103 schoolgirls on Girls'Day at HZB
The girls creating a website.
Investigative glances into the microscope.
Working as an interior designer.
Making invisible gases visible - from CO2 experiments to electrochemical conversion.
IT-workshop where girls learn how to program.
Experimenting with wires.
A group photo at the end of the day!
On April 3, 2025, the annual Girls' Day took place, giving schoolgirls an insight into various careers in science and technology. We welcomed a total of 103 schoolgirls at our Adlershof and Wannsee sites and offered them a day full of exciting experiments - more participants than ever before!
The girls had the opportunity to take part in various workshops and experiments and gain insights into professions such as physicist, engineer and chemist.
In total, we offered 17 different workshops where they could try out the research topics at HZB in a fun way.
“For me personally, it was a special experience to help shape Girls'Day in my new role in the communications department. It was great to see the curiosity and enthusiasm with which the schoolgirls explored the world of science,” says new HZB colleague Mariam Aliabadi.
Dirk Lohmann, who has been working in the school lab since July last year, also emphasizes the importance of this day: “I think it is fundamentally important to awaken a fascination for science and the technologies of the future in children. Girls' Day gives us the opportunity to get girls interested in careers and training in this area - precisely because they are often still underrepresented here.”
We would like to thank all our colleagues who contributed with their commitment to making Girls' Day at HZB possible with such diverse and exciting workshops.
We hope that the schoolgirls had many new experiences today and that their interest in STEM subjects was awakened.
Girls' Day is an important initiative to get schoolgirls excited about science and technology and to encourage them to pursue careers in these fields as well.
- Georg Forster Research Fellow explores photocatalystsDr. Moses Alfred Oladele is working on photocatalysis for CO2 conversion in a joint project with the group of Dr. Matt Mayer, HZB, and Prof. Andreas Taubert at the University of Potsdam. The chemist from Redeemer's University in Ede, Nigeria, came to Berlin in the summer of 2024 with a Georg Forster Research Fellowship from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and will work at HZB for two years.
- Perovskite solar cells: New Young Investigator Group funded by BMBF at HZBIn the COMET-PV project, Dr Artem Musiienko aims to significantly accelerate the development of perovskite solar cells. He is using robotics and AI to analyse the many variations in the material composition of tin-based perovskites. The physicist will set up a Young Investigator Group at HZB. He will also have an affiliation with Humboldt University in Berlin, where he will gain teaching experience in preparation for a future professorship.
- Dr. Michelle Browne receives Daimler and Benz Foundation FellowshipMichelle Browne heads a Helmholtz Young Investigators Group on electrocatalysis at HZB. She has now been selected as a fellow of the Daimler and Benz Foundation. She will receive 40,000 euros over the next two years and, in addition, access to an excellent research network.