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From 24 to 26 June 2025, the Max Planck Society is hosting its annual meeting in Magdeburg, bringing together around 500 guests, including both internal members and external participants. The ...
The Max Planck Symposium is an intensive, two-day career conference serving as a platform to connect international Max Planck Alumni and Max Planck Early Career Researchers of all disciplines and ...
It’s a similar story with Max Planck’s physical sciences output — the institution placed second in the subject from 2015 to 2022 before dropping to 4th in 2023, a position it retained in 2024.
Hot summers with extraordinary heatwaves in Europe can be better predicted if the heat content in the North Atlantic is taken into account, according to a study by the Max Planck Institute for ...
The researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics want to fetch the Sun's fire to Earth. A future fusion power plant is to produce energy by fusing nuclei of the two heavy hydrogen ...
The Munich-based start-up Proxima Fusion, a spin-out from the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics, has raised €130 million in capital. The company plans to use the funds to finance the development ...
The Planck Academy offers staff members a comprehensive range of opportunities to further their individual development and advance their careers through both online and face-to-face training sessions, ...
Proteins are the molecular building blocks and engines of the cell, and are involved in practically all life processes. Researchers at the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry investigate the ...
The Harnack Medal has been awarded only 36 times since 1924, including 10 times by the Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gesellschaft (1924-1936) and 26 times by the Max Planck Society (1953-2025). It was awarded for ...
Talent, creativity and passion - that's what the Max Planck Society relies on. It promotes all employees equally. Because research needs diversity. This is also formulated in the Code of Conduct, the ...
By Heather Tomlinson London, England, Jun 11, 2025 / 08:00 am A new Catholic festival in England hopes to bring many different expressions of the Church together under one banner from July 25–28.