Helmholtz Researchs Fields

Research in the Helmholtz Association: powering cutting-edge research

As a founding member of the Helmholtz Association, we are part of the largest German research organization and contribute our top-class expertise to four of the six Helmholtz research fields: energy, matter, information, and Earth and environment.

Helmholtz research seeks answers to the big questions of the future and aims to provide society with solutions to the challenges of the modern world. The organization pools its expertise in special research programmes, with scientists from different Helmholtz centres working together on interdisciplinary projects. Forschungszentrum Jülich contributes its outstanding expertise to ten programmes from four Helmholtz research fields. With cutting-edge research in our strategic priority areas – energy, information, and the bioeconomy – we make a fundamental contribution within the Helmholtz Association.

Research Fields

Helmholtz Information

The development of materials and technologies for a new generation of computers – quantum and neuromorphic computing – and the design of AI models are examples of work in the field of information.

Helmholtz Energy

Scientists in the research field of Helmholtz Energy seek solutions for a secure, climate-neutral energy supply. For example, they research storage technologies for electricity from renewable energy sources.

Helmholtz Earth and Environment

The state of the atmosphere, our planet’s protective layer, is the subject of research in the research field Earth and environment. However, scientists are also developing technologies and solutions for a bio-based circular economy.

Helmholtz Matter

The basic building blocks and forces of the universe, as well as its cosmological development, are the subject of research in the field of Helmholtz Matter: basic research that seeks to answer the question of what holds our world together at its core.