The Alliance Center Electron Microscopy (ACEM) of the Berlin University Alliance (BUA) is a jointly supported virtual and interdisciplinary electron microscopy equipment center of Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Technische Universität Berlin and Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin and is cross-method, cross-disciplinary and cross-university. The collaborative ACEM serves to support and strengthen the scientific community around the electron microscopy infrastructure of the BUA.

ACEM offers funding of up to 10,000 EUR for the use of ACEM facility services for a period of up to 12 months for early career researchers. Please find the call in the ACEM-Website (or DOWNLOAD PDF). Applications can be submitted any time, latest in 02.01.2026. A total of 90,000 EUR/year is available.

Participating institutions:

Life Sciences

• Core Facility Electron Microscopy (CFEM)
• Core Facility for Cryo Electron Microscopy (CFcryoEM)
• Research Centre for Electron Microscopy (FZEM)
• Institute of Veterinary Anatomy, Center for Electron Microscopy
• Institute of Biology, Molecular Parasitology: Comparative electron microscopy

Materials Science or Natural Sciences

• Center for Electron Microscopy (ZELMI)
• Institute of Optics and Atomic Physics, Electron- and Ion-Nanooptics
• Institute of Physics, Structure Research and Electron Microscopy group