Archive: GFZ

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The Delegations in the Historic Library on the Telegrafenberg. In the back there are from left to right, the Dutch Ambassador for Germany, Ronald van Roeden, the Dutch Minister for Education, Culture and Science, Robbert Dijkgraaf and the scientific director of the GFZ, Susanne Buiter.

11/7/23

Dutch Minister for Research visits the GFZ

The Minister of Research and the Ambassador of the Netherlands, Robbert Dijkgraaf and Ronald van Roeden, visited the GFZ for an exchange on talent development and diversity in science.

from left to right: Begona Fernanda Parraguez Landaeta; Francisco Ulloa; H.E. Magdalena Atria; Prof. Dr. Susanne Buiter; Diego Medina Caro; Dr. Ludwig Stroink; Dr. Pia Victor; Prof. Dr. Dirk Wagner

11/7/23

Chilean ambassador for talks at the GFZ

The Chilean Ambassador Magdalena Atria visited the GFZ to discuss German-Chilean projects with young scientists and to deepen cooperation.

Portrait of Susanne Glaser: Woman with long blonde hair in a petrol-coloured jacket in front of a golden wall.

11/3/23

W3 professorship at the University of Bonn for Susanne Glaser

Susanne Glaser has taken over the W3-Professorship “Space Geodetic Techniques” at the University of Bonn on 1 September 2023 and left the GFZ. She talks about her research in a recent DFG video.

Scene in the geomechanical high-pressure laboratory: metal frame with metal containers, cables, measuring instruments and a press.

11/2/23

Machine learning helps detect precursor phenomena of earthquakes

Machine learning helps detect precursor phenomena of earthquakes: A new lab-study provides encouraging results for “time to quake” prediction.

In the background: The drilling tower made of metal struts. Next to it, crane equipment. In the foreground, pipe rods.

11/2/23

Geothermal research project starts at KTB deep laboratory

Hydraulic stimulation in hot rock - Unique conditions for real-time monitoring of experiment at a depth of four kilometers

Landscape in northern Australia: Dark brown, layered rocks in the foreground on the left, view of a wide grassy landscape on the right.

10/26/23

Fossil lipids as biomarkers for oxygen-producing primordial bacteria

Genetic methods provide important basis for decoding the evolutionary history of life on Earth

On the left, a man in portrait in a silver protective suit in front of a grey mountain. On the right, a man in a portrait by the water in front of a smoking volcano.

10/26/23

Two of the highest EU research awards for the GFZ

Two of the highest EU research awards for the GFZ: With ERC-Synergy Grants, Thomas Walter (r.) will research internal “rotting” of volcanoes & Jens Kallmeyer (l.) metabolism of primordial microbes.

10/10/23

A series of destructive earthquakes strikes northwestern Afghanistan

First analyses of satellite and GEOFON data give insights into the processes around the Herat fault, a region that is considered to be seismically rather inactive.

Lecture hall, Onno Oncken and Friedhelm von Blanckenburg are standing in the front, one can see some audience from backwards, at the screen a figure with the lithosphere and F.v.B. as butterfly

10/6/23

Farewell to Prof. Friedhelm von Blanckenburg

Prof. Friedhelm von Blanckenburg was given a ceremonial farewell into GFZ retirement with a colloquium. Prof. Dirk Scherler (interim) will take over the leadership of the section 3.3.