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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
Chu Wang
Infection and Structural Biology
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Younes Otarid
Particle and Astroparticle physics
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Alumni
Florian Christie
Accelerators
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Daniel Marx
Accelerators
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Event Calendar
 30 Nov. 2020 to 04 Dec. 2020
QCD Meets Gravity VI
Speaker: Yael Shadmi (Technion) ; Julio Parra-Martinez (Caltech) et al.
Location: Northwestern University
01 Dec. 2020 to 03 Dec. 2020
9th Virtual MicroTCA Workshop for Industry and Research
Speaker: Daniel Tavares (LNLS) ; Junqiang Zhang (Shanghai Advanced Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences) et al.
Location: Virtual Workshop via Zoom
Today - 10:00
DESY Science Day 2020
Location: online
02 Dec. 2020 to 04 Dec. 2020
CSSB Symposium 2020, "Charting the landscape of infection: From entry to exit
Location: DESY Hamburg
Room: CSSB Auditorium
Today - 14:30
TBA
Location: DESY Hamburg
Room: build. 2a, SR2
03 Dec. 2020 - 10:00
PIER PhD Seminar 2020 (Autumn) / Group B
03 Dec. 2020 - 14:15
Cobordisms and the Swampland
Speaker: Miguel Montero (Harvard University)
03 Dec. 2020 - 15:30
PB TMD discussion
04 Dec. 2020 - 13:30
PhD defense: High harmonic generation from solids with elliptically polarized laser pulses
Speaker: Nicolai Klemke
Location: CFEL, Gebäude 99
Room: Seminarraum V
04 Dec. 2020 - 14:00
Hamburg Photon Science Colloquium | Manipulating matter with light: the case of superconductors
Speaker: Lara Benfatto (Department of Physics, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy)
04 Dec. 2020 - 14:30
What you always wanted to know about detectors but never dared to ask! — Basics on detectors for experts from other fields (3/3)
Speaker: Ingrid-Maria Gregor (DESY/Uni Bonn)
Location: Passcode: 97540703
Room: https://uni-hamburg.zoom.us/j/92293543262
07 Dec. 2020 to 09 Dec. 2020
Python basics intensive course for PhD students
Chaired by: Bernd Klein
Location: online
07 Dec. 2020 - 13:00
Workshop Seismic Network Campus Bahrenfeld
Speaker: Roman Schnabel (UHH) ; Dirk Gajewski et al.
Location: zoom
Room: https://uni-hamburg.zoom.us/j/92585721651?pwd=TlZkbnp3dHR3ZU5FaUFCaVF3WmZxUT09
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