Workshops & Conferences

Challenges on the Renewable Energy Storage

  • Start: Jun 23, 2026
  • End: Jun 26, 2026
  • Location: Castle Liblice, Czech Republic
  • Host: Katrzyna Skorupska
  • Contact: skorupska@fhi-berlin.mpg.de
With the aim of enabling vital exchange of emerging expertise, the international conference “Challenges on Renewable Energy Storage” was set up. Following the first two gatherings of this kind in 2022 and 2024, the meeting will continue to bring together front runners of the fields catalysis and electrocatalysis, allowing them to exchange views on the most recent advancements, as well as to renew the necessary interdisciplinary networks. [more]

Workshop on Menstrual Health in the Workplace

  • Date: Sep 30, 2025
  • Time: 09:30 AM - 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Dr. Jennifer Chan de Avila
  • Political scientist, menopause doula, and co-author of Wechseljahre am Arbeitsplatz (Transcript, 2025), Jennifer draws from her work on the MenoSupport project and ISO 45010. She brings together research, feminist theory, and organisational change to support institutions in creating cycle-conscious workplaces.
  • Location: Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Lentzeallee 94, 14195 Berlin
  • Room: Large Conference Room
  • Host: IMPRS & Gender Equality
Despite being a natural part of life, menstrual health remains overlooked in professional environments. Breaking the Cycle invites all of you to open the conversation and explore how menstrual cycles influence wellbeing, productivity, workplace culture, and career trajectories. This engaging, research-informed day features a keynote lecture and two interactive workshops designed to raise awareness, improve communication, and empower action. Whether or not you menstruate, this event offers valuable insights for everyone in the workplace. [more]

CECAM Flagship Workshop: From operando electron microscopy images to atomistic models: Machine Learning assisted analysis in the age of big data

  • Start: Jul 2, 2025
  • End: Jul 4, 2025
  • Location: Zuse Institute, Takustraße 7, 14195, Berlin
  • Room: Seminarraum
The advent of in situ and operando analytical techniques in material science has allowed uncovering the importance of structural dynamics in research fields such as heterogeneous catalysis [1], nucleation and growth of crystals [2] or proteins [3]. This holds, in particular for electron microscopy related operando approaches, true to the slogan: “seeing is believing" [4]. [more]

PP&B Workshop - Experimental Control with EPICS and the Scientific Computing Infrastructure at FHI

  • Start: Mar 25, 2025 10:00 AM (Local Time Germany)
  • End: Mar 26, 2025 04:00 PM
  • Location: Building K, Haber-Villa, Faradayweg 8, 14195 Berlin
  • Host: PP&B
Both days include an introductory morning session (10:00-12:00) and a hands-on afternoon session (14:00-16:00). While the first day (Tuesday) covers topics related to Experimental Control via EPICS, the second day (Wednesday) will focus on the FHI Compute Infrastructure and the Viper Supercomputer. [more]

Joint FHI-ICAT Symposium

  • Start: Nov 18, 2024
  • End: Nov 19, 2024
  • Location: Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft
  • Host: Prof. Dr. Beatriz Roldán Cuenya / Prof. Dr. Karsten Reuter
The Symposium will present an opportunity to exchange expertise and engage in stimulating discussion on the subject of catalysis and its recent advancements.

BERLIN SCIENCE WEEK - Berlin Postdoc Day 2024

  • Start: Nov 7, 2024 09:00 AM (Local Time Germany)
  • End: Nov 8, 2024 02:00 PM
  • Location: Humboldt Graduate School Luisenstr. 56 10117 Berlin Germany
  • Host: Max Delbrück Center, Technical University of Berlin, Humboldt University of Berlin, Freie Universität Berlin, Leibniz-Forschungsinstitut für Molekulare Pharmakologie, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society
Berlin PostDoc Day 2024 (Nov 7-8) is an event for postdocs and PhD students to network, share research, and explore career paths through talks and workshops. [more]

Workshop on Workplace Communication for Women in Science

  • Date: Oct 29, 2024
  • Location: Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft
  • Host: Gender Equality Office
  • Contact: gleichstellung@fhi.mpg.de
The workshop offered a great opportunity for participants to find their own voice and experiment with various communication strategies. [more]

