Publications

Jess M. Bunchek, Mary E. Hummerick, LaShelle E. Spencer, Matthew W. Romeyn, Millennia Young, Robert C. Morrow, Cary A. Mitchell, Grace L. Douglas, Raymond M. Wheeler, Gioia D. Massa

Journal of Plant Interactions 19 (2024): 2292220

doi: 10.1080/17429145.2023.2292220

Fresh, nutritious, palatable…

Rieke Freer, Victoria Pesch,  Paul Zabel

Frontiers in Space Technologies  5 (2024) : 1366591

doi: 10.3389/frspt.2024.1366591

The establishment of a permanent lunar base is the goal of several space missions, such as NASA's Artemis program. The feasibility of a lunar base is highly dependent on…

Simone Colantoni, ?scar Santiago, Janek R. Weiler, Melanie T. Knoll, Christian J. Lapp, Johannes Gescher, Sven Kerzenmacher

Journal of Environmental Chemical Engineering 12 (2024): 113071  

doi: 10.1016/j.jece.2024.113071

Integrating microbial electrolysis cells (MEC) with anaerobic digestion…

Michèle Rieth, Linda Onnasch, Vera Hagemann

International Journal of Human-Computer Studies 186 (2024): 103246  

doi: 10.1016/j.ijhcs.2024.103246

This experiment systematically examines whether, in safety-critical environments such as Air Traffic Control, the negative effects of increasing…

Cyprien Verseux, Tiago Ramalho, Emma Bohuon, Nils Kunst, Viktoria Lang, Christiane Heinicke

npj Microgravity  (2024) 

doi: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-4348078/v1

In situ resource utilization systems based on cyanobacteria could support the sustainability of crewed missions to Mars. However, their…

Shadi Attarha, Anna F?rster

International Conference on Embedded Wireless Systems and Networks (2024) 

doi: 10.48550/ARXIV.2405.01578

In the context of the Internet of Things (IoT), reliable and energy-efficient provision of IoT applications has become critical. Equipping IoT systems with tools…

Alessia Simonini, Michael Dreyer, Annafederica Urbano, Francesco Sanfedino, Takehiro Himeno, Philipp Behruzi, Marc Avila, Jorge Pinho, Laura Peveroni, Jean Baptiste Gouriet

npj Microgravity 10 (2024): 34

doi: 10.1038/s41526-024-00377-5

This paper presents open challenges and perspectives of…

Lorenzo Bastonero; Nicola Marzari

npj computational materials 10 (2024): 55

doi: 10.1038/s41524-024-01236-3

Infrared and Raman spectroscopies are ubiquitous techniques employed in many experimental laboratories, thanks to their fast and non-destructive nature able to capture materials' features…

Sven Julius Steinert, Paul Zabel, Dominik Quantius

Frontiers in Space Technologies 5 (2024) 

doi: 10.3389/frspt.2024.1352213

With increasing relevance for lunar activities, the location selection for in situ resource utilization (ISRU) facilities is a necessary step to identify the most suitable…

Anna Forster, Jens Dede, Andreas K?nsgen, Koojana Kuladinithi, Vishnupriya Kuppusamy, Andreas Timm‐Giel, Asanga Udugama, Andreas Willig,

IET Networks 13 (2024): 66-110

doi: 10.1049/ntw2.12094

Infrastructure-less networks connect communication devices end-to-end by managing links and routes…

Ludwig Danwitz, Bettina Von Helversen

The Journal of Chemical Physics 160 (2023): 152501

doi: 10.2139/ssrn.4732127

Stretching or compression can induce significant energetic, geometric, and spectroscopic changes in materials. To fully exploit these effects in the design of mechano- or…

Kunal Kulkarni, Michel Fabien Franke, Muchammad Izzuddin Jundullah Hanafi, Thorsten M. Gesing, Paul Zabel

Frontiers in Space Technologies 4 (2023): 1328341  

doi: 10.3389/frspt.2023.1328341

Over the past few years, the international space industry has focused extensively on advancing technologies…

