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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
 Today - 14:00
Science Communication IV: (YouTube) Videos
Chaired by: Theresa Schredelseker (PIER (Partnership for Innovation, Education and Research))
Location: link will follow
Room: online
Today - 15:00
Archaeology on the origin of matter
Speaker: Graham White (IPMU)
Today - 16:00
FH Sustainability Forum
Speaker: Ben Brueers (Z_ATLAS (Experiment ATLAS)) ; Nils Ernst Klaus Gillwald (PhD Student at DESY) et al.
24 May. 2022 - 09:00
Talk and Discussion: "How to apply successfully"
Chaired by: Theresa Schredelseker (PIER (PIER))
Location: link will follow
Room: online
24 May. 2022 - 09:00
Good Scientific Practice for PhD Students
Chaired by: Alexander Schiller
Location: Online via ZOOM
24 May. 2022 - 16:00
High-precision measurement of the W boson mass with the CDF II detector
Speaker: Chris Hays (University of Oxford)
Location: DESY Hamburg
Room: Zoom
25 May. 2022 - 13:00
Data-driven detection of astrophysical transients
Speaker: Iftach Sadeh (DESY)
Location: DESY Zeuthen
Room: Zoom
25 May. 2022 - 14:00
PhD defense: Tailoring the Surface Chemistry of the Nanoparticles to Modulate their Interactions with Proteins and Cells
Speaker: Saad Megahed (CHyN)
25 May. 2022 - 14:00
Postdoc Coffee Break Get-Together, May 25, 2022 (in-person)
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