New round of welcomes at the MPI FKF! 🥳 Three new apprentices just started their training in the Mechanical Workshop 🔧 🚀 Our Building Services team is also welcoming a new apprentice who will train in the field of heating and climate technology. 🥶😄🥵 We wish them a successful start!

Congratulations to Benedikt Ringler on being awarded the 2026 Max Planck Society Apprentice Award! 🥳 Benedikt is an industrial mechanic specializing in precision engineering 🚀 🔧 We wish Benedikt all the best in his future career! @maxplanck.de

Interested in pursuing a PhD in condensed matter science? 🔬 The IMPRS-CMS is currently looking for new PhD applicants! 📅 Application deadline: 30 September 🚀 Don’t miss this opportunity! Application info & FAQ page: lnkd.in/d3ZKx9kn Application page: lnkd.in/eJ2YM5Pu

From September 7 to 11, the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research hosted the 5th edition of the Science Summer Camp! 🔬🧪 It was a week full of experiments and discoveries: understanding superconducting trains, creating slimy substances, and observing elementary particles 🚀🧫⚛️

Sven Baudermann, fresh from his Abitur, just completed his internship working on thin layer deposition with Benjamin Stuhlhofer and Gideok Kim 😎 Best of luck to Sven in his future studies and career 🎉🍀

Our science summer camp continues with glass blowing workshops and a lab to build a cloud chamber from scratch 😃

Congratulations to Dr. Anna Rosławska for cleaning up at the awards table! 🥳🏆🏆🏆 Anna has won three major prizes: the Karls Freundberg Prize, the Gaede Prize 2026, and the Nernst-Haber-Bodenstein Prize. 🏅🔬 Full article:https://www.fkf.mpg.de/9015254/2026_08_Roslawska

Already a Remarkable Year: Three Prizes and a Lise Meitner Group for Dr. Anna Rosławska

It has been an extraordinary run of recognition for Dr. Anna Rosławska, head of the Emmy Noether Research Group "Atomic Scale Optics" at our institute. Within the space of a few months, she has been…

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Our Science Summer Camp starts today 😃 Science is child’s play after all 😎

POV of a Coffee break with a researcher at MPI FKF! ☕️ Researchers at MPI FKF take their coffee breaks very seriously 😎☕️ Join us for our monthly Kaffee und Kuchen appointment, our web series where you can enjoy a coffee break with our researchers! YouTube Link: youtu.be/3ObAc6zc00Y

Call for the Elisabeth Bauser Postdoctoral Fellowship for an early-career woman researcher! 👩‍🔬 How does it work? 🤔 The fellowship offers up to two years of full funding for an early-career woman researcher! More info here: www.fkf.mpg.de/elisabeth-ba...

Elisabeth Bauser Fellowship

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Jonas Stipp, Technical Project Manager for HVAC, visited the MPI FKF to get a glimpse into the daily activities of our researchers. Communication between engineers and researchers is key to designing and building excellent research facilities! Full Interview: youtu.be/GbbAzJCAh0w

Forschungsgebäude und Gebäudetechnik: Jonas Stipps Besuch im MPI FKF

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A new contribution in Nature Reviews Clean Technology hydrogen-based materials for energy storage and conversion just dropped😱🍀 Michael Hirscher from MPI FKF is the corresponding author 😎 Link to the review: lnkd.in/eDJSvU2H Link to the full article: lnkd.in/eG5spA-S @iea.org #Hydrogen

Congratulations to Dr. Vesna Srot on receiving the Microanalysis Society Birks Award at Microscopy & Microanalysis 2026! 🏆🦷 If the smiles of the future will be more radiant than ever, it will also be thanks to Vesna Srot’s research! 🍏 Find the full article here! www.fkf.mpg.de/9013345/2026...

Congratulations to Dr. Laura Guasco for being the #PhysikerinDerWoche! To find out more about her research, don't miss the articles on our web page: www.fkf.mpg.de/7744491/2022... www.fkf.mpg.de/8983933/2026... and phys.org/news/2026-07... on @sciencex.bsky.social

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👩🔬Unsere Physikerin der Woche ist Dr. Laura Guasco! Laura ist am Forschungsreaktor FRM II (@tum.de) tätig, wo sie ihre Forschung auf dem Gebiet der experimentellen Festkörperphysik unter Nutzung großtechnischer Anlagen betreibt. Mehr zu Laura: www.dpg-physik.de/vereinigunge...

