Forschungszentrum Jülich

How Age and Exhaustion Affect Safety in Crowds

How do people move when space becomes limited? And what influence do age and exhaustion have in this? These questions are being investigated by Jülich researchers in experiments conducted jointly with partners from the German Sport University in Cologne.

APARC Report 2025

Volcanic Eruption with Global Impact

The international APARC report on the Hunga volcanic eruption in 2022 provides new insights into the extent to which individual extreme events can change the global atmosphere – and why such processes must be taken into account in climate assessments and political decisions. The project was coordinated by the APARC International Project Office based at Forschungszentrum Jülich.

APARC Report 2025

Volcanic Eruption with Global Impact

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.

7,571

employees

26

ERC Grants

2,390

publications

NEWS

Artificial Intelligence

AI tool “Helixer” identifies genes in newly sequenced organisms

Researchers at Forschungszentrum Jülich and Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf have developed a tool that could significantly transform genome research: Helixer identifies genes directly from DNA sequences – without laboratory experiments or prior knowledge about the organism.

Plant Research

New cell map reveals how barley ears develop

How do just a few cells give rise to the complex floral structures of crops such as barley? A research team from the CEPLAS Cluster of Excellence has now answered this question. The researchers presented the first detailed cell map of barley ear development. Scientists from the IBG-4 at Forschungszentrum Jülich contributed to the project.

Helmholtz Initiatives

From quantum to the environment: Jülich involved in several new projects

From battery development and drug research to environmental modeling: With the Quantum Use Challenge and two other Helmholtz initiatives, Forschungszentrum Jülich is bringing quantum technologies and data-driven approaches into targeted applications.

Our 3 strategic research priorities

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

JUPITER

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

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.

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.

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.

Sustainability

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

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.

Neuromorphic Computing

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

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

Can a person’s individual traits be determined from their brain? For a long time, this was unclear, partly because there were no suitable methods of investigation. Artificial intelligence and big data are now opening up new possibilities and have heralded a change of perspective in brain research.