and is the moment when I can see in the faces of the students how the spark of enthusiasm jumps over to investigate the mysteries of nature.

I am pleased if I can contribute to promoting the willingness to let childlike curiosity be released again, to rediscover wonder, to revive the desire to question and at the same time to guide the learning of systematic scientific work.

a job where graphic design is used so that I could deepen my rudimentary skills in graphic illustration to also advance the visual communication of science.

on my mobile computer, no matter where I take it, because it really is an amazingly inexhaustible reservoir of motivation for me. A tool that provides a diverse spectrum of approaches and linking possibilities in the pool of accumulated knowledge, which constantly inspires me to find new approaches. A virtual place of playful learning.

Nelson Mandela, who recognised that the urge to retaliate is not at all a useful guide for one's own actions, but that insight in the other person seems to be most effectively achieved through sovereignty and humility in the mirror of one's own behaviour.

I would like to turn this into a maxim that we can practise in our everyday lives. Nelson Mandela, a man who lived his insight admirably - confident, peaceful and yet by no means phlegmatic, rather courageous and in solidarity.

Or Steven Jobs, the founder of Apple Inc, a visionary who managed to motivate people in such a way that they grew beyond themselves.

the building atmosphere and the environment of excellent minds, which are important crystallisation points.

the courage and the will to continue to abandon the adherence to rigid categories in order to better utilise the potential of the individual diversity of all employees for the common cause and to provide space for more unrestricted development opportunities and appreciation of people whose life concept cannot be reduced to a uniform career path.

More freedom for unconventional thinking and action would be desirable in the confidence that not only straightforwardness can fertilise science.

hopefully a place that stands for openness and creativity and that can be said to want to be a significant starting point from which critically thinking, courageous people are released into the world.