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

YouTube video by Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research

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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

June 24 - the MPI FKF hosted the second part of the “Frontiers of Solid State Theory” symposium. Where is research going? What is the future of solid state theory? Find that out here! www.fkf.mpg.de/8995376/2026... We thank all the amazing speakers for their participation!

Tomorrow June 27th! We will be at Karls-Gymnasium on Tübinger Str. 38, Stuttgart Süd, from 3:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. It's going to be a fantastic afternoon bringing science to the city! There's no better way to spend a warm Saturday afternoon than with free slushies and science 😉 See you there! 😎

Solid State Theory Symposium >>> New research frontiers ♾️ Kevin Jablonka from @uni-jena.de and Johannes Margraf from @unibayreuth.bsky.social think that machine learning will play a crucial role in our understanding of quantum materials! Thank you for the great talks! 😃😎

Where is solid state theory going? Mathias Scheurer, Titus Neupert, and Angelika Knothe chimed in on this issue. Name of the game is the engineering of quantum materials to access and control exotic states of matter! 🙀 @unistuttgart.bsky.social @ethz.ch @uniregensburg.bsky.social

Professor Bernhard Keimer kicks off the second part of the symposium on “Frontiers of Solid State Theory” Where is research headed? How can quantum materials affect our world? Stay tuned for more! 😎

How to describe nonreciprocal interactions using a Hamiltonian? Researchers @mpipks.bsky.social, @ub.edu, @icreacommunity.bsky.social have done so using a Hamiltonian embedding. Work now #published @natphys.nature.com: doi.org/10.1038/s41567-026-03317-0

June 10, 2026 Huge shout-out to Prof. Pablo Jarillo-Herrero for being awarded the 2026 Kavli Prize, together with Eva Y. Andrei and Allan H. MacDonald, for their fundamental contributions to the field of twistronics! Read full article www.fkf.mpg.de/8987562/2026... 📸 MIT © Alberto Di-Lolli

Sir Martin Wood Prize lecture >>>>> Congratulations to Prof. Takamasa Sakai of the University of Tokyo on being awarded the Sir Martin Wood Prize in recognition of his outstanding contributions to the field of Precision Gel Science and his work on TetraGels! #SirMartinWoodPrize #UniversityOfTokyo

Congratulations to the German team for competing scientifically and honorably over the past few days 😎😌 Shout-outs to Denise S. Christovam and Jürgen Durst for coaching the team! We look forward to the next edition of the tournament at Politecnico di Milano! 🎉 🇩🇪 🇮🇹 #Internationalphysicstournament

May 26th to May 30th>>>>>> The International Physics Tournament from at Oklahoma State University! 😎 The German team is prepared and ready for the physics fights 🥷 Having fun while competing is as important as the competition itself ! Best of luck to the LMUminosity team!

Honored to be awarded the Humboldt Research Fellowship! My heartfelt gratitude goes to @lotschgroup.bsky.social and @chem571.bsky.social for their continued support and encouragement Excited for this next chapter as an AvH fellow at @mpifkf.bsky.social www.unist.ac.kr/unist/center...

“UNIST서 막스플랑크로” 화학과 김지연 박사, 훔볼트 펠로우십 선정 | UNIST

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May 20th >>>> Health Day at MPI! The theme of the day is “Together for Greater Well-Being” Themed booths, from workplace ergonomics to mindset coaching🧘‍♀️🧘‍♂️, are waiting just for you 🫵

New publication in Nature Communications: “Orbital-resolved imaging of coherent femtosecond exciton dynamics in coupled molecules”🥳😄 Shout outs to Manish Garg and his group for the fantastic work! Want to know how dark and bright excitons come about? Then read here for more 😎 buff.ly/Wmyiwld

May 17th >>>> 21 people from Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research participated as the “FKF-Nanorunners” team in the 33rd Stuttgart Run 😎 Shout-out to all the athletes for their awesome performances! Run, FKF-Nanorunners, run! 🏃‍♀️🏃‍♂️

Throwback Friday April 24 >>> High school visit to our institute Our lab technician, Tolga Acartürk, showed the students our Time-of-Flight Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry techniques 🕊️🔬 This technique is used to identify the elemental and molecular composition in the top 1–2 nm of materials 😵🤏