Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research
@mpifkf
A group of ≈500 scientists, students, and staff, studying the physics and chemistry of condensed matter, ranging from lithium batteries to quantum technologies.
Congratulations to Dr. Vesna Srot on receiving the Microanalysis Society Birks Award at Microscopy & Microanalysis 2026! 🏆🦷 If the smiles of the future will be more radiant than ever, it will also be thanks to Vesna Srot’s research! 🍏 Find the full article here! www.fkf.mpg.de/9013345/2026...
Shout-outs to @vixklen.bsky.social and Claudia Leticia Gomez Flores for their recent publication on the Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling on "Automating Model Building for SPM Images of Biomolecules Using MISO" 😵🥳 Check out the full publication: lnkd.in/er_qfWbf
Yearly bike invasion at MPI 🤯🙀 Kids from the Radsportverein in Vaihingen came over for are restorative lunch at MPI after a morning of biking in the surroundings 😃🚴🚴♀️
July 25>>> Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research (MPI FKF) and Intelligent Systems (MPI IS) took part in the Christopher Street Day (CSD) parade in Stuttgart. Everybody needs science. Science needs everybody ✌️ 🫰 Full article here: www.fkf.mpg.de/9008837/2026...
The cascade of prizes at M2S continues with the Kammerlingh Onnes prize 🏆 Out deepest congratulations to Prof. Richard L. Greene from University of Maryland and Prof. Yasutomo Uemura from Columbia University! @univofmaryland.bsky.social @columbiauniversity.bsky.social
M2S continues 😎 Shout-outs to Dung-Hai Lee, Andrew J. Mills, and Michael R. Norman on being awarded the John Bardeen prize! @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social @columbiauniversity.bsky.social @flatironinstitute.org
First talk of the M2S conference😃 Jie Shan from Cornell University presented her research on TMDs and superconductivity 🚀 @cornelluniversity.bsky.social
Kick-off of the M2S Conference 😎 Materials and Mechanisms of Superconductivity - around 700 hundred people coming from all over the world to talk about the advancements and the future challenges in the field of superconductivity 🚅 🧲
We're already feeling nostalgic for the Stuttgart Science Festival 🥺 and can't wait for the next one. But until then, here's a gem from two weeks ago! Can we turn quantum physics into exercises? Of course 😎 After the exercise session, the participants were both dead and alive at the same time 😁
Yes! We also have engaging poster sessions! Looking forward for the next days of this workshop 😎
Workshop on “New Insights into Quantum Materials” 😎 Excellent talks and delicious cakes and coffee 🤤 Does it get better than this?
Laura Guasco's publication "Kinetic Regimes of Hydrogen Absorption in Thin Films" on Advanced Functional Materials is now also a contribution on Science X! (advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... ) How can we "Catch hydrogen in the Act"? Find out here! 😎 phys.org/news/2026-07...
Bibhuti Bhusan Rath and Kristina Gjorgjevikj were selected to attend this year’s 75th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting! Full Article here! www.fkf.mpg.de/9000617/2026... @bbrath.bsky.social @krisgjorgjevikj.bsky.social @lotschgroup.bsky.social
Shout-outs to Prof. Dr. Bettina V. Lotsch, director of the Nanochemistry department, on being elected as a member of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina! 🥳🥳🥳 Link to the full article: www.fkf.mpg.de/8992608/2026... @leopoldina.org @lotschgroup.bsky.social #Leopoldina
Tomorrow, 2 July >>>> Come and watch the premiere of "Die Forschenden" at Rotebühlplatz! The screening will be followed by a discussion with the film's director, Nahom Mihretu, and Prof. Bernhard Keimer from MPI FKF 😎 More info here: vhs-stuttgart.de/programm/kur...
