Kohl & Pinkel 2025

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International Day of Women and Girls in Science 2026

February 11, 2026

2026

Prof Kern shows an experiment in the precision lab

New AMDL to Accelerate Materials Discovery – High-Level Visit to MPI-FKF in Stuttgart

January 26, 2026

2026

How do we develop the materials that will power tomorrow’s technologies?

German-Austrian Physics Tournament

January 20, 2026

2026 Events

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Winners of the 2026 Elisabeth Bauser Fellowship

January 15, 2026

2026 Award & Honors

Memorial Colloquium in Honor of Prof. Dr. Hans-Joachim Queisser

January 14, 2026

Bettina V. Lotsch elected as a new scientific member of the German Academy of Science and Engineering (acatech)

December 03, 2025

Award & Honors

Prof. Bernhard Keimer und rector Prof. Peter Middendorf with the honorary senator medal

Bernhard Keimer Named Honorary Senator of the University of Stuttgart

December 02, 2025

Award & Honors

Two MPI-FKF Directors Included Among the “Highly Cited Researchers 2025”

November 17, 2025

Award & Honors

Acknowledging Research with Long-Standing Influence

Honoring Atomic-Scale Breakthroughs: Dr. Anna Rosławska Receives the DPG Gaede Prize

November 14, 2025

Award & Honors

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Day of Exchange and Inspiration: The First Institute Colloquium at the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research

October 20, 2025

From science to sports – a new in-house event fostered collaboration, dialogue, and community spirit across all departments.

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Japanese–German Symposium on the Geometry and Topology of Quantum Materials

October 15, 2025

Quantum Many-Body Theory Quantum Materials Symposium

On October 8, 2025, the Department of Quantum Many-Body Theory at the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research hosted the Japanese–German Symposium on Geometry and Topology of Quantum Materials. Around 70 participants from Stuttgart and other institutions joined the one-day meeting to explore recent developments in quantum geometry, topology…

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Uniaxial-Pressure Boosts Excitonic Fluctuations

October 15, 2025

Solid State Spectroscopy

Studying the properties of Ta₂NiSe₅ to test the hypothesis that its ground state is an excitonic insulator has been a decade-long research project combining the efforts of our research groups from two departments at the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research: Solid State Spectroscopy (Bernhard Keimer) and Quantum Materials (Hidenori Takagi)…

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