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Focusing Expertise - Shaping the Future
In the Jülich Aachen Research Alliance (JARA), RWTH Aachen University and Forschungszentrum Jülich pool their outstanding expertise in different research areas.These common efforts open up new research opportunities and facilitate projects that would not be attainable for either of the partners on their own. Furthermore, their attention is always focused on the grand challenges facing society.

Researchers led by Prof. Richard Dronskowski (JARA-FIT & JARA-CSD) have, for the first time, revealed which chemical reactions take place within flash memory.
Their findings provide new insights into the fundamental chemistry behind digital data storage.

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In the latest episode of RWTH Aachen’s “Big Questions” series, JARA-ENERGY member Prof. Dirk Uwe Sauer talks about the transformation towards a climate-neutral energy system – and explains why the energy transition is no longer a technical issue, but a matter of decisive action.

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The graduate research group MOSAIC has been launched. The project focuses on the sense of hearing and explores acoustic wellbeing: how sounds influence our perception, emotions and health. Researchers from JARA-BRAIN and JARA-ENERGY are involved.

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How the brain learns and stores memories still poses many mysteries for science. Researchers at the JARA Institute Brain Structure–Function Relationships (INM-10) at Forschungszentrum Jülich have now taken a closer look at these processes by studying a rare brain disorder.

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