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CONTENTS

At a Glance

Topics at J端lich

Our Responsibility

Sustainable Campus

Our Business

Knowledge

Creating Knowledge

Imparting Knowledge

Platforms & Users 10

Young Academics 28

Work at Other Locations 16

Vocational Training & Dual Study Programmes 30

Employees and Publications 18 Joint Appointments & JARA 20

JuLab Schools Laboratory 31

Third-Party Funds & Revenues 22

Sharing Knowledge

Using Knowledge

International Projects 24

Technology Transfer 32

Cooperations in Germany and Abroad

Licences & Patents 33 26

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Industrial Partners 34

Contact Information & How to Find Us

Publication Details

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At a Glance Foundation 11 December 1956 Partners Federal Republic of Germany (90 %) Federal State of North Rhine-Westphalia (10 %) Share capital € 520,000 Revenue € 557 million Area 2.2 km2 Employees Total Including: Scientists (incl. 469 PhD students) Technical staff Trainees & students on placement

5,236 1 ,658 1 ,662 303

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)

Visiting scientists 860 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 Board Ministerialdirektor Dr. Karl Eugen Huthmacher (Chairman) Scientific Advisory Council Dr. Heike Riel (Chairman) Scientific and Technical Council Prof. Dr. A. Wahner (Chairman) As of: 31 Dec. 2012

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Forschungszentrum Jülich pursues cutting-edge interdisciplinary research on pressing issues facing society today. With its competence in materials science and simulation, and its expertise in physics, nanotechnology, and information technology, as well as in the biosciences and brain research, Jülich is developing the basis for the key technologies of tomorrow. In this way, Forschungszentrum Jülich helps to solve the grand challenges facing society in the fields of energy and the environment, health, and information 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.

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ENERGY & ENVIRONMENT

Scientists at Jülich are tapping into new sources of energy and developing new storage solutions for the transformation of the energy sector. They are developing new, urgently required, environmentally friendly technologies to expand 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 concerned with the consequences of human activities for the climate, while simultaneously focusing on plants as one of the most important sources of nutrition worldwide.

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

Digital networking has become part of our everyday life. Physicists, computer scientists, and nanotechnologists work together at Jülich to lay the foundation for future information systems. These technologies will be faster and more energy-efficient. At the same time, researchers operate supercomputers for complex simulations, gaining insights 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.

HEALTH

Topics at Jülich

Our brain comprises more than 100 billion neurons. At Jülich, physicists, medical scientists, pharmacologists, chemists, and biologists collaborate closely in order to learn how it functions and to improve the diagnosis and treatment of neurological disorders. They work together with industry to design imaging techniques and help develop new pharmaceuticals. This leads to even more precise images of changes in the brain with the ultimate aim of mitigating the development of dementia or even delaying its onset in the future.

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Our Responsibility Sustainable Campus

Our Business Knowledge

Forschungszentrum Jülich believes in sustainable development – not only within the realm of science, but also in its everyday work. A sustainable campus at Jülich means being 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 also make efficient use of the available resources.

Creating knowledge In 2012, Forschungszentrum Jülich once again performed extremely well in terms of the most important indicators of research achievements. For example, Jülich scientists published 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 million. A committed personnel policy is one of the cornerstones of this success.

Jülich 2050: A campus with a future What 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 forward-looking perspectives. To make this vision a reality, Forschungszentrum Jülich has developed an urban development master plan. It comprises innovative approaches to energy efficiency and envisages a new campus structure designed to facilitate the exchange of scientific ideas between disciplines. Sustainable Campus staff unit The Sustainable Campus staff unit was established in July 2012 to bring together all topics on campus related to sustainability. Its task is to support the institutes and infrastructure divisions in implementing a gradual transformation process to make the campus more economically, ecologically, and socially sustainable.

Imparting knowledge Jülich’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 graduate schools. PhD opportunities at Jülich are also very popular among postgraduates abroad. Sharing knowledge Forschungszentrum Jülich cooperates closely with partners 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. Researchers from 23 countries aim to simulate the human brain on a supercomputer developed by a team including experts from Jülich. Using knowledge This 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 electronic waste.

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Creating Knowledge Platforms Jülich Supercomputing Centre (JSC) JSC operates supercomputers of the highest performance class in Europe and provides support for scientists and engineers at Forschungszentrum Jülich, in German and European 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 scientists outside Forschungszentrum Jülich. Computing time is allocated by independent science committees.