Shout-outs to @vixklen.bsky.social and Claudia Leticia Gomez Flores for their recent publication on the Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling on "Automating Model Building for SPM Images of Biomolecules Using MISO" 😵🥳 Check out the full publication: lnkd.in/er_qfWbf

Yearly bike invasion at MPI 🤯🙀 Kids from the Radsportverein in Vaihingen came over for are restorative lunch at MPI after a morning of biking in the surroundings 😃🚴🚴‍♀️

July 25>>> Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research (MPI FKF) and Intelligent Systems (MPI IS) took part in the Christopher Street Day (CSD) parade in Stuttgart. Everybody needs science. Science needs everybody ✌️ 🫰 Full article here: www.fkf.mpg.de/9008837/2026...

Check out our YouTube video with the impressions of the participants of the M2S conference! youtu.be/d4XZvlnlal8 @kit.edu

Materials and Mechanisms of Superconductivity 2026 - Participants impressions

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M2S conference came to an end 😪 We thank all the participants for creating such a thrilling and vibrant environment 😎 🫰 Shout-outs to our managing director Bernhard Keimer and to Matthieu Le Tacon from @kit.edu for making this event possible! Full article: www.fkf.mpg.de/9008619/2026...

M2S 2026: Stuttgart ist Gastgeber der weltweit führenden Konferenz zum Thema Supraleitung

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The cascade of prizes at M2S continues with the Kammerlingh Onnes prize 🏆 Out deepest congratulations to Prof. Richard L. Greene from University of Maryland and Prof. Yasutomo Uemura from Columbia University! @univofmaryland.bsky.social @columbiauniversity.bsky.social

M2S continues 😎 Shout-outs to Dung-Hai Lee, Andrew J. Mills, and Michael R. Norman on being awarded the John Bardeen prize! @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social @columbiauniversity.bsky.social @flatironinstitute.org

Kick-off of the M2S Conference 😎 Materials and Mechanisms of Superconductivity - around 700 hundred people coming from all over the world to talk about the advancements and the future challenges in the field of superconductivity 🚅 🧲

We're already feeling nostalgic for the Stuttgart Science Festival 🥺 and can't wait for the next one. But until then, here's a gem from two weeks ago! Can we turn quantum physics into exercises? Of course 😎 After the exercise session, the participants were both dead and alive at the same time 😁

Workshop on “New Insights into Quantum Materials” 😎 Excellent talks and delicious cakes and coffee 🤤 Does it get better than this?

Laura Guasco's publication "Kinetic Regimes of Hydrogen Absorption in Thin Films" on Advanced Functional Materials is now also a contribution on Science X! (advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... ) How can we "Catch hydrogen in the Act"? Find out here! 😎 phys.org/news/2026-07...

A resonant neutron setup cut hydrogen-absorption tracking from two hours to a few seconds, revealing four linked stages in a thin film before the final hydrogen buildup. doi.org/hb9vk2

Catching hydrogen in the act: Tracking the absorption process over time

If you're looking for hydrogen on the elemental chart, it won't take you long to find it. It is right there at the beginning, the lightest possible material.

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Bibhuti Bhusan Rath and Kristina Gjorgjevikj were selected to attend this year’s 75th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting! Full Article here! www.fkf.mpg.de/9000617/2026... @bbrath.bsky.social @krisgjorgjevikj.bsky.social @lotschgroup.bsky.social

Shout-outs to Prof. Dr. Bettina V. Lotsch, director of the Nanochemistry department, on being elected as a member of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina! 🥳🥳🥳 Link to the full article: www.fkf.mpg.de/8992608/2026... @leopoldina.org @lotschgroup.bsky.social #Leopoldina

Tomorrow, 2 July >>>> Come and watch the premiere of "Die Forschenden" at Rotebühlplatz! The screening will be followed by a discussion with the film's director, Nahom Mihretu, and Prof. Bernhard Keimer from MPI FKF 😎 More info here: vhs-stuttgart.de/programm/kur...

June 27 >> Stuttgart Science Festival - "Quantum at Karls" We were at the Karls-Gymnasium for a afternoon of science workshops and mini MAXI Science Talks to bring our research in the city 😎 Here to the full article:https://www.fkf.mpg.de/8996314/2026_Science_Festival_Quantum_at_Karls?c=8608137