University of Bremen - Core Facility Network

60 University of Bremen - Core Facility Network https://www.uni-bremen.de/en/mapex-cf/core-facility-network [Translate to English:] Core Facility Network details en University of Bremen Wed, 22 Apr 2026 19:33:50 +0200 Wed, 22 Apr 2026 19:33:50 +0200 University of Bremen content-700652 Sat, 07 Mar 2026 00:43:40 +0100 About https://www.uni-bremen.de/en/mapex-cf/core-facility-network#c700652 The Network for Advanced Materials Analytics was established following the Materials Science Core Facilities Synergy Forum (MSCFSF), held in February 2025 at the Haus der Wissenschaft in Bremen. Recognizing the vital need for a unified European community, the workshop brought together facility managers, researchers and coordinators to bridge the gap between individual institutions. This foundational meeting combined high-level discussions on governance, software integration and data ontologies with hands-on engagement, including laboratory tours at the University of Bremen and interactive poster sessions. By creating a dedicated space to exchange scientific insights and management strategies, the MSCFSF 2025 served as the primary catalyst for our ongoing collaborative network. More details regarding the Materials Science Core Facilities Synergy Forum (MSCFSF) can be found here: <a class="internal-link" href="t3://page?uid=67824">Program schedule</a> <a class="internal-link" href="t3://page?uid=67829">Invited speakers</a> Content content-700650 Mon, 12 Jan 2026 11:10:19 +0100 New Working groups https://www.uni-bremen.de/en/mapex-cf/core-facility-network#c700650 Building on the momentum of the <abbr title="Materials Science Core Facilities Synergy Forum">MSCFSF</abbr> in February 2025, the community met online in December 2025 to initiate our first specialized working groups. These groups are now tasked with translating the forum's high-level discussions into actionable strategies for long-term scientific collaboration and management excellence. Content content-700648 Sat, 07 Mar 2026 00:43:40 +0100 Administration https://www.uni-bremen.de/en/mapex-cf/core-facility-network#c700648 Research Engineer, Chalmers University of Technology Key Responsibility:&nbsp; This group is responsible for establishing the requirements for future network activities, including the selection of host facilities for the planned in-person meeting in 2027. Content content-700647 Sat, 07 Mar 2026 00:43:40 +0100 Travel programs / Exchange between facilities https://www.uni-bremen.de/en/mapex-cf/core-facility-network#c700647 Instrument Manager, University of Bremen Key Responsibility:&nbsp; Dedicated to facilitating knowledge transfer and personal interaction through staff exchange and travel initiatives between member facilities. Content content-700646 Sat, 07 Mar 2026 00:43:40 +0100 Database of facilities https://www.uni-bremen.de/en/mapex-cf/core-facility-network#c700646 Executive Consultant/ Science Management, TU Ilmenau Key Responsibility:&nbsp; Focuses on managing and organizing the shared repository of network resources, research capabilities and institutional information. Content content-700643 Sat, 07 Mar 2026 00:43:40 +0100 Updates https://www.uni-bremen.de/en/mapex-cf/core-facility-network#c700643 Important information:&nbsp; An in-person meeting is planned for 2027, facilities interested in hosting can apply after the requirements have been set by the "Administration" work group. Content content-700644 Sat, 07 Mar 2026 00:43:40 +0100 Join the mailing list https://www.uni-bremen.de/en/mapex-cf/core-facility-network#c700644 Subscribing to the mscf network is done by filling out the form provided in the link <a class="external-link" href="https://mailman.zfn.uni-bremen.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mscf-network" target="_blank">here</a>. Content content-700641 Fri, 06 Mar 2026 13:48:37 +0100 Facilities in this network https://www.uni-bremen.de/en/mapex-cf/core-facility-network#c700641 The following table consists of more than 14 countries with state-of-the-art facilities in advanced material characterization, nanotechnology research, and sophisticated analytical services. These hubs provide high-end infrastructure, ranging from electron microscopy and X-ray analysis to specialized cryo-EM and multidisciplinary structural analysis platforms which are essential for cutting-edge materials engineering.