MPA News 2024

Gold for MPA Gender Equality Plan

The MPG Commission »Quality Management of Max Planck Gender Equality Plans (GEP)« awarded the Gold label to MPA’s plan, for meeting  the Max Planck standards – comprehensiveness, institute-specific and sustainability – to an outstanding degree. The MPA presents an excellent gender equality strategy, which, among other things, impresses with a comprehensive inventory, a stringent, data-based selection of fields of action, goals and measures, and a comprehensive portfolio of measures. more

<span><span><span>Prestigious ERC Synergy Grant awarded to obtain a comprehensive view of the Universe in its infancy</span></span></span>

ERC Synergy grant will fund researchers at MPA, the Observatories of Rome and Trieste in Italy, and Chalmers in Sweden to unravel the complexity of the Epoch of Reionization. more

<span><span><span>A Three-Dimensional Atlas of the Milky Way</span></span></span><br /> 

European Research Council funds scientists at MPA, RTWH Aachen, and IA-FORTH to map Galaxy in 3D more

ESA gives go-ahead for flagship gravitational-wave observatory in space

LISA, the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna, has passed a major review with flying colours: the entire concept – from the definition of the overall mission and operations to the space hardware to be built – stood up to the intense scrutiny of ESA´s reviewers. Now the space agency´s Science Programme Committee (SPC) has confirmed that LISA is sufficiently mature and that mission development can proceed as planned. LISA should go into orbit in the mid-2030s. more

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