Small Series and Prototype Production at ZF Friedrichshafen AG creates new challenges for quality control time and again: measurement programs for new components need to be created every day. ZF metrologist Mehmet Akol accepts these challenges with unrelenting curiosity and uses ZEISS training courses to help him.

Hexin Wang has been working for ZEISS for over 20 years and has been part of the Management team at the Shanghai Innovation Center for over six years. “ZEISS can use its German roots to its advantage in China, and draw on its connections in both countries,” says Wang. However, that doesn’t mean that the employees in Germany can’t get a few tips from their friends over in China.

Scientists at the Institute for Brewing and Beverage Technology at the Technical University of Munich are working on how to perfect the enjoyment of beer. By utilizing ZEISS microscopes and the latest brewing technology, they are bringing innovative research to a discipline with a long-standing tradition.

Neuroscientists around the world race towards their ultimate goal: a three-dimensional map of the brain. Harvard-Professor Jeff Lichtman is not just one of them, but a godfather of connectomics. An interview with someone who dedicated his life to a piece of cortex, a cube just one millimeter on a side.