Computing time by users JUGENE/JUQUEEN* Forschungszentrum Jülich 12 %

GCS 50 %

PRACE Tier-0 35 %

GRS 3 %

JUROPA* Forschungszentrum Jülich 43 %

GRS 2 %

NIC international 2 %

PRACE Tier-1 (DECI) 5 %

NIC national 48 %

Research fields of ongoing European projects (PRACE) in 2012 Jülich’s top computer JUQUEEN – the first computer in Europe capable of processing 5 trillion arithmetic operations per second.

JUGENE/JUQUEEN* Chemistry and materials science 12

Medicine and life sciences 16

GCS: Gauss Centre for Supercomputing (association of the three national supercomputing 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)

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Engineering and energy 15

Basic physics research 48

Astrophysics 9

*Period: PRACE:

Nov. 2011–Oct. 2012 and May 2012–April 2013 Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe (European HPC infrastructure)

DECI: DEISA:

DEISA Extreme Computing Initiative Distributed European Infrastructure for Supercomputing Applications (European HPC infrastructure, forerunner of PRACE)

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Platforms

Users

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.

JCNS operates instruments at the Heinz Maier-Leibnitz research 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 Application

Instrument (neutron source)

Jülich coordinates the German contribution to the European Spallation Source (ESS), which is scheduled to go into operation in 2018 in Lund, Sweden.

Usage (days)

BioDiff (FRM-II)*

Crystals with large single cells

DNS (FRM-II)

Magnetic order

70 47

HEIDI (FRM-II)**

Crystal structures

J-NSE (FRM-II)

Soft matter

KWS 1 (FRM-II)

Proteins, polymers, layer systems

KWS 2 (FRM-II)

Colloids, microemulsions

KWS 3 (FRM-II)

Dissolved particles, porous materials

POLI (FRM-II)**

Complex magnetic orders

SPHERES (FRM-II)

Molecular rotation, phase transitions

IN12 (ILL)

Dynamics of magnetic orders, lattice structures, amorphous materials

NSE (SNS)

Condensed matter, complex liquids

** In cooperation with Technische Universität München (TUM) ** Operated by RWTH Aachen University

COSY cooler synchrotron The 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 internationally respected physicists from the USA and Europe. At COSY, components are also tested for the international accelerator facility FAIR in Darmstadt, which is one of the largest research projects in the world.

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Forschungszentrum Jülich is developing the 575-metrelong high-energy storage ring (HESR) for the international accelerator facility FAIR. From 2018 onwards, researchers will use antiproton experiments at HESR to clarify fundamental issues in physics.

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Platforms

Users

Ernst Ruska-Centre (ER-C) Together, Forschungszentrum Jülich and RWTH Aachen University operate ER-C as a centre for atomic-resolution electron microscopy and spectroscopy at the highest international level. At the same time, it is the first national user centre for ultrahigh-resolution electron microscopy.

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.

Using the electron microscope PICO, the position of individual atoms can be determined with a sharp, record-breaking resolution of 50 billionths of a millimetre, paving 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.

Rest of world 20 %

Europe 42 %

NRW 18 %

Germany (excl. NRW) 20 %

Use of the 3 T MR-PET hybrid scanner In 2012, a total of 76 patients were examined from the neurosurgical departments of the universities in Düsseldorf and Cologne as well as from the radiotherapy department of RWTH Aachen University. An additional 15 patients from the department of nuclear medicine at Düsseldorf University Hospital were also examined.

The 9.4 T MR-PET hybrid device with a field strength of 9.4 tesla provides unique insights into the brain.

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Unsere Leistung: Wissen

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 scientists, and its project management organization has several branch offices in Germany.

Global experiments with neutrons There 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 research reactor FRM II in Garching, others are at ILL’s highflux 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 Aachen Forschungszentrum 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 Research School for Simulation Sciences (GRS), a graduate school for master’s and PhD students.

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 Jülich The 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 projects.

Helmholtz Institute for Renewable Energy Production Printable photovoltaics and innovative energy storage using hydrogen provide the focus for work at the Helmholtz

Biotechnology Cluster In Düsseldorf, Technology Transfer manages the Biotechnology Cluster BIO.NRW, which aims to encourage collaborations between research, industry, investors, and politics at the regional, national, and international level.

