Division V - Physics and Mathematics

Amadeus Bramsiepe, KIT

The most recent call for proposals for the Starting Grants offered by the European Research Council (ERC) saw a successful submission by Junior Professor Manuel Krannich from Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT): Funds amounting to EUR 1.5 million enable the mathematician to realize his project MaFC. The basic research project focusing on manifolds and functor calculus links multiple fields of pure mathematics. With his work, Krannich unveils surprising relationships between symmetries of high-dimensional manifolds and laws of algebra.

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New measuring instrument for operando battery research with KIT Light Source at KARA.

Daryoush Djavadi, KIT

Professor Herwig Schopper had a particularly close connection to Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT): As founding director of the Institute for Nuclear Physics, he laid the groundwork for today’s Institute for Experimental Particle Physics and Institute for Astroparticle Physics, as well as for the merger of the university and research center. Just last year, the KIT Department of Physics celebrated his 100th birthday and awarded him an honorary doctorate in recognition of his significant contributions to institutional development.

Markus Breig, KIT

Flood forecasting using artificial intelligence (AI), the investigation of wave phenomena such as light and sound waves, and the predictive power of mathematical models — researchers of the KIT Center MathSEE will present the latest research projects in mathematics at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) on Monday, July 14, 2025, at 6:30 p.m. in Karls

Elektronen besitzen einen Eigendrehimpuls, den Spin, der sie zu winzigen Magneten macht. In der Quanteninformationsverarbeitung kann dieser als Quantenbit (Qubit) dienen. Im Gegensatz zu klassischen Bits kann ein Qubit nicht nur die Zustände 0 und 1 annehmen, sondern auch Überlagerungen daraus, was zu einer erheblich gesteigerten Informationsdichte und Systemkomplexität führt. Diese Eigenschaften machen Spin-Qubits zu einem vielversprechenden Baustein für zukünftige Quantentechnologien – etwa in der Quantenkommunikation, für hochpräzise Sensorik oder als Speichereinheit in Quantencomputern. Doch das Design und die Kontrolle von Spin-Strukturen auf atomarer Ebene sind herausfordernd, insbesondere das zerstörungsfreie Auslesen der Informationen. 

Amadeus Bramsiepe, KIT

Refrigeration and cryogenics expert Professor Steffen Grohmann from Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) receives an Advanced Grant of the European Research Council (ERC). The ERC funds Grohmann’s project GRAVITHELIUM on the development of a key technology for the Einstein Telescope (ET) – the proposed next-generation European gravitational-wave detector. GRAVITHELIUM aims to push the sensitivity of cryogenic laser interferometers to fundamental limits using superfluid helium. This technology is expected to solve a central challenge in observing gravitational waves of the entire universe with ET.  

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Neutrinos, Higgs bosons, quarks, and others: This year’s Spring Meeting of the German Physical Society (Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft, DPG) will focus on elementary particles. From March 4 to 8, 2024, more than thousand physicists from all over Germany will meet at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT). The DPG working groups Equal Opportunities and Young DPG will also be involved in the program. Teachers are invited to attend free of charge. A special highlight of this year’s meeting will be a ceremonial session to honor particle physicist Professor Herwig Schopper on the occasion of his 100th birthday.

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With one new full proposal, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) will go into the final of the “Clusters of Excellence” funding line of the Excellence Strategy Competition launched by the federal and state governments. KIT’s sketch of a chemical platform for highly precise quantum architectures convinced the international expert jury. The results of the first selection round were announced by the German Research Foundation (DFG) and the Council of Science and Humanities (WR) this morning (February 2, 2024). In addition, KIT and its partners will submit renewal proposals for the two existing Clusters of Excellence on 3D designer materials and battery research. 

Katharina Henjes-Kunst

The mid-term update of the European Strategy for Astroparticle Physics 2017-2026 has been successfully completed by the European Astroparticle Physics Consortium (APPEC) and approved by the General Assembly. The Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) is involved in many of the ongoing and planned experiments.

Elia Fioravanti

Die Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) hat im Zeitraum vom 1. Januar bis 31. März 2023 14 Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftler neu in das Emmy Noether-Programm und 15 neu in das Heisenberg-Programm aufgenommen.

Nature

Publikation in Science: Quantenmechanische Anregungen der Elektronen in Strontiumruthanat erhöhen Supraleitung und erleichtern Verformung

Amadeus Bramsiepe, KIT

Wolfgang Wernsdorfer receives ERC Synergy Grant - Six-year international project DarkQuantum uses quantum technologies to prove the existence of axions

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Professor Anja Metelmann conducts cross-border research with her bridging professorship on quantum computing in Karlsruhe and Strasbourg.

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Two young scientists at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) have developed patented systems for enormously increased data selection