Press Releases

With great enthusiasm, we had the opportunity to present our research work to schoolchildren as part of the Schüler Campus 2023 and to interested citizens as part of the Science Café. more

Claire Donnelly has been awarded a Starting Grant from the European Research Council (ERC). She is the Lise Meitner Group Leader of Spin3D at the MPI CPfS and will use the grant to explore the effects of three dimensionality on quantum nanomaterials.
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Representatives of MPI CPfS attend the Summer Party of the Prime Minister of Saxony Michael Kretschmer.

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On September 4, 2023, Saxony's Minister-President Michael Kretschmer and Max Planck President Patrick Cramer will be hosting a ceremonial event at the Kulturpalast in Dresden to mark the 30-year success story of the Max Planck Society in Leipzig and Dresden. more

The Boehringer Ingelheim Foundation awards funding through the Plus 3 Perspectives program to Dr. Eteri Svanidze, group leader of the REALM group at MPI CPfS. Through this highly coveted program, she will receive independent funding, which is aimed at supporting outstanding junior group leaders during their first appointment. more

Warm congratulations to Dr Elena Gati, who has been promoted to a W2 position in the physics of Quantum Materials department. more

On the occasion of the change in the emeriti status of our Director Yuri Grin, a ceremony was held on July 31 in the Winter Garden of our Institute. more

The Condensed Matter Division of the European Physical Society awards its 2023 EPS Europhysics Prize to Claudia Felser, director at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids in Dresden and B. Andrei Bernevig, professor of physics at Princeton University “for seminal contributions to the classification, prediction, and discovery of novel topological quantum materials”. more

Dr. Yu Pan won the International Thermoelectric Society (ITS) Postdoctoral Scholar in Thermoelectrics Award at the 39^th International Conference on Thermoelectrics in Seattle (June 21-25, 2023).
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The new team of Vice-Presidents includes three women. This means women now hold the majority on the Executive Committee more

Dr. Qun Yang belong to the Topological Quantum Chemistry department has been awarded both the precious Otto-Hahn-Medal and the Otto Hahn Award as one of the leading young researchers at Max Planck Society. more

An impressive picture of the 30th Dragon Boat Festival on the banks of the Elbe in Loschwitz and the competitions on the water was presented to the spectators, who strolled across the "Blue Wonder" and in some cases stopped to watch the 62 teams racing.  One of them was Team “Planckton”, which consisted of 19 members of the different working groups of the MPI-CPfS (picture of the water flea with shirt). It competed there with 4 other teams from the field of universities and research in the "Technology Cup". more

Five teams of the MPI CPfS successfully participated in the Rewe Team Challenge Dresden, which is one of the largest events of its kind in Germany. On the early summer evening of June 6, our 20 colleagues crossed the finish line in the Rudolf-Harbig-Stadion after five kilometers together with 22000 other runners. more

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The Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids hosted the 14th School on the Physics and Chemistry of the Actinides and the 52nd Journées des Actinides international conference on April 17 – 21 April 2023. more

Dr. Guowei Li, the former group leader in the Department of Topological Quantum Chemistry at the Max Planck Institute of Chemical Physics of Solids, is awarded a leadership position of a Max Planck Partner Group. more

Experiments show that the heavy fermion compound YbRh₂Si₂ undergoes a spectacular electro-nuclear phase transition into a modulated magnetic state at a temperature as low as 1.5 mK. In a just published paper, an international team of scientists from the UK (Royal Holloway University of London) and Germany (Goethe University Frankfurt, MPI-CPfS Dresden) demonstrated that in YbRh₂Si₂, at T_A = 1.5 mK, the tiny nuclear moments profoundly change an electronic magnetic state formed at a much higher temperature  T_N = 70.5 mK.   more

Congratulations to Sandra Ruiz Gomez, who has been awarded a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Spin3D group! more

Congratulations to Claire Donnelly, who was awarded the IEEE Magnetics Society Early Career Award for “For excellent work on developing x-ray techniques for imaging magnetic structures in three dimensions”. more

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