@thdept-fhi-mpg.bsky.social & CAMMS Center launch joint symposium to boost collaboration in computational materials science. Supported by the @maxplanck.de Israel Programme, the exchange focuses on energy materials, catalysis, and joint research between Israeli & German scientists. Press Release 👇

Nice collaboration of FHI's PC department and HZDR yielding new insights into the foundation of magnetism. “I find it extraordinarily elegant how the laws of physics are directly dictated by the symmetries of nature,” says Olga Minakova, PhD student at FHI and central experimentalist of the study.

Thanks to the @humboldt-foundation.de, four excellent young researchers can do research at #FHI! We warmly congratulate Alexander Gorfer, Young Jae Kim, Roey Ben David and Sejun An on their Humboldt Research Fellowship for Postdocs! Looking forward to their projects 🔬 www.fhi.mpg.de/2234345/2026...

As a member of the jury, Prof. Dr. Beatriz Roldan Cuenya, Director of our Interface Science Department, presented this year’s Culture Award of the Eduard-Rhein-Stiftung to the Swiss psychiatrist, explorer and environmental pioneer Prof. Dr. Bertrand Piccard. www.fhi.mpg.de/2234124/2026...

💚 Institute life: Some impression of this year's retreat of the Interface Science and Inorganic Chemistry Departments at Ringberg castle in Bavaria. The retreat gave ample opportunities for academic exchange, networking, and fostering team spirit - for example, during the group hike up Wallberg...

Das #LNDW Programm ist da! Am #FHI erwarten euch spannende Vorträge, exklusive Labortouren & Mitmachexperimente. 🆕Ausstellung über unseren ehemaligen Direktor Ernst Ruska, der 1986 den Nobelpreis für die Entwicklung des Elektronenmikroskops erhalten hat. www.langenachtderwissenschaften.de/programm

New insights into the structure of the water interface to air: Researchers from our Physical Chemsitry Department and @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social reveal the importance of a parameter neglected until now - challenging our previous understanding of interfacial water. www.fhi.mpg.de/2233065/2026...

Yesterday was #GirlsDay and FHI was part of it 💚 👩‍🔬 32 girls aged 10 to 15 visited the Fritz Haber Institute and gained insights into the diverse work carried out in the research groups and workshops through hands-on experiments and craft projects. www.fhi.mpg.de/2230944/2026...

Yesterday was #GirlsDay and FHI was part of it 💚 👩‍🔬 32 girls aged 10 to 15 visited the Fritz Haber Institute and gained insights into the diverse work carried out in the research groups and workshops through hands-on experiments and craft projects. www.fhi.mpg.de/2230944/2026...

I had the fun opportunity to write a #News&Views for @natchem.nature.com, published today: "Interfacial water controls oxygen evolution beyond the catalyst" highlighting recent work by Oener, Roldan Cuenya et al. from @fhi-mpg.bsky.social If you are interested, give it a read here: rdcu.be/feOjg

☀️ On Tuesday, we welcomed spring at our institute under beautiful weather. The Theory Department led by our Managing Director, Karsten Reuter, hosted this year’s #FHI Spring Reception. Here are some impressions 💚🌷🌼🥀

🔬 Researchers from FHI & #MPI-CEC shed light on the function of the Cu/ZnO/Al2O3 catalyst system, the industrial standard catalyst for methanol production. They find that its dynamic chemical and morphological changes during operation are key to its performance. 🔗 www.fhi.mpg.de/2230079/The-...

Impressive visit at EMAP @kit.edu! 🛠️ @lotschgroup.bsky.social, @map91.bsky.social & @fhi-mpg.bsky.social enjoyed exchanging on lab automation with Prof. Colsmann’s group. Inspiring infra built from scratch! Helpful for our AMDL & SolBat projects. 👏 #SolBatCenter #AMDL #KIT #automation

🏆 This Tuesday, Prof. Dr. Beatriz Roldan Cuenya, Director of the Interface Science Department at the FHI, received the prestigious “Premio Investigación” of the Sociedad Geográfica Española in Madrid. We very warmly congratulate her on this amazing honor! 👏 Read more: www.fhi.mpg.de/2217097/2026...

