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.
Our values
For our future
As scientists, we research for the benefit of our society. Above all, we conduct research for the future of all of us. Together, we look at the major challenges we face and we seek possible answers. We explore and devise new approaches together. Our objective is to develop solutions and create new, resilient building blocks for our future. In this process, we are not only researchers, but also shapers of our future, catalysts, dialogue partners and generators of ideas.
Progress through collaboration
Only together we will be able to solve the urgent challenges we face. That is why we work in an interdisciplinary way, because only the exchange of ideas across disciplines and the collective effort lead to new ideas and solutions. We believe in people, in their knowledge and in their ideas, and we embrace and encourage creative debate. We appreciate different views and opinions and continue to develop approaches and concepts together and across various fields of research. We build the future together.
From elements to function
We explore the elements – from particles to cells – in order to improve functionalities and develop entirely new materials and approaches, because even the smallest particles often hold the potential of the building blocks of the future. On this path, we always follow three steps: from theory to experiment to new technology. We combine concepts, elements, ideas and approaches to create new intelligent solutions. We are bridging between the smallest components that make up our world and the building blocks that enable us to build the future.
