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Forschungszentrum Jülich | Facts and Figures Forschungszentrum Jülich | Facts and Figures2 3
At a Glance 4
Topics at Jülich 6
Our Responsibility 8 Sustainable Campus
Our Business 9 Knowledge
Creating Knowledge
Platforms & Users 10
Work at Other Locations 16
Employees and Publications 18
Joint Appointments & JARA 20
Third-Party Funds & Revenues 22
Sharing Knowledge
International Projects 24
Cooperations in Germany and Abroad 26
Imparting Knowledge
Young Academics 28
Vocational Training & Dual Study Programmes 30
JuLab Schools Laboratory 31
Using Knowledge
Technology Transfer 32
Licences & Patents 33
Industrial Partners 34
Contact Information & How to Find Us 36
Publication Details 39
CONTENTS
Forschungszentrum Jülich | Facts and Figures Forschungszentrum Jülich | Facts and Figures4 5
Foundation11 December 1956
PartnersFederal Republic of Germany (90 %) Federal State of North Rhine-Westphalia (10 %) Share capital € 520,000
Revenue€ 557 million
Area2.2 km2
EmployeesTotal 5,236Including: Scientists 1 ,658 (incl. 469 PhD students)Technical staff 1 ,662 Trainees & students on placement 303
Visiting scientists860 from 40 countries
Board of Directors Prof. Dr. Achim Bachem (Chairman) Karsten Beneke (Vice-Chairman) Prof. Dr. Sebastian M. Schmidt (member) Prof. Dr.-Ing. Harald Bolt (member)
Supervisory BoardMinisterialdirektor Dr. Karl Eugen Huthmacher (Chairman)
Scientific Advisory CouncilDr. Heike Riel (Chairman)
Scientific and Technical CouncilProf. Dr. A. Wahner (Chairman)
As of: 31 Dec. 2012
At a Glance
Forschungszentrum Jülich pursues cutting-edge interdisci-plinary research on pressing issues facing society today. With its competence in materials science and simulation, and its expertise in physics, nanotechnology, and informa-tion technology, as well as in the biosciences and brain research, Jülich is developing the basis for the key tech-nologies of tomorrow. In this way, Forschungszentrum Jül-ich helps to solve the grand challenges facing society in the fields of energy and the environment, health, and infor-mation technology. Forschungszentrum Jülich is also breaking new ground in the form of strategic partnerships with universities, research institutions, and industry in Germany and abroad. With more than 5,000 employees, Jülich – a member of the Helmholtz Association – is one of the large interdisciplinary research centres in Europe.
The Board of Directors of Forschungszentrum Jülich: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Harald Bolt, Prof. Dr. Achim Bachem, Prof. Dr. Sebastian M. Schmidt, and Karsten Beneke (from left to right)
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Topics at Jülich
Scientists at Jülich are tapping into new sources of energy and developing new storage solutions for the transforma-tion of the energy sector. They are developing new, urgent-ly required, environmentally friendly technologies to ex-pand renewable energy and optimize the use of fossil fuels. Nuclear waste management is also an area in which Jülich is active. In addition, researchers at Jülich are con-cerned with the consequences of human activities for the climate, while simultaneously focusing on plants as one of the most important sources of nutrition worldwide.
Digital networking has become part of our everyday life. Physicists, computer scientists, and nanotechnologists work together at Jülich to lay the foundation for future in-formation systems. These technologies will be faster and more energy-efficient. At the same time, researchers oper-ate supercomputers for complex simulations, gaining in-sights that would have remained hidden using experiments alone. Jülich supercomputers calculate the behaviour of proteins, semiconductor materials, and galaxies, as well as evacuation scenarios at large public events.
Our brain comprises more than 100 billion neurons. At Jül-ich, physicists, medical scientists, pharmacologists, chem-ists, and biologists collaborate closely in order to learn how it functions and to improve the diagnosis and treat-ment of neurological disorders. They work together with industry to design imaging techniques and help develop new pharmaceuticals. This leads to even more precise im-ages of changes in the brain with the ultimate aim of miti-gating the development of dementia or even delaying its onset in the future.
