Dirk Wagner has been appointed to the subcommittee ‘Taxonomy of the methanogenic archaea’ of the International Committee on Systematics of Prokaryotes ICSP.

GFZ Purchasing is awarded the silver certificate of the Competence Center Innovative Procurement KOINNO of the Federal Ministry of Economics and Energy.

Hannes Hofmann is the head of the new Helmholtz Young Investigator Group ARES "Advanced reservoir engineering concepts for a controlled utilization of geothermal energy in urban areas".

Charlotte Krawczyk has been elected to the Senate of the German Research Foundation DFG.

Intensive erosion can temporarily change the earthquake activity of a region significantly.

In Potsdam ist am Freitag vergangener Woche eine Weltkriegsbombe kontrolliert gesprengt worden.

Stefan Kranz appointed to the Guideline Committee "Thermal use of the underground; underground thermal energy storage" of the Association of German Engineers (VDI).

Statement zur Nationalen Wasserstoffstrategie. Reinhard Hüttl: "Deutschland kann eine strategische Rolle in der europäischen Energiewende spielen."

A surprising finding: It is not erosion.

The reason is the necessity to slow down the spread of corona virus SARS-CoV-2