30 April 2025
Kickoff for new Collaborative Research Centre in Mathematical Physics
With an international conference on “Higher Structures, Moduli Spaces and Integrability”, the Collaborative Research Centre (Sonderforschungsbereich, SFB) of the same name organised by DESY and the University of Hamburg was officially opened at the beginning of April. On ...
27 April 2025
EPS Outreach Prize for Beamline for Schools
The project “Beamline for Schools” has been turning high school students into temporary scientists for more than ten years. It’s a project of records and firsts: more than 20 000 students between the ages of 16 and 19 from all over the world have come in touch with it over ...
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 ...