APPLY NOW: New Master's program "Particle Accelerator Science" of the #RhineMainUniversities brings together the region's expertise in accelerator science, combines study and research at the three #RMU locations #TUDarmstadt & #MainzUniversity & #GoetheUni Frankfurt 👉 www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ANy...
Dr. Dandan Gao (center) with her colleagues Christean Nickel (left) and David Leander Troglauer (right) (photo/©: Jennifer Christina Schmidt)
Sustainable and efficient production of ammonia and formic acid: Research team led by Dandan Gao at #MainzUniversity has developed a three-component catalyst for pulsed electrolysis 👉 press.uni-mainz.de/sustainable-a…
Dr. Stefan Schoppmann in the laboratory for scintillator and fluorescence detectors (LSFD) at the PRISMA detector laboratory (photo/©: Angelika Stehle)
Particle physicist of #MainzUniversity honored for innovative detector technologies: Stefan Schoppmann from the PRISMA Detector Laboratory receives ICFA Early Career Instrumentation Award 👉 prisma.uni-mainz.de/en/2026/02/06…
#ClusterOfExcellencePRISMA #ParticlePhysics #neutrinos #physics
ERC Consolidator Grants for four researchers of #MainzUniversity: Millions in EU funding for a pharmacologist, two physicists, and a cultural anthropologist at JGU👉 press.uni-mainz.de/erc-consolida…
#ERCCoG #ERCGrants
Soft Matter+Materials – new, English-taught RMU-master by #MainzUniversity + tuda.bsky.social – unites physics+chemistry:
♻️ recyclable plastic alternatives
🔬 self-organization in biological systems
💊 improved drug delivery+biomaterials
rheinmainunis.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WPB...
Professor Adolfo Meisel Roca (left), Rector of Universidad del Norte, and Professor Stephan Jolie (right), Vice President for Learning and Teaching at Mainz University, signing the renewal of the partnership agreement between the two universities (photo/©: Peter Pulkowski / JGU)
Professor Adolfo Meisel Roca, Rector of Uninorte, and Professor Stephan Jolie, Vice President for Learning and Teaching at JGU, joined forces with Lennin Gell Hernández Alarcón (center), Consul General of the Republic of Colombia in Frankfurt/Main, to plant a friendship tree on the Gutenberg campus. (photo/©: Peter Pulkowski / JGU)
Global collaboration in a world of global challenges: Universidad del Norte and #MainzUniversity celebrate 50 years of partnership / Active exchange and cooperation in research and teaching, internationalization and transfer, partly funded by the #DAAD 👉 https://sohub.io/pryw
View of the JUNO photomultiplier tubes (© Yuexiang Liu / JUNO Collaboration)
#JUNOexperiment delivers first #physics results two months after completion / Researchers from #MainzUniversity played a key part in the data analysis 👉 www.prisma.uni-mainz.de/outreach/press-releases/...
#neutrinos
Researchers of #MainzUniversity and the Mainz University Medical Center are among Clarivate's "Highly Cited Researchers 2025" / Acknowledgment for researchers with significant and broad influence in their field of expertise 👉 https://clarivate.com/highly-cited-researchers/
#research #science
Oldoinyo Lengai in Tanzania is the only active carbonatite volcano on Earth. (photo/©: Miriam Reiss)
How do #volcanoes work? What causes the vibrations known as #tremor that occur when #magma or gases move upward? Researchers of #MainzUniversity have located such tremor signals at the Oldoinyo Lengai #volcano in Tanzania 👉 press.uni-mainz.de/understandin...
#VolcanoSeismology #seismology
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Economics as a school subject leads to more #entrepreneurship: Recent study of #ifoInstitute and #MainzUniversity shows connection between economics classes in schools and entrepreneurial activity in adulthood 👉 press.uni-mainz.de/economics-as...
Researchers of #MainzUniversity are involved in the HALO-South mission over the Southern Ocean near New Zealand 👇
Read more at 👉 www.dlr.de/en/latest/ne...
Organisms living in terrestrial and aquatic habitats can influence each other through indirect ecological interactions. (ill./©: Shuqing Xu // icons/©: biorender.com)
Indirect effects drive evolution: Researchers of #MainzUniversity, @eawag.bsky.social & @unibas.ch present first direct evidence that species that never interact can profoundly influence each other's #evolution 👉 press.uni-mainz.de/indirect-eff...
