Recently I visited the Jülich Research Centre in Germany, one of the largest interdisciplinary research centers in Europe. It is very interesting because when we are still debating how to draw a line between science and technology, Jülich Research Centre defines its research field to be a fat bell shape to cover both industry application and basic science research. They obtain the fund from the industry to hire PhDs and postdocs to do technology-based innovation. Also it produced Nobel prize winner of Physics 2007 Peter Grunberg. It can offer new recipe for the paint companies, but also it can use neuron scattering machine to do the cutting-edge research in the pure physics.

Jülich is between industry application and Max-Planck basic science research

Jülich has 3rd fastest super-computer in the world. It covered simulation science, bio-science, physics, energy and environmental research

From particle physics to colloid physics and soft matter research

NMR centers for protein structure resolution (built with wood to avoid strong magnetic field effects)

I meet lots of postdocs or visiting researcher from China there. Maybe people who are looking for a position can have a look at its website:

http://www.fz-juelich.de/portal/home

 

Here is the introduction from Wiki:

Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH (Jülich Research Centre Ltd.) is a member of the Helmholtz-Gemeinschaft or Hermann von Helmholtz Association of National Research Centres and is one of the largest interdisciplinary research centres in Europe. It was founded on 11 December 1956 by the Federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia as a registered association, before it became "Kernforschungsanlage Jülich GmbH" or Nuclear Research Centre Jülich in 1967

Location

Location of Research Centre Jülich in Germany

The Research Centre is situated in the middle of the Stetternich Forest in Jülich (Kreis Düren, Rheinland) and covers an area of 2.2 square kilometres. The annual budget of the Research Centre is approximately € 360 million. Public funds are split between the German Federal Government (90 %) and the Federal State of North Rhine-Westphalia (10 %). The Research Centre employs more than 4,300 members of staff (2006) and works within the framework of the disciplines physics, chemistry, biology, medicine and engineering on the basic principles and applications in the areas of health, information, environment and energy. Amongst the members of staff, there are approx. 1,300 scientists including 400 PhD students and 150 diploma students. Around 800 people work in the administration and service areas, 350 work for project management agencies, and there are 1,500 technical staff members, while around 350 trainees are completing their training in 20 different professions. Some 700 visiting scientists come to Research Centre Jülich every year from more than 50 different countries.

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