Accelerating research to market readiness – this is the goal of the first “innovate! Center”. Three pilot projects will develop sustainable solutions for technological challenges starting in 2025. The Joachim Herz Foundation will provide up to 30 million euros of financing for the endeavor.
MAPEX Center for Materials and Processes
The goal of MAPEX is the system-oriented research and development of materials and processes for sustainable transport and energy applications. Our research encompasses the fields of natural and engineering sciences as well as mathematics, aiming at a thorough understanding of the process-properties-performance relationships in materials.
MAPEX merges the know-how more than 1000 scientific and technical staff, 480 of which are doctoral candidates. Its 61 Principal Investigators, 7 Associate Investigators, and 26 Early Career Investigators are affiliated to five different university faculties and six external research institutes on the university campus.
Established in 2014 as the governance form of the high-profile area Materials Sciences and Technology MAPEX has the aim to:
- establish and maintain a network of competencies in the fields of materials science, materials technology, and materials processing;
- increase the visibility of the MAPEX Research Landscape;
- apply for and participate in third-party funding programmes;
- promote cooperative research activities of early career researchers;
- support an interdisciplinary doctoral education;
- cooperatively acquire and share scientific equipment,
- offer our scientists a diverse and family-friendly environment with equal opportunity, quality assurance, and data handling policies at the highest international standards.
"Dancing with Electrons" – on the Dancefloor with Zink-Ion Batteries
On a Mars Mission: From Cyanobacteria to Bioplastics
Science with humor: PhD students transform themselves into science slammers
Avoiding Packaging Waste with the Help of Mycelium
"Wissen um 11" – how old museum objects are preserved for future generations
Bremen Materials Science Clear First Hurdle on the Way to Excellence Funding
Material with Feelings: AI Helps to Detect Material Damage
Open calls from MAPEX and MAPEX Core Facility
Comparative study of bioanodes for microbial electrolysis cells operation in anaerobic digester conditions
Atomic vs. sub-atomic layer deposition: impact of growth rate on the optical and structural properties of MoS2 and WS2
Computational high-pressure chemistry: Ab initio simulations of atoms, molecules, and extended materials in the gigapascal regime
Past events
MAPEX Talk: The Future of Materials Science and Engineering
Prof. Dr. Chris Eberl / 21.02.2023
MAPEX Methods Workshop IV - Fluid Dynamics
live and in person
MAPEX Symposium 2021
Beyond solar cells: new approaches to radiation conversion
12th MAPEX Early Career Researcher Workshop - Building Bridges
22 July 2021 - in a fully virtual format
SpaceMat2020 – Materials for Space Exploration
MAPEX Symposium 2020 - 31 August - 2 September
11th MAPEX Early Career Researcher Workshop – Science meets Industry
25 November 2020 - first edition in a fully virtual format.
MAPEX Symposium 2019 - Excited Materials – field-induced out-of-equilibrium phenomena
17 - 18. June
8th MAPEX Early Career Researcher Workshop
29 April 2019
Third MAPEX Methods Workshop 2019
13. February 2019
7th MAPEX Early Career Researcher Workshop - Science meets Industry cooperation Projects and Career path in(to) the industry
25. Octobre 2018
MAPEX Symposium 2018 - Process Monitoring
18 - 19 June 2018
MAPEX Methods Workshop II - Computational Materials Science
17 May 2018
6th MAPEX Early Career Researcher Workshop
25th April 2018
5th MAPEX Early Career Researcher Workshop
13th November 2017
MAPEX Symposium - Materials Informatics
15th September 2017
MAPEX Methods Workshop I
13th June 2017
4th MAPEX Early Career Researcher Workshop
11th May 2017
3rd MAPEX Young Scientist Workshop
27th September 2016
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