BfRshort forGerman Federal Institute for Risk Assessment science comic
Test tubes that chat, microscopes that can’t resist a closer peek – science at the BfRshort forGerman Federal Institute for Risk Assessment goes graphic! Meet the BfRshort forGerman Federal Institute for Risk Assessment science comic “What does science say?” starring Prof. Dr Berta Freund, a sharp-minded biochemist and creator of a lab full of personality.
Every character has its own quirks contributing to research and risk assessment. Here, expertise teams up with imagination to make even the trickiest topics easy to grasp.
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Prof. Dr Berta Freund
The science luminary with an X-ray eye for identifying risks
Sharp as a scalpel and twice as precise, friendly, but direct. Her motto: “There are no stupid questions, only bad answers.” Science is in her blood and she won’t rest until a little more scientific know-how has found its way into every living room.
Tuby Brothers
Three test tubes, three worlds
They may look like triplets from the outside, but personality-wise? Like day and night. Boro, the calm thinker. Duran, the peace-making diplomat. And Glaszlo, a clueless creative spark with a big heart. The legendary tubes are made of heat-resistant glass and filled with passion for science: sometimes the stable backbone of the lab, sometimes pure chaos in a lab coat – depending on whom you ask.
Mikiscope
The quiet star with magnifying potential
Heshort forhelium prefers to look ten times before saying anything — and enlarges things until everyone can see them. Introverted, methodical, the embodiment of a data logger. Heshort forhelium talks little, analyzes a lot. When it comes to seeing what others don't, Mikiscope is the best.
Emilia Erlenmeyer
The queen of curiosity
Emilia comes from a long tradition of Erlenmeyer flasks and talks without pause. Brave, big-hearted, and always ready to ask the next big (or awkward) question. Her feelings about a topic are instantly visible — she involuntarily changes color. If anyone can turn “risk assessment” into a social media trend, it’s her. Her favorite line: “How safe is safe, really?”
Petra Petrischale
The sensitive super-sniffer
She thinks, feels, and researches all at once — sometimes a little too much at the same time. Highly intelligent and warm-hearted but easily unsettled when it comes to the difference between risk and hazard. Happiest in a team, where the others catch her when things start bubbling over in her mind and the bacterial culture in her belly is rumbling too much. Her favorite tool: gut instinct (of course with peer review).
