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Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research @mpifkf.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Congratulations to Dr. Laura Guasco for receiving the Erwin Félix Lewy Bertaut Prize! 🥳 The EFLB prize honors outstanding contributions to crystallography and neutron scattering by early-career researchers. 🚀

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Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research @mpifkf.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

New round of welcomes at the MPI FKF! 🥳 Three new apprentices just started their training in the Mechanical Workshop 🔧 🚀 Our Building Services team is also welcoming a new apprentice who will train in the field of heating and climate technology. 🥶😄🥵 We wish them a successful start!

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Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research @mpifkf.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Congratulations to Benedikt Ringler on being awarded the 2026 Max Planck Society Apprentice Award! 🥳 Benedikt is an industrial mechanic specializing in precision engineering 🚀 🔧 We wish Benedikt all the best in his future career! @maxplanck.de

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Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research @mpifkf.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Interested in pursuing a PhD in condensed matter science? 🔬 The IMPRS-CMS is currently looking for new PhD applicants! 📅 Application deadline: 30 September 🚀 Don’t miss this opportunity! Application info & FAQ page: lnkd.in/d3ZKx9kn Application page: lnkd.in/eJ2YM5Pu

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Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research @mpifkf.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

From September 7 to 11, the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research hosted the 5th edition of the Science Summer Camp! 🔬🧪 It was a week full of experiments and discoveries: understanding superconducting trains, creating slimy substances, and observing elementary particles 🚀🧫⚛️

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Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research @mpifkf.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Sven Baudermann, fresh from his Abitur, just completed his internship working on thin layer deposition with Benjamin Stuhlhofer and Gideok Kim 😎 Best of luck to Sven in his future studies and career 🎉🍀

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Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research @mpifkf.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Our science summer camp continues with glass blowing workshops and a lab to build a cloud chamber from scratch 😃

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Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research @mpifkf.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Congratulations to Dr. Anna Rosławska for cleaning up at the awards table! 🥳🏆🏆🏆 Anna has won three major prizes: the Karls Freundberg Prize, the Gaede Prize 2026, and the Nernst-Haber-Bodenstein Prize. 🏅🔬 Full article:https://www.fkf.mpg.de/9015254/2026_08_Roslawska

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Already a Remarkable Year: Three Prizes and a Lise Meitner Group for Dr. Anna Rosławska

It has been an extraordinary run of recognition for Dr. Anna Rosławska, head of the Emmy Noether Research Group "Atomic Scale Optics" at our institute. Within the space of a few months, she has been…

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Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research @mpifkf.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Our Science Summer Camp starts today 😃 Science is child’s play after all 😎

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Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research @mpifkf.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

POV of a Coffee break with a researcher at MPI FKF! ☕️ Researchers at MPI FKF take their coffee breaks very seriously 😎☕️ Join us for our monthly Kaffee und Kuchen appointment, our web series where you can enjoy a coffee break with our researchers! YouTube Link: youtu.be/3ObAc6zc00Y

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Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research @mpifkf.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Call for the Elisabeth Bauser Postdoctoral Fellowship for an early-career woman researcher! 👩‍🔬 How does it work? 🤔 The fellowship offers up to two years of full funding for an early-career woman researcher! More info here: www.fkf.mpg.de/elisabeth-ba...

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Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research @mpifkf.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Jonas Stipp, Technical Project Manager for HVAC, visited the MPI FKF to get a glimpse into the daily activities of our researchers. Communication between engineers and researchers is key to designing and building excellent research facilities! Full Interview: youtu.be/GbbAzJCAh0w

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Forschungsgebäude und Gebäudetechnik: Jonas Stipps Besuch im MPI FKF

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Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research @mpifkf.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

A new contribution in Nature Reviews Clean Technology hydrogen-based materials for energy storage and conversion just dropped😱🍀 Michael Hirscher from MPI FKF is the corresponding author 😎 Link to the review: lnkd.in/eDJSvU2H Link to the full article: lnkd.in/eG5spA-S @iea.org #Hydrogen

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Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research @mpifkf.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Congratulations to Dr. Vesna Srot on receiving the Microanalysis Society Birks Award at Microscopy & Microanalysis 2026! 🏆🦷 If the smiles of the future will be more radiant than ever, it will also be thanks to Vesna Srot’s research! 🍏 Find the full article here! www.fkf.mpg.de/9013345/2026...

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Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research @mpifkf.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Congratulations to Dr. Laura Guasco for being the #PhysikerinDerWoche! To find out more about her research, don't miss the articles on our web page: www.fkf.mpg.de/7744491/2022... www.fkf.mpg.de/8983933/2026... and phys.org/news/2026-07... on @sciencex.bsky.social

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Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research @mpifkf.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Shout-outs to @vixklen.bsky.social and Claudia Leticia Gomez Flores for their recent publication on the Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling on "Automating Model Building for SPM Images of Biomolecules Using MISO" 😵🥳 Check out the full publication: lnkd.in/er_qfWbf

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Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research @mpifkf.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Yearly bike invasion at MPI 🤯🙀 Kids from the Radsportverein in Vaihingen came over for are restorative lunch at MPI after a morning of biking in the surroundings 😃🚴🚴‍♀️

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Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research @mpifkf.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

July 25>>> Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research (MPI FKF) and Intelligent Systems (MPI IS) took part in the Christopher Street Day (CSD) parade in Stuttgart. Everybody needs science. Science needs everybody ✌️ 🫰 Full article here: www.fkf.mpg.de/9008837/2026...

