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GSC 1013:  Graduate School of Analytical Sciences Adlershof (SALSA)

Subject Area Analytical Chemistry
Term from 2012 to 2019
Project identifier Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 194424575
 
Final Report Year 2020

Final Report Abstract

The field of Analytical Sciences is positioned at the interface of chemistry, physics, biology, and data science. They provide solutions to all scientific and technological problems. Therefore, progress in the Analytical Sciences has direct implications for socioeconomic well-being. The School of Analytical Sciences Adlershof SALSA has the aim to overcome the (historical) fragmentation of Analytical Sciences into different fields and to address problems in basic and applied research in a multidisciplinary fashion. This has been achieved by an approach that integrates a graduate teaching approach rooted in case-based learning, as well as research at the interface of different areas of specialization in the natural sciences. A new curriculum was established, and a close collaboration of experts from different fields, ranging from chemistry to physics, biology, mathematical modelling, and educational sciences formed the basis for 83 cosupervised research projects, addressed by a highly diverse group of international doctoral researchers. The multidisciplinary research in SALSA has been following three interconnected pairs of guiding themes, Limits & Scales, Sensitivity & Selectivity, and Make & Measure. They guiding themes form the basis of understanding the function and dynamics of complex systems in chemistry, biology, and materials sciences on the atomic and molecular scale. SALSA’s fellows have been working on making measurable what has not been before e.g., by designing new sensing structures and probes. Being able to combine different synthesis and detection approaches and to comprehend the underlying physico-chemical principles will help to solve future problems in many areas, such as biodiagnostics, proteomics, and chemical imaging. Accordingly, many cooperations with other collaborative initiatives, e.g., DFG CRCs in the Berlin research area were established. SALSA is a central part of “Analytic City Adlershof”, a competence center that bundles the university, non-university, and industrial expertise available in Adlershof. International partnerships were established with ETH Zürich, University of Oviedo in Spain and Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel with the aim to foster scientific exchange and to develop a joint curriculum in Analytical Sciences. SALSA runs two Application Labs, providing facilities for graduate projects and being home to a junior research group in Photonics and to a new W3 professorship.

Link to the final report

https://dx.doi.org/10.2314/GBV:1697025978

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