#EvolutionaryBiology #biology
Researchers at #MainzUniversity and #HelmholtzInstituteMainz have developed a novel method for investigating the internal structure of atoms and discovered previously unknown atomic transitions in samarium, a rare earth element 👉 www.prisma.uni-mainz.de/outreach/pre...
#spectroscopy #physics
Snapshots of the skyrmion lattice during the melting: an ordered skyrmion lattice on the left while the lattice structure has vanished on the right. (photo/©: Raphael Gruber)
First real-time observation of two-dimensional melting process: Researchers at #MainzUniversity unveil new insights into magnetic vortex structures 👉 press.uni-mainz.de/first-real-t...
#skyrmions #MagneticField #DataStorage #physics #TopDyn
Students from 20 countries are currently taking part in the 2025 International German Language School at Mainz University. (photo/©: Peter Pulkowski / JGU)
#JGUinternational: International German Language School at #MainzUniversity welcomes 60 students from 20 countries, 5 of them from the #FORTHEMAlliance / German courses for language levels A1-C1 plus German history, literature, and culture
More information at 👉 summer.uni-mainz.de
#SummerSchool
Ant of the species Myrmica rubra carrying a plant seed (photo/©: Dr. Philipp Hönle)
How #ants actively protect themselves against dehydration: Researchers at #MainzUniversity and Université #ParisCité have for the first time investigated the physical properties of the wax layer surrounding the bodies of #insects 👉️ press.uni-mainz.de/how-ants-act...
#biology #dehydration
Professor Olena Pchelintseva is currently conducting research at Mainz University with the support of a fellowship from the Philipp Schwartz Initiative. (photo/©: private)
Olena Pchelintseva values the quiet, peaceful sky over Mainz. "After living with constant air raid sirens, you come to appreciate that kind of silence." The linguist is currently at #MainzUniversity through a fellowship from the Philipp Schwartz Initiative 👉 www.magazine.uni-mainz.de/research-in-...
Professor Olena Pchelintseva is currently conducting research at Mainz University with the support of a fellowship from the Philipp Schwartz Initiative. (photo/©: Stefan F. Sämmer / JGU)
Olena Pchelintseva values the quiet, peaceful sky over Mainz. "After living with constant air raid sirens, you come to appreciate that kind of silence." The linguist is currently at #MainzUniversity through a fellowship from the Philipp Schwartz Initiative 👉 www.magazine.uni-mainz.de/research-in-...
Mu3e read-out system (photo/©: Niklaus Berger)
EU funding for #FundamentalResearch in #ParticlePhysics at #MainzUniversity: Around EUR 180,000 for participation of the #ClusterOfExcellencePRISMA in the tSPECT and Mu3e experiments and the international NEMESIS and BEYOND consortia 👉 press.uni-mainz.de/eu-funding-f...
#physics
#MainzUniversity successful in the German Excellence Strategy: approval of a #ClusterOfExcellence in the field of #ParticlePhysics / Excellence Commission votes in favor of PRISMA++ / Funding of up to EUR 50 million for top-level research in Mainz 👉 press.uni-mainz.de/mainz-univer...
Age of #Schöningen spears revised to 200,000 years: World's oldest complete wooden hunting weapons from Schöningen are 100,000 years younger than previously claimed / Joint research of @leizarchaeology.bsky.social, #MainzUniversity and partners 👉 press.uni-mainz.de/age-of-schon...
#archeology
#MainzUniversity and #Futury extend their collaboration to the #FORTHEMAlliance of European universities / Joint promotion of entrepreneurship and startups in pilot projects 👉 press.uni-mainz.de/mainz-univer...
#entrepreneurship #startups #FutureFactory #StartupFactory #RhineMainUniversities
Electrons deflected by an unconventional anomalous Hall effect in an altermagnetic crystal of ruthenium oxide (ill./©: Libor Šmejkal and Matthias Greber)
Professor Jairo Sinova of #MainzUniversity coordinates new Priority Program funded by @dfg.de on unconventional #magnetism / Research will build on #altermagnetism and unconventional non-collinear #antiferromagnets 👉 press.uni-mainz.de/new-priority...
