Schüler Campus 07.09.2023: Elena Gati before holding the lecture

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 + ERC-Logo

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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Prime Minister of Saxony 
L. H. Tjeng, M. König, MP M. Kretschmer, E. Svanidze

Representatives of MPI CPfS attend the Summer Party of the Prime Minister of Saxony Michael Kretschmer.

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30 years of the Max Planck Society in Saxony

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

Eteri Svanidze

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

Elena Gati in the Wintergarten

W2 promotion for Elena Gati

August 21, 2023

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

Peter Höhn and Yuri Grin

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

Claudia Felser and Andrei Bernevig

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

2023 ITS Postdoctoral Scholar in Thermoelectrics Award for Dr. Yu Pan<br /> 

Dr. Yu Pan won the International Thermoelectric Society (ITS) Postdoctoral Scholar in Thermoelectrics Award at the 39th International Conference on Thermoelectrics in Seattle (June 21-25, 2023).
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The Vice Presidents of the Max Planck Society: Asifa Akhtar, Claudia Felser, Christian Doeller and Sibylle Günter (from top left to bottom right).

The new team of Vice-Presidents includes three women. This means women now hold the majority on the Executive Committee more

Otto-Hahn-Medaille: Qun Yang + Prof. Dr. Klaus Blaum

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

Team Planckton back

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

Team photo Rewe Team Challenge 2023

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

Life-time achievement award for Yuri Grin (produces by FIB)

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

Former CPfS researcher Guowei Li has been appointed Leader of a Max Planck Partner Group

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

Small but packs a punch: Electro-nuclear Transition in YbRh<sub>2</sub>Si<sub>2</sub>

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 TA = 1.5 mK, the tiny nuclear moments profoundly change an electronic magnetic state formed at a much higher temperature  TN = 70.5 mK.   more

Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship for Sandra Ruiz Gomez

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

IEEE Magnetics Society Early Career Award for Claire Donnelly<br /><br /> 

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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Häko 2023 

March 21, 2023

It was once again nice ... more

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