We democratize AI and advance its capabilities for tackling frontier scientific questions while harnessing its power for solving the grand challenges facing research and society.

We are an application-driven artificial intelligence platform accelerating science across the Helmholtz Association. We enable the development and implementation of AI solutions while promoting collaboration …

The German Engineering Materials Science Centre (GEMS) is the central user platform of the Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon with a worldwide unique infrastructure for complementary research with photons at the Hereon outstation at DESY in Hamburg and neutrons at the Hereon outstation at the FRM II in Garching near Munich, especially in …

The 3.4 km long European XFEL generates extremely intense X-ray flashes used by researchers from all over the world. The flashes are produced in underground tunnels and allow scientists to map atomic details of viruses, film chemical reactions, and study processes in the interior of planets.

DESY is developing the ultimate X-ray microscope for nanoresearch with outstanding potential for industrial users and socially relevant applications in energy research, information technology, mobility, environment and medicine.

With PETRA III, DESY operates one of the best storage ring X-ray radiation sources in the world. Research groups from all over …

The Ernst Ruska-Centre (ER-C) for Microscopy and Spectroscopy with Electrons is a national user facility open to universities, research institutions and research laboratories in industry. The ER-C is run conjointly by Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH and RWTH Aachen University. The facility is located on the campus of Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, a …

Section 3.1 of the Helmholtz Zentrum Potsdam operates a fully equipped, large geometry SIMS instrument, which is supported by a comprehensive spectrum of peripheral instrumentation. The SIMS laboratory is an open user facility intended to support the needs of the global geochemical community. Scientists from Europe and beyond are invited …

Currently available detector systems

Medipix detectors:

• 256×256 pixels, 55 µm pixel pitch, active area 14×14 mm²
• Different readout chips: Medipix2 MXR, Timepix, Medipix3
• Sensor materials: Si, GaAs and CdTe
• Hexa modules (matrix of 2×3 chips, active area 42×28 mm²)
• Readout systems: FitPix (UTF Prague), X-KIT (IPE collaboration)

Other detectors:

• Dexela …

The Helmholtz Institute Freiberg for Resource Technology (HIF) pursues the objective of developing innovative technologies for the economy so that mineral and metalliferous raw materials can be made available and used more efficiently and recycled in an environmentally friendly manner.

The institute is a constituent part of the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf. …

The IPS Bio Lab is located next to the IMAGE beamline. It provides workspace and equipment to prepare and characterize biological samples for experiments at the IMAGE and TOPO-TOMO beamlines at IPS.

With its know-how and expertise in passive and active microwave remote sensing, the Microwaves and Radar Institute contributes to the development and advancement of ground-based, airborne and spaceborne sensors. The focus of its research work is on the conception and development of new synthetic aperture radar (SAR) techniques and systems, …

Diversity of microscopic biological particles plays a crucial role in important ecosystem services, e.g. water quality (phytoplankton), air quality and pollination (pollen). Many human-driven activities like climate change, eutrophication or invasive species are expected to massively change the composition of pollen abundance and phytoplankton communities. Monitoring of these tiny particles …

DESY operates one of the world's brightest storage-ring-based X-ray radiation sources: PETRA III offers scientists outstanding opportunities for experiments with X-rays of exceptionally high brilliance. This particularly benefits researchers investigating very small samples or requiring tightly collimated and very short-wavelength X-rays for their experiments – ranging from medical research to …