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Innovation & Startup

You are interested in learning about business startup and innovation topics? Check out PIER events and activities in this field.

PIER Research Funding

PIER offers funding for seed projects, joint workshops or short visits of international colleagues in your field.

PIER Education Platform

Transferable skills for doctoral and postdoctoral researchers

Language courses

German and English courses for doctoral and postdoctoral researchers

PHGS Travel Awards for doctoral researchers

Outstanding doctoral researchers of the PIER Helmholtz Graduate School (PHGS) can apply for a PHGS Travel Award to pay for travel to and participation in scientific events. Find out more...

Forms and info Sheets for doctoral researchers of the PHGS

Here you can find all templates and information sheets that are important for your membership in the PIER Helmholtz Graduate School.

Buddy Programme for new doctoral researchers of the PHGS

You are a new international doctoral sresearcher and would like support during your first time in Hamburg? You are an experienced doctoral researcher and would like to support a new international doctoral researcher? Register here.

Registration membership PIER Helmholtz Graduate School

You are starting a doctorate at DESY or Universität Hamburg and want to become a member of the PIER Helmholtz Graduate School? Here you can sign up.

Curriculum PIER Helmholtz Graduate School

The PHGS curriculum is the core of the education of our members