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Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research @mpifkf.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

M2S conference came to an end 😪 We thank all the participants for creating such a thrilling and vibrant environment 😎 🫰 Shout-outs to our managing director Bernhard Keimer and to Matthieu Le Tacon from @kit.edu for making this event possible! Full article: www.fkf.mpg.de/9008619/2026...

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M2S 2026: Stuttgart ist Gastgeber der weltweit führenden Konferenz zum Thema Supraleitung

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Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research @mpifkf.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

The cascade of prizes at M2S continues with the Kammerlingh Onnes prize 🏆 Out deepest congratulations to Prof. Richard L. Greene from University of Maryland and Prof. Yasutomo Uemura from Columbia University! @univofmaryland.bsky.social @columbiauniversity.bsky.social

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Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research @mpifkf.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

M2S continues 😎 Shout-outs to Dung-Hai Lee, Andrew J. Mills, and Michael R. Norman on being awarded the John Bardeen prize! @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social @columbiauniversity.bsky.social @flatironinstitute.org

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Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research @mpifkf.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Kick-off of the M2S Conference 😎 Materials and Mechanisms of Superconductivity - around 700 hundred people coming from all over the world to talk about the advancements and the future challenges in the field of superconductivity 🚅 🧲

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Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research @mpifkf.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

We're already feeling nostalgic for the Stuttgart Science Festival 🥺 and can't wait for the next one. But until then, here's a gem from two weeks ago! Can we turn quantum physics into exercises? Of course 😎 After the exercise session, the participants were both dead and alive at the same time 😁

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Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research @mpifkf.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Workshop on “New Insights into Quantum Materials” 😎 Excellent talks and delicious cakes and coffee 🤤 Does it get better than this?

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Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research @mpifkf.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Laura Guasco's publication "Kinetic Regimes of Hydrogen Absorption in Thin Films" on Advanced Functional Materials is now also a contribution on Science X! (advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... ) How can we "Catch hydrogen in the Act"? Find out here! 😎 phys.org/news/2026-07...

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Science X / Phys.org @sciencex.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

A resonant neutron setup cut hydrogen-absorption tracking from two hours to a few seconds, revealing four linked stages in a thin film before the final hydrogen buildup. doi.org/hb9vk2

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Catching hydrogen in the act: Tracking the absorption process over time

If you're looking for hydrogen on the elemental chart, it won't take you long to find it. It is right there at the beginning, the lightest possible material.

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Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research @mpifkf.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Bibhuti Bhusan Rath and Kristina Gjorgjevikj were selected to attend this year’s 75th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting! Full Article here! www.fkf.mpg.de/9000617/2026... @bbrath.bsky.social @krisgjorgjevikj.bsky.social @lotschgroup.bsky.social

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Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research @mpifkf.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Shout-outs to Prof. Dr. Bettina V. Lotsch, director of the Nanochemistry department, on being elected as a member of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina! 🥳🥳🥳 Link to the full article: www.fkf.mpg.de/8992608/2026... @leopoldina.org @lotschgroup.bsky.social #Leopoldina

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Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research @mpifkf.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Tomorrow, 2 July >>>> Come and watch the premiere of "Die Forschenden" at Rotebühlplatz! The screening will be followed by a discussion with the film's director, Nahom Mihretu, and Prof. Bernhard Keimer from MPI FKF 😎 More info here: vhs-stuttgart.de/programm/kur...

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Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research @mpifkf.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

June 27 >> Stuttgart Science Festival - "Quantum at Karls" We were at the Karls-Gymnasium for a afternoon of science workshops and mini MAXI Science Talks to bring our research in the city 😎 Here to the full article:https://www.fkf.mpg.de/8996314/2026_Science_Festival_Quantum_at_Karls?c=8608137

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Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research @mpifkf.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

June 24 - the MPI FKF hosted the second part of the “Frontiers of Solid State Theory” symposium. Where is research going? What is the future of solid state theory? Find that out here! www.fkf.mpg.de/8995376/2026... We thank all the amazing speakers for their participation!

