Jana Carolina Schuman's passion for physics began while she was still at school. Today, she studies and conducts research at UDE, supports school pupils through early-learning programmes, is actively engaged in the student council and with freestyle-physics – and shows with great enthusiasm that physics is anything but dry.

The UDE is a leading force in district-heating transition research. As the only German university with three projects in URBAN ARENA Seasonal Heat Storage, it explores how renewable surplus heat can be stored long term and supplied climate-neutrally and cost-effectively.