&nbsp; <figure class="table"><table><tbody><tr><td style="height:14.5pt;width:93pt;">Country</td><td style="width:209pt;">Facility&nbsp;</td><td>&nbsp;</td><td style="height:14.5pt;width:93pt;">Country</td><td style="width:209pt;">Facility&nbsp;</td></tr><tr><td style="height:29.0pt;width:93pt;">Austria</td><td style="height:29.0pt;width:209pt;"><a class="external-link" href="https://www.tuwien.at/en/research/facilities/ustem" target="_blank">USTEM-The electron microscopy facility of TU Wien, Technische Universität Wien</a></td><td>&nbsp;</td><td style="height:72.5pt;width:93pt;">Germany</td><td style="height:72.5pt;width:209pt;"><a class="external-link" href="https://www.tu-ilmenau.de/forschung/forschungsaktivitaeten/institute-und-technologische-zentren/zentrum-fuer-mikro-und-nanotechnologie" target="_blank">Center for Micro- and Nanotechnologies (ZMN), TU Ilmenau</a></td></tr><tr><td style="height:29.0pt;width:93pt;">Austria</td><td style="height:29.0pt;width:209pt;"><a class="external-link" href="https://www.tuwien.at/en/research/facilities/xrc" target="_blank">X-ray Center, Technische Universität Wien</a></td><td>&nbsp;</td><td style="height:29.0pt;width:93pt;">Germany</td><td style="height:29.0pt;width:209pt;"><a class="external-link" href="https://projekttraeger.dlr.de/en" target="_blank">German Aerospace Agency - Project Management Agency</a></td></tr><tr><td style="height:43.5pt;width:93pt;">Finland</td><td style="height:43.5pt;width:209pt;"><a class="external-link" href="https://www.oulu.fi/en/research/research-infrastructures/centre-for-material-analysis" target="_blank">Centre for Material Analysis, University of Oulu&nbsp;</a></td><td>&nbsp;</td><td style="height:14.5pt;width:93pt;">Germany</td><td style="height:14.5pt;width:209pt;"><a class="external-link" href="https://www.awi.de/" target="_blank">Alfred Wegener Institute</a></td></tr><tr><td style="height:43.5pt;width:93pt;">France</td><td style="height:43.5pt;width:209pt;"><a class="external-link" href="https://www.cnrs.fr/en" target="_blank">CNRS- French National Centre for Scientific Research (Centre national de la recherche scientifique)</a></td><td>&nbsp;</td><td style="height:14.5pt;width:93pt;">Germany</td><td style="height:14.5pt;width:209pt;"><a class="external-link" href="https://www.awi.de/" target="_blank">Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)</a></td></tr><tr><td style="height:29.0pt;width:93pt;">Germany</td><td style="height:29.0pt;width:209pt;"><a class="external-link" href="https://www.tu.berlin/zelmi" target="_blank">ZELMI-Center for Electron Microscopy (ZELMI), Technische Universität Berlin</a></td><td>&nbsp;</td><td style="height:43.5pt;width:93pt;">Germany</td><td style="height:43.5pt;width:209pt;"><a class="external-link" href="https://www.chemie.uni-hamburg.de/en/service/wissenschaftlicher-service/mikroskopie.html" target="_blank">Technology Platform Electron Microscopy, Universität Hamburg</a></td></tr><tr><td style="height:43.5pt;width:93pt;">Germany</td><td style="height:43.5pt;width:209pt;"><a class="external-link" href="https://www.uni-muenster.de/Physik.PI/Pernice/index.html" target="_blank">Responsive Nanosystems, Universität Münster</a></td><td>&nbsp;</td><td style="height:43.5pt;width:93pt;">Germany</td><td style="height:43.5pt;width:209pt;"><a class="external-link" href="https://uol.de/en/school5/central-facilities/electron-and-light-microscopy-service-unit" target="_blank">Electron and Light Microscopy Service Unit, Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg</a></td></tr><tr><td style="height:29.0pt;width:93pt;">Germany</td><td style="height:29.0pt;width:209pt;"><a class="external-link" href="https://www.btc.uni-bonn.de/en/core-facilities" target="_blank">Core Facilities, University Bonn</a></td><td>&nbsp;</td><td style="height:58.0pt;width:93pt;">Ireland</td><td style="height:58.0pt;width:209pt;"><a class="external-link" href="https://www.tcd.ie/crann/advanced-microscopy-laboratory/" target="_blank">CRANN (the Centre for Research on Adaptive Nanostructures and Nanodevices), Trinity College Dublin</a></td></tr><tr><td style="height:43.5pt;width:93pt;">Germany</td><td style="height:43.5pt;width:209pt;"><a class="external-link" href="https://www.uni-hamburg.de/technologieplattformen.html" target="_blank">Technology Platforms, Universität Hamburg</a></td><td>&nbsp;</td><td style="height:29.0pt;width:93pt;">Ireland</td><td style="height:29.0pt;width:209pt;"><a class="external-link" href="https://www.dcu.ie/coretechnologies" target="_blank">DCU Core Technologies, Dublin City University</a></td></tr><tr><td style="height:29.0pt;width:93pt;">Germany</td><td style="height:29.0pt;width:209pt;"><a