Today, on #CleanEnergyDay we want to remind everyone that the #energy transition is one of the greatest challenges of our time! At FHI, we work on solutions together with kindred spirits worldwide. Let's do research for our planet! #InternationalDayOfCleanEnergy

👏 Congratulations to our friend and collaborator Jennifer from @tum.de ! Wa are happy to have you on board as @maxplanck.de Fellow at the @fhi-mpg.bsky.social. Looking forward to be doing great science with you within the @e-conversion.bsky.social cluster! 👏

"Together, we can better understand the properties of #energy materials." In the interview, Prof. Jennifer Rupp from @tum.de explains what she wants to achieve as a Max Planck Fellow at the #FHI. www.fhi.mpg.de/2195216/Inte... #batteries @e-conversion.bsky.social

👏Congratulations Dr. Elias Diesen who has been appointed Junior Group Leader in the @thdept-fhi-mpg.bsky.social. His group, Magnetism in Electrocatalysis, will study magnetic effects in key reactions for sustainable energy. #Electrocatalysis #Magnetism #SustainableEnergy #FHI #MaxPlanckSociety

Watching catalysts “at work” during oxidation of isopropanol to acetone: Researchers from our Inorganic Chemistry Department reveal how structural reorganization processes on the surface of a cobalt oxide catalyst influence its catalytic performance. #catalysis www.fhi.mpg.de/2192824/2026...

🚀 Congratulations to Prof. Dr. Laurenz Rettig on his new position as a Professor of Experimental Physics at @rptu.bsky.social! We thank Laurenz for his valuable contributions as a group leader at our institute and wish him all the best for his future 💚 www.fhi.mpg.de/2187762/2026...

🔬 Controlling Light at the Nanoscale ⚡ New results from an international collaboration with Paul Drude Institute and University of Iowa reveal a novel way to steer light at extremely small scales — opening the door to more compact and efficient nanophotonic and optoelectronic devices.

🎉 Dr. Patricia Poths has received a prestigious Liebig Fellowship (FCI) and will found an independent junior research group in the @thdept-fhi-mpg.bsky.social , focusing on realistic modeling of catalyst dynamics. #Research #Catalysis #ScienceLeadership #MaxPlanck www.fhi.mpg.de/2186619/2026...

Happy new year! We start 2026 with new insights into fuel cell catalysts 🧪 FHI researchers studied the oxygen reduction reaction, a key process in fuel cells that limits their efficiency. Their findings challenge the widely held understanding of catalyst function. www.fhi.mpg.de/2183862/2026...

The year 2025 is coming to a close. We would like to take this moment to thank all the members of our institute and all our friends and partners for the excellent collaboration this year! We're already looking forward to 2026.🎉 We wish you all wonderful holidays and a great start to the New Year!✨

🔬 2025 is the International Year of Quantum Science & Technology! 100 years ago, quantum mechanics was essentially born. Within the framework of #Quantum2025, the @dpgphysik.bsky.social selected research institutions as “quantum sites” - FHI was also chosen! ➡️ www.quantum2025.de/en/quantenorte

🫶 A warm welcome to Dr. Chenyue Qiu at the Fritz Haber Institute! From December, she'll conduct research in the electron microscopy group in the Inferface Science Department. We wish her all the best! Many thanks to the @humboldt-foundation.de for supporting her stay! www.fhi.mpg.de/2179801/2025...

Highlights from yesterday’s #IPAM graduation—what a crowd! Reuter alumni and current members spanning generations: from the earliest @fhi-mpg.bsky.social days (Mira), through the @tum.de era (Stefan, Craig), to today’s crew (Lang, Barbara). Love seeing the legacy live on! #IPAM #FHI #Alumni

Within the Horizon 2021 project #UVQuanT, colleagues at the University of Bonn have broken a laser cooling record by loading atomic zinc into a magneto-optical trap. They used light at a wavelength of 214 nm - thus pushing the limit for laser cooling of atoms deeper into the UV part of the spectrum.

We had a wonderful Award Ceremony on Wednesday, celebrating this year's Gerhard Ertl Lecture with Prof. Hector Abruña who gave an inspiring talk on energy conversion and storage. 🏆💚 Thanks for joining us! www.fhi.mpg.de/2177847/2025... #chemistry #catalysis #physics #energy #sustainability

New Advanced Materials study: AI assumes perfect crystals — and might get materials wrong. With @unibayreuth.bsky.social, @thdept-fhi-mpg.bsky.social & @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social we built a tool detecting real disorder. Result: >80% of “promising” materials may fail to behave as predicted.

🎥 Join us live on Youtube for the Ertl Lecture 2025 on December 10 at 4 pm. This year's awardee, Professor Dr Hector Abruna (Cornell University), will give a lecture on "Energy Conversion and Storage: Novel Materials and Operando Methods". www.youtube.com/@fritz-haber...

