University opened laboratories and institutes on Research Day

Admittedly, Professor Tanja Clees' hydrogen laboratory at the H-BRS does not look as spectacular as Doc Brown's laboratory in "Back to the Future". Nevertheless, the inconspicuous apparatus that is set up here is quite something. Professor Clees and her team are using them to research how hydrogen can be stored and how the transport networks in Germany need to be adapted. Hydrogen is considered the energy carrier of the future and is expected to play a central role in the energy transition. However, urgent questions have not yet been sufficiently clarified, and the professor and her team are working on the answers.

All of the university's laboratories and institutes opened their doors to visitors on Research Day. There and at the information stands on the ground floor, the scientists showed and explained their current research projects. Lectures and a panel discussion completed the programme.

From the university's point of view, the Research Day on Wednesday - the first in four years in attendance - was a complete success. Not only visitors got an idea of the diversity and excellence of research at the H-BRS. Researchers from other institutions, employees and students also took the opportunity for interdisciplinary exchange.

"One of the highlights was the awarding of prizes for research ideas by doctoral students who, by presenting their research, made it clear how much importance is attached to promoting young researchers at the H-BRS," says Professor Remi Maier-Rigaud, Vice President Research and Young Academics. "Another highlight was the presentation on climate modelling by Dr Hauke Schmidt from the Max Planck Institute for Meterology, who highlighted the importance of advances in climate modelling for proving man-made climate change. I think it has become clear to all of us: In order to still be able to achieve the climate goals, quick action by politicians, but also behavioural changes in the population are necessary."

The Research Day is a tradition at Hochschule Bonn-Rhein-Sieg. Every second year, it wants to give the public an insight into its work and the world of science. The Hochschule Bonn-Rhein-Sieg is one of the most research-intensive universities. With its 18 institutes, it covers a broad spectrum of topics ranging from detection technologies to genetics and sustainable development to visual computing. The focus is on sustainability, digitalisation and security.

For example, the showroom of the Institute for Visual Computing was open. The institute deals with computer graphics, human-computer interaction and virtual reality, among other things. The eye-catcher in the showroom is the five-square-metre LED wall, which consists of more than 3.2 million individually controllable LEDs and can display three-dimensional images in the highest quality. The Game Studio, which only opened in 2022, invites you to sit down and play. Computer science students will find state-of-the-art technology there to implement and test their own ideas for computer games. In the very near future, the students want to come onto the market with a game that they have developed themselves and added their own sound to.