
Berlin can play an important pioneering role for the mobility transition in Germany and has already achieved a great deal along the way.
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Dr. Ourania Papasozomenou
Arden University Berlin
Berlin is a colourful, dynamic, open and diverse city. I love working together with international colleagues, and Berlin offers that in abundance.
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Prof. Dr. Shuyan Liu
Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Berlin is not only a vibrant location for creatives and start-ups, but is also magnetically attractive to scientists.
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Prof. Dr. Ariane Jeßulat
Berlin University of the Arts
Berlin has an incomparably well-connected scientific and artistic infrastructure. The thresholds between the city, the respective scenes and the different institutions are low.
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Prof. Dr. Olivier Berthod
ICN Business School
Whether at universities, specialised colleges or research centres: Establishing contacts and exchanging ideas is easy in Berlin.
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Antje Bahnik
Technische Universität Berlin
Berlin is a pioneer in equality for women, even if we still have to continue fighting in many areas.
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Prof. Dr. Rainer Zeichhardt
BSP – Business & Law School
Berlin is exciting because the city combines so many different facets and contrasts.
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Kathleen Warnhoff
Berlin Social Science Center
As a city of science, Berlin is a melting pot with unlimited development opportunities.
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Prof. Dr. Anna Maria von Saucken
Berlin School of Economics and Law
Berlin has a high density of universities, colleges and research institutions. This also results in a high degree of professional diversity, which is extremely beneficial to interdisciplinary research.
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Prof. Dr. Bettina Hannover
Freie Universität Berlin
The attractiveness of the city also helps science, since we can interest many good people in our job offers.
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Prof. Dr Felix Creutzig
TU Berlin and MCC Berlin
There is no expertise that is not available in Berlin. For me, this is a decisive advantage of the location.
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Jess de Jesus de Pinho Pinhal
Technische Universität Berlin
Berlin is a lively city where non-academics who are outside the establishment can express themselves.
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Prof. Dr. Phil Annerose Bohrer
Evangelische Hochschule Berlin
It is very easy in Berlin jointly to advance development processes on learning, education and competence development in nursing education.
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Prof. Dr. Selin Arikoglu
Katholische Hochschule für Sozialwesen Berlin
Berlin offers multiple research focus areas. That makes the city even more attractive and interesting.
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Prof. Dr. med. Elisabeth Steinhagen-Thiessen
Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Berlin is a highly interesting science location.
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Steffen Terberl
Berlin Future Locations office
Berlin has a high concentration of bright minds and unique places where people are creative together and think beyond their own horizons.
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Volker Hofmann
Humboldt-Innovation
Berlin offers the academic environment a huge potential for synergies and networking. It is precisely this interdisciplinarity that creates the basic conditions for innovations.
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Dr Markus Krutzik
Ferdinand-Braun-Institut
In Berlin there are universities and research institutes with high international visibility – especially in areas related to optics and photonics.
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Dr. Sünne Andresen
HTW Berlin University of Applied Science
The strength of Berlin is its diversity. This also applies to science and universities.
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Nishant Jain
Technische Universität Berlin
Berlin is open, welcoming and very international. That makes the city something special.
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Prof. Thomas Bremer
HTW Berlin University of Applied Sciences
The great variety of scientific institutions in the city offers excellent conditions for implementing cooperative projects – at the same time with short distances.
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Dr Ursula Fuhrich-Grubert
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Berlin is already the front runner in terms of equality among German university locations. About a third of the professorships are held by women, and we have cracked the 50 percent quota for doctorates.
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Prof. Dr Anabel Ternès von Hattburg,
SRH Berlin University of Applied Sciences
Berlin offers diversity. The options available and the internationality make the city exciting for scientists form all over the world.
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Dr. Ralph Richter
Leibniz Institute for Research on Society and Space
In social-ecological research, Berlin is a pacesetter for developments that can only be observed in other cities and regions with a time delay.
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Dr. Ina Säumel
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Berlin is curious, uncomfortable, complex and diverse. The ideal location for transformation research.
