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MAPEX Center for Materials and Processes

MAPEX Center for Materials and Processes

High-Profile Area at the University of Bremen

Spotlights from research

    Spotlights from research

    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.

    Events

    22.−23. Sep
    MAPEX Symposium 2026- Cross-disciplinary Pathways to Circular Materials
    13:31 − 17:30
    find out more: MAPEX Symposium 2026- Cross-disciplinary Pathways to Circular Materials
    05. Oct
    MAPEX PhD Welcoming Event
    aib building (Hochschulring 40) - Room 1020/30
    14:30 − 16:00
    find out more: MAPEX PhD Welcoming Event
    21.−22. Oct
    Scientific Writing in the Natural and Engineering Sciences: Towards Organization and Motivation
    AIB 1020/30 (Hochschulring 40)
    09:00 − 17:00
    find out more: Scientific Writing in the Natural and Engineering Sciences: Towards Organization and Motivation
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    News

    Dr. Lars Henning
    © University of Bremen
    MAPEX| MAPEX Presse| MAPEX News|

    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.

    find out more: Dr. Lars Henning joins MAPEX as the new Science Manager.
    [Translate to English:]
    © Matej Meža, University of Bremen
    MAPEX| MAPEX News| MAPEX Presse|

    MAPEX Jubiläumssymposium 2025

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

    find out more: MAPEX Jubiläumssymposium 2025
    Mars landscape with habitat in the background and astronauts working in the front
    © Joris Wegner
    MAPEX News| MAPEX Presse|

    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.

    find out more: Millions in Funding for Space and Port Research
    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.
    © Annemarie Popp, University of Bremen
    MAPEX News| MAPEX Presse|

    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.

    find out more: Up to 30 Million Euros for Technology Transfer
    Kirsten Tracht, Bremen Institute for Mechanical Engineering and Mayor Andreas Bovenschulte.
    © Universität Bremen, Annemarie Popp
    MAPEX News| MAPEX Presse|

    Mayor Bovenschulte Visits University of Bremen

    One of the focus points of the visit was the newly applied “The Martian Mindset: A Scarcity-Driven Engineering Paradigm” Cluster of Excellence of the Materials Science and Technologies high-profile area.

    find out more: Mayor Bovenschulte Visits University of Bremen
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    Research Highlights

    3D atomic structure determination with ultrashort-pulse MeV electron diffraction pic
    © Published under a CC BY 4.0 license
    MAPEX Research Highlights|

    3D atomic structure determination with ultrashort-pulse MeV electron diffraction

    V. Hennicke, M. Hachmann, P.B. Klar, P.Y.A. Reinke, T. Pakendorf, J. Meyer, H. Delsim-Hashemi, M. Barthelmess, S. Thekku Veedu, P. Fischer, A.C. Rodrigues, A. Qelaj, A. Tolstikova, O. Yefanov, J. Wernsmann, F. Lemery, R. Schubert, I. De Diego, S. Hayes, S. Günther, S. Falke, E. Fröjd, A. Mozzanica,…

    find out more: 3D atomic structure determination with ultrashort-pulse MeV electron diffraction
    Emerging_zeolites
    © 2025 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Inc.
    MAPEX Research Highlights|

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

    Jakob Brauer, Michael 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…

    find out more: Emerging extra-large pore zeolites as adsorbents for antibiotics: A comparative computational study
    Emerging_extra_large
    © 2025 The Author(s)
    MAPEX Research Highlights|

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

    Sophia Mannes Guesser De Oliveira, Kurosch Rezwan, Cyprien Verseux, Michael 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…

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