As part of the FAIRmat Seminar Series in Berlin, Prof. Helge Stein gave a talk about “The Engineering of Research by Horizontal and Vertical Integration”. He explained how Materials Acceleration Platforms (MAPs) are uniting high-throughput experiments, automation, and machine learning in order to transform traditional materials research into a faster, smarter, and fully integrated process. The talk highlighted frameworks such as FINALES for coordinating distributed experiments and HELAO for automated laboratory workflows, showing how these tools enable rapid discovery from material design to device performance.
Stein’s vision is already coming to life in our work at the TUM Chair of Digital Catalysis, where we combine robotics, combinatorial synthesis, and explainable machine learning into integrated workflows that speed up discovery in battery and catalysis research.
Watch the talk in the video to find out more about it!