14 April 2025
And the Oscar of Science goes to …
DESY scientists are among the recipients of the prestigious Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics. The Breakthrough Prizes, sometimes referred to as “Oscars of Science”, are awarded by the Breakthrough Prize Foundation to a range of different scientific disciplines. This ...
31 March 2025
Beate Heinemann to lead DESY’s Board of Directors
Professor Beate Heinemann is to become the new head of the research centre DESY. On 1 April 2025, she will take over as the Chairperson of DESY’s Board of Directors, to which she already belongs in her capacity as Director for Particle Physics. Beate Heinemann will be taking ...
12 March 2025
Cluster of Excellence Quantum Universe honours two women physicists
The Beate Naroska Awards for the year 2024 will be awarded to Ursula Bassler (Professor at Laboratoire Leprince-Ringuet at École Polytechnique) and to Azadeh Maleknejad (Department of Physics, King’s College London).
The Beate Naroska guest professorship programme of the ...
27 February 2025
Quarks experience forces equivalent to the weight of ten elephants
An international team of theoretical physicists led by DESY emeritus scientist Gerrit Schierholz has calculated the force felt by individual quarks inside of the building block of the atomic nucleus. The value and direction of this force can now be interpreted on each quark, ...
26 February 2025
Jugend Forscht gives kids’ research a chance at the national stage
Soil bacteria studies of climate impacts, optimized plant behaviour, artificial intelligence in super markets, a robot dog prototype: all things that you could find at DESY at the regional Hamburg-Bahrenfeld competition of Jugend Forscht (lit. “Young people do research”). ...
