As of today, 1 August 2023, Prof. Astrid Lambrecht (56) will be at the helm of JARA-Partner Forschungszentrum Jülich. She has been appointed to her new position for a period of five years and succeeds Prof. Wolfgang Marquardt, who headed Jülich for nine years starting in 2014. Prof. Lambrecht has been a member of Jülich’s Board of Directors since 2021.
For the first time, scientists have applied a promising new method to search for dark matter particles in a particle accelerator. The method used by researchers in the international JEDI collaboration is based on the observation of the spin polarization of a particle beam in the Jülich storage ring COSY. They published their results today in the renowned journal Physical Review X.
The institute of JARA-ENERGY member Prof. Dirk Müller deals with technologies that make buildings climate-friendly. These technologies include heat pumps as well as cold heat networks. The heating of buildings and provision of domestic hot water contribute significantly to CO2 emissions and energy demand in Germany. Prof. Müller and his team are working on climate-friendly alternatives.
RWTH Aachen University participated in the THE Impact Rankings for the very first time and it achieved very good results. The Times Higher Education magazine, THE for short, has been publishing these rankings since 2019. Currently, 1,591 universities have been evaluated against the 17 United Nations Development Goals.
