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Towards a More Sustainable Automotive Industry? 🚗🌫️

Prof. Dr. Ai Serizawa

Sustainable Materials: Meet our Partners in Japan! Guten Tag, Prof. Dr. Ai Serizawa from Shibaura Institute of Technology (SIT)! Prof. Serizawa’s research focuses on innovative and sustainable surface treatment technologies. She developed an environmentally friendly one-step process to apply a dense anticorrosive film on aluminium alloys – using nothing but steam. This technology has immense potential in industries such as the automotive and railway sectors.

Pioneers in Hydrogen Research 🔋🌱♻️

Prof. Dr. Mehtap Özaslan and Dr. Frédéric Hasché

Pioneers in Japanese – German Hydrogen Research: Meet our Partners in Japan! Today, we are delighted to introduce Prof. Dr. Mehtap Özaslan and Dr. Frédéric Hasché from the University of Hamburg, Technical Electrocatalysis Laboratory.

Advancing AI Solutions for Sustainability 🔁🧩🔋♻️🌱

Dr. Alexandra Pehlken

Sustainable AI & Critical Raw Materials: Meet our Partners in Japan! Today, we talk to Dr. Alexandra Pehlken, Deputy Head of the Division Marine Perception at the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI).

Strengthening Connections - in Space! 👽🚀

Dr. Niklas Reinke

Meet our Partners in Japan! Did you know that Japan and Germany are connected across roughly 150 topics in space alone? Today, we are pleased to introduce Dr. Niklas Reinke, Director of the Tokyo Office of the German Aerospace Center (DLR), who plays a key role in strengthening this collaboration.

Connecting Japanese and German Researchers 🤝🌍🌎

Mr. Tsuyoshi Nishiyama

Starting our new series: Meet our Partners in Japan! Kicking things off, we are thrilled to introduce Mr. Tsuyoshi Nishiyama from the Research Planning Section at Shibaura Institute of Technology (SIT). SIT is a private university in Tokyo with a strong focus on engineering, known for its impressive research output and participation in Japan’s Top Global University Project.

DWIH Tokyo Interview

New Director: Axel Karpenstein

With the term of former director Dorothea Mahnke having ended in April 2022, Axel Karpenstein has succeeded her as new director of the DWIH Tokyo.

Connecting East and West – A Short Interview with …

Prof. Dr. Yuko Nishitani

Our series “Connecting East and West – A Short Interview with…“ presents people involved in German-Japanese research collaborations – and their insights on how and where to cooperate successfully! Prof. Dr. Yuko Nishitani teaches at Kyoto University Graduate School of Law and received the renowned Philipp Franz von Siebold Award in 2020, which is awarded for extraordinary contributions to the mutual understanding between Germany and Japan. In our DWIH interview, she shares insights into her research in law and encourages young researchers to enter international collaborations open-minded and well prepared.