class="external-link" href="https://www.iwt-bremen.de/en/home" target="_blank">Leibniz-Institute for Materials Engineering, Bremen</a></td><td>&nbsp;</td><td style="height:29.0pt;width:93pt;">Poland</td><td style="height:29.0pt;width:209pt;"><a class="external-link" href="https://www.chem.uw.edu.pl/en/main-page/#" target="_blank">Department of Chemistry, University of Warsaw</a></td></tr><tr><td style="height:43.5pt;width:93pt;">Germany</td><td style="height:43.5pt;width:209pt;"><a class="external-link" href="https://www.uni-saarland.de/fr/lehrstuhl/muecklich.html" target="_blank">Functional materials, Universität des Saarlandes</a></td><td>&nbsp;</td><td style="height:29.0pt;width:93pt;">Poland</td><td style="height:29.0pt;width:209pt;"><a class="external-link" href="https://www.chem.uw.edu.pl/en/main-page/#" target="_blank">SOLARIS Cryo-EM Facility, Jagiellonian University</a></td></tr><tr><td style="height:43.5pt;width:93pt;">Germany</td><td style="height:43.5pt;width:209pt;"><a class="external-link" href="https://www.bam.de/Navigation/EN/Home/home.html" target="_blank">BAM Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing (Bundesanstalt für Materialforschung und -Prüfung)</a></td><td>&nbsp;</td><td style="height:43.5pt;width:93pt;">Poland</td><td style="height:43.5pt;width:209pt;"><a class="external-link" href="https://cent.uw.edu.pl/cryomicroscopy-and-electron-diffraction-core-facility/" target="_blank">CeNT-Cryomicroscopy and Electron Diffraction Core Facility, University of Warsaw</a></td></tr><tr><td style="height:43.5pt;width:93pt;">Germany</td><td style="height:43.5pt;width:209pt;"><a class="external-link" href="https://www.uni-due.de/cenide/ican/index_en" target="_blank">ICAN-Interdisciplinary Center for Analytics on the Nanoscale, University of Duisburg-Essen</a></td><td>&nbsp;</td><td style="height:29.0pt;width:93pt;">Portugal</td><td style="height:29.0pt;width:209pt;"><a class="external-link" href="https://inl.int/" target="_blank">International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory</a></td></tr><tr><td style="height:29.0pt;width:93pt;">Germany</td><td style="height:29.0pt;width:209pt;"><a class="internal-link" href="t3://page?uid=1495">MAPEX Center for Materials and Processes, University of Bremen</a></td><td>&nbsp;</td><td style="height:29.0pt;width:93pt;">Sweden</td><td style="height:29.0pt;width:209pt;"><a class="external-link" href="https://www.chalmers.se/en/infrastructure/cmal/" target="_blank">Chalmers Materials Analysis Laboratory (CMAL), Chalmers University of Technology</a></td></tr><tr><td style="height:87.0pt;width:93pt;">Germany</td><td style="height:87.0pt;width:209pt;"><a class="external-link" href="https://www.hs-bremen.de/en/hsb/faculties/school-of-nature-and-engineering/core-facility-for-multidisciplinary-structural-analysis/" target="_blank">Core Facility for Multidisciplinary Structural Analysis, Hochschule Bremen</a></td><td>&nbsp;</td><td style="height:29.0pt;width:93pt;">Switzerland</td><td style="height:29.0pt;width:209pt;"><a class="external-link" href="https://www.epfl.ch/en/" target="_blank">EPFL - Swiss Federal Technology Institute of Lausanne</a></td></tr><tr><td style="height:29.0pt;width:93pt;">Germany</td><td style="height:29.0pt;width:209pt;"><a class="external-link" href="https://cfaed.tu-dresden.de/dcn" target="_blank">DCN-Dresden Center for Nanoanalysis, Technische Universität Dresden</a></td><td>&nbsp;</td><td style="height:43.5pt;width:93pt;">Türkiye</td><td style="height:43.5pt;width:209pt;"><a class="external-link" href="https://unam.bilkent.edu.tr/" target="_blank">UNAM - Bilkent University National Nanotechnology Research Center</a></td></tr><tr><td style="height:29.0pt;width:93pt;">Germany</td><td style="height:29.0pt;width:209pt;"><a class="internal-link" href="t3://page?uid=25290">Particles &amp; Process Engineering, University of Bremen</a></td><td>&nbsp;</td><td style="height:43.5pt;width:93pt;">United Kingdom</td><td style="height:43.5pt;width:209pt;"><a class="external-link" href="https://cches.co.uk/" target="_blank">Chemistry and Chemical Engineering Enterprise Solutions, University of Southampton</a></td></tr><tr><td style="height:58.0pt;width:93pt;">Germany</td><td style="height:58.0pt;width:209pt;"><a class="external-link" href="https://tu-dresden.de/forschung-transfer/services-fuer-forschende/technologieplattformen" target="_blank">Technology Platforms, Technische Universität Dresden</a></td><td>&nbsp;</td><td style="height:72.5pt;width:93pt;">&nbsp;</td><td style="height:72.5pt;width:209pt;">&nbsp;</td></tr></tbody></table></figure> Content