IMPRS Block Course

  • Start: Oct 7, 2024 09:30 AM (Local Time Germany)
  • End: Oct 11, 2024 03:30 PM
  • Location: Universität Potsdam, Karl-Liebknecht-Straße 24-25, 14476 Potsdam-Golm
  • Room: House 25, Room F1.01 (2nd floor / 1. Etage)
This in-person block course of the International Max Planck Research School for ElementaryProcesses in Physical Chemistry showcases the current research within the School, exemplified by research-focus lectures from all groups involved in the IMPRS. The topics range from ultrafast surface science via catalysis to machine learning. [more]

GAP/(M)ACE Developers & Users Meeting 2024

CECAM Node Workshop
  • Start: Sep 17, 2024
  • End: Sep 20, 2024
  • Location: Institute of Computer Science of the Free University of Berlin, Takustrasse. 9, 14195, Berlin
  • Host: Hendrik Heenen, Miguel Caro, Gabor Csanyi, Albert Bartok-Partay, Johannes Margraf, Giulia Glorani
The countdown has begun for the upcoming CECAM Node Workshop: "GAP/(M)ACE Developers & Users Meeting 2024", which will take place from the 17th to the 20th of September at the Institute of Computer Science of the Free University of Berlin, Takustrasse. 9, 14195, Berlin. The workshop is organized by members of the Institute´s Theory Department , Unviersity of Warwick, Aalto University, and University of Cambridge. It is further supported by CECAM, Psi-K, DFG, and Freie Universität Berlin. [more]

Challenges on the Renewable Energy Storage

  • Start: Sep 1, 2024
  • End: Sep 4, 2024
  • Location: Castle Liblice, Czech Republic
  • Host: Katrzyna Skorupska
  • Contact: skorupska@fhi-berlin.mpg.de
With the aim of enabling vital exchange of emerging expertise, the international conference “Challenges on Renewable Energy Storage” was set up. Following last year´s first gathering of this kind, the meeting will continue to bring together front runners of the fields catalysis and electrocatalysis, allowing them to exchange views on the most recent advancements, as well as to renew the necessary interdisciplinary networks. [more]

2nd Gerischer Electrochemistry Today Symposium "Semiconductor Electrochemistry: From Gerischer to Lewerenz and Beyond”

  • Start: Aug 6, 2024
  • End: Aug 8, 2024
  • Location: Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO
  • Host: Katarzyna Skorupska, Justin B. Sambur, Katharina Brinkert,Shu Hu,Michael Rose
This symposium honors the scientific legacies of Heinz Gerischer and Hans-Joachim Lewerenz, who contributed to the fundamental understanding of semiconductor electrochemistry, photoelectrochemical solar cells, and fuel generating systems. The meeting will bring together approximately 100 chemists, physicists, engineers, and materials scientists who are interested in the materials, processes, and interfaces in (photo)electrochemical solar energy conversion systems. [more]

Infrared Free-Electron Lasers: The State of the Art 2024

IR-FEL Symposium
  • Start: Jul 28, 2024 02:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • End: Jul 31, 2024 08:00 PM
  • Location: Harnack Haus
  • Host: Wieland Schöllkopf
  • Contact: wschoell@fhi-berlin.mpg.de
A symposium entitled "Infrared Free-Electron Lasers: The State of the Art 2024" will bring together machine scientists and users of IR FELs to celebrate 10 years of the FHI FEL Facility as well as the successful commissioning of the 2-color FHI FEL Upgrade. It will take place from July 28th to 31st, 2024 in the Harnack Haus next to the FHI campus in Berlin, Germany, see https://indico.fhi-berlin.mpg.de/event/140/ [more]

Machine Learning for First Principles Observables

CECAM Flagship Workshop
  • Start: Jul 8, 2024
  • End: Jul 12, 2024
  • Location: Zuse Institute, Takustraße 7, 14195, Berlin
  • Host: Elena Gelzinyte, Angela Harper, Simone Köcher, Hanna Türk
The countdown has begun for the upcoming CECAM Flagship Workshop: "Machine Learning for First Principles Observables", which will take place from the 8th to the 12th of June at the Zuse Institute, Takustraße 7, 14195, Berlin. The workshop is organized by members of the Institute´s Theory Department and further supported by CECAM, Psi-K, and DFG. [more]