June 27 >> Stuttgart Science Festival - "Quantum at Karls" We were at the Karls-Gymnasium for a afternoon of science workshops and mini MAXI Science Talks to bring our research in the city 😎 Here to the full article:https://www.fkf.mpg.de/8996314/2026_Science_Festival_Quantum_at_Karls?c=8608137
June 24 - the MPI FKF hosted the second part of the “Frontiers of Solid State Theory” symposium. Where is research going? What is the future of solid state theory? Find that out here! www.fkf.mpg.de/8995376/2026... We thank all the amazing speakers for their participation!
Tomorrow June 27th! We will be at Karls-Gymnasium on Tübinger Str. 38, Stuttgart Süd, from 3:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. It's going to be a fantastic afternoon bringing science to the city! There's no better way to spend a warm Saturday afternoon than with free slushies and science 😉 See you there! 😎
Solid State Theory Symposium >>> New research frontiers ♾️ Kevin Jablonka from @uni-jena.de and Johannes Margraf from @unibayreuth.bsky.social think that machine learning will play a crucial role in our understanding of quantum materials! Thank you for the great talks! 😃😎
Where is solid state theory going? Mathias Scheurer, Titus Neupert, and Angelika Knothe chimed in on this issue. Name of the game is the engineering of quantum materials to access and control exotic states of matter! 🙀 @unistuttgart.bsky.social @ethz.ch @uniregensburg.bsky.social
Professor Bernhard Keimer kicks off the second part of the symposium on “Frontiers of Solid State Theory” Where is research headed? How can quantum materials affect our world? Stay tuned for more! 😎
June 10, 2026 Huge shout-out to Prof. Pablo Jarillo-Herrero for being awarded the 2026 Kavli Prize, together with Eva Y. Andrei and Allan H. MacDonald, for their fundamental contributions to the field of twistronics! Read full article www.fkf.mpg.de/8987562/2026... 📸 MIT © Alberto Di-Lolli
Sir Martin Wood Prize lecture >>>>> Congratulations to Prof. Takamasa Sakai of the University of Tokyo on being awarded the Sir Martin Wood Prize in recognition of his outstanding contributions to the field of Precision Gel Science and his work on TetraGels! #SirMartinWoodPrize #UniversityOfTokyo
Congratulations to the German team for competing scientifically and honorably over the past few days 😎😌 Shout-outs to Denise S. Christovam and Jürgen Durst for coaching the team! We look forward to the next edition of the tournament at Politecnico di Milano! 🎉 🇩🇪 🇮🇹 #Internationalphysicstournament
May 26th to May 30th>>>>>> The International Physics Tournament from at Oklahoma State University! 😎 The German team is prepared and ready for the physics fights 🥷 Having fun while competing is as important as the competition itself ! Best of luck to the LMUminosity team!
May 20th >>>> Health Day at MPI! The theme of the day is “Together for Greater Well-Being” Themed booths, from workplace ergonomics to mindset coaching🧘♀️🧘♂️, are waiting just for you 🫵
New publication in Nature Communications: “Orbital-resolved imaging of coherent femtosecond exciton dynamics in coupled molecules”🥳😄 Shout outs to Manish Garg and his group for the fantastic work! Want to know how dark and bright excitons come about? Then read here for more 😎 buff.ly/Wmyiwld
May 17th >>>> 21 people from Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research participated as the “FKF-Nanorunners” team in the 33rd Stuttgart Run 😎 Shout-out to all the athletes for their awesome performances! Run, FKF-Nanorunners, run! 🏃♀️🏃♂️
Throwback Friday April 24 >>> High school visit to our institute Our lab technician, Tolga Acartürk, showed the students our Time-of-Flight Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry techniques 🕊️🔬 This technique is used to identify the elemental and molecular composition in the top 1–2 nm of materials 😵🤏
The President of the Max Planck Society, Prof. Dr. Patrick Cramer, visited MPI FKF today and showed his support for the LMUminosty team from @lmu.de The team had an intense training session today ahead of competing in the International Physics Tournament in Stillwater, Oklahoma!