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POLiS Conclave 2025
The annual POLiS Conclave took place from June 23 to 23, 2025 in the heart of Karlsruhe. Around 130 scientists from Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Ulm University and Justus Liebig University…

Exploring Battery Innovation – Visit to ZSW in Ulm
Around 25 researchers from the POLiS Cluster of Excellence and the Graduate School Electrochemical Energy Storage (GS-EES) had the great opportunity to visit the Center for Solar Energy and Hydrogen…

First POLiS Open Day in Ulm
A successful first “POLiS Open Day” at the Shared Facility in Ulm. The Shared Facility in Ulm combines physics and chemistry laboratories specialized for research in the field of energy storage and…

Hannover Messe 2025
Also in 2025, the Center for Electrochemical Energy Storage Ulm & Karlsruhe (CELEST) participated at Hannover Messe as co-exhibitor at the Baden-Württemberg Pavilion in the Energy for Industry area…

RDM: 300 users, 300 collections, and 3000 records
POLiS' own Kadi4Mat instance has now reached more than 300 users, 300 collections, and 3000 records! The Research Data Management team held several workshops on RDM and Kadi4Mat in 2024, which were…

Call: POLiS Award of Excellence for Female Researchers
Apply now for the POLiS Award of Excellence for Female Researchers! The award is given annually to an outstanding female early and mid-career researcher working in one of the scientific topics of the…

Workshop "From Bystander to Upstander"
The Workshop "From Bystander to Upstander" took place at Ulm University on 10 December 2024.

Workshop "From Bystander to Upstander"
Register Now! Fostering a culture of respect and inclusion in the workplace: Bystanders—those who witness situations where harm, discrimination, or injustice occur—have a unique opportunity to make a…

POLiS visits Leclanché
Close interaction between researchers and industry partners is essential to ensure that research is applied and relevant to industry. The Technology Transfer team therefore organises a series of…

Opening of the world's first agile battery cell production AgiloBat at KIT
In an effort to make the future production of battery cells (for uses such as electromobility or power tools) more flexible, researchers at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) have set up an…

POLiS PhD Till Ortmann receives poster award
POLiS doctoral researcher Till Ortmann was awarded a poster prize at the 5th International Symposium on Sodium Batteries in Berlin.

POLiS Phd Student David Burger receives Ed Cohen Travel Award
The ISCSTs Ed Cohen Travel Award has been granted to POLiS employee David Burger (KIT-TFT) to present his research about the processing and structural optimization of Sodium-Ion-Battery (SIB)…