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Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research @mpifkf.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Tomorrow June 27th! We will be at Karls-Gymnasium on Tübinger Str. 38, Stuttgart Süd, from 3:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. It's going to be a fantastic afternoon bringing science to the city! There's no better way to spend a warm Saturday afternoon than with free slushies and science 😉 See you there! 😎

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Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research @mpifkf.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Solid State Theory Symposium >>> New research frontiers ♾️ Kevin Jablonka from @uni-jena.de and Johannes Margraf from @unibayreuth.bsky.social think that machine learning will play a crucial role in our understanding of quantum materials! Thank you for the great talks! 😃😎

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Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research @mpifkf.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Where is solid state theory going? Mathias Scheurer, Titus Neupert, and Angelika Knothe chimed in on this issue. Name of the game is the engineering of quantum materials to access and control exotic states of matter! 🙀 @unistuttgart.bsky.social @ethz.ch @uniregensburg.bsky.social

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Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research @mpifkf.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Professor Bernhard Keimer kicks off the second part of the symposium on “Frontiers of Solid State Theory” Where is research headed? How can quantum materials affect our world? Stay tuned for more! 😎

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Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems @mpipks.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

How to describe nonreciprocal interactions using a Hamiltonian? Researchers @mpipks.bsky.social, @ub.edu, @icreacommunity.bsky.social have done so using a Hamiltonian embedding. Work now #published @natphys.nature.com: doi.org/10.1038/s41567-026-03317-0

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Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research @mpifkf.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

June 10, 2026 Huge shout-out to Prof. Pablo Jarillo-Herrero for being awarded the 2026 Kavli Prize, together with Eva Y. Andrei and Allan H. MacDonald, for their fundamental contributions to the field of twistronics! Read full article www.fkf.mpg.de/8987562/2026... 📸 MIT © Alberto Di-Lolli

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Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research @mpifkf.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Sir Martin Wood Prize lecture >>>>> Congratulations to Prof. Takamasa Sakai of the University of Tokyo on being awarded the Sir Martin Wood Prize in recognition of his outstanding contributions to the field of Precision Gel Science and his work on TetraGels! #SirMartinWoodPrize #UniversityOfTokyo

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Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research @mpifkf.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Congratulations to the German team for competing scientifically and honorably over the past few days 😎😌 Shout-outs to Denise S. Christovam and Jürgen Durst for coaching the team! We look forward to the next edition of the tournament at Politecnico di Milano! 🎉 🇩🇪 🇮🇹 #Internationalphysicstournament

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Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research @mpifkf.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

May 26th to May 30th>>>>>> The International Physics Tournament from at Oklahoma State University! 😎 The German team is prepared and ready for the physics fights 🥷 Having fun while competing is as important as the competition itself ! Best of luck to the LMUminosity team!

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Jiyeon Kim @jiyeonkim.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Honored to be awarded the Humboldt Research Fellowship! My heartfelt gratitude goes to @lotschgroup.bsky.social and @chem571.bsky.social for their continued support and encouragement Excited for this next chapter as an AvH fellow at @mpifkf.bsky.social www.unist.ac.kr/unist/center...

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“UNIST서 막스플랑크로” 화학과 김지연 박사, 훔볼트 펠로우십 선정 | UNIST

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Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research @mpifkf.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

May 20th >>>> Health Day at MPI! The theme of the day is “Together for Greater Well-Being” Themed booths, from workplace ergonomics to mindset coaching🧘‍♀️🧘‍♂️, are waiting just for you 🫵

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Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research @mpifkf.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

New publication in Nature Communications: “Orbital-resolved imaging of coherent femtosecond exciton dynamics in coupled molecules”🥳😄 Shout outs to Manish Garg and his group for the fantastic work! Want to know how dark and bright excitons come about? Then read here for more 😎 buff.ly/Wmyiwld

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Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research @mpifkf.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

May 17th >>>> 21 people from Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research participated as the “FKF-Nanorunners” team in the 33rd Stuttgart Run 😎 Shout-out to all the athletes for their awesome performances! Run, FKF-Nanorunners, run! 🏃‍♀️🏃‍♂️

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Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research @mpifkf.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Throwback Friday April 24 >>> High school visit to our institute Our lab technician, Tolga Acartürk, showed the students our Time-of-Flight Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry techniques 🕊️🔬 This technique is used to identify the elemental and molecular composition in the top 1–2 nm of materials 😵🤏

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Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research @mpifkf.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

The President of the Max Planck Society, Prof. Dr. Patrick Cramer, visited MPI FKF today and showed his support for the LMUminosty team from @lmu.de The team had an intense training session today ahead of competing in the International Physics Tournament in Stillwater, Oklahoma!

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Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research @mpifkf.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Prof. Dr. Patrick Cramer, President of the Max Planck Society, visited the MPI today and spoke about the MPS strategies for achieving scientific excellence while also promoting multilateralism, sustainability, and gender equality 😎

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Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research @mpifkf.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Meet Raymond Wiedmann 😄 Ray is a PhD student at MPI FKF and has spent the last three months at the University of Tokyo collaborating with Professor Takahiro Morimoto. Ray’s research focuses on topology 🍩☕️ and how we can observe and apply the hidden properties of the quantum world in real life 🥴

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Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research @mpifkf.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

May 7 >>>>>> The joint MPGC-QM & IMPRS-QST workshop at MPQ in Garching continues! 🚆 This morning’s session featured two excellent talks by Dr. Vadim Vorobev (University of Stuttgart) and Prof. Monika Aidelsburger (MPQ, LMU) 💯

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