Hamburg
- Hamburg bei Nacht © XYZ
Metropolitan city and junction of the floating world trade, living monument of 2.000 years of history and cultural attraction to millions of tourists every year – welcome to Hamburg!
The Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg with its 1.7 million inhabitants is not only the second largest city in Germany, but it is one of the busiest harbours in Europe and is also a location for highly specialised industries. It is a leader in medical technology and biotechnology and is one of the world centres for aircraft construction:
It is here that the wide-bodied A380 is being built.
Hamburg is seven times bigger than Paris and two and a half times bigger than London. Hamburg has 2.302 bridges – more than Venice and Amsterdam combined. With over 90 consulates, Hamburg is second only to New York City in the world. As a trade centre, Hamburg has always been outward-looking, and this has shaped the mentality of the inhabitants of Hamburg.
Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht
The Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht Centre for Materials and Coastal Research is one of 17 members of the Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres.
In its Institute of Materials Research more than 160 employees develop ultra-light-weight materials and innovative process technologies for the application areas air and ground transportation, implantology and regenerative medicine, as well as energy storage and conversion.
GEMS at the Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht
The German Engineering Materials Science Centre (GEMS) is a new central user access platform, where the Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht provides a worldwide unique infrastructure for complementary research with photons and neutrons. Instruments using synchrotron radiation are operated at the outstation at DESY in Hamburg, instruments using neutrons are located at the outstation at the FRM II in Garching near Munich.