G. Gebreyesus, Lorenzo Bastonero, Michele Kotiuga, Nicola Marzari, Iurii Timrov

Physical Review B 108 (2023): 235171

doi: 10.1103/PhysRevB.108.235171

We present a first-principles study of the low-temperature rhombohedral phase of BaTiO3 using Hubbard corrected density-functional theory. By…

Felix Zeller, Chieh-Min Hsieh, Tim Neudecker, Wilke Dononelli

Theoretical and Computational Chemistry (2023) 

doi: 10.26434/chemrxiv-2023-nr314

The field of liquid-phase and solid-state high-pressure chemistry has exploded since the advent of the diamond anvil cell, an experimental technique that…

Daniel Vrankar, Cyprien Verseux, Christiane Heinicke

npj Microgravity 9 (2024): 81

doi: 10.1038/s41526-023-00329-5

Protecting the Martian environment from contamination with terrestrial microbes is generally seen as essential to the scientific exploration of Mars, especially when it comes to the…

Vera Hagemann, Michèle Rieth, Amrita Suresh, Frank Kirchner

Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence 6 (2023): 1252897

doi: 10.3389/frai.2023.1252897

As part of the Special Issue topic “Human-Centered AI at Work: Common Ground in Theories and Methods,” we present a perspective article that looks at…

Nour El Hoda Djidi, Damien Wohwe Sambo, Matthieu Gautier, Olivier Berder, Nathalie Mitton, F?rster Anna

Algorithmics of Wireless Networks, 19th International Symposium on Algorithmics of Wireless Networks (ALGOWIN 2023), Amsterdam, Netherlands (2023)

In wireless sensor networks, much energy is…

Lara Watermann, Ksenia Appelganc, Paul Gro?e Maestrup, Saurabh Band, Anna F?rster, Christiane Heinicke, Vera Hagemann

AOWI-conference of the German Psychological Society (2023)

The AOWI-conference of the German Psychological Society took place in Kassel from 12th to 15th September, 2023. The…

Gibson Kimutai, Anna F?rster

GoodIT '23: ACM International Conference on Information Technology for Social Good, Lisbon Portugal (2023)

doi: 10.1145/3582515.3609514

Yearly, more than 200 million malaria cases are recorded worldwide. Most of these cases are witnessed in less developed countries as…

Veronica De Micco, Chiara Amitrano, Felice Mastroleo, Giovanna Aronne, Alberto Battistelli, Eugenie Carnero Diaz, Stefania De Pascale, Gisela Detrell, Claude Gilles Dussap, Ramon Ganigue, ?yvind Mejdell Jakobsen, Lucie Poulet, Rob Van Houdt, Cyprien Verseux, Siegfried E. Vlaeminck, Ronnie Willaert,…

Anees Pazhedath, Lorenzo Bastonero, Nicola Marzari, Michele Simoncelli

Zeitschrift für Kristallographie - Crystalline Materials (2023)

doi: 10.48550/ARXIV.2309.10789

Alloys based on lanthanum phosphate (LaPO$_{4}$) are often employed as thermal barrier coatings, due to their low thermal…

Paul Gro?e Maestrup, Ksenia Appelganc, Saurabh Band, Florian Stechmann, Vera Hagemann, Anna F?rster, Cyprien Verseux, Christiane Heinicke

52nd International Conference on Environmental Systems (2023)

 online: https://ttu-ir.tdl.org/bitstream/handle/2346/94682/ICES-2023-258.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed…

Byron Ross, Sophia Haussener, Katharina Brinkert 

Nature communications 14 (2023): 3141

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-38676-2

Human deep space exploration is presented with multiple challenges, such as the reliable, efficient and sustainable operation of life support systems. The…

Vera Hagemann, Lara Watermann, Florian Klonek, Christiane Heinicke 

Acta Astronautica  210 (2023): 162-175

doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actaastro.2023.05.021, preprint available open access https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.15415

