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Research & Competence Fields

PIER concentrates on four pioneering research fields and two areas of expertise that form interdisciplinary networks between the research fields.

The four PIER research fields:

Research Teams

Particle and Astroparticle Physics
 

Thanks to the collaboration between Universität Hamburg (UHH) and DESY research centre, Hamburg is recognised internationally as one of the most powerful and highly regarded German sites for high-energy physics.

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Research Teams

Nanoscience
 

Hamburg is an internationally recognized location for research into nanomaterials. This research focuses on both the synthesis and the non-destructive analysis and study of new kinds of functional materials and their molecular processes under conditions of environmental, technological and industrial relevance.

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Research Teams

Photon Science
 

As a research location, Hamburg boasts a globally unique constellation of complementary expertise in the following closely interrelated fields: laser physics, quantum optics, short-time physics, X-ray physics and atomic and molecular physics. All of these fields are heavily involved in photon research.

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Research Teams
Infection and Structural Biology
 

Universität Hamburg and the University Hospital in Hamburg-Eppendorf (UKE) are currently establishing an interdisciplinary research area whose focus is on “global and newly occurring infections”.

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The two PIER competence fields:

Research Teams
Accelerators
 

The DESY research centre is one of the world’s leading institutes when it comes to building and operating large particle accelerators. DESY and Universität Hamburg have been closely collaborating on accelerator research for decades. Together, the two partners develop new technologies and study accelerator physics at existing facilities.

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Research Teams

Theoretical Physics
 

The Wolfgang Pauli Centre (WPC) unites the various theoretical physics research groups that are working on particle and astroparticle physics, cosmology, mathematical physics, condensed matter, quantum optics and chemical physics at Universität Hamburg and DESY.

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Fellows
Jennifer Popp
Particle and Astroparticle Physics
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Leonardo Ranasinghe
Nanoscience
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Alumni
Linda Vanessa Thesing
Photon Science
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Ángel Ferran Pousa
Accelerators
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Event Calendar
 08 Jan. 2021 to 31 Dec. 2021
Letter of Intent for a seismic network in the Science City Hamburg Bahrenfeld — WAVE —
21 Jan. 2021 to 25 Nov. 2021
2021 Virtual Hard X-ray Collaboration Seminar Series
Chaired by: Thomas Tschentscher (European XFEL) ; Changbum Kim (PAL-XFEL) et al.
Location: Zoom
08 Jun. 2021 to 30 Jun. 2021
Registrierung COVID 19 Impfung | Registration COVID 19 Vaccination
14 Jun. 2021 to 18 Jun. 2021
Ultrafast X-ray Summer School 2021
Chaired by: Kartik Ayyer, James Cryan
Location: CFEL
Room: ZOOM
15 Jun. 2021 to 16 Jun. 2021
MicroTCA.4 Basic Training
Chaired by: Patrick Nonn (MSK (Strahlkontrollen)) ; Gohar Ayvazyan (DESY) et al.
Location: DESY Hamburg
Room: online on Zoom
Today - 13:15
Fabrication of three-dimensional organic-inorganic hybrid materials with enhanced photonic properties
Speaker: Qing Chen (FS-PETRA-D (FS-PET-D Fachgruppe P03))
Today - 16:00
Quantum Universe Colloquium: A new era in the quest for dark matter
Speaker: Gianfranco Bertone (GRAPPA, University of Amsterdam)
Location: DESY Hamburg
Room: Zoom
Today - 16:00
Kathrin Böckmann - TBD
Today - 16:00
QU Colloquium: Gianfranco Bertone (Amsterdam) – A new era in the quest for dark matter
16 Jun. 2021 - 10:00
PhD defense: Evidence for Higgs boson decay to muons with the CMS experiment
Speaker: Jan Oliver Rieger
17 Jun. 2021 - 10:00
Topological effects in intense laser-solid interaction
Speaker: Dieter Bauer (Institute of Physics, University of Rostock)
Location: Location: Zoom virtual meeting https://desy.zoom.us/j/91202137161 (Meeting-ID: 912 0213 7161, Password: 845021)
17 Jun. 2021 - 11:30
Black hole superradiance of self-interacting scalar fields
Speaker: Aleksandr Chatrchyan (T (Cosmology))
17 Jun. 2021 - 15:00
Radio searches for axion dark matter.
Speaker: Christoph Weniger (GRAPPA Amsterdam)
18 Jun. 2021 - 14:00
Hamburg Photon Science Colloquium | Progress of inner-shell ionized hard X-ray laser pumped by XFEL
Speaker: Hitoki Yoneda (Institute for Laser Science, University of Electro-Communicatons,Tokyo, Japan)
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