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Employees

Publications

For Forschungszentrum Jülich, a committed personnel policy is a decisive factor in consolidating its leading position in the competition for the brightest minds in science.

By publishing, researchers are continuously expanding the pool of knowledge, which is then used as a basis for new work by other scientists.

Jülich publications over the last five years Total 2008

1,034

2009

600

1,133

2010

1,725

1,720

526

1,048

2011

100

686 1,363

2012 In peer-reviewed journals

101

651

1,452

688

Books, other

1,834 2,115 93

2,233

PhD theses, habilitations

Journals in which Jülich researchers published most frequently in 2012 (as of 31 Dec. 2012). Area

Numbers as of 31 Dec. 2012

Scientific and technical personnel

3,320

Scientific personnell incl. PhD students* incl. professors W3: 44; W2: 40; W1: 9

1,658 469 93

Technical personnel

1,662

Journal

Number of publications

Physical Review B

Physical Review Letters

Applied Physics Letters

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

Project management organizations

768

Geophysical Research Abstracts

Service staff and administration

691

PLOS one

Undergraduates/postgraduates

118

Nuclear Fusion

Journal of Physics/Condensed Matter

NeuroImage

Nature Publishing Group

Scholarship holders

Trainees and students on placement Total

303 5,236

* A total of 828 PhD students were supervised at Forschungszentrum Jülich in 2012 (cumulative, not as of 31 Dec. 2012).

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Science

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Joint Appointments

JARA Jülich Aachen Research Alliance

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

Uni Münster 1 Uni DuisburgEssen 1

Uni Bochum 4 | 1

JARA-FIT: New approaches in information technology JARA-HPC: Computer simulation with supercomputers JARA-ENERGY: Energy research for the future JARA-FAME: Particle physics and antimatter JARA: Facts and figures 2012 Budget: € 500 million Volume of investments: € 60 million Money from the Excellence Initiative: approx. € 13.6 million

Uni Wuppertal 3 HHU Düsseldorf 14 | 3 Uni Cologne 8 | 1

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 peerreviewed publications.

Uni Bonn 10 | 2

FH Aachen 8 RWTH Aachen 44 | 7

Total joint appointments | New appointments 2012

Joint support for young scientists JARA offers training opportunities for outstanding earlycareer scientists in the form of structured programmes for PhD students and intensive support and guidance from specialists. It has also established other programmes including the Master of Simulation Sciences and offers specialized junior professorships such as the “clinician scientist”. The latter combines clinical and research work at both Aachen and Jülich.

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Uni Regensburg 1 | 1 Uni Stuttgart 1 | 1

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Third-Party Funds & Revenues Project funding from national and international public sources

In 2012, third-party funds continued to make up a significant share of Forschungszentrum Jülich’s research budget, supplementing its regular budget. The German federal government and federal states invest in Jülich research, as do the German Research Foundation (DFG) and industry. This reflects their belief that Jülich will deliver sustained benefits for society and important innovations for industry.

DFG project funding

2008 62,058,000

2,813,000

2009 139,785,000

3,297,000

2010 75,346 ,000

4,166,000

2011 91,757,000

5,472,000

2012 86,674,000

6,592,000

Revenues in 2012 without changes in provisions

Research fields Earth and Environment

Structure of Matter

Area

Sum Health

Key Technologies

Energy

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

168,000

69,000

530,000

117,000

884,000

19,752,000

20,636,000

291,000

1,654,000

81,000

1,207,000

3,294,000

6,527,000

65,000

incl. transferred subsidies DFG funding Project funding

65,420,000

Contracts, abroad Contracts, Germany

14,000

295,000

1,000

1,191,000

577,000

2,078,000

319,000

2,397,000

1,077,000

1,443,000

586,000

4,618,000

1,764,000

9,488,000

15,782,000

25,270,000

57,843,000

95,198,000

172,184,000

Project management organizations Sum

4,716,000

9,217,000

3,252,000

28,529,000

31,272,000

76,986,000

Third-party funds

384,684,000

Subsidies from federal and state governments incl. dismantling projects

66,120,000

Total

6,592,000 86,674,000

556,868,000

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Sharing Knowledge International Projects Forschungszentrum Jülich works with numerous partners from science and industry at the national and international level and does so to the benefit of all involved.

