PTB investigates indoor air purifier developed in Braunschweig The Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB) measured the internal irradiance of a prototype of an indoor UV-C air purification unit to gauge its effectiveness in neutralizing germs and viruses. A simulation of the irradiance distribution in the unit also enabled us to investigate the suitability of the lamp arrangement…
The year 2020 demanded that we take our digital work to the next level. A wide range of procedures could no longer be conducted in person as they normally are, and had to be completed digitally – sometimes successfully, sometimes less so. The accreditation field was no exception when it came to this development, as…
What are we most likely to do when looking for specific information these days? We open a browser on our mobile phone or PC, select our favourite search engine and enter a search key. Within seconds, hundreds of results appear on our screen, but most of the time, we only look at the first few…
Today, the CSIR-NPL India, Council of Scientific and Industrial Research – National Physical Laboratory, celebrates the 75th anniversary of its foundation. The PTB sends its warmest congratulations and all the best for the future. Together with the CSIR-NPL, the PTB proudly looks back on a successful partnership over many years and has high expectations for…
We will remember this unusual year long into the future. As we all know, there have been and still are many sad, difficult and challenging events. Still, we will remember other aspects too: unrelenting willingness to help, solidarity and the speed at which we learned to work digitally. For us at the International Cooperation department,…
Today, we would like to draw your attention to a section of our covid-19 website devoted to working digitally. Because we can no longer have meetings in person, including those on site in our partner countries, we have to rely on the digital world to take up the slack. However, we can’t just do this…
After packing many good thoughts, Janin Fischer left the Caucasus and headed south in November. This trip required neither an airplane nor a passport as it took place in PTB’s realm. Janin, who up until now had been working as a project coordinator in the Europe and the CIS Section, is now the Head of…
Recently, we received good news from Tunisia: metrology is now an integral component of university physics degree programmes! We were highly pleased to hear from our project partners at the Tunisian Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research about this milestone in the development of our cooperation. Effective from this academic year, metrology will be…
Raising awareness of the progress that has been made in the industrialisation of the African continent and, on the other hand, of the challenges that the coming years will bring – these are the topics of this year’s Africa Industrialisation Week (AIW) which is taking place from 16 to 20 November. Like so many other events this…
Andrea Ulbrich began her secondment to the trade department of the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) on 1 November 2020. This project coordinator with many years of experience in the Asia Section is following in the footsteps of Daniel Böhme. We would like to take the opportunity here to thank him for…