HELMHOLTZ ASSOCIATION Berit Dannenberg

PAGE 2 HERMANN VON HELMHOLTZ  Universal scholar with a sense for the practical  Achievements: - Ophthalmoscope for examining the retina - Three-component theory of colour vision - Principles of tone colour through harmonics - Resonance theory of hearing - First law of thermodynamics on the conservation of energy  Founding President of the Physikalisch- Technische Reichsanstalt Hermann von Helmholtz (31 August 1821 – 8 September 1894)

PAGE 3 FACTS AND FIGURES  16 research centres with 240 institutes  28,000 staff  9,000 scientists & engineers  4,400 doctoral students  1,700 apprentices  Budget: 2.8 billion €  1.9 bn € institutional funding  0.9 bn € third party funding Helmholtz Centre Branch of a Helmholtz Centre Helmholtz Head Office List Helgoland BremerhavenGeesthachtHamburg Greifswald Braunschweig Wolfenbüttel- Remlingen Göttingen Magdeburg Potsdam Berlin Zeuthen Teltow Niemegk Halle Leipzig Bad Lauchstädt Köln Jülich Bonn Darmstadt Heidelberg Lampoldshausen Karlsruhe Stuttgart München GarchingNeuherberg Oberpfaffenhofen

PAGE 4 16 RESEARCH CENTRES  Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research  Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY  German Cancer Research Center  German Centre for Neurodegenerative Diseases  Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt  Forschungszentrum Jülich  Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)  GSI Helmholtz Centre for Heavy Ion Research  GKSS Research Centre Geesthacht  Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie  Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ  Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research  Helmholtz Zentrum München German Research Center for Environmental Health  Helmholtz Centre Potsdam GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences  Max Delbrueck Center for Molecular Medicine (MDC) Berlin-Buch  Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics (associated) The Helmholtz Association is an umbrella organisation of 16national research centres all established after 1950.

PAGE 5 NATIONAL LABS WITH A MISSION  Solving grand challenges with cutting-edge research  Developing and operating complex infrastructure and large-scale facilities for the national and international scientific community  Creating wealth for society and industry by knowledge transformation and innovation

PAGE 6 LARGE-SCALE FACILITIES & INFRASTRUCTURE  Managing national and international networks and consortia, e.g. tsunami early warning system  Developing, building and operating large-scale facilities, e.g. ITER, XFEL, FAIR  Providing complex infrastructure, e.g. research vessels, supercomputers, mouse facilities

PAGE 7 CUTTING-EDGE SCIENCE IN NETWORKS The six research fields Energy Earth & Environment Health Key Technologies Structure of Matter Aeronautics, Space and Transport

PAGE 8 RESEARCH FIELD ENERGY For Example: Reducing CO 2 Emissions  Solar-thermal power stations  Bioliq pilot plant  Geothermal pilot plant  CO 2 sequestration and CO 2 separation with membranes

PAGE 9 RESEARCH FIELD EARTH & ENVIRONMENT For Example: Understanding Climate Change  Polar research with ice breaker Polarstern and Neumayer station  Understanding atmospheric changes with HALO airplane  Earth observation with satellites

PAGE 10 RESEARCH FIELD HEALTH For Example: Combating Major Common Diseases  Nobel Prize 2008 to Harald zur Hausen for discovering connection between viral infections and cancer  Vaccination against cervix cancer  Heavy ion cancer therapy  From bench to bedside: translational research  New: Helmholtz Centre for Neurodegenerative Diseases

PAGE 11 RESEARCH FIELD KEY TECHNOLOGIES For example: Promoting Innovation  Nobel Prize 2007 to Helmholtz Researcher Peter Grünberg for discovering GMR effect  Supercomputers JUBL, JUGENE  Nanotechnology

PAGE 12 RESEARCH FIELD STRUCTURE OF MATTER For Example: Operating Large Scale Facilities  European XFEL: films from the nanocosmos  Pilot plant FLASH  FAIR: understanding the secrets of matter

PAGE 13 RESEARCH FIELD AERONAUTICS, SPACE AND TRANSPORT For Example: Space Exploration  Columbus space lab at International Space station ISS  Earth observation with satellites, e.g. TerraSAR-X, EnviSAT  European satellite navigation system GALILEO

PAGE 14 HELMHOLTZ INTERNATIONAL  Successful in Europe: participation in 693 projects, 36% success rate with EU applications; 63% with infrastructure applications  Base for new large-scale facilities with international participation, e.g. XFEL, FAIR  Participation in international projects, e.g. ITER  Liaison offices in Brussels, Moscow, Beijing  Bilateral partnerships around the world  4,500 visiting scientists at large-scale facilities

PAGE 15 PROMOTING YOUNG TALENTS  Structured training of doctoral students  6 Graduate Schools and 7 Helmholtz Research Schools  116 Helmholtz Young Investigators Groups (tenure option)  Helmholtz Management Academy  1,700 apprentices  24 Helmholtz School Labs  Tiny Tots Science Corner

Helmholtz Research Schools  Focused on a specific research field  Outstanding participants from germany and abroad  Promotion within 3 years - interdisciplinary scientific education - soft skills  Financial support  Language: English

Helmholtz Research Schools  Biosoft – International Helmholtz Research School on Biophysics and Soft Matter  Helmholtz International Research School for Infection Biology  Helmholtz International Research School in Molecular Neurobiology  Helmholtz International Research School in Translational Cardiovascular and Metabolic Medicine  Helmholtz Research School for Quark Matter Studies in Heavy Ion Collisions  Helmholtz Space Life Sciences Research School  Helmholtz Earth System Science Research School

Helmholtz Graduate Schools Aim: To establish a structured doctoral training in all Helmholtz Centres  All PhD students are members of the Graduate School  Graduate Scholl offers (interdisciplinary) scientific training and soft skill courses  Doctoral committee for each PhD Student  Transparent processes and clear mutual responsibilities

Helmholtz Graduate Schools  HIGRADE - Helmholtz Interdisciplinary Graduate School for Environmental Research (Leipzig)  Helmholtz Graduate School Molecular Cell Biology (Berlin)  Helmholtz International Graduate School of Cancer Research (Heidelberg)  POLMAR – Helmholtz Graduate School for Polar and Marine Research (Bremerhaven)  Helmholtz Graduate School for Hadron and Ion Research (Darmstadt)  Helmholtz Graduate School for Infection Research (Braunschweig)

SEITE 20 Helmholtz Young Investigator Groups  For foreign or german scientists abroad  Establishing of a cooperation network  scientific independence in an early career stage  Good financial and material resources for research  Reliable career prospects based on proven research performance  Jointly appointed Junior Professorship

Offer to the Young Investigator Group Leaders  per year (staff, infrastructure, material)  Funding period of 5 years  Responsibilty for budget and personnel  Possibility to use the large scale facilities and infrastructure of the Helmholtz Centre  Network  Cooperation with university (supervising of PhD Students, teaching)  Tenure Option  Soft Skill Course: Leadership

SEITE 22 Requirements International Call for Proposals (Science, Nature) Requirements  2-6 years after PhD  6 month stay abroad (for Germans)  Scientific excellence Selection process  First selection by the Helmholtz Centre  Written assessments from international reviewers  an interdisciplinary panel decides on the basis of an oral presentation and the written votes

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