to safeguard a habitable planet.
The GFZ Helmholtz Centre for Geosciences is Germany's national centre for solid Earth research.
At the revitalised natural gas well in Brandenburg’s Schorfheide, findings are being gathered and technologies developed which industrial partners worldwide are using to harness geothermal energy.
The GFZ mourns the loss of its founding director. Rolf Emmermann led the GFZ from 1992 to 2007 and left a lasting mark on the geosciences of his time. He passed away on 10 July 2026 at the age of 86.
GFZ mourns the loss of our esteemed colleague, who passed away suddenly and unexpectedly on July 1 at the age of 57. She was a senior scientist in Section 1.2 “Global Geomonitoring and Gravity Field”.
As a child, Mica Cabildo witnessed the effects of the 1991 eruption of Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines, an experience that would later shape her artistic practice. As a fellow at the Research Institute for Sustainability at GFZ (RIFS), Cabildo is now investigating how personal experiences of…
The geophysicist is from the University of Concepción in Chile and will be conducting research in Sections 4.1 ‘Lithosphere Dynamics’ and 4.5 ‘Subsurface Process Modelling’.
Using a new approach, the GFZ PhD student investigated factors leading to zinc and lead enrichment in sedimentary basins. The metals are vital for electric vehicles, batteries, solar and wind energy.
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