Astronaut crews and ground control support teams are highly…

Nicole Mensching, Mirja Louisa Krüger, Askar Kvaratskheliya, Daniel Meyer, Kirsten Tracht, Ilya Okulov, Lutz M?dler

Materials 16 (2023): 4170

doi: https://doi.org/10.3390/ma16114170, preprint available open access: doi:https://www.preprints.org/manuscript/202304.1169/v1

Once on Mars, maintenance…

Jens Dede, David Wewetzer, Anna F?rster

INFORMATIK 2023 - Designing Futures: Zukünfte gestalten, Berlin (2023)

doi: 10.18420/INF2023_161

The effect of humanity on the earth becomes more and more apparent. Besides the publicly discussed climate change and overpopulation, also the number of…

Shadi Attarha, Saurabh Band, Anna Forster

2023 19th International Conference on the Design of Reliable Communication Networks (DRCN) (2023)

doi: 10.1109/DRCN57075.2023.10108238

With the growth of Internet-of-Things (IoT), smart agriculture has become one of the most compelling IoT applications…

Christiane Heinicke, Cyprien Verseux

Life Sciences in Space Research 36 (2023):  86-89

doi: 10.1016/j.lssr.2022.08.009

The Moon and Mars Base Analog (MaMBA) is a concept for an extraterrestrial habitat developed at the Center of Applied Space Technology and Microgravity (ZARM) in Bremen, Germany.…

Isaac Vázquez, Sven Candlemaker, ?scar Santiago

Frontiers in Energy Research 11 (2023): 1119090

doi: 10.3389/fenrg.2023.1119090

In the last years, microbial electrochemical technologies have received increasing attention due to their promising environmental potential. However, the identification…

Piumika N. Karunanayake, Andreas K?nsgen, Thushara Weerawardane, Anna F?rster

Journal of Communications and Networks 25 (2023):  76-87

doi: 10.23919/JCN.2022.000035

Wireless sensor networks (WSN) are widely used for multi-disciplinary applications. According to the requirements and the goal of…

Saurabh Band, Florian Stechmann, Malavika Unnikrishnan, Shadi Attarha, Christiane Heinicke, Andreas Willig, Anna F?rster

(2023)

doi: 10.48550/ARXIV.2305.08143

Among the various required resources for this civilization, the habitat is one of the crucial resources to live on Mars. Such an…

Shayan Hassanpour, Dirk Wübben, Armin Dekorsy

IEEE Transactions on Communications  99 (2021)

doi: 10.1109/TCOMM.2021.3097142

Consider the following setup: Through a joint design, multiple observations of a remote data source shall be locally compressed before getting transmitted via several…

Christian Heinicke and Bernard Foing

Philosophical Transactions A 379 (2021), 2188

doi: 10.1098/rsta.2019.0568

There is strong interest in lunar exploration from governmental space agencies, private companies and the public. NASA is about to send humans to the lunar surface again within the next…

Manpreet Kaur, Marc Walker, Steven Hindmarsh, Charlotte Bolt, Stephen York, Yisong Han, Martin R. Lees and Katharina Brinkert

Faraday Discussions Advance Article (2023)

doi: 10.1039/D2FD00157H, preprint available open access: doi: 10.48550/arXiv.2305.06877

Efficient artificial photosynthesis…

Chieh‐Min Hsieh, Bj?rn Grabbet, Felix Zeller, Sanna Benter, Tarek Scheele, Norman Sieroka, Tim Neudecker

ChemPhysChem 23 (2022):  e202200414

doi: 10.1002/cphc.202200414

When calculating structural or spectroscopic properties of molecular crystals, the question arises whether it is sufficient to…

Rabja Maria Popall, Alenica Heussner,  Sven Kerzenmacher, Pierre-Pol Liebgott???????,  Guillaume Pillot

Microorganisms 10 (2022):  2249

doi: 10.3390/microorganisms10112249

Microbial electrosynthesis has recently emerged as a promising technology for the sustainable production of organic acids,…