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Forschungszentrum Jülich believes in sustainable develop-ment – not only within the realm of science, but also in its everyday work. A sustainable campus at Jülich means be-ing in a position to offer society options for sustainable development. And it’s not just scientific results that count. Research itself and its associated infrastructure should al-so make efficient use of the available resources.
Jülich 2050: A campus with a futureWhat will the Jülich campus look like 40 years from now? It will certainly be energy-efficient and future-oriented – a location for researching, working, and living with for-ward-looking perspectives. To make this vision a reality, Forschungszentrum Jülich has developed an urban devel-opment master plan. It comprises innovative approaches to energy efficiency and envisages a new campus struc-ture designed to facilitate the exchange of scientific ideas between disciplines.
Sustainable Campus staff unitThe Sustainable Campus staff unit was established in July 2012 to bring together all topics on campus related to sus-tainability. Its task is to support the institutes and infra-structure divisions in implementing a gradual transforma-tion process to make the campus more economically, eco-logically, and socially sustainable.
Our Responsibility Sustainable Campus
Creating knowledgeIn 2012, Forschungszentrum Jülich once again performed extremely well in terms of the most important indicators of research achievements. For example, Jülich scientists pub-lished more than 1,400 scientific papers in peer-reviewed journals and the total amount of funding from the German Research Foundation (DFG) increased to almost € 6.6 mil-lion. A committed personnel policy is one of the corner-stones of this success.
Imparting knowledgeJülich’s research infrastructure offers the executives of tomorrow an ideal springboard to launch their careers in science. Together with universities in the region, Forschungs-zentrum Jülich has set up new master’s courses and grad-uate schools. PhD opportunities at Jülich are also very popular among postgraduates abroad.
Sharing knowledgeForschungszentrum Jülich cooperates closely with part-ners from science and industry, both at the national and international level. An excellent example of this is the Human Brain Project – one of the flagships of the EU’s Future and Emerging Technologies programme. Research-ers from 23 countries aim to simulate the human brain on a supercomputer developed by a team including experts from Jülich. Using knowledgeThis expertise in central fields of research combined with our outstanding infrastructure make Forschungszentrum Jülich a much sought-after partner in industry. Current examples testify to this: Jülich scientists are developing drugs to treat Alzheimer’s, an environmentally friendly emergency power supply, and a method of recycling elec-tronic waste.
Our Business Knowledge
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Creating Knowledge Platforms
Jülich’s top computer JUQUEEN – the first computer in Europe capable of processing 5 trillion arithmetic operations per second.
Jülich Supercomputing Centre (JSC)JSC operates supercomputers of the highest performance class in Europe and provides support for scientists and en-gineers at Forschungszentrum Jülich, in German and Euro-pean universities and research institutions, and in industry when it comes to solving highly complex problems with simulation calculations.
Wissen schaffen Users
The Jülich supercomputers are used extensively by scien-tists outside Forschungszentrum Jülich. Computing time is allocated by independent science committees.
GRS 2 % PRACE Tier-1 (DECI) 5 %
NIC national 48 %
Forschungszentrum Jülich 43 % NIC international 2 %
JUROPA*
Computing time by users
Research fields of ongoing European projects (PRACE) in 2012
GCS: Gauss Centre for Supercomputing (association of the three national super-computing centres JSC, HLRS, and LRZ)
NIC: John von Neumann Institute for Computing (national allocation body, funded by the three Helmholtz centres Forschungszentrum Jülich, DESY, and GSI)
GRS: German Research School for Simulation Sciences (graduate school run jointly by RWTH Aachen University and Forschungszentrum Jülich)
*Period: Nov. 2011–Oct. 2012 and May 2012–April 2013
PRACE: Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe (European HPC infrastructure) DECI: DEISA Extreme Computing Initiative
DEISA: Distributed European Infrastructure for Supercomputing Applications (European HPC infrastructure, forerunner of PRACE)
GRS 3 % PRACE Tier-0 35 %
Forschungszentrum Jülich 12 % GCS 50 %
JUGENE/JUQUEEN*
Engineering and energy 15 Chemistry and materials science 12
Basic physics research 48
Medicine and life sciences 16
Astrophysics 9
JUGENE/JUQUEEN*
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JCNS operates instruments at the Heinz Maier-Leibnitz re-search neutron source (FRM II) in Garching near Munich, at the Institute Laue-Langevin (ILL) in Grenoble, France, and at the Spallation Neutron Source (SNS) in Oak Ridge, USA.
