A Fond Farewell: Sabine Höfler-Thierfeldt Has Retired
Essential minerals are the elements on Earth and in foods that our bodies need to develop and function normally. Sabine Höfler-Thierfeldt was a truly essential mineral of the JSC for 34 years. Shortly after celebrating her 40-year anniversary at FZJ, Sabine started her well-deserved retirement. Thanks to her tasks and engagement in the areas of public relations, science communication, and publication management, she was one of the few people at the institute who knew and was known to everyone.
Applying the strict word limit she implemented for the JSC News makes it impossible to list all of her activities. So here are some of the most outstanding ones: She coordinated press releases (also in close collaboration with Corporate Communications, UK) and articles for journals and magazines such as “effzett”, “intern” or “InSiDE”, contributed to and organized PR campaigns and JSC activities at the FZJ’s Open Day, and was responsible for the JSC websites, project dissemination for SiVeGCS, flyers, posters, event organization, management of the JSC training course programme, and social media channels. She was also responsible for the management of JSC’s entries in the publication database JuSER and the publication workflow within the institute. Last, but not least, she was also the editor of 298 issues of JSC News (or ZAM Aktuell, as it was originally called) – which we would like to commemorate with this article in the 300th edition (which she unfortunately just missed out on editing).
Sabine will be truly missed as a colleague who is always helpful and approachable, absolutely reliable and loyal, knows everything about JSC (like the embodiment of a JSC wiki), and who delivered excellent proofreading.
A deficiency in essential minerals leads to an abnormality in the metabolic functioning of the body – and so we now have the difficult task of finding a suitable replacement for Sabine, who was an essential cornerstone at JSC. Thank you for your last 34 years of commitment to JSC, Sabine!
Contact: Your JSC Colleagues (jsc-pr@fz-juelich.de)
from JSC News No. 300, 12 December 2023