Interactions between mechanical and electronic properties offer significant application potential.

Johannes Steinmann receives the international EPS-AG/IPAC Frank Sacherer Prize for research in the context of his doctoral thesis at IBPT. 

KIT scientists are involved in the Belle II accelerator experiment, which has now published first results.

Wolfgang Wernsdorfer receives 150 000 Euros in prize money for his contributions to quantum computing.

Capital business magazine ranks Kathrin Valerius among the “Young Elite 2019” in the category of “Science and Society.”

The KATRIN Karlsruhe Tritium Neutrino Experiment limits the mass of neutrinos to less than 1 eV.

Federal Ministry of Education and Research funds KIT accelerator research with around three million euros.

Scientist receives award for theoretical descriptions of processes in particle accelerators.

The German ESA astronaut received an honorary doctorate and spoke about his missions in space. Video available.

Award of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research goes to project for research into bionic ship coatings.

The Federal Ministry of Education and Research funds cooperation project on fast and tap-proof communication.

DFG grants funds for the RTG 2450 "Tailored Scale-Bridging Approaches to Computational Nanoscience". Funding starts in April 2019 for initially four and a half years.

KIT researchers investigate competing states in high-temperature superconductors.

Researchers want to find out more about the fundamental theory.

KIT spin-off receives award for revolutionary 3D laser printing process.

Prof. Ulrich Husemann (ETP) was elected to the board of directors of the German Physics Society (DPG) for the first time. The DPG is the world's largest physics society. The board of directors is the "parliament" of the DPG and especially responsible for strategic decisions. 

The Center pools the interdisciplinary mathematical research at KIT.

Wasps in several-million-year-old pupae detected by synchrotron X-ray microtomography.

Council for Research and Promotion of Young Scientists (CRYS) confirms extraordinary success of the Helmholtz Young Investigator Group "Analysis of KATRIN Data to Measure the Neutrino Mass and Search for New Physics“.

The coating reduces the frictional resistance of ships and makes them glide more easily through the water.

On April 17, 2018 the kick-off event for the Helmholtz International Research School for Astroparticle Physics and Enabling Technologies (HIRSAP) of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and the Universidad Nacional de San Martín (UNSAM) in Buenos Aires, Argentina, took place at KIT.

Ellen Gottschämmer from the Geophysical Institute has been honoured for excellent teaching.

The Pierre Auger Collaboration receives the award Physics World Top Ten Breakthrough of 2017 for their proof of extra-
galactic origin of high-energy cosmic rays. 

KIT scientists have implemented Grover’s quantum algorithm for search in unsorted databases.

A new multifunctional electron microscope of KIT can detect structures in sensitive materials.

The Helmholtz Association and the Russian Science Foundation (RSF) have selected the first six joint research groups for their "Helmholtz-RSF Joint Research Groups" funding program, including the Karlsruhe-Russian Astroparticle Data Life Cycle Initiative. The aim of this project is to make publicly available a broad spectrum of data on high-energy cosmic rays. The participating researchers from KIT are Dr. A. Haungs, IKP, and Prof. A. Streit, SCC, and from the Russian side Prof. A Kryukov, MSU. 

Am 13. Juli fanden die Feierlichkeiten anlässlich der Einweihung des Linear-
beschleunigers FLUTE statt. Am Linearbeschleuniger FLUTE (Ferninfrarot Linac- Und Test Experiment) erforscht das KIT Technologien für die Beschleuniger von morgen und die Anwendung von Terahertzstrahlung in Wissenschaft, Industrie und Medizin.

During the travel of Chancellor Angela Merkel to Argentina on June 8 an exchange with students and young scientists took place concerning cooperations. Doctoral students of the Double Doctoral degree in Astrophysics (DDAp) - a program between KIT and the Universidad Nacional de San Martín (UNSAM) in Buenos Aires - participated in the dialogue.

Der Teilchenbeschleuniger LHC am europäischen Teilchenphysiklabor CERN bei Genf hat wieder seinen Betrieb aufgenommen. Am CMS-Experiment wurde in der Winterpause ein neuer Silizium-Pixeldetektor eingebaut. Physiker, Ingenieure und Techniker vom Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT) haben dazu an vielen Stellen wichtige Beiträge geleistet.

European Research Council (ERC) selects Wolfgang Wernsdorfer for funding through an ERC Advanced Grant.

Robert Klanner was nominated for the 2016 Julius Wess Award in recognition of his fundamental contributions to  the development of silicon microstrip detectors.

The United States National Academy of Engineering elected Professor Horst Hahn as one of its foreign members.

Three KIT scientists receive the award worth EUR 50,000 for their interdisciplinary reasearch on three-dimensional cell culturing.

James W. Cronin, American physicist and nobel laureate, died August 25, 2016 in Saint Paul, Minnesota, USA, at the age of 84.

In the focus of the visit was a cooperation project with universities in the South of Brazil.

Alexander von Humboldt Professorship awarded to Wolfgang Wernsdorfer, who will conduct research at KIT from June.

The further development of new and ongoing cooperations where being discussed.

Pierre Auger Observatory with KIT participating will be continued and expanded.