JARA-BRAIN scientist PD Dr. Stefan Heim was presented his certificate of appointment as adjunct professor at RWTH Aachen University on 11 February 2014.
Prof. Dr. Dirk Feldmeyer has recently been appointed a member in the Wellcome Trust Peer Review College. The JARA-BRAIN scientist will act as a reviewer for the Wellcome Trust, initially for a period of three years.
On 17 January 2013, an event was held to officially mark the foundation of the new JARA-FAME (Forces and Matter Experiments). JARA-FAME is concerned with basic physical research in the field of nuclear and particle physics, and aims to investigate and improve our understanding of matter-antimatter asymmetry in the universe. This asymmetry ultimately holds the key to our existence.