🔬 New microscope can image the invisible! One-atom thick layers of hexagonal boron nitride, an important 2D-material, that is optically transparent can be imaged using the toolbox of nonlinear optics... Read more: www.fhi.mpg.de/2174926/2025... #physics #chemistry #sciencenews

We cordially invite you to the 18th Gerhard Ertl Lecture! This year’s awardee Prof. Dr. Héctor D. Abruña will give a talk about "Energy Conversion and Storage: Novel Materials and Operando Methods" 🗓️ December 10, 2025 🕓 4:00 PM 📍 Harnack House, Ihnestr. 16-20, Berlin www.fhi.mpg.de/2094589/2025...

👏 Congratulations to all innovators! We're so pleased about the success of Spree Monitoring GmbH, whose co-founder Daniel Fontoura Barroso works at the Molecular Physics Department of FHI. The start-up uses ultrasound to monitor the safety of reinforced concrete structures, such as bridges.

It is time to look back on an exciting November, when the Fritz Haber Institute was visited by its Scientific Advisory Board. We express our heartfelt thanks to everyone involved who made this visit such an insipring and enriching experience! 💚 Read more: www.fhi.mpg.de/2172250/2025...

💡 New insights into the function of gold catalysts! A research team from #HZB and #FHI has uncovered how carbonate molecules organize water layers on the surface of gold, thus directly influencing their CO2 conversion capability during #electrocatalysis. 🌐 Read more: www.fhi.mpg.de/2169513/2025...

Proud to support Berlin PostDoc Day 2025 within @berlinscienceweek.bsky.social! Highlights? 10 FHI participants, engaging workshops on storytelling, networking and more, plus vibrant discussions and excellent networking opportunities! #FHI #PostDocDay #BerlinScienceWeek

👏 We're pleased and proud to announce that four researchers from the FHI belong to the world's most cited according to the analysis by Clarivate: Prof. Dr. Beatriz Roldan Cuenya & Dr. Janis Timoshenko & Dr. Arno Bergmann & Prof. Robert Schlögl. Congratulations to all! www.fhi.mpg.de/2167843/2025...

🚀 FHI Alumna Antonia Herzog was appointed a professor at DTU in her early thirties - an impressive career. She describes how she achieved this career step and encourages young female researchers to keep going. Read more: www.fhi.mpg.de/2161432/2025... #WomenInSTEM #ScienceNeedsWomen #StayCurious

🎉We're happy and proud that the director of our Theory Department, Prof. Karsten Reuter, is part of a team that secured one ERC Synergy Grant: #MAGNESIS: Magnetically Enhanced Electrocatalysis. Read more about the planned research project: www.fhi.mpg.de/2157238/2025...

Congratulations! In the current call of the European Research Council, Max Planck researchers have secured five Synergy Grants. Together with the University of Cambridge, we are among the top three most successful #research institutions in #Europe ! 🙌 www.mpg.de/25684336/erc... @erc.europa.eu

News from #UVQuant: New molecular MOT! A team at the FHI has succeeded in loading the first magneto-optical trap (MOT) of a spin-singlet molecule, diatomic AlF. This is the first time a chemically stable molecule has been laser-cooled and trapped. Read more in Phys Rev Lett: doi.org/10.1103/ksnd...

🔬 For eight years they've worked hard in the lab to realize their dream: A research team from FHI's Molecular Physics Department finally succeded in laser cooling and trapping a chemically stable molecule - breaking new ground in ultracold physics. ➡️ Read more: www.fhi.mpg.de/2160489/2025...

Everyone at our institute is excited in these days: Nov 11-14, our Scientific Advisory Board (SAB) will come to evaluate the work done at the FHI. 🫶 This event is very important for all institute members. We wish each other all the best for the presentations, poster sessions & discussion rounds!

🚀 ¡Nueva subvención #ERCSyG para IMDEA Nanociencia! #MAGNESIS explorará el campo emergente de la magnetoelectrocatalisis ⚡🧲 nanociencia.imdea.org/es/imdea-nan... 🇪🇸 Galán-Mascarós @ICIQ.org 🇩🇪 K. Reuter @fhi-mpg.bsky.social 🇩🇰 J.V. Lauritsen @au.dk 🇪🇸 D. Écija @imdeanano.bsky.social

🌍⚡ Can magnets help us build a cleaner energy future? @erc.europa.eu Synergy Grant Funds MAGNESIS to Unlock Magnetically Enhanced Catalysis! 🧲 Press Release: www.fhi.mpg.de/2157238/2025... ERC Synergy Grant Results: erc.europa.eu/news-events/...

🧟🎃 Last Thursday, it got spooky at the institute: PhD students met for the #Halloween Fritz Forum. Christian Feregrino from @molgen.mpg.de gave a lecture on "Flying with hands – The evolution of bat wings" 🦇 The Fritz Forum is a series of colloquia at the #FHI organised by a group of PhD students.