Use of the JCNS neutron scattering instruments by external researchers in 2012
Instrument (neutron source)
Application Usage (days)
BioDiff (FRM-II)* Crystals with large single cells 70
DNS (FRM-II) Magnetic order 47
HEIDI (FRM-II)** Crystal structures 82
J-NSE (FRM-II) Soft matter 77
KWS 1 (FRM-II) Proteins, polymers, layer systems 74
KWS 2 (FRM-II) Colloids, microemulsions 53
KWS 3 (FRM-II) Dissolved particles, porous materials 61
POLI (FRM-II)** Complex magnetic orders 29
SPHERES (FRM-II) Molecular rotation, phase transitions 60
IN12 (ILL)Dynamics of magnetic orders, lattice structures, amorphous materials
66
NSE (SNS) Condensed matter, complex liquids 29
Jülich Centre for Neutron Science (JCNS) Neutron scattering provides unique insights into matter. JCNS operates instruments at the world’s leading neutron sources (see p. 16) and also grants third-party scientists access to them. Furthermore, it refines the methods of neutron research.
COSY cooler synchrotronThe Jülich particle accelerator and storage ring is like a microscope for the components of a nucleus – the protons and neutrons. Applications are reviewed by the Program Advisory Committee comprising internation-ally respected physicists from the USA and Europe. At COSY, components are also tested for the international accelerator facility FAIR in Darm-stadt, which is one of the largest research projects in the world.
Platforms Users
Jülich coordinates the German contribution to the European Spallation Source (ESS), which is scheduled to go into operation in 2018 in Lund, Sweden.
Forschungszentrum Jülich is developing the 575-metre-long high-energy storage ring (HESR) for the inter-
national accelerator facility FAIR. From 2018 onwards, researchers will use anti-proton experiments at HESR to clarify
fundamental issues in physics.
** In cooperation with Technische Universität München (TUM)** Operated by RWTH Aachen University
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Users of the ER-C electron microscopes in 2012 About half of the time available for measurements on the three Titan microscopes (PICO, TEM, STEM) is allocated to universities, research institutions, and industry by a panel of experts appointed by the German Research Foundation.
Use of the 3 T MR-PET hybrid scannerIn 2012, a total of 76 patients were examined from the neurosurgical departments of the universities in Düssel-dorf and Cologne as well as from the radiotherapy department of RWTH Aachen University. An additional 15 patients from the department of nuclear medicine at Düs-
seldorf University Hospital were also examined.
Platforms Users
Ernst Ruska-Centre (ER-C)Together, Forschungszentrum Jülich and RWTH Aachen Univer-sity operate ER-C as a centre for atomic-resolution electron micros-copy and spectroscopy at the highest international level. At the same time, it is the first national user centre for ultrahigh-resolu-tion electron microscopy.
Using the electron microscope PICO, the position of individual atoms can be deter-mined with a sharp, record-breaking reso-lution of 50 billionths of a millimetre, pav-ing the way for progress in energy research and information technologies.
Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine (INM)INM focuses on the structure and function of the healthy and diseased human brain. It aims to understand the changes caused by neurological and psychiatric disorders, and thus improve their diagnosis and treatment. Scientists here work with imaging techniques such as structural and functional magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), positron emission tomography (PET), and hybrid systems, some of which may also used by external researchers.
The 9.4 T MR-PET hybrid device with a field strength of 9.4 tesla provides unique insights into the brain.
Germany (excl. NRW) 20 %
Rest of world 20 % Europe 42 % NRW 18 %
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Unsere Leistung: Wissen
Institute Erlangen-Nürnberg Renewable Energy Production (HI ERN), which was established cooperatively by Forschungszentrum Jülich, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), and Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin (HZB).