Tiago P. Ramalho, Guillaume Chopin, Lina Salman, Vincent Baumgartner, Christiane Heinicke, Cyprien Verseux

npj Microgravity 8 (2022):  43

doi: 10.1038/s41526-022-00240-5

The sustainability of crewed infrastructures on Mars will depend on their abilities to produce consumables on site. These…

Damien Wohwe Sambo, Blaise Omer Yenke,  Anna F?rster , Jospeh Ndong, Paul Dayang, Idrissa Sarr

Wireless Networks   2 8  (2022) :  3275-3292

doi: 10.1007/s11276-022-03008-7

Nowadays, the exploitation of Wireless Underground Sensor Networks (WUSNs) remains challenging because of the attenuation of…

Tiago P. Ramalho, Guillaume Chopin, Olga M. Pérez-Carrascal, Nicolas Tromas,  Cyprien Verseux, Jennifer B. Glass

Applied and Environmental Microbiology 88 (2022):  e00594-22

doi: 10.1128/aem.00594-22

Crewed missions to Mars are expected to take place in the coming decades. After short-term stays,…

Sadiq Idris, Thenuka Karunathilake, Anna F?rster

Sensors 22 (2022):  5546

doi: 10.3390/s22155546

The Internet of Things (IoT) is one of the most important emerging technologies, spanning a myriad of possible applications, especially with the increasing number and variety of connected devices.…

Thorben K?nemann, Andreas Gierse, Peter von Kampen, Marc Avila

44th COSPAR Scientific Assembly. Held 16-24 July, 2022. Online at https://www.cosparathens2022.org/. Abstract G0.2-0001-22.

Bibcode: 2022cosp...44.2951K

The GraviTower Bremen Pro (GTB Pro) represents ZARM's new next-generation drop…

Cyprien Verseux, Tiago P. Ramalho, Jess Bunchek, Daniel Schubert, Guillaume Pillot, Sven Kerzenmacher

44th COSPAR Scientific Assembly. Held 16-24 July, 2022. Online at https://www.cosparathens2022.org/. Abstract F4.1-0012-22.

Bibcode: 2022cosp...44.2840V

To be sustainable, a settlement on Mars…

M. Avila, C. Heinicke, L. Colombi Ciacchi, A. Dekorsy, S. Fehrler, K. Rezwan, N. Sieroka, K. Tracht, C. Verseux

44th COSPAR Scientific Assembly. Held 16-24 July, 2022. Online at https://www.cosparathens2022.org/. Abstract PEX.2-0002-22.

Bibcode: 2022cosp...44.3186A

Leading space agencies have the…

Luca Hauser, Johannes Erben, Guillaume Pillot, Sven Kerzenmacher, Wolfgang Dreher, Ekkehard Kustermann

RSC Advances  12 (2021), 17784-17793

doi: 10.1039/d2ra01162j

Identifying the limiting processes of electroactive biofilms is key to improve the performance of bioelectrochemical systems (BES).…

Guillaume Pillot, Soniya Sunny, Victoria Comes, Alenica Heussner, Sven Kerzenmacher

Bioresource Technology Reports 18 (2022): 101040

doi: 10.1016/j.biteb.2022.101040

The recent discovery of the oxyhydrogen bacterium Kyrpidia spormannii EA-1, able to produce PolyHydroxyAlkanoates (PHAs) on a…

Stefan Christian Endres, Marc Avila, Lutz M?dler

Chemical Engineeering Science 257 (2022), 117681

doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ces.2022.117681

Many systems in fluid dynamics and materials science are modelled using multiphase energy balances which can be reduced to an interface,…

Vera Hagemann, Lena Heinemann, Corinna Peifer, Fabienne Aust, Maik Holtz

Safety Article 6 (2022): 21

doi: https://doi.org/10.3390/safety8020021

Firefighters act within extreme environments, work under threatening conditions and are often exposed to goal conflicts (e.g., self-protection vs.…

