Latest news on DESY Particle Physics and further information on events at DESY
27 February 2026
DESY researchers discover new particle combination
It seems almost impossible that there are still undiscovered discoveries waiting to be made in the sea of data from the LHC particle accelerator at CERN. Over many years, billions ...
15 January 2026
DESY mourns the loss of its former director Erich Lohrmann, an outstanding experimental physicist who had a profound influence on DESY and German particle physics. Erich Lohrmann ...
06 November 2025
Six DESY scientists awarded prestigious ERC Synergy Grants
Synergies abound: six DESY scientists at the German research centre DESY in Hamburg have been awarded the highly competitive European Research Council (ERC) Synergy Grants for two ...
01 November 2025
Ulrich Husemann takes over DESY's research division for particle physics
DESY has a new research director for particle physics: Ulrich Husemann, formerly professor at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), assumes the position on 1 November. ...