Project Management JülichThe project management agency with the highest turnover in Germany works largely as an independent organization on behalf of the German federal government and federal states as well as the European Commission. With national contact points in Jülich, Berlin, Bonn, and Rostock, as well as its involvement in numerous European coordination initiatives, it is actively helping to shape the European Research Area.
Project Management ETN Project Management ETN has been working for the federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia for over 20 years and it is financed completely by commissions from the federal state. ETN is responsible for the topics of energy (progres.nrw programme), the healthcare and food industry, and it also coordinates regional and structural development pro-jects.
Biotechnology ClusterIn Düsseldorf, Technology Transfer manages the Biotech-nology Cluster BIO.NRW, which aims to encourage collabo-rations between research, industry, investors, and politics at the regional, national, and international level.
Work at Other Locations Scientists from Forschungszentrum Jülich not only operate top-class research instruments on site at Jülich but also at other locations in Germany and throughout the world. In addition, Jülich is active in supporting early-career scien-tists, and its project management organization has several branch offices in Germany.
Global experiments with neutronsThere are only a few places in the world where neutron beams provide insights into matter. The Jülich Centre for Neutron Science (JCNS) operates instruments at various neutron sources. Most of these instruments are at the re-search reactor FRM II in Garching, others are at ILL’s high-flux reactor in Grenoble, while some are at the world’s most powerful pulsed neutron source SNS at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA, where Jülich is the only research institution outside North America to operate instruments.
Cooperation par excellence with AachenForschungszentrum Jülich works very closely with RWTH Aachen University in the Jülich Aachen Research Alliance (JARA; see p. 21), which is a cooperation involving almost 4,000 employees. In addition, Forschungszentrum Jülich and RWTH Aachen University jointly run the German Re-search School for Simulation Sciences (GRS), a graduate school for master’s and PhD students.
Helmholtz Institute for Renewable Energy Production Printable photovoltaics and innovative energy storage us-ing hydrogen provide the focus for work at the Helmholtz
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By publishing, researchers are continuously expanding the pool of knowledge, which is then used as a basis for new work by other scientists.
For Forschungszentrum Jülich, a committed personnel pol-icy is a decisive factor in consolidating its leading position in the competition for the brightest minds in science.
Publications Employees
Area Numbers as of 31 Dec. 2012
Scientific and technical personnel 3,320
Scientific personnellincl. PhD students*incl. professors W3: 44; W2: 40; W1: 9
1,658 469
93
Technical personnel 1,662
Project management organizations 768
Service staff and administration 691
Undergraduates/postgraduates 118
Scholarship holders 36
Trainees and students on placement 303
Total 5,236
Journals in which Jülich researchers published most frequently in 2012 (as of 31 Dec. 2012).
Jülich publications over the last five years
Journal Number of publications
Physical Review B 61
Physical Review Letters 35
Applied Physics Letters 30
Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics 28
Geophysical Research Abstracts 28
PLOS one 25
Nuclear Fusion 23
Journal of Physics/Condensed Matter 23
NeuroImage 21
Nature Publishing Group 15
Science 3
2008 1,034 600 91
2009 1,133 526 61
2010 1,048 686 100
2011 1,363 651 101
2012 1,452 688 93
Total
1,725
1,720
1,834
2,115
2,233
In peer-reviewed journals
Books, other
PhD theses, habilitations
* A total of 828 PhD students were supervised at Forschungszentrum Jülich in 2012 (cumulative, not as of 31 Dec. 2012).
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Joint Appointments
Scientists working at Jülich are appointed professor in a joint procedure with a partner university. A total of 95 joint appointments were made in 2012, and 15 of these positions were newly created or newly filled. Of these professors, 81 were appointed in accordance with the Jülich model and seconded by the university to fulfil their duties as head of institute at Jülich; the rest were seconded by Jülich to perform their duties full-time at the university.
