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 died on 10 January in Hamburg at the age of 94. He devoted his entire life to researching the ...
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 ambitious research programmes. These grants are among the most prestigious offered in the European ...
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. DESY is familiar territory for the particle physicist: Husemann worked on DESY experiments during his ...
23 September 2025
Two Beamline for Schools winning teams perform experiments in Hamburg
From Mexico City and Montreal to Hamburg! This year we have two winning teams of the international Beamline for Schools competition doing experiments at the DESY test beam in Hamburg. The teams of pupils from Mexico and Canada are performing the award-winning experiments that ...
06 August 2025
Gravitational waves from the Sun: ready to explore a new frontier
A collaboration between researchers at the Instituto de Física Corpuscular (IFIC, CSIC–Universitat de València) and DESY has led to the most detailed prediction of gravitational waves generated by the Sun to date. Gravitational waves are ripples in the very fabric of space ...