Workshop on “THz and SFG spectroscopy and related phenomena in Solid-State Physics and Surface Science"

  • Institute for Solid State Physics, Kashiwa, FHI Berlin, and FU Berlin
  • Date: Mar 12, 2024
  • Time: 09:00 AM - 12:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: S.Tanaka, M.Müller, S.Maehrlein, Y.Murotani, T.Kampfrath, et al.
  • Institute for Solid State Physics, Kashiwa, FHI Berlin, and FU Berlin
  • Location: Building G
  • Room: 2.06
  • Host: Akitoshi Shiotari
[more]

Workshop on “THz and SFG spectroscopy and related phenomena in Solid-State Physics and Surface Science"

  • Institute for Solid State Physics, Kashiwa, FHI Berlin, and Kyoto University, Kyoto
  • Date: Mar 11, 2024
  • Time: 09:30 AM - 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: J.Yoshinobu, J.Haruyama, M.Thämer, N.Nagatsuka, A.Paarmann, et.al.
  • Institute for Solid State Physics, Kashiwa, FHI Berlin, and Kyoto University, Kyoto
  • Location: Building G
  • Room: 2.06
  • Host: Akitoshi Shiotari
[more]

OPERANDO SPM 2023

  • Start: Nov 15, 2023
  • End: Nov 16, 2023
  • Location: Harnack House
  • Host: Christopher Kley
  • Contact: kley@fhi-berlin.mpg.de
The OPERANDO SPM 2023 conference aims at bringing together scientists, engineers and students with an interest in operando measurement techniques, including scanning probe microscopy (SPM), spectroscopy, and related modelling. [more]

30 Years of the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC): Histories, Achievements, Challenges

  • Start: Oct 5, 2023 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • End: Oct 6, 2023 06:00 PM
  • Location: Harnack House
  • Room: Otto Hahn Lecture Hall
  • Host: Bretislav Friedrich, Ulf Schmidt, Paul Walker
The countdown has begun for the upcoming conference, "30 Years of the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC): Histories, Achievements, Challenges," scheduled to take place on October 5-6, 2023 in Harnack-Haus in Berlin. The conference is supported by the Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, the Universität Hamburg, and the CWC Coalition of the Arms Control Association. [more]

Chemical dynamics at extended scales

Chemical dynamics at extended scales
  • Start: Jan 10, 2023 09:00 AM (Local Time Germany)
  • End: Jan 11, 2023 06:00 PM
  • Location: Harnack House
  • Host: Martin Wolf
The Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society, in short FHI, is an international research place where scientists from all over the world investigate the basic principles underlying the chemical conversion of matter and energy at surfaces and interfaces. Our institute was celebrating the 110th anniversary of its inauguration this October and we are also approaching a generation change with the upcoming retirements of three directors (Schlögl, Wolf, and Meijer) in the coming years. This is an excellent moment to further develop the institute’s strategy and research concept, and to identify the upcoming fields for the next decades in physical chemistry and chemical physics in Berlin-Dahlem. [more]

Electrochemistry 2022 - At the Interface between Chemistry and Physics

  • Start: Sep 27, 2022
  • End: Sep 30, 2022
  • Location: Henry-Ford-Bauf of FU Berlin
  • Host: Prof. Dr. Beatriz Roldan Cuenya
Electrochemistry is a successful series of conferences, held every other year. The conference is jointly organized by GDCh Division Elektrochemie, GDCh Arbeitskreis Elektrochemische Analysenmethoden, DBG, DECHEMA, AGEF, GfKORR and DGO. Outstanding electrochemists from Germany and from abroad will highlight research results and current trends. [more]

VIRTUAL Conference on a FAIR Data Infrastructure for Materials Genomics

A conference organized by the association FAIR-DI e.V. that seeks to establish a data infrastructure enabling extensive data sharing and collaborations in data-driven sciences. Topics of this conference include: FAIR Data Sharing and Infrastructure, Novel Materials Discovery, Metadata and Ontologies, Novel Materials Encyclopedia, Artificial Intelligence for Materials Research. [more]
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