10 February 2025
Talks on innovation and transfer at DESY
Christian Stegmann, Director of Astroparticle Physics and Head of the DESY site in Zeuthen, and Beate Heinemann, Director of Particle Physics, provided insights into current and planned research projects. The focus was particularly on pioneering technologies that are being ...
20 January 2025
Father of string theory Edward Witten at masterclass in Hamburg
The Wolfgang Pauli Center for Theoretical Physics (WPC), a joint institution of DESY and Hamburg University, hosted a groundbreaking master class on “Invitation to Black Hole Thermodynamics” led by Professor Edward Witten, one of the most influential physicists of our time. ...
09 January 2025
DESY scientist Sarah Heim joins University of Hamburg as professor of physics
Sarah Heim has joined the Institute of Experimental Physics at the University of Hamburg as a professor after a successful application to the Helmholtz programme “Funding of first-time professorial appointments of highly talented female scientists.” She will continue in her ...
06 December 2024
Important detector component for CERN experiment is now in Hamburg
The morning of 27 November was exciting for the ATLAS team at DESY. They reached a major milestone in the construction of an endcap for the new silicon strip detector for the ATLAS experiment at CERN in Geneva. The basic mechanical structure of the endcap (the “skeleton”), ...
