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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 Sep. 2022 to 27 Oct. 2022
PIER PhD Seminar 2022 (autumn)
Chaired by: Stefanie Tepass (PIER (PIER))
Location: DESY Campus Bahrenfeld
Room: Building 3, Room SRBAH2
21 Sep. 2022 to 13 Jan. 2023
Registrierung CoViD Impfung | Registration CoViD Vaccination
04 Oct. 2022 - 13:15
On the influence of thermal treatment on residual stresses in an additively manufactured austenitic steel 316L
Speaker: David Canelo (Helmholtz-Zentrum hereon GmbH)
Location: Online
04 Oct. 2022 - 15:00
Philip Sørensen, PhD defense "Axion-Like-Particle Dark Matter Beyond the Standard Paradigm"
04 Oct. 2022 - 16:00
LCGG (Linear Collider Generator Group) Meeting
Chaired by: Carl Mikael Berggren (FLC (FTX Fachgruppe SLB)) ; Juergen Reuter (T (Phenomenology))
Location: DESY Hamburg
Room: Seminar Room 2, Bldg. 2a
05 Oct. 2022 to 07 Oct. 2022
on e+e- Higgs/EW/Top Factories, October 5-7, 2022, in Hamburg
Speaker: Carl Mikael Berggren (FLC (FTX Fachgruppe SLB)) ; Daniel Jeans (KEK) et al.
Location: DESY Hamburg
Room: Auditorium
05 Oct. 2022 to 07 Oct. 2022
CFEL Internal Symposium 2022
Location: Maritim Hotel, Timmendorfer Strand
Room: ball room
05 Oct. 2022 to 07 Oct. 2022
1st ECFA Workshop 2022 on Higgs/EW/Top Factory
Location: DESY
Room: Auditorium
05 Oct. 2022 - 09:00
Project Management for Early Career Researchers (4 sessions)
Chaired by: Mirko Siemssen (PIER (PIER))
Location: link will follow
Room: online
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