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Dr. Carsten Hucho
Paul-Drude-Institut für Festkörperelektronik
As a result of its historical development, Berlin offers a complex and stimulating environment on many levels. This open climate nourishes scientific creativity and magnetically attracts researchers of all types.
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Prof. Dr. Florian Koch
HTW Berlin
Berlin is international, multicultural, changeable and offers many research topics. Culture and nature can be reached quickly by bike.
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Dipl.-Ing. Sonja Jost
DexLeChem
That is the great thing about Berlin: We have outstanding science and a great scientific start-up scene. The mix here works well!
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Prof Dr Petra Mund
Katholische Hochschule für Sozialwesen Berlin
Berlin is an open, colourful city where social ideas and innovations grow and flourish. I am happy to contribute to this with my work.
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Prof Dr Aysel Yollu-Tok
Hochschule für Wirtschaft und Recht Berlin
For me, Berlin is the most exciting city in Germany; the cultural diversity is unbeatable.
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Dr. Olga Makarova
Freie Universität Berlin
“The best part about living and working in Berlin is the sheer number of options available, both professionally and culturally.“
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Prof Dr Sabine Hark
Technische Universität Berlin
Berlin has a research landscape that is one of a kind in Germany, in terms of content, disciplines, and institutions. The city is also very well positioned in terms of gender research.
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Erik Wiegard
Werner-von-Siemens Centre for Industry and Science
Berlin is unique. In its scientific landscape, the city brings together numerous experts and innovators from a wide variety of technology, social science, and cultural areas.
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Prof Dr Christian Drosten
Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Berlin's research landscape is characterized by change and progress. There is a unique energy here.
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Hassim Pondor
TU Berlin Africa Alumni Club
My advice for young people interested in studying in Berlin: Just go for it and keep discovering ...
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Tina Krell
Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society
Berlin is open and a magnet that attracts brilliant researchers from all over the world. The freedom to conduct research here truly is unique!
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Prof Dr Gudrun Piechotta-Henze
ASH Berlin
Berlin is exciting and versatile. The city offers the best opportunity for interdisciplinary collaborations.
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Professor Dr Kai Reinhardt
HTW University of Applied Sciences
Research in Berlin is research into contrasts. There are few cities that are closer to the zeitgeist.
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Professor Dr Anna Klippstein
Touro College Berlin
Berlin constantly offers new inspiration, new ideas, new encounters: this is ideal for researchers!
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Dr Ali Aslan Gümüsay
Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society
Thanks to several quite recently founded institutions, Berlin is a global hub for research into the digitalisation of the economy and society.
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Dr.-Ing. Onur Günlü
Technische Universität Berlin
Berlin offers diversity and an action-oriented life style. This is also visible in the research activities.
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Dr Aderajew Waka
Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin / Deutsches Rheuma Forschungszentrum Berlin (DRFZ)
Berlin is a very dynamic city as well as a university city. I am very thankful for being able to do research in Berlin because the scientific landscape offers students and researchers alike many opportunities.
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Joshua Fineberg
Boston University Center for New Music
The most special aspect of life in Berlin is the intensity and quality of human exchanges, both professional and personal.
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Andrew Newman
Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin
So much is happening, inside research and outside. It's so green and transport is fantastic. Berlin is both small and large. That's what I love about the city.
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Prof. Dr. Julia Leinweber
Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin
The density of the scientific locations in Berlin and also the networking within European networks brings a lively and dynamic element into research.
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Prof. Dr. Phil. Jürgen Radel
HTW Berlin
Berlin is a unique cultural and intellectual melting pot with global appeal and many top-class research institutions. In his view, the mix of the past, present, and future in Berlin is unlike that found in any other city.
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Franziska Sattler
Museum für Naturkunde Berlin
Berlin is international and open. The city has a wonderful network of many different institutions that offer great chances of cooperation. A lot of emphasis is also placed on scientific communication here.
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Christopher Hardt
Labor Berlin
In Berlin, you can find an excellent mix of small and medium-sized research companies, as well as large firms, scientific institutes, universities and clinics.
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Prof. Dr. Uwe Bettig
ASH Berlin
Berlin has the most exciting academic landscape in Germany; it is great to work here. All major players in the healthcare system are represented in Berlin.
