Cutting-edge research for a
Changing world

Our Mission | Institutes overview | Career

Our goal is to preserve a world worth living in. To this end, we generate knowledge and research new technologies for greater resilience and sustainability - for the benefit of the climate, the coast and people.
Institutes overview | Career | Our Mission

Our institutes contribute to the research fields "Earth and Environment", "Helmholtz Information" and "Matter" of the Helmholtz Association.
Career | Our Mission | Institutes overview

Fundamental understanding, practical application - the interdisciplinary research spectrum covers a unique range.

Latest News from Hereon

The CORIOLIS as a guest in Hamburg

Daniel Günther and Peter Tschentscher visited Hereon research vessel at the Hamburg Hafengeburtstag

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Ship "MS Wissenschaft" 2025: Hereon is on board

Under the motto “Future Energies”, the Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon is presenting its hydrogen technologies

The relationship between predators and their prey in the sea is very complex and difficult to grasp due to the huge diversity of species. Source: Hereon/iStock

Who eats whom? New model for marine food webs

Hereon researchers develop innovative method to calculate predator-prey relationships more precisely

Our topics

Interdisciplinary and solution-orientated:
The Hereon topics of climate, coast and technology at a glance.

Climate

Coast

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Technology

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Methods

Our offers

Hereon supports the transfer of knowledge with various offers.

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Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht – Centre for Materials and Coastal Research GmbH has been renamed Helmholtz-Zentrum hereon GmbH. With this new name and new logo, the research center is expressing its current mission and the organizational structure with its sites and field locations.

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Jobs

30.04.2025 - 16.05.2025 Masterarbeit - Auslegung eines Metallhydridkompressors zur Kopplung mit atmosphärischen Elektrolyseuren
30.04.2025 - 16.05.2025 Masterarbeit - Entwicklung eines Kompressorkonzeptes aus Metallhydrid- und Verdrängertechnologie für die Kopplung mit atmosphärischen Elektrolyseuren
30.04.2025 - 22.05.2025 Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin (m/w/d) an der Helmut-Schmidt-Universität

Helmholtz Association

The Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon is a member of the Helmholtz Association.

Climate Service Center (GERICS)

Practical preparation of knowledge in climate research.

Deutsche Allianz Meeresforschung

The Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon is a member of the German Alliance Marine Research.

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European projects

Pan-European and European- funded projects in which the Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon is involved.