JARA pools the expertise of Forschungszentrum Jülich and RWTH Aachen University in a research partnership that is unique in Germany. The alliance currently comprises 3,800 employees and was established in 2007 in preparation for the first round of the Excellence Initiative. It also did well in the second round with its application for renewal of its grant: “RWTH Aachen 2020: Meeting Global Challenges. The Integrated Interdisciplinary University of Technology”.
Research areas:JARA-BRAIN: Investigating psychological and neurological diseases
JARA-FIT: New approaches in information technologyJARA-HPC: Computer simulation with supercomputersJARA-ENERGY: Energy research for the futureJARA-FAME: Particle physics and antimatter
JARA: Facts and figures 2012Budget: € 500 millionVolume of investments: € 60 millionMoney from the Excellence Initiative: approx. € 13.6 million
The number of jointly appointed professors (salary grades W) increased from 11 in 2006 to 44 in 2012. All institutes involved in JARA produced a combined total of 1,662 peer-reviewed publications.
Joint support for young scientistsJARA offers training opportunities for outstanding early-career scientists in the form of structured programmes for PhD students and intensive support and guidance from specialists. It has also established other programmes in-cluding the Master of Simulation Sciences and offers spe-cialized junior professorships such as the “clinician scien-tist”. The latter combines clinical and research work at both Aachen and Jülich.
FH Aachen 8 RWTH Aachen 44 | 7
HHU Düsseldorf 14 | 3
Uni Wuppertal 3
Uni Bochum 4 | 1
Uni Duisburg- Essen 1
Uni Münster 1
Uni Stuttgart 1 | 1
Uni Regensburg 1 | 1
Uni Cologne 8 | 1
Uni Bonn 10 | 2
Total joint appointments | New appointments 2012
JARA Jülich Aachen Research Alliance
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In 2012, third-party funds continued to make up a signifi-cant share of Forschungszentrum Jülich’s research budg-et, supplementing its regular budget. The German federal government and federal states invest in Jülich research, as do the German Research Foundation (DFG) and indus-try. This reflects their belief that Jülich will deliver sus-tained benefits for society and important innovations for industry.
Third-Party Funds & Revenues
Research fields Sum
Area Structure of Matter
Earth and Environ-ment
Health Energy Key Tech-nologies
Research fields
Other revenues Total
EU funding 1,172,000 3,208,000 480,000 5,409,000 3,963,000 14,232,000 905,000 15,137,000
National project funding (excl. DFG)
2,162,000 2,617,000 2,104,000 16,104,000 21,674,000 44,661,000 20,284,00 64,945,000
incl. transferred subsidies 0 168,000 69,000 530,000 117,000 884,000 19,752,000 20,636,000
DFG funding 291,000 1,654,000 81,000 1,207,000 3,294,000 6,527,000 65,000 6,592,000
Project funding 65,420,000 86,674,000
Contracts, abroad 14,000 295,000 1,000 1,191,000 577,000 2,078,000 319,000 2,397,000
Contracts, Germany 1,077,000 1,443,000 586,000 4,618,000 1,764,000 9,488,000 15,782,000 25,270,000
Project management organizations 57,843,000 57,843,000
Sum 4,716,000 9,217,000 3,252,000 28,529,000 31,272,000 76,986,000 95,198,000 172,184,000
Third-party funds 384,684,000
Subsidies from federal and state governments incl. dis-mantling projects
66,120,000
Total 556,868,000
Revenues in 2012 without changes in provisions
Project funding from national and international public sources
DFG project funding
62,058,000
139,785,000
75,346 ,000
91,757,000
86,674,000
2008
2009
2010
2011
2012
2,813,000
3,297,000
4,166,000
5,472,000
6,592,000
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Sharing Knowledge International Projects
Forschungszentrum Jülich works with numerous partners from science and industry at the national and internation-al level and does so to the benefit of all involved.
Operation brain: The Human Brain ProjectSimulating the human brain on a su-percomputer and understanding it on all levels is the aim of the EU project, which is set to receive up to a billion euros in funding over the next ten years. Experts at Jülich and their collaboration partners from 23 countries are developing new su-percomputers and software for the project. The neuroscientific basis of the project is a detailed model of the human brain, which brain re-searchers at Jülich are creating and using to test how neuron activity can be simulated.
