News of November 27, 2023
Saxony's Minister-President catches up on CASUS
Minister-President Michael Kretschmer (pictured right) and CASUS Founding Director Prof. Thomas D. Kühne: Between kneading dough, buttering Stollen and sugaring, the need for a sufficiently large research building was a topic of discussion.
Source: CASUS/P.Sosnowski
Nine scientists from the Center for Advanced Systems Understanding (CASUS) – an institute of the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR) – discussed their research work and life in Görlitz with Michael Kretschmer last Friday. In doing so, they accepted the invitation of the Saxon Minister-President to jointly bake a Stollen.
Michael Kretschmer last visited CASUS around six months ago. At that time, the focus was on welcoming the CASUS Founding Director, Prof. Thomas D. Kühne. Kretschmer also spoke to a number of researchers during a small gathering. Even then, the Minister-President announced that he would like to continue with these informal talks.
At the end of November, the time had come: Kretschmer invited the CASUS team to join him in baking Stollen at a bakery in Görlitz. Most of the four women and six men from the scientific team are not originally from Saxony, three come from different parts of Germany, four have roots abroad: Kazakhstan, Poland, Portugal and Turkey. Baking together was therefore not just about the Stollen, the Saxon Christmas cake par excellence. Rather, the many different national and international (Christmas) traditions were presented.
The CASUS delegation, led by Thomas D. Kühne, reported on its latest research successes and the completed move into a second office unit in Görlitz. However, the institute is still in its growth phase. The need for one single sufficiently large research building for CASUS was therefore also a topic of discussion between kneading dough and buttering as well as sugaring Stollen.
Further information:
Prof. Dr. Thomas D. Kühne | Director CASUS
Center for Advanced Systems Understanding (CASUS) at HZDR
Email: t.kuehne@hzdr.de
Media contact:
Dr. Martin Laqua | Officer Communications, Press and Public Relations
Center for Advanced Systems Understanding (CASUS) at HZDR
Cell phone: +49 1512 807 6932 | Email: m.laqua@hzdr.de
