The HSZG’s longest-running ESF early-career researcher group—the Graduate College “New Systems for Resource Conservation”—met last Tuesday, June 6, 2017, for its seventh specialist colloquium. At these quarterly meetings, the early-career researchers and their project leaders discuss progress in the subprojects as well as administrative and social issues with staff from the administration and the Office of the Vice President for Research. This time, three of the ten early-career researchers presented the status of their work:
- Christoph Ebermann on “Decentralized Combined Heat and Power”
- Dr. Clemens Schneider on “Future-Proof Power Generation” and
- Jens Heider on “Information and Communication Technologies”
With just over a year remaining until the end of the funding period, the discussions focused on the activities still to be completed. In addition, the division of labor for the annual status report was addressed, and opportunities for continuing education in the area of social skills were discussed.
As with every colloquium, the event was followed by a tour of experimental facilities. This time, the destination was the thermohydraulics laboratory at the Institute for Process Engineering, Process Automation, and Measurement Technology (IPM). It houses numerous test facilities for plant and nuclear safety research.
Amid somewhat changeable weather, the evening concluded with a group barbecue.
Even though the results from the early-career researchers’ group are not yet available, one thing is clear: This type of funding from the EU and Saxony is a good way to bring together young and more experienced researchers from various disciplines to tackle upcoming research papers together.
Contact
Lutz Haberland
Tel.: 03583 612-4682
Email: L.Haberland@hszg.de