Above the clouds: Boundless climate researchThe state-of-the-art spectrom-eter GLORIA on the research aircraft HALO measures the movement of greenhouse gas-es like carbon dioxide, ozone, and methane over long dis-tances with a particularly high resolution. In 2012, the flight routes in the measurement campaigns TACTS and ESMVal extended from the Arctic Circle over Africa right down to the Antarctic – a total of 126 flight hours and 88,000 kilometres.
JARA-FAME: Exploring elemental building blocks and forcesWhat happened to the antimatter that was created at the dawn of the universe? Researchers in the new JARA section known as FAME are pursuing a two-fold approach. On the one hand, they are using the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS) on the International Space Station (ISS) to search for clues in space. In the JEDI project, on the other hand, they aim to detect a permanent electric dipole moment of the proton – a tiny irregularity in charge distribution that would explain the disproportion of matter to antimatter.
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Photovoltaics
FAST TRACK*Cost-effective thin-film silicon solar modules
€ 2,178,251 (EU)
Fuel cells
Fuel processing technology with BTL and
reformer fuel cells
€ 4,104,000 (BMWi)
Plant researchDPPN*
German Plant Phenotyp-ing Network
€ 18,342,495 (BMBF)
Plant research
CROP.SENSe*Competence network for agricultural and nutrition
research: sensors
2,252,739 € (BMWi)
Nuclear physics
POLBAR* Experimental set- up with polarized antiprotons
€ 1,689,900 (EU)
Neuro- scienses
Human Brain Model*
Helmholtz Alliance on Systems Biology
€ 4,348,800 (HGF)
Nuclear physicsHESR*
Storage ring for the ac-celerator facility FAIR
€ 38,220,000 (BMBF)
Imaging technique
9.4 tesla/PET*Development of MR-PET
hybrid systems
€ 9,625,000 (BMBF)
Nuclear physicsESS*
Redesigning the Euro-pean Spallation Source
€ 8,989,980 (BMBF)
Plasma physics ITER*
Components for the international fusion
experiment
€ 11,659,446 (BMBF)
Super- computing
HPC for Fusion*High-performance com-puting for applications
in fusion research€ 3,600,000
(EU, EFDA)
Super- computing
Petaflop-Rechner*Construction and
expansion
€ 102,623,000 (MIWF, BMBF)
Simulation sciencesGRS*
German Research School for Simulation
Sciences
6,200,000 € (HGF)
Complex systemsESMI*
European Soft Matter Infrastructure
€ 2,774,539 (EU)
Super- computing
PRACE 1IP-2IP-3IP*European
supercomputing infrastructure
€ 4,224,922 (EU)
Nanoelectronics
VITI*Virtual Institute for
Topological Insulators
€ 2,900,000 (HGF)
Materials
Material charac-terization*
for energy converters and storage systems
€ 6,506,553 (BMBF)
Energy storage
MEET Hi-ENDMaterials and compo-
nents for batteries with high energy density
€ 2,516,692 (BMBF)
Energy storageMEMO*
Metal-metal oxide high-temperature batteries
€ 4,517,690 (BMBF)
Energy & climateHITEC*
Interdisciplinary Doc-toral Training in Energy and Climate Research
€ 2,400,000 (HGF)
Climate research
RECONCILE*Forecasts of ozone
depletion in the polar stratosphere€ 1,635,728
(EU)
Power plants
METPORE II*Metal-supported
ceramic membranes for gas separation
€ 2,029,906 (BMWi) Key
technologies
Information technology
Health
Energy & environment
Selection
Projects with national funding in excess of € 2 million
EU projects with funding in excess of € 1.5 million
* Projects coordinated by Jülich
Cooperations in Germany and Abroad
The future lies in networked research. In 2012, Forschungszentrum Jülich collaborated with numerous partners from science and industry on 263 nationally funded projects and 155 EU projects. A total of 50 national and international alliances were coordinated by Jülich.
