Forschungszentrum Jülich

World Water Day 2026

How Can Water Be Used Sustainably?

Increasingly dry summers, alongside a rise in heavy rainfall events, are presenting us with new challenges in our management of water resources. To mark World Water Day on 22 March, we spoke to Prof. Dr. Stefan Kollet and Dr. Frank Herrmann from the Institute of Bio- and Geosciences – Agrosphere.

Agriculture of the future

Agrivoltaics: More Than Just Electricity from the Field

There is ongoing debate about how economically viable agrivoltaics is compared with conventional ground-mounted photovoltaic systems. We spoke to Dr. Matthias Meier-Grüll from the Institute of Plant Sciences and doctoral researcher Chantal Kierdorf from the Institute Jülich Systems Analysis about the current state of research and the prospects for agrivoltaics.

Agriculture of the future

Agrivoltaics: More Than Just Electricity from the Field

Knowledge. Creation.

Grasping the present. Shaping the future. We research to revolutionize information processing, to transform the energy sector, and to develop a biobased circular economy. Across disciplines, creatively, and successfully.

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Neutron research

Science Council Endorses HBS-I Neutron Source

The German Science and Humanities Council has highlighted the scientific and strategic importance of the planned High Brilliance Neutron Source. In its statement released today, it expressly recommends that the first phase of the facility, known as HBS-I, be implemented at Forschungszentrum Jülich.

Collaboration

Ericsson and Forschungszentrum Jülich to develop advanced AI for 6G

Ericsson and Forschungszentrum Jülich aim to push the boundaries of network performance and efficiency, ensuring future solutions use as little energy as possible, while delivering exceptional intelligence and performance.

FZJ at the HANNOVER MESSE

Edge AI system enabling real-time, deterministic intelligence

Physical AI is redefining modern robotics, drones, and industrial systems, where machines must perceive, decide, and act in real-time. Automaton Engine is developing an energy-efficient silicon chip that enables fast, reliable decision-making under strict power constraints. Automaton Engine is one of the topics that Forschungszentrum Jülich is presenting at the HANNOVER MESSE.

Our 3 strategic research priorities

Information

The priority of information combines Jülich research in three areas: simulation and data science in high-performance-computing (HPC), brain research, and research on bio- and nanoelectronic information technologies of the future. Quantum technologies are another priority at Jülich.

Energy

Jülich energy research concentrates on an energy system based on renewable energy. Scientists research technologies on all scales – from the atomic level right up to industrial innovations – covering the entire value chain from basic to applied research.

Bioeconomy

The sustainable bioeconomy is a biobased circular economy that does away with fossil resources and utilizes renewable resources instead. Scientists from Forschungszentrum Jülich are developing new value creation processes.

Forschungszentrum Jülich at HANNOVER MESSE 2026

Jülich scientists will present their technologies and Innovations at HANNOVER MESSE 2026. The world's most important industrial trade fair and central platform for future technologies will take place from 20 to 24 April at the exhibition grounds in Hanover.

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Helmholtz Research Fields

As a founding member of the Helmholtz Association, we are part of the largest German research organization and contribute our top-class expertise to four of the six Helmholtz Research Fields: Energy, Matter, Information, and Earth & Environment.

At Jülich, we conduct research in the fields of digital transformation, climate protection, the energy transition, and the sustainable circular economy. Our research strengthens the technological and digital sovereignty of our country. It is important to me to use the potential that arises from scientific findings and innovations for practical application.
Prof. Dr. Astrid Lambrecht, Chair of the Board of Directors of Forschungszentrum Jülich

Topics

JUPITER

JUPITER at Forschungszentrum Jülich is the first European supercomputer in the exascale class. JUPITER is the first system in Europe with a computing power of more than one quintillion floating-point operations per second

AI

AI is already revolutionizing many areas of life. With our infrastructure and expertise, we are working towards fully and safely exploiting the potential of this technology in the future.

Quantum technologies

Quantum computers are changing computing in a fascinating way. At Jülich, we are testing systems and prototypes that users from all over Europe can utilize for their development work.

JUNIQ

The ‘Jülich UNified Infrastructure for Quantum computing’, or JUNIQ for short, is the world's first quantum computing infrastructure to offer users from science and industry access to a variety of quantum systems at different stages of development.

Sustainability

Our findings make an important contribution to achieving global sustainability goals. Our research is also sustainable and we use resources responsibly.

Hydrogen

Hydrogen is set to become a mainstay of the energy transition. But sustainable and marketable technologies are needed first. We are testing possible solutions.

Neuromorphic Computing

Computers modeled on the human brain, so-called neuromorphic systems, are much more economical than conventional computers.

Atmosphere and Climate

Often invisible to the human eye, they influence the global climate: chemical and physical processes in the atmosphere. We are tracking down these processes.

effzett - Forschungszentrum Jülich's magazine

Can a person’s individual traits be determined from their brain? For a long time, this was unclear, partly because there were no suitable methods of investigation. Artificial intelligence and big data are now opening up new possibilities and have heralded a change of perspective in brain research.