⌛ Der Countdown läuft: Nur noch eine Woche bis zum #Girls'Day - Mädchen-Zukunftstag! Wir freuen uns schon auf den 23. April, wenn wir wieder rund 30 Mädchen die Arbeit an unserem Institut vorstellen können. Die Vorbereitungen laufen auf Hochtouren! 👩‍🔧 👩‍🔬 👩‍💻 👩‍🎓

👏Congrats to Maurits, Christoph, colleagues from @tuwien.at and ISC dept at the @fhi-mpg.bsky.social, whose paper "Multiscale Microscopy via Automation: Dual Magnification Environmental Scanning Electron Microscopy Imaging by Frame Alternation" is now out on Adv. Mater. Technol.! Link and digest 👇

💡Today is #WorldQuantumDay! And we have a story to tell you about that! Between 1928 and 1933, key quantum-mechanical advances occurred at #FHI, including the confirmation of ortho- and para-hydrogen and the experimental measurement of stimulated emission. Read more: www.fhi.mpg.de/2181217/2025...

👏 Congrats to Melanie Müller on her professorship for experimental condensed matter physics at @unibonn.bsky.social! Until now, she has been leading the “Ultrafast Scanning Probe Microscopy” group in our Physical Chemistry Department. We wish her all the best! www.fhi.mpg.de/2220902/2026...

Dr. Haobo Li has been appointed Head of a Max Planck Partner Group at NTU Singapore. Her team will advance catalysis & sustainable energy using #AI, in collaboration with the Theory Department led by Prof. Karsten Reuter at the Fritz Haber Institute. Read more: www.fhi.mpg.de/2219627/2026...

Du suchst eine spannende Herausforderung nach deinem Schulabschluss im Bereich Naturwissenschaften, Technik & Wissenschaftskommunikation? Dann ist ein #FJN bei uns genau das richtige für dich! Das #FHI bietet regelmäßig zum 1. September FJN-Plätze an. ➡️ Bewirb dich jetzt: www.fhi.mpg.de/2201867/FJN

🌍Reaching climate neutrality by 2050 means transforming how we produce chemicals, materials & fuels. Catalysts are the invisible enablers behind most industrial processes. 💡That’s where ASCEND comes in! €30M from BMBF to accelerate next-gen catalysts for greener production.🌱 #ASCEND

The Catalysis App: A repository for standardized experimental catalysis data implemented within the #NOMAD platform. Developed by researchers of our Inorganic Chemistry Department with partners at @fairmat.bsky.social to support exchange of data & AI-driven analytics. www.fhi.mpg.de/2216086/2026...

We're delighted to see that the spring block course of the IMPRS-EPPC graduate school at the FHI is going well! The hands-on course on the "Fundamentals of Machine Learning" takes the participants through the basics of python programming as well as methods of machine learning and automation. #PhD

🚀 Can #AI not only accelerate discovery, but also explain it? A new study with @basfde.bsky.social & BasCat-UniCat BASF JointLab, @tuberlin.bsky.social shows we don’t have to choose: AI can deliver both speed and insight. PR: www.fhi.mpg.de/2217409/2026... Paper: pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

We're in the middle of our preparations for this year's Girls' Day. On April 23, it’s time for hands-on science again! 🧪🔬👩‍🔬 If you're wondering what you can experience in just one day at our institute, check out the photos! And stay tuned: This year, we have some new hands-on experiences for you.

👏We congratulate our director Prof. Dr. Beatriz Roldan Cuenya on the 2025 Research Award of the Sociedad Geográfica Española! The award honors her research on catalysts for renewable energy-based applications, thus contributing to reducing dependence on fossil fuels. www.fhi.mpg.de/2217097/2026...

The open-access book - co-edited by Bretislav Friedrich, emeritus research group leader in the Molecular Physics Department at FHI - features papers from the Berlin conference “Thirty Years of the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC): Histories, Achievements, Challenges” www.fhi.mpg.de/2216621/2026...

♻️ Today is Global #Recycling Day! As institute researching #sustainability topics, we'd like to draw attention to the increasingly urgent issue of recycling. Since 2019, the Sustainability Group at FHI is working to expand our contribution to a sustainable way of life and to raise awareness.