Plant researchEPPN*
European Plant Pheno-typing Network
€ 1,615,852 (EU)
Bioelectronics
CILIA*Sensor systems based on the principle of bio- logical sensory hairs
€ 1,633,310 (EU)
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Training for PhD studentsForschungszentrum Jülich works together with partner univer-sities to train PhD students (in 2012, it was involved in 16 graduate schools) and it coordinates pioneering initiatives.
German Research School for Simulation Sciences (GRS) GRS is a unique joint facility run in cooperation with RWTH Aachen University. It trains scientists and engineers as experts in simulations on supercomputers. A master’s course in simulation sciences is offered together with the option of completing a PhD. In winter semester 2012/2013, the school had 177 applications from all around the world for its master’s degree, of which 20 were accepted.
4 chairs | 75 employees (incl.19 student assistant)* 33 PhD students* | 50 students* 41 peer-reviewed publications in 2012 *Averages 2012
HITECHelmholtz Interdisciplinary Doctoral Training in Energy and Climate Research: a specialized interdisciplinary pro-gramme provides students with the expertise and the methodological and communication skills necessary for scientific work on the highest international level. In April 2013, there were 139 PhD students enrolled in the HITEC programme offered by Jülich in cooperation with partner universities in Aachen, Bochum, Düsseldorf, Cologne, and Wuppertal. Each year, additional PhD students have the opportunity to become HITEC fellows in an international competition.
IHRS BioSoftThe Helmholtz Research School based in Jülich offers fas-cinating research opportunities at the interface between physics, chemistry, and biology. The Caesar programme run by the universities in Cologne and Düsseldorf togeth-er with Forschungszentrum Jülich focuses on the proper-ties of soft matter and biological systems. At the end of 2012, a total of 33 PhD students were enrolled at the In-ternational Helmholtz Research School.
Young, talented researchers from Germany, Europe, and all over the world have access to exceptional conditions at Jülich to help them kick-start their career as a research scientist in the institutes or within the scope of one of the various support programmes, for example as head of their own young investigators group.
Imparting Knowledge Young Academics
2004 2
2005 4
2006 8
2007 13
2008 12
2009 22
2010 21
2011 22
2012 20
Number of young investigators groups in Jülich 2004 – 2012 The figures comprise young investigators groups funded by the Helmholtz Association, Forschungszentrum Jülich, and third parties.
Junior professor Martina Müller, head of the young investigators group Ox-ide Spintronics Laboratory
Vocational training at JülichForschungszentrum Jülich is the largest vocational train-ing centre and employer in the region. The hands-on, high-quality training programmes are often combined with placements abroad. In 2012, the number of new trainees rose from 88 to 115, and 36 of these were en-rolled in a dual study programme.
Vocational Training & Dual Study Programms
Forschungszentrum Jülich has also developed teaching and learning activities for children. The JuLab Schools Laboratory is where teachers can take their classes and parents can come with their pre-school children to allow kids perform their own experiments and get to grips with science and technology while having fun.
In addition to more intensive holiday activities and teach-er training, JuLab also offers day-long activities for school classes on the following topics:
• Fuel cells • Soil• Giant magnetoresistance • DNA• Superconductors• Laboratory rally• Electrical engineering • Ozone
• Radioactivity
More information: www.julab.de
JuLab Schools Laboratory
University course Profession
Bachelor of Scientific Programming Mathematical and technical software developer (MATSE)
Bachelor of Science oder Engineering Chemistry laboratory assistant
Bachelor of Physical Engineering Physics laboratory assistant
Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering Industrial mechanic
Bachelor of Electrical Engineering Electronics engineer for technical services
Bachelor of Arts in Business Administration
Office communications specialist
Dual study Vocational training plus university studies – this is the es-sence of dual study programmes. Those who complete such programmes are sought-after professionals with ex-pertise at the interface between scientific issues and technical applications.
Places for trainees New trainees 2012
Laboratory assistants 29
Electricians 23
Metalworkers 12
Technical product designers 3
Administrative occupations 15
Mathematical and technical software developers 25
Other 8
Part-time university coursesBiology and chemistry laboratory assistants who have completed their initial training at Jülich and wish to gain further qualifications while in employment have the op-portunity to pursue a part-time, fast-track bachelor’s over four semesters at the Hogeschool Zuyd in Heerlen, the Netherlands.
