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”.
When Stephanie La Hoz Theuer first came across carbon pricing (also known as CO₂ pricing) during an internship in 2005, she thought it was little more than “a niche topic”. But the deeper she delved into the subject, the more her interest grew – and that “niche topic” has since became the central…
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’.
Prof Gregory C. Beroza and Prof. Yehuda Ben-Zion are hosted by Section 4.2 "Geomechanics and Scientific Drilling" and will be studying the processes that precede earthquakes.
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