Research Field Matter and Materials

Over decades, society and science have further developed, optimized and individualized existing ideas, concepts and technologies. We are now experiencing a paradigm change. We will not be able to positively shape our future solely with existing technologies and our current knowledge.

We need to explore new ideas and technologies, develop new building blocks for our future and facilitate their implementation. Because only with these new building blocks will we build a good future.

We explore the elements – from particles to cells – to improve functionalities and develop entirely new materials and solutions, because even the smallest particles themselves hold the very potentials of the future's building blocks.

Together: The global challenges we face as a society are too large, too interconnected and too systemic to be tackled by one discipline alone. That is why we research and develop together and across disciplines in order to be able to address the most urgent aspects. Because only new perspectives and impulses enable new ideas.

For the future: We do not research for the sake of research, but for the future of all of us. To make this future possible, to build it, we need innovative approaches to finding solutions and, based on them, creating new building blocks for our future.

The building blocks of the future: For this reason, we need to research and explore new ideas and technologies, develop new building blocks for our future, and make their utilization possible. Because only with these new building blocks will we build a good future.

We research, create and develop these building blocks for the future together. This is our motivation, our responsibility and our vision.