From labs to the stage, people from different departments and countries. Music brings us together. BandGap, our institute music group, @mpifkf.bsky.social end-of-year party✨

We aim for high-level research, so we decided to put ourselves at the highest altitude in Germany - the Zugspitze! 🏔️❄️☃️ This year's group retreat was fully surrounded by snow, but the confinement effect in the mountain successfully induced our red-hot, strong bonds once again 🤝🤝

Congratulations to Omar Yaghi, Susumu Kitagawa, and Richard Robson on receiving the 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their pioneering work on metal–organic frameworks (MOFs). Their discoveries continue to inspire scientists worldwide. I’m grateful to contribute to this fascinating area of research.

My tutorial review on single crystal diffraction analysis is now online @crystengcomm.rsc.org! Students, supervisors, and reviewers: Please consider this thought-provoking read to discover many facets of the crystallographic practice that are often overlooked or misunderstood 💎 #crystallography

Grateful to the Royal Society of Chemistry Switzerland for inviting me to visit CERN, a place where science and technology push their limits. A powerful reminder of Carl Sagan’s words: “Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.” #CERN #Science #Technology

Come join our team! We have a PhD position available on noncovalent interactions in COFs. The position is part of the BEAM graduate school. (Details in the alt text)

Wrapped up 24 intense hours at BESSY II, lots of data, and a truly valuable experience. Huge thanks to @stecanossa.bsky.social and @shuntokuda.bsky.social for the help, and to @simonkrause.bsky.social for all his support. Looking forward to data analysis 😊

Look at our first group photo in 2025! We celebrated Bettina's Leibniz award together and enjoyed the beautiful weather of early summer with BBQ ☀️🌲 Here’s to more breakthroughs, sunshine, and sizzling science this year!

Attended the Japanese–German Symposium on Frontiers in Future Materials Design at the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research. Inspiring talks and ideas. Big thanks to the organizing team for a great event! #mpi #futurematerials

Had a great time at the International Max Planck Research School for Condensed Matter Science (IMPRS-CMS) Retreat with colleagues from different research areas at MPI-FKF. Glad to share a brief intro on MOFs. Thanks to the organizers! #MOFs #imprs #mpı

Glad to attend MOF School 2025 online this year. It was a week full of insightful lectures. The photo is from my first MOF School in Lake Como, a truly memorable experience and a turning point in my MOF journey. Many thanks to the organizers for both inspiring events! #MOFschool2025 #MOFs

🏃‍♂️🌍 The FKF-Nanorunners crushed it at the Stuttgart Run 2025! Over 12 nationalities, one team spirit — members of the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research proudly crossed the finish line together (10 km run / 5 km Nordic walking). Science, sweat & solidarity! 💪🔥 #TeamFKFNanorunner

In an open letter of support to the President of @harvard.edu, Max Planck President Patrick Cramer @patrick-cramer.maxplanck.de has expressed his full support of the University in its stance against demands by the Trump administration to change its policies in order to retain federal funding.

We recently attended the Rietveld and Pair Distribution Function (PDF) Analysis Workshop in Stuttgart. This one week school gathered PhD students and postdocs from around the world for both theoretical lectures and hands-on sessions in crystal structure analysis, with a focus on TOPAS software.

I would like to thank the Royal Society of Chemistry Switzerland for the kind invitation. It was a pleasure to meet researchers and professionals doing great work in their fields.

Back from great two days at @mpifkf.bsky.social celebrating the new position in @uniulm.bsky.social and a bit of fare well. So honoured to work with these guys and a big thanks to the whole @lotschgroup.bsky.social ! #baileyssontherocks

Last week, I had the amazing opportunity to give a lecture at the 36. Deutsche Zeolith-Tagung in Erlangen and present our progress on the topic of "Light-driven molecular motors in permanently porous Metal-Organic Frameworks".

Happy International Women’s Day! We asked some of our researchers about their experiences as women in STEM. You can read some of their responses in this thread, whole read a whole article on our website: www.fkf.mpg.de/8658191/2025

Thrilled that @esengulciftci.bsky.social made the cover of MAX magazine by @maxplanck.de with her MAXMIND project, for which we hosted Fatma in our group in late 2024. bc.pressmatrix.com/en/profiles/...

The first issue of the new year in the Max Planck Society’s magazine has highlighted our MaxMinds project on the cover with my mentee, Fatma Alma. Grateful to @maxplanckpress @mpifkf, Simon Krause, Michael Eppard, E. Yıldız, Z. Caglar, and the all team for their support!