Operation brain: The Human Brain Project Simulating the human brain on a supercomputer 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 supercomputers and software for the project. The neuroscientific basis of the project is a detailed model of the human brain, which brain researchers at Jülich are creating and using to test how neuron activity can be simulated.

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JARA-FAME: Exploring elemental building blocks and forces What 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.

Above the clouds: Boundless climate research The state-of-the-art spectrometer GLORIA on the research aircraft HALO measures the movement of greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide, ozone, and methane over long distances 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.

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Energy & environment

Cooperations in Germany and Abroad

Fuel cells Fuel processing technology with BTL and reformer fuel cells

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 Climate international alliances were coordinated research RECONCILE* by Jülich.

Supercomputing HPC for Fusion*

Supercomputing PRACE 1IP-2IP-3IP*

High-performance computing for applications in fusion research € 3,600,000 (EU, EFDA)

European supercomputing infrastructure € 4,224,922 (EU)

Information technology

Supercomputing Petaflop-Rechner* Construction and expansion € 102,623,000 (MIWF, BMBF)

Simulation sciences GRS*

Power plants

Virtual Institute for Topological Insulators € 2,900,000 (HGF)

Selection

for energy converters and storage systems € 6,506,553 (BMBF)

Experimental setup with polarized antiprotons € 1,689,900 (EU)

EU projects with funding in excess of € 1.5 million

Projects coordinated by Jülich

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€ 8,989,980 (BMBF)

Complex systems ESMI*

European Soft Matter Infrastructure € 2,774,539 (EU)

Plant research EPPN*

European Plant Phenotyping Network € 1,615,852 (EU)

Plant research DPPN*

German Plant Phenotyping Network € 18,342,495 (BMBF)

Redesigning the European Spallation Source

Nuclear physics POLBAR*

€ 4,517,690 (BMBF)

Energy storage MEET Hi-END

Key technologies

Nuclear physics ESS*

Energy storage MEMO*

Metal-metal oxide hightemperature batteries

Materials and components for batteries with high energy density € 2,516,692 (BMBF)

Nuclear physics HESR*

€ 38,220,000 (BMBF)

€ 2,178,251 (EU)

Energy & climate HITEC*

Interdisciplinary Doctoral Training in Energy and Climate Research € 2,400,000 (HGF)

METPORE II*

Projects with national funding in excess of € 2 million

Materials

Storage ring for the accelerator facility FAIR

FAST TRACK*

Cost-effective thin-film silicon solar modules

Material charac terization*

Metal-supported ceramic membranes for gas separation € 2,029,906 (BMWi)

German Research School for Simulation Sciences 6,200,000 € (HGF)

Nanoelectronics VITI*

Plasma physics ITER*

Components for the international fusion experiment € 11,659,446 (BMBF)

Forecasts of ozone depletion in the polar stratosphere € 1,635,728 (EU)

Photovoltaics

€ 4,104,000 (BMWi)

Bioelectronics

Plant research CROP.SENSe*

Competence network for agricultural and nutrition research: sensors 2,252,739 € (BMWi)

CILIA*

Sensor systems based on the principle of biological sensory hairs € 1,633,310 (EU)

Neuros cienses Human Brain Model*

Helmholtz Alliance on Systems Biology € 4,348,800 (HGF)

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Imaging technique 9.4 tesla/PET*

Development of MR-PET hybrid systems € 9,625,000 (BMBF)

Health

Imparting Knowledge Young Academics

Training for PhD students Forschungszentrum Jülich works together with partner universities to train PhD students (in 2012, it was involved in 16 graduate schools) and it coordinates pioneering initiatives.

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.

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

Junior professor Martina Müller, head of the young investigators group Oxide Spintronics Laboratory

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. 2004 2005 2006

2 4 8

2007 2008

13 12

2009 2010

22 21

2011 2012

22 20

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HITEC Helmholtz Interdisciplinary Doctoral Training in Energy and Climate Research: a specialized interdisciplinary programme 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 BioSoft The Helmholtz Research School based in Jülich offers fascinating research opportunities at the interface between physics, chemistry, and biology. The Caesar programme run by the universities in Cologne and Düsseldorf together with Forschungszentrum Jülich focuses on the properties of soft matter and biological systems. At the end of 2012, a total of 33 PhD students were enrolled at the International Helmholtz Research School.

