Leibniz Institute for Plasma Research and Technology
| Leibniz Institute for Plasma Research and Technology eV Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Scientific Community |
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| Consist: | Founding year 1992 |
| Membership: | Leibniz Association |
| Facility location: | Greifswald , Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania |
| Type of research: | Application-oriented basic research |
| Areas of expertise: | Low temperature plasma |
| Management: | Klaus-Dieter Weltmann (Scientific Director), Jens Berger (Commercial Director) |
| Employee: | about 170 |
| Homepage: | [1] |
The Leibniz Institute for Plasma Research and Technology eV (INP) in the university and Hanseatic city of Greifswald in the state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania is one of the world's leading research institutes in the field of physical plasmas, their fundamentals and technical applications.
With currently around 170 scientists, engineers and other specialists, the INP Greifswald is the largest non-university research facility on low-temperature plasmas in Europe. In addition to application-oriented basic research, the INP promotes the development of plasma-based processes and products. The institute conducts research and development from the idea to the prototype. The topics are based on the needs of the market. Plasmas for materials and energy as well as for the environment and health are currently the focus of interest. Innovative product ideas from research at the INP are researched directly with industry or transferred into marketable products and services through the institute's spin-offs.
The INP Greifswald unites knowledge, experience and ability in a unique combination under one roof. Employees in the disciplines of physics, chemistry, mathematics, biology, medicine, pharmacy and engineering work hand in hand with highly specialized technicians and laboratory specialists on researching low-temperature plasmas and their applications. Together with cooperation partners from research and industry, the INP employees find tailor-made solutions for current tasks in industry and science. The experimental and theoretical investigations are carried out using diagnostics and modeling and are supplemented by the development and use of specific plasma sources.
The institute in the legal form of a registered association has a total budget of approx. 13.9 million euros, of which around 6.2 million euros come from third-party funds . The INP Greifswald's strategy is supported by the structure of the institute. This has a matrix structure: there are two research areas (FB) divided according to scientific aspects: "Materials and Energy" and "Environment and Health", each with three main research areas (FS); In terms of organization and personnel, the INP is divided into eight scientific organizational units plus currently two further research groups and three young research groups (plus staff and administration).
history
The institute, founded on January 1, 1992, belongs to the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Scientific Community and on September 14, 2007 it was renamed from “Institute for Low Temperature Plasma Physics eV” to “Leibniz Institute for Plasma Research and Technology”. Historically, it goes back to the "Research Center for Gas Discharge Physics" which has existed in Greifswald since 1946. From this it was the 1950 Academy of Sciences of the GDR is part of the "Institute of gas discharge physics" that the "Central Institute of Electron Physics" of since 1969 a part of East Germany was.
Spin-offs
The research has produced, among other things, atmospheric pressure plasma devices for medical research such as "kINPen Med" and a dielectrically impeded discharge for the treatment of liquids. These plasma sources were developed in collaboration with medical professionals, physicists and engineers. The successful cooperation and mutual understanding of the various disciplines made it possible to understand and use the full potential of plasma medical applications.
The INP has spun off a total of 4 companies since it was founded:
- neoplas GmbH
- neoplas control GmbH
- neoplas tools GmbH
- coldplasmatech GmbH
Scientific environment
The direct scientific environment of the institute includes the Greifswald branch of the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics (IPP), founded in 1994, as well as the chair for low-temperature plasma physics at the Institute for Physics at the Ernst-Moritz-Arndt University of Greifswald , which is also linked to the INP by a joint professorship for experimental plasma physics.
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Coordinates: 54 ° 5 ′ 29.9 " N , 13 ° 24 ′ 6.7" E