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Jochem Marotzke, Director at the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology in Hamburg.

Jochem Marotzke, Director at the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology,  shares his assessment of what the Trump administration's policies mean for his American colleagues and national and international climate research

A beach polluted with plastic waste, the sky is overcast.

Contrary to previous claims, the ocean absorbs more microplastics from the atmosphere than it releases into it

Yellow robot arm in a laboratory with artificial plants on the floor.

Grant helps to take AI-based harvesting robot Polybot from research-phase to startup-phase

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Climate and transformation

In addition to climate forecasts, the consequences of climate change are increasingly becoming the focus of research at Max Planck Institutes

The brain

The human brain is the most complex organ that nature has ever produced: 100 billion nerve cells and many times more contact points give it capabilities that no supercomputer can match

Migration

The causes and consequences of human mobility and its history are central topics for research at Max Planck Institutes

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The MPG offers excellent researchers again the possibility to apply for a position as a Leader of a Lise Meitner Research Group in all areas of science. Applications are possible until April 08th, 2025. 

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