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Dr Christine Kurmeyer
Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Berlin is at the flashpoint of German history. And the Charité is the history of Berlin in a nutshell.
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Prof Dr Tim Landgraf
Freie Universität Berlin
I have my most important scientific research partners in Berlin. Especially in interdisciplinary projects it is important to work closely together.
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Andrea Hasznos
Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung
The number of museums with permanent and temporary exhibitions, the lot of vernissages and finissages, the conferences and workshops, lectures, scholarly debates and the countless projects all make Berlin a fantastically vivid and productive scientific and scholarly environment.
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Dr. Rodrigo Pérez-García
Max-Planck-Institut für Kolloid- und Grenzflächenforschung
Berlin’s universities are of excellent quality and together with Potsdam they create a prosperous ground to develop ideas and grow. Berlin is the perfect city for both experienced and young professionals who will dominate the businesses of our transdisciplinary future.
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Prof. Dr. René Sadowski
ISM Berlin
The city is a hotspot for new talents and leadership personalities in established organisations, whose interfaces can turn creative potential into business ideas and can evolve with an eye on socio-political questions like no other place in Europe.
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Anna Raysyan
Bundesinstitut für Materialforschung und -prüfung (BAM)
Being a researcher in Berlin is amazing. Numerous great names in the history of science are closely associated with the city. I believe that Berlin is a city of opportunity.
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Susanne Plaumann
Berliner Hochschule für Technik
Berlin is diverse and, when we work together, almost everything seems possible to me. If I have an idea, I can quickly put it into action with others.
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Prof. Dr. Christine Bauhardt
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Berlin needs critical spirits to continue to remain the attractive and vibrant city it has been. The university is just one place among many that make this city exciting and interesting.
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Professor Dr Brigitte Biehl
SRH Berlin University of Applied Sciences
Creative impulses are very important for my research and that's exactly what we have here in Berlin: Berliners and international people doing cool things; cultural institutions with very current offerings; fashion, trends, clubs.
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Dr Petyo Budakov
XU Exponential University of Applied Sciences
Berlin challenges everyone to think about new topics. Or even to look at familiar topics in a new way. The German capital is a breeding ground for entrepreneurs who want to change the world.
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Dr. Jens Nachtwei
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
To have so many opportunities to collaborate in a single place is really very valuable. Conferences and congresses are constantly taking place in Berlin. The world and the experts come to us.
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Maria Anne Schmidt
HTW University of Applied Sciences Berlin
In Berlin you have the opportunity to meet new people, discover new research topics, enter into new partnerships, and expand your own horizons every day.
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Prof Dr Iman Attia
Alice Salomon Hochschule Berlin
The cooperation between different actors of knowledge production in research, civil rights movements, and activism is stimulating and enriching.
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Obiri-Yeboah Mensah
Technische Universität Berlin
The vibrant City of Berlin has a lot to offer the world in terms of high quality research programs and entrepreneurial activities.
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Dr Betiel Wasihun
Technische Universität Berlin
This is a great platform and I look forward to being part of it, as it is in the spirit of Berlin's increasingly international research site.
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Prof Dr Tamer Boyaci
ESMT European School of Management and Technology
Berlin in its totality is extraordinary. There is youth, a strong intellectual community and an enormous energy.
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Dr Sana Amairi Pyka
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
It's a big capital where you can find anything you could possibly look for. Come to Berlin!
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Dr Pablo-David Rojas
Hacking Health Berlin
Doctors, patients, designers, programmers and entrepreneurs: join us on this exciting journey to shape the future of healthcare – from Berlin to the World!
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Prof Dr Birgit Felden
Hochschule für Wirtschaft und Recht Berlin
Berlin’s dynamic environment provides me with everything I need to work successfully: committed students and companies that are eager to cooperate.
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Dr Alexandra Fedorets
DIW Berlin
Berlin, stay open, tolerant and interesting for creative people from all over the world - because science is made by them!
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Prof. Dr. Christine Bauhardt
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Berlin needs critical spirits to continue to remain the attractive and vibrant city it has been.
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