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Your Friendly Physicist and Other Nerds is the science podcast where curiosity meets conversation. Hosted by physicist Lucas Kreuzer, this show brings you engaging interviews with scientists, engineers, and creative thinkers across disciplines — from quantum physics to climate science, from materials research to machine learning. Whether you're a fellow researcher, a science enthusiast, or just nerdy at heart, join us for deep dives into cutting-edge research, honest stories from the lab, and surprising insights into how science shapes our world.
🎙️ New episodes regularly.
🎙️ New episodes regularly.
Hosts:
Update frequency:
every 55 days
Average audio length:
38 minutes
Guest interviews
English
United States
31 episodes
since Dec. 21, 2022
episodic
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"In the end, founding our company was a no‑brainer!"
If you can say this about the founding process of your company, you've probably done a few things right. With the right people. At the right place.
Dr. Andreas Weis and Jennifer L.M. Rupp founded Qkera in 2023. Steffen Weinmann came in a bit lat…
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In der neuen Episode ist André Baumeister von FramScience zu Gast: Geograph, Geologe und jemand, der Reisen mit Wissenschaft und echte Lernerfahrungen kombiniert. Von den Alpen über Norwegen bis in die Arktis sprechen wir darüber, wie aus Beobachten ein tieferes Verständnis für Landschaften, Klima …
Imagine, you rent a car, pack it with scientific equipment, a bunch of samples, and your favorite colleagues. You drive to a large-scale facility, where you set up your experiment and spend days and nights to shoot neutrons or x-rays on your samples. Sounds exciting?
That's what scientists call bea…
Physik trifft Politik: Vom Labor direkt in den Deutschen Bundestag ⚛️🥼 ➡️ 🏛️🇩🇪
Wie fühlt es sich an, wenn man Schutzbrille gegen Aktentasche tauscht? Und wenn plötzlich nicht mehr Messdaten, sondern Gesetzestexte den Arbeitsalltag bestimmen?
Dr. Markus Schleuning ist Physiker und hat genau diesen…
Let's build a university on the Moon. And you can be part of it! 🌖🎓
Lakshmi Karan is Vice Chair of the Galactic Council of LunARC and she has a mission: To democratize space exploration, so that all humans, and not just some billionaires, benefit from access to space. 💪🏽🚀
One idea to achieve this…
If you look at our Moon these days, would you think that it will soon be an extraterrestrial art exhibition? 🌗 🖼️
Priyanka Rajkakati, PhD is a scientist. And she is an artist. For her, that's not two sides of the same medal, but a complementary way of experiencing our world. As scientists, we often…
Just two nerds talking about small-angle scattering 🤓 🤝 🤓
I am fully aware that this is a super nerdy topic, but if anyone can get you excited about the magic of scattering X-rays (or neutrons) at small angles, it's Brian Richard Pauw from Bundesanstalt für Materialforschung und -prüfung! 🙌
Tune…
“I started the company and 28 days later the world was ruined!" ☠️🌍
Florian Döring has quite some stories to tell:
🏭 Why and how he founded XRnanotech?
😷 What the pandemic meant for the company?
🦸🏼♂️ Which superpowers he wants to have as a CEO and how he makes the invisible visible?
The full st…
Prof. Saša Zelenika is Vice Rector for Strategic Projects at the University of Rijeka in Croatia. Together, we dive into how universities can foster real-world innovation and prepare students for dynamic careers by enhancing communication and collaboration between academia and industry.
Professor…
False Vacuum Decay!
This term describes when a meta-stable quantum field (=False Vacuum) becomes a stable quantum field (=True Vacuum). This might happen at some time to the (maybe) meta-stable Higgs Field, and the consequences would be quite drastic: the annihilation of the entire universe ☠️😱
Ku…
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