PhD student Berit Schlüter provides an insight into her everyday life and the installation of the “IceCube Upgrade” for neutrino research.
Since December 2025 I‘ve been living and working at the South Pole – the coldest place on Earth. There are a lot of special challenges involved, but it’s a once-in-a-lifetime experience. Sunshine, blue sky, no day/night rhythm, ice and snow, and temperatures constantly at 30° C below zero: that’s the Antarctic in the summer, while it’s winter in Europe.
A team led by Prof Martin Salinga has mapped the energy landscape of germanium telluride, gaining deep insights into the behaviour of the material. The findings could contribute be interesting, for example, for realising very dense networks of memory cells.
