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Abstract: The Helmholtz-Zentr um Dresden - Rossendorf e.V. (HZDR) as a multiprogrammatic\, interdiscipli nary\, and internationally active national laboratory and member of the He lmholtz Association will be presented in this lecture. With about 1\,500 e mployees and an annual budget of around €180 million\, it is the larges t legally independent research centre in Eastern Germany\, with research s ites in five locations in Germany and one location in France. HZDR conduct s application-oriented basic research with a claim to scientific excellenc e and topics of strategic relevance with impact on science and society. Ou r scientific focus is on the Helmholtz Research Fields “Matter”\, “H ealth”\, and “Energy” as well as on synergies between these three fi elds. HZDR conducts cutting-edge research and develops innovative technolo gies together with strong national and international partners in order to address the grand challenges of our time and to find unique solutions with a tangible impact on science\, society\, and the economy. Our research is supported by sophisticated research infrastructures. We design\, build\, and operate unique large-scale facilities and support many hundreds of use rs from Europe and around the world every year. This is an important part of the mission of the Helmholtz Association and an integral part of HZDR ’s history and future strategy.
Short bio: Prof . Dr. Dr. hc. mult. Sebastian M. Schmidt\, born in 1967\, grew up in Greif swald and started his scientific career at the University of Rostock and a t the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research in Dubna. He completed his doct orate in theoretical physics in Rostock in 1995. After a scholarship at Te l Aviv University and as a fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation at Argonne National Laboratory (USA)\, he took over the leadership of an Emmy Noether junior research group sponsored by the German Research Found ation (DFG)\, at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen in 2000. In 2 001\, he completed his habilitation at the Universities of Tübingen and Rostock. From 2002 to 2006\, Sebastian M. Schmidt was first a staff member \, then managing director of the Helmholtz Association's office in Berlin. From 2007 to 2020\, he served as a member of the Board of Directors at th e Forschungszentrum Jülich for the areas of matter and information. Sinc e 2012 he holds a professorship for physics at RWTH Aachen University. As of October 2023\, Sebastian M. Schmidt was elected to the National Academy of Science and Engineering - acatech. Since July 2024 he holds a full Pro fessorship for “Quantenstatistics” at the TU Dresden. Prof. Sebastian M. Schmidt has been Scientific Director at the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-R ossendorf since April 1\, 2020.