They are among the best in their scientific fields: top-notch young researchers from all over the world are living and working at German universities and institutes.

Ilenia Battiato comes from Italy and is conducting research at the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization in Göttingen. Trained as a physicist, she researches how fluids move in the earth's subsurface.

When she was 14, Mary Williams already knew she wanted to be an astronomer. Now, at 34, she's a researcher at the Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics in Potsdam. She's trying to find out how galaxies develop.

From Bombay to Bremen: Dr. Mehul Bhatt is a long way from home, but is in any case involved in virtual worlds. He specializes in spatial cognition.

Roberto Rinaldi is a researcher at the Max Planck Institute in Mülheim on the Ruhr. He is looking for a way to use agricultural waste to generate energy.

Shigeyoshi Inoue is 30 years old, and is currently pursuing a career in chemistry at the Technical University Berlin. His field of research is the production and characterization of novel molecules ...

34-year-old Mario D'Amore from Italy has been fascinated by far-off worlds since he was a child. Today, he works at the German Aerospace Center in Berlin.

He does his research at the Life and Brain Center at the University of Bonn, institute for stem cell research. The 30-year-old Indian is working on ways to transform human cells back into stem cells.

Bérengère Parise works at the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy in Bonn. There, the French scientist leads her own research group. The 32-year-old wants to know how stars like our sun came into being.