MAPEX Center for Materials and Processes

    MAPEX

    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 55 Principal Investigators, 19 Associate Investigators, and 20 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.
    06.07. May
    MAPEX Core Facility Workshop on In-situ Analysis
    Haus der Wissenschaft
    11:16 14:16
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    04.05. Jun
    Poster Design and Graphical Abstracts
    MARUM I, Room "Atlantic Ocean"
    09:00 17:00
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    08. Jul
    Science on Screen: Creating Videos with Your Smartphone
    AIB 1020/30 (Hochschulring 40)
    09:00 17:00
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    24. Sep
    Doctoral Thesis in Focus: Smart strategies for Managing Projects and Staying Motivated
    AIB 1020/30 (Hochschulring 40)
    09:00 16:00
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    21.22. Oct
    Scientific Writing in the Natural and Engineering Sciences: Towards Organization and Motivation
    AIB 1020/30 (Hochschulring 40)
    09:00 17:00
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    Dr. Lars Henning
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    Dr. Lars Henning joins MAPEX as the new Science Manager.

    We are pleased to announce that Dr. Lars Henning will be joining us this month as Science Manager at the MAPEX Center for Materials and Processes, and we look forward to working with him.


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    MAPEX Jubiläumssymposium 2025

    Looking back, moving forward – 10 Years of Collaboration in Materials Science and Technology


    Tim neudecker and colleagues in their laboratory at the University of Bremen.
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    How Bremen researchers want to convert space radiation into energy

    Scientists are working on a material that generates electricity and at the same time protects against space radiation. The project could revolutionize future space missions. An article about research in the Humans on Mars Initiative at "buten un binnen".


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    MAPEX visits Cardiff University

    Clean Energy, Sustainable Manufacturing, and a Better Environment – these were the key themes of a recent exchange between scientists from MAPEX and the Net Zero Institute at Cardiff University.


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    How to bring research from university to school

    In March, researchers from MAPEX and teachers from Bremen schools discussed how current research can find its way out of the laboratory and into the classroom.


    Detailed photo of a battery research laboratory.
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    The Future of Technology: Career Paths in 3D Printing and Battery Research

    In an interview with up2date magazine, students Tim Klotz and Kolja Konschak talk about their experiences in the Process-Oriented Materials Research master’s degree program (ProMat).


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    Millions in Funding for Space and Port Research

    The Bremen Senate approved an EU ERDF grant of 3.7 million euros with which the Center for Applied Space Technology and Microgravity (ZARM) will build a Mars laboratory. 2.8 million euros will be made available for the optimization of processes in Bremen’s ports.


    from left to right: Professor Jutta Günther, President of the University of Bremen, Professor Sabine Kunst, CEO of the Joachim Herz Foundation, and Irene Strebl, State Councilor for the Environment, Climate, and Science.
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    Up to 30 Million Euros for Technology Transfer

    A celebratory contract signing at the University of Bremen made the founding of Germany’s first JHS MaTeNa innovate! Center official. The Joachim Herz Foundation (JHS) will provide 30 million euros for materials science research applications.


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    Quantum Materials: New DFG Research Unit with Participation from Bremen

    MAPEX member and Physics professor Michael Sentef is a co-spokesperson in the new decentralized DFG Research Unit “Optical Control of Quantum Materials (OPTIMAL).” The research goal is to control the functional properties of novel materials using light.


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    Emerging extra-large pore zeolites as adsorbents for antibiotics: A comparative computational study

    Jakob BrauerMichael Fischer

    Microporous and Mesoporous Materials 398 (2025): 113832

    https://doi.org/10.1016/j.micromeso.2025.113832

    The recent synthetic accessibility of aluminosilicate and all-silica zeolites with extremely large pore sizes opens new opportunities in materials science. Beyond…


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    3D printing of composites of Martian regolith simulants and cyanobacterial biomass towards sustainable material production on Mars

    Sophia Mannes Guesser De OliveiraKurosch RezwanCyprien VerseuxMichael Maas

    npj Microgravity 11 (2025): 1-9

    https://doi.org/10.1038/s41526-025-00521-9

    The long-term goal of establishing a sustained human presence on Mars requires the capacity to produce essential consumables on-site. To this…


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    Magnetically induced convection enhances water electrolysis in microgravity

    Ömer Akay, Macià Monfort-Castillo, Theo St Francis, Julian Becker, Shaumica Saravanabavan, Álvaro Romero-Calvo, Katharina Brinkert

    Nature Chemistry  (2025): 1-7

    https://doi.org/10.1038/s41557-025-01890-0

    Since the early days of space exploration, the efficient production of oxygen and hydrogen…

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