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

News overview

Prof Regine Willumeit Römer

Regine Willumeit-Römer will be leading the ILL

Long-serving Hereon scientist appointed Director General of leading international research institution

From the left: Prof Helmut Schneider, Senior Research Fellow am Ferdinand-Steinbeis-Institut und Zertifizierungsbeauftragter des berufundfamilie-Kuratoriums, Regine Wolters, Gifhorner Wohnungsbau-Genossenschaft eG, Maike Grimme, HanseWerkAG, Luzia Rettler, Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon, Barbara Heckmann, hkk Krankenkasse, Oliver Schmitz, Geschäftsführer der berufundfamilie Service GmbH. Photo: Jens Schicke

Flexible Solutions for a Modern Working Environment

Hereon Receives Family and Career Compatibility Award for the Seventh Time

Chile House

Future Earth launches Global Coordination Hub

Hosted by GERICS and Arizona State University, the new hub will strengthen sustainability research and international collaboration

Our topics

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

Climate

Coast

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Technology

Sheepbone Materials Digital Twin

Methods

Our offers

Hereon supports the transfer of knowledge with various offers.

to our offers

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.

Events

Event

20.07.2026 - 24.07.2026 EFC Summer School: Multifunctional and smart coatings for corrosion protection

Jobs

28.05.2026 - 24.06.2026 Personalreferent (m/w/d)
08.06.2026 - 05.07.2026 Ingenieurin (m/w/d) - Al-Legierungen unter Einfluss von Wasserstoff bei kryogenen Temperaturen
05.06.2026 - 19.07.2026 SAP-Solutions-Architektin (m/w/d) – Schwerpunkt Betrieb und Administration

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.

Eu Flagge

European projects

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