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Vocational Training & Dual Study Programms Vocational training at Jülich Forschungszentrum Jülich is the largest vocational training 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 enrolled in a dual study programme. Places for trainees

New trainees 2012

Laboratory assistants

Electricians

Metalworkers

Technical product designers

Administrative occupations

Mathematical and technical software developers

Other

Dual study Vocational training plus university studies – this is the essence of dual study programmes. Those who complete such programmes are sought-after professionals with expertise at the interface between scientific issues and technical applications. 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

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Part-time university courses Biology and chemistry laboratory assistants who have completed their initial training at Jülich and wish to gain further qualifications while in employment have the opportunity to pursue a part-time, fast-track bachelor’s over four semesters at the Hogeschool Zuyd in Heerlen, the Netherlands.

JuLab Schools Laboratory 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 teacher 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

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Using Knowledge Technology Transfer Jülich research provides answers to fundamental questions. 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 waste Old 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’s Biochemists 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 cells Fuel cells developed at Jülich can supply mobile base stations with power in emergencies in a reliable and environmentally 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.

Licences Number of licences 2012 Total number

100

of which new of which expiring

6 18

Total share foreign

Share USA (most important partner country)

Share SMEs

Income from licences 2012

€ 1.12 million

Patents Patent applications and patents granted 2012 Patent applications Germany

of which priority applications 45

Patent applications abroad

of which priority applications 3

Total patents granted

including technologies for which a patent was granted for the first time 25

Patents granted Germany

Patents granted abroad

Total number of protective rights 2012

16,892

Total number of protective rights (Patents, patent applications, and utility models in Germany and abroad) Successful lifetime tests: direct methanol fuel cells from Jülich are capable of powering small vehicles.

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2007

15,625

2008

16,276

2009

15,377

2010

14,793

2011

16,159

2012

16,892

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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 partners from industry.

In 2012, scientists at Jülich were involved in a total of 363 projects – 284 national and 79 international – with partners from industry.

Examples of Jülich’s industrial collaborations 2012 MoBiChip Chip-based synthesis of radioactive drugs and diagnostics for molecular imaging

EFFESYS Efficient next-generation ecological aircraft systems

FLEXSIM Flexible simulation of fuel cells

GDL coatings for HT-PEFCs and the binding and release of pesticides from biofilter materials

Improved plant phenotyping under various environmental conditions

Solar cells based on printable liquid Si and/or Ge compounds

MaPEI Membrane electrode assemblies for the production of hydrogen from renewable energies

Fabrication of adhesive peptides Biotechnological routes for functional polymer and oligomer products

ABX advanced biochemical compounds

Airbus Deutschland GmbH

IBM Deutschland

Exascale Innovation Centre (EIC) with IBM

R & D GmbH

Intel GmbH

Aixprocess

Exascale Lab with INTEL and PARTEC Jülich open innovation lab for cluster supercomputing design and evaluation

Verfahrens- und Strömungstechnik

Kerafol GmbH

GLASSeal Cost savings and optimization of glass sealant tapes in SOFC technology

BASF SE

NVIDIA GmbH

NIVIDIA Application Lab to speed up scientific applications with graphics processing units

BAYER

ParTec

Bioscience N.V.

Cluster Competence Center GmbH

Evonic Degussa GmbH

Sandoz GmbH

FuMA-Tech GmbH

Siemens AG

Henkel KGaA

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TÜV Immissionsschutz und Energiesysteme

JuRoPA-3 Development of an HPC system with T-Platforms cluster architecture and ParaStation cluster middleware Cultivation, measurement, modelling, and simulation of 13-C-labelling experiments using Penicillium chrysogenum

MEMO Characterization of metal-metal oxide hightemperature storage systems and MR-PET

Innovative photovoltaic module technology Centre of excellence within the Ziel2.NRW programme

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Publication Details Published by: Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH | 52425 Jülich, Germany | Tel: +49 2461 61-4661 | Fax: +49 2461 61-4666 | Internet: www.fz-juelich.de Editors: Tobias Schlößer, Annette Stettien, Dr. Anne Rother Authors: Dr. Frank Frick, Dr. Wiebke Rögener Graphics and Layout: Graphical Media, Forschungszentrum Jülich Translation: Language Services, Forschungszentrum Jülich Photos: © James Thew (p. 6), RRF (p. 8)/fotolia.com; © iStockphoto/ Thinkstock (p. 19 ); Forschungszentrum Jülich; Printed: Schloemer Gruppe GmbH As of: 2013

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