#physics #antiferromagnetism #ferromagnetism
The thin pixel chips for the Mu3e experiment are installed at the Paul Scherrer Institute. (photo/©: Niklaus Berger)
#MainzUniversity receives further @dfg.de funding for participation in the Mu3e experiment: #ClusterOfExcellencePRISMA+ is involved in a major international research project searching for #NewPhysics 👉 press.uni-mainz.de/johannes-gut...
#ClusterOfExcellencePRISMA #ParticlePhysics #StandardModel
Interior view of the KATRIN main spectrometer (photo/©: Michael Zacher / KATRIN Collaboration)
Latest findings of KATRIN experiment at @kit.edu indicate that #neutrinos are at least a million times lighter than #electrons. #MainzUniversity contributed by analyzing datasets, characterizing plasma systematics etc. 👉 press.uni-mainz.de/neutrinos-ar...
#NeutrinoMass #ClusterOfExcellencePRISMA
New study in @nature.com: International research team with participation of #MainzUniversity shows that Arabia repeatedly experienced time periods of higher precipitation during the last 8 million years and was presumably vegetated 👉 press.uni-mainz.de/the-green-pa...
#paleoclimate #hydroclimate
The partner universities of the European FORTHEM Alliance met at Mainz University to discuss their approaches and initiatives in the field of biotechnology and to explore opportunities for cooperation. (photo/©: Stefan F. Sämmer / JGU)
JGU President Professor Georg Krausch (second from the right) and Professor Eckhard Thines (right), Professor of Biotechnology at JGU, a member of the FORTHEM Coordination Commission, and the Rhineland-Palatinate State Coordinator for Biotechnology, welcomed biotech specialists from the FORTHEM partner universities to the Gutenberg Campus (photo/©: Stefan F. Sämmer / JGU)
During their stay at JGU, the FORTHEM experts also met with biotech ventures and projects in Mainz and the surrounding area that are already collaborating in biomindz. (photo/©: Stefan F. Sämmer / JGU)
biomindz is a municipal company that enables start-ups and companies in the life sciences and biotechnology sector to successfully establish and grow their business in Mainz. (photo/©: Stefan F. Sämmer / JGU)
Joining forces in biotechnology – in Mainz, Rhineland-Palatinate, and Europe: #LifeScience & #Biotech Meetup at #MainzUniversity connects #biotechnology initiatives of the #FORTHEMAlliance with the life science and biotech industry in and around Mainz 👉 press.uni-mainz.de/joining-forc...
#biomindz
Members of the ATLAS Collaboration in front of the ATLAS experiment mural (1:3 scale) and the ATLAS control room located at CERN, 100 meters above the experiment cavern (photo/©: Mike Struik / CERN)
Mainz physicists among winners of prestigious #BreakthroughPrize in #FundamentalPhysics: More than 50 researchers from #MainzUniversity honored for key contributions to the ATLAS experiment 👉 press.uni-mainz.de/mainz-physic...
#ATLASexperiment #CERN #physics
From cuneiform to code: section of a Hittite cuneiform text found in Boğazköy-Hattuša in 2024 – as a photo on the right side and as XML text on the left. (photo/©: Daniel Schwemer / University of Würzburg)
Major milestone in digital #CuneiformStudies: Researchers from #MainzUniversity, @unimarburg.bsky.social, @uni-wuerzburg.de, and @adwmainz.bsky.social present innovative tool with many new possibilities for #Hittite studies 👉 press.uni-mainz.de/cuneiforms-n... @dfg.de
#cuneiform #hittitology
Our picture shows (fltr) Professor Georg Krausch, President of Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Professor Nils Stieglitz, President of Frankfurt School of Finance & Management, Melissa Ott, Managing Director of Futury, Professor Enrico Schleiff, President of Goethe University Frankfurt, Professor Tanja Brühl, President of TU Darmstadt, and Charlie N. Müller, Managing Director of Futury. (photo/©: Micha Ruppert / Frankfurt School of Finance & Management)
Boost for the #startup scene in the #RhineMain region: #RhineMainUniversities - @goetheuni.bsky.social, #MainzUniversity, @tuda.bsky.social & Frankfurt School of Finance & Management - and #Futury launch the #FutureFactory / Aim: 1,000 new startups by 2030 👉 press.uni-mainz.de/rhine-main-u...