Ingmar B?sing, Fabio La Mantia, Jorg Th?ming

Electrochimica Acta 406 (2022), 139847

doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.electacta.2022.139847

The Point Defect Model (PDM) is known for over 40 years and has brought deeper insight to the understanding of passivity. During the last decades it has seen…

Michèle Rieth, Vera Hagemann

Applied Ergonomics 98 (2022)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apergo.2021.103552

The practical reality and feasibility of Human-Autonomy Teaming (HAT) are analyzed from an experts' point of view, considering current possibilities of various fields. We aim to find out…

Guillaume Pillot, Soniya Sunny, Victoria Comes, Sven Kerzenmacher

Faraday Discussions Advance Article (2023)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.10.25.465696 preprint available open access: doi: http://biorxiv.org/lookup/doi/10.1101/2021.10.25.465696

The electrosynthesis of valuable compounds by…

Gibson Kimutai, Alexander Ngenzi, Said Rutabayiro Ngoga, Anna F?rster

2021 IEEE Global Humanitarian Technology Conference (GHTC), Seattle, WA, USA  (2023): 265-272

doi: 10.1109/GHTC53159.2021.9612420

Agriculture contributes to the economies of many developing countries. Tea is the most popular…

Christiane Heinicke, Solmaz Adeli, Mickael Baqué, Giuseppe Correale, Miranda Fateri, Steven Jaret, Nina Kopacz,  Jens Orm?, Lucie Poulet, Cyprien Verseux 

Advances in Space Research 68 (2021)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.asr.2021.04.047

Humans are once again preparing to leave Earth and land on…

Yamani Dalpathadu, Thumma Showry, Vishnupriya Kuppusamy, Asanga Udugama, Anna Forster

GoodIT '21: Conference on Information Technology for Social Good. (2021)

doi: 10.1145/3462203.3475917

In the wake of a disaster, when all communication infrastructure has been damaged, it is critical to find a…

Dinarte Vasconcelos, Myat Su Yin, Fabian Wetjen, Alexander Herbst, Tim Ziemer,  Anna F?rster, Thomas Barkowsky, Nuno Nunes, Peter Haddawy

GoodIT '21: Conference on Information Technology for Social Good, Roma, Italy (2021)

doi: 10.1145/3462203.3475914

Counting mosquitoes in the wild is a crucial…

Sanaz Afzali, Asanga Udugama, Anna F?rster, Mathias Fischer

Electronic Communications of the EASST 80 (2021)  

doi: 10.14279/TUJ.ECEASST.80.1183

Opportunistic Networks (OppNets) enable contact-based networking and service provisioning when no infrastructure exists, e.g., in disaster areas. In…

Cyprien Verseux, Christiane Heinicke, Tiago P. Ramalho, Jonathan Determann, Malte Duckhorn, Michael Smagin, Marc Avila

Frontiers in microbiology12 (2021)

doi:10.3389/fmicb.2021.611798

The leading space agencies aim for crewed missions to Mars in the coming decades. Among the associated…

Christiane Heinicke, Lucie Poulet, Jocelyn Dunn, Anne Meier 

Acta Astronautica  182 (2021)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actaastro.2021.01.049

Analog environments for simulating aspects of spaceflight are being utilized for studying the psychological effects of the projected journey to Mars. In…

Stefan Christian Endres, Lucio Colombi Ciacchi, Lutz M?dler

Journal of Aerosol Science  153 (2021) 105719

doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaerosci.2020.105719

A desire to optimise the production and performance of nanoparticle structured materials has driven the development of increasingly…

Paul Zabel, Conrad Zeidler, Vincent Vrakking, Markus Dorn, Daniel Schubert

Frontiers in Plant Science  11 (2020)

doi: 10.3389/fpls.2020.00656.

The EDEN ISS greenhouse is a space-analog test facility near the German Neumayer III station in Antarctica. The facility is part of the project of the…