Knowledge. Creation.

Grasping the present. Shaping the future. We research to revolutionize information processing, to transform the energy sector, and to develop a biobased circular economy. Across disciplines, creatively, and successfully.

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Renewable Energy

Not in My Backyard! The Cost of Keeping Wind Turbines Out of Sight

A new study coordinated by scientists at Forschungszentrum Jülich highlights how the visibility of renewable energy installations – such as wind turbines and solar panels – has an impact on their level of public acceptance and the costs of the energy transition in Germany.

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Protein Structures

Proteins in All Shapes: Researchers Reveal Diversity of Protein Conformations

Proteins change their shape depending on their environment. A research team from Forschungszentrum Jülich and Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf has now made these changes visible by means of solid-state NMR spectroscopy. This technique allows not only individual structures to be recorded, but also entire ensembles of possible conformational states.

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Biotechnology

Bacterium Produces “Organic Dishwashing Liquid” to Degrade Oil

The marine bacterium Alcanivorax borkumensis feeds on oil, multiplying rapidly in the wake of oil spills, and thereby accelerating the elimination of the pollution, in many cases. It does this by producing an “organic dishwashing liquid” which it uses to attach itself to oil droplets. Researchers have now discovered the mechanism by which this “organic dishwashing liquid” is synthesized.

Our 3 strategic research priorities

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Information

The priority of information combines Jülich research in three areas: simulation and data science in high-performance-computing (HPC), brain research, and research on bio- and nanoelectronic information technologies of the future. Quantum technologies are another priority at Jülich.

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Energy

Jülich energy research concentrates on an energy system based on renewable energy. Scientists research technologies on all scales – from the atomic level right up to industrial innovations – covering the entire value chain from basic to applied research.

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Bioeconomy

The sustainable bioeconomy is a biobased circular economy that does away with fossil resources and utilizes renewable resources instead. Scientists from Forschungszentrum Jülich are developing new value creation processes.

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Helmholtz Research Fields

As a founding member of the Helmholtz Association, we are part of the largest German research organization and contribute our top-class expertise to four of the six Helmholtz Research Fields: Energy, Matter, Information, and Earth & Environment.

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At Jülich, we conduct research in the fields of digital transformation, climate protection, the energy transition, and the sustainable circular economy. Our research strengthens the technological and digital sovereignty of our country. It is important to me to use the potential that arises from scientific findings and innovations for practical application.

Prof. Dr. Astrid Lambrecht, Chair of the Board of Directors of Forschungszentrum Jülich

Topics

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JUPITER

JUPITER, the first European exascale supercomputer, is set to be launched at Forschungszentrum Jülich. JUPITER is the first system in Europe with a computing power of more than one quintillion floating-point operations per second

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AI

AI is already revolutionizing many areas of life. With our infrastructure and expertise, we are working towards fully and safely exploiting the potential of this technology in the future.

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Quantum technologies

Quantum computers are changing computing in a fascinating way. At Jülich, we are testing systems and prototypes that users from all over Europe can utilize for their development work.

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JUNIQ

The ‘Jülich UNified Infrastructure for Quantum computing’, or JUNIQ for short, is the world's first quantum computing infrastructure to offer users from science and industry access to a variety of quantum systems at different stages of development.

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Sustainability

Our findings make an important contribution to achieving global sustainability goals. Our research is also sustainable and we use resources responsibly.

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Hydrogen

Hydrogen is set to become a mainstay of the energy transition. But sustainable and marketable technologies are needed first. We are testing possible solutions.

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Neuromorphic computing

Computers modeled on the human brain, so-called neuromorphic systems, are much more economical than conventional computers.

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Atmosphere and Climate

Often invisible to the human eye, they influence the global climate: chemical and physical processes in the atmosphere. We are tracking down these processes.

effzett - Forschungszentrum Jülich's magazine

Why does science lose so many talented women along the path to leadership positions? This is a question that junior professor Irene Vercellino has sought to get to the bottom of alongside her structural biology research. More on this topic on the effzett website.

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