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Jülich research provides answers to fundamental ques-tions. It also drives innovations that are literally worth their weight in gold and benefit both industry and society. A steady flow of new patent applications and numerous licensing agreements testify to this.
Example: Analytical technique for electronic wasteOld electronic devices contain palladium and iridium in addition to gold and silver. Scientists at Jülich specializing in nuclear safety research have developed an analytical technique to quantify the valuable and toxic raw materials contained in a batch of scrap metal.
Example: On the road towards drugs for Alzheimer’sBiochemists at Jülich have developed a new drug for Alzheimer’s disease that prevents the formation of the characteristic plaques in the brain. The substance will now be tested in clinical trials.
Example: Emergency power supply with fuel cellsFuel cells developed at Jülich can supply mobile base sta-tions with power in emergencies in a reliable and environ-mentally friendly manner. They work with liquid methanol, which can absorb around one hundred times more energy than a battery of the same weight and store it for longer.
Using Knowledge Technology Transfer Licences
Patents Patent applications and patents granted 2012
Number of licences 2012
Total number 100
of which new of which expiring
6 18
Total share foreign 31
Share USA (most important partner country) 12
Share SMEs 69
Income from licences 2012 € 1.12 million
Patent applications Germany 47 of which priority applications 45
Patent applications abroad 36 of which priority applications 3
Total patents granted 82 including technologies for which a patent was granted for the first time 25
Patents granted Germany 12
Patents granted abroad 70
Total number of protective rights 2012 16,892
Total number of protective rights (Patents, patent applications, and utility models in Germany and abroad)
2007 15,625
2008 16,276
2009 15,377
2010 14,793
2011 16,159
2012 16,892
Successful lifetime tests: direct methanol fuel cells from Jülich are capable of powering small vehicles.
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Industrial partners
In 2012, scientists at Jülich were involved in a total of 363 projects – 284 national and 79 international – with part-ners from industry.
MoBiChip Chip-based synthesis of radioactive drugs and diagnostics for molecular imaging
Exascale Innovation Centre (EIC) with IBM
EFFESYS Efficient next-generation ecological aircraft systems
Exascale Lab with INTEL and PARTEC Jülich open innovation lab for cluster su-
percomputing design and evaluation
FLEXSIM Flexible simulation of fuel cells
GLASSeal Cost savings and optimization of glass
sealant tapes in SOFC technology
GDL coatings for HT-PEFCs and the binding and release of pesticides from biofilter materials
NIVIDIA Application Lab to speed up scientific applications with
graphics processing units
Improved plant phenotyping under various environmental conditions
JuRoPA-3 Development of an HPC system with T-Platforms cluster architecture and
ParaStation cluster middleware
Solar cells based on printable liquid Si and/or Ge compounds
Cultivation, measurement, modelling, and simulation
of 13-C-labelling experiments using Penicillium chrysogenum
MaPEI Membrane electrode assemblies for the production of hydrogen from renewable energies
MEMO Characterization of metal-metal oxide high-temperature storage systems and MR-PET
Fabrication of adhesive peptides Biotechnological routes for functional polymer and oligomer products
Innovative photovoltaic module technology
Centre of excellence within the Ziel2.NRW programme
ABX advanced biochemical
compounds
Airbus Deutschland
GmbH
BAYER Bioscience N.V.
Aixprocess Verfahrens- und
Strömungstechnik
IBM Deutschland
R & D GmbH
ParTec Cluster Competence
Center GmbH
TÜV Immissionsschutz und
Energiesysteme
BASF SE
Henkel KGaA
Intel GmbH
Kerafol GmbH
NVIDIA GmbH
Sandoz GmbH
Siemens AG
Evonic Degussa GmbH
FuMA-Tech GmbH
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In 2012, scientists at Jülich were involved in a total of 363 projects – 284 national and 79 international – with part-ners from industry.
Examples of Jülich’s industrial collaborations 2012
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