Due to Corona, the JARA Center for Simulation and Data Science (JARA CSD) decided to forgo an in-person workshop and scientific advisory board meeting this year. Instead, digital meetings were organized in April and June. In these meetings, new projects, the structure and activities of the Center were presented and discussed.
JARA-ENERGY scientist Professor Dirk Uwe Sauer is a new member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, formerly the Prussian Academy of Sciences. With this admission, the Academy honors Prof. Sauer's achievements in energy research.
This summer, JARA-BRAIN Professor Paolo Carloni's institute will host autism researcher Dr. Silvia De Rubeis from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York. Dr. De Rubeis received the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation's Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award, worth 45,000 euros, for her research on autism spectrum disorders (ASD). She was nominated by Prof. Carloni. The JARA-BRAIN Institute for Molecular Neuroscience and Neuroimaging also offers the young scientist the opportunity to work with experts from RWTH Aachen University.
The European Physical Society is awarding this year's Giuseppe and Vanna Cocconi Prize to the Borexino Collaboration. The Collaboration receives the prize for its ground-breaking observation of solar neutrinos, which provided unique and comprehensive insights into the Sun as a nuclear fusion engine.
Forschungszentrum Jülich and the University of Würzburg will together investigate the quantum phenomena of topological materials and the opportunities they present within quantum computing. With Professors Detlev Grützmacher, Stefan Tautz, Stefan Blügel and David DiVincenzo, four JARA-FIT scientists are involved in the project.