A great success for Berlin! We warmly congratulate the BUA on another funding period under the Excellence Strategy. Berlin is and will remain one of Germany’s most important research hubs. 🎉👏

🧡 As an initiative for International Women's Day, we provided a platform for women from our institute to share their perspectives. Our administrative director, Dr. Rima Dapous, concludes this series sharing her own motivation and encouraging women to be brave and find their own path. #WomensDay

Two days after International Women's Day, we still give a voice to women at our institute. Dr. Johanna Klyne is taking care of the science communication at FHI. Through communication and empowerment, she aims to break down some barriers women might encounter in STEM. #WomensDay #WomeninSTEM #scicom

💚 We celebrate International Women's Day, that’s why we give a voice to some women at our institute. Dr. Giulia Glorani, scientific coordinator in FHI’s Theory Department, also serves as one of the institute’s gender equality officers and explains her motivation. #WomensDay #WomeninSTEM #Diversity

Today is International Women's Day. We are taking this opportunity to give a voice to some of the women at our institute. Here's what Dr. Patricia Poths, who is leading a junior group in the Theory Department of our institute, would like to share with women today... #WomensDay #WomeninSTEM

The Max Planck #PostdocProgram offers top emerging talents a range of attractive measures and opportunities. The current call for applications is open from March 1st until April 13th, 2026. Please share or consider applying! 🙏 www.mpg.de/en/max-planc... #careerinscience #sciencecareer

Why is phosphoric acid so good at moving positive charges? With IR #spectroscopy, a team around researchers from our Molecular Physics Department shed light on the molecular structures behind Nature's proton highway. ➡️ www.fhi.mpg.de/2205631/2026-02-23_Understanding-Nature_s-Proton-Highway

Interesting work on the true 3D structure of a “flat” molecule. The research team's conclusion: the molecule is not truly flat, it is chiral also in its ground state. 😯 Researchers from our Molecular Physics Department collaborated in the experimental study. Read more 👇

We warmly congratulate Dr. Jiajie Hou from our Interface Science Department on receiving a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship! She'll investigate strategies for converting captured carbon dioxide into valuable chemicals using electrocatalysis.💚 www.fhi.mpg.de/2204544/2026...

👏 Congrats to Caroline Aschendorf, #PhD student in the Interface Science Department, on winning a poster award at the 2026 Electrochemistry Gordon Research Conference! She presented her work on "Separating electric field effects from electrochemical potential gradients at water-solid interfaces".

Today is International Day of Women and Girls in Science! Today we think of all the female scientists and young women and girls who aspire to become researchers - worldwide and at our institute. We need the participation of women across our society, including in science! #WomeninSTEM #WomeninScience

📣 Call for Speakers! Are you a woman or non-binary scientist ready to share your research with the public? Then, apply to be a speaker at Soapbox Science Berlin 🧪🌍🔭💻🦊🧠 📍 Holzmarkt | 🗓 June 28 ⏰ Applications close Feb 23 👉 Apply now! docs.google.com/document/d/1... #WomeninSTEM #scicomm #wisskomm

🚀 Dr. Dominik Stemer from our Molecular Physics Department starts his own research group within the Emmy Noether Program of @dfg.de. Congratulations to this great step! His new group is hosted by the @uni-muenster.de, but will do many of their experiments at #FHI. www.fhi.mpg.de/2199462/2026...

Giacomo Valtolina, former group leader in our Molecular Physics Department, becomes Visiting Professor at @humboldtuni.bsky.social! He will continue to study ultracold matter. We warmly congratulate him to this big career step and wish him all the best 🚀 #physics 🔗 www.fhi.mpg.de/2198647/2026...

👏 Congratulations to Dr. Florian Trinter from the Molecular Physics Department of our Institute on receiving this year's DESY Photon-Science User Award! He receives the award for his “innovative research of the interaction between X-rays and atoms in solution”. #DESY www.fhi.mpg.de/2198089/2026...

Viewpoint article in Nature Energy by Prof. Beatriz Roldan Cuenya, Director of our Interface Science Department, that highlights critical role of electrocatalysis in advancing sustainable energy systems by converting CO₂ into valuable carbon-based fuels and chemicals. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Today is #LegoDay 🥳 Did you know, that #lego is a wonderful tool to explain #science? You can assemble lego just like chemists build molecules. And you can even build an electron microscope out of lego 🔬 #physics #chemistry @maxplanck.de

Today is #LegoDay 🥳 Did you know, that #lego is a wonderful tool to explain #science? You can assemble lego just like chemists build molecules. And you can even build an electron microscope out of lego 🔬 #physics #chemistry @maxplanck.de

💥 Atoms and molecules can decay upon irradiation with light. But what actually happens directly before the atoms fall apart? And when exactly does the decay happen? That's what a research team from #FHI investigated: They took a movie of a fundamental decay process! www.fhi.mpg.de/2196052/2026...

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