As part of the Horizon 2021 project #UVQuanT, the team of Dr. Stefan Truppe at Imperial College London has demonstrated high-power (500 mW), continuous laser light at 231.7 nm. These new systems will be used for cooling and trapping AlF molecules, a new candidate for ultracold molecular experiments.

SusMax—the first #MaxPlanck research network dedicated to #sustainable #materials and founded through an interdisciplinary collaboration of six MPIs—is inviting new partners from across the Max Planck Society @maxplanck.de Call for Proposals: 23 Oct–5 Dec 2025 tinyurl.com/36t22wju

💫 Excitement is in the air and we can already smell the good science brewing! Everything is set for today’s theory poster session at the @fhi-mpg.bsky.social. Looking forward to inspiring science and great discussions! 💫 In the meantime, here’s a glimpse of last year’s highlights!

Congratulations to Dr. Baran Eren on being awarded an Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellowship!! And welcome at the Fritz Haber Institute. We wish Baran all the best for his stay and the planned experiments! 💚 @humboldt-foundation.de @weizmanninstitute.bsky.social www.fhi.mpg.de/2142366/2025...

This year's Nobel Prize impressively demonstrates how multifaceted chemistry can be. Small, inconspicuous materials enable a variety of fantastic materials and reactions with marvelous applications. We congratulate Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson & Omar Yaghi warmly! www.fhi.mpg.de/2141744/2025...

With this workshop, #FHI and @mpib-berlin.bsky.social put the important topic of menstruation at work on the institute's agenda for the first time - with the aim to raise awareness and to provide valuable suggestions for improving working life of menstruating persons. www.fhi.mpg.de/2141334/2025...

A warm welcome to Prof. Tanja Cuk at the institute 💚 The renowned spectroscopist is visiting the departments of Prof. Beatriz Roldan Cuenya and Prof. Martin Wolf as a Bessel Awardee. 🧪 She has planned a number of exciting experiments at the FHI. Read more: www.fhi.mpg.de/2139330/2025...

Beatriz Roldan Cuenya, our Managing Director and Director of the Interface Science Department, was ceremonially inducted into the ranks of #ISE Fellows. We congratulate her warmly on this well-deserved award and express our appreciation for her outstanding research! www.fhi.mpg.de/2133980/2025...

Our sporty team "Fritz" participated in the company run B2Run Berlin on September 18. The team tackled the 5.7 km course in and around the Olympic Stadium with athletic ambition and great team spirit. We're proud of everyone and looking forward to the next team event! www.fhi.mpg.de/2132318/2025...

🔬 New insights into ammonia synthesis: Researchers at our Inorganic Chemistry department, the #MPICEC and #Clariant evidence the critical role of catalysts promoters in enhancing the performance and stability of ammonia production. www.fhi.mpg.de/2129835/2025... Paper www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🔬 Researchers at our Physical Chemistry Dep & Vanderbilt University have confined THz light to the nanoscale using hafnium dichalcogenides. This could enhance opto-electronic devices, making technology faster and more compact. 🌟📉 www.fhi.mpg.de/2127607/2025... Paper www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🔬 Researchers at our Interface Science Department have explored catalyst activity for green hydrogen production. Their study in highlights the role of interfacial solvent changes, paving the way for efficient energy solutions. 🌿🔋 www.fhi.mpg.de/2124268/2025... Paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🔬 Researchers at our Interface Science Department have enhanced CO2 conversion into fuels using pulsed electric potential on copper. Published in Nature Catalysis, this method supports renewable energy progress. 🌍🔋 www.fhi.mpg.de/2116642/2025... Paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Thrilled to announce that three of our scientists attended the 74th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting! They joined 33 Nobel Laureates and 600+ young scientists, returning with fresh ideas and collaborations. 🌟🔬 #LindauMeeting #Science #Innovation www.fhi.mpg.de/2104221/2025...

🌍 Excited to share that our @thdept-fhi-mpg.bsky.social researchers Christoph Dähn & Dr. Christian Carbogno joined ASESMA 2025 in Ghana! 🇬🇭 They led sessions on vibrational dynamics in solids, empowering future scientists with hands-on skills. 🤝✨ www.fhi.mpg.de/2103102/2025...

🔬 Honoring Science Excellence! 🔬 Prof. Dr. Héctor D. Abruña from ‪@cornelluniversity.bsky.social has been named the 2025 Ertl Lecture Awardee by the Fritz Haber Institute! 🏆 Join us on Dec 10, 2025, for his lecture on electrochemical science. 🌟 www.fhi.mpg.de/2094589/2025...

🌟 Get ready for the Long Night of Sciences at the Fritz Haber Institute on June 28th! This time, embark on a journey into the nanoworld with our latest video. Our colleague Wiebke will introduce you to her impressive microscopes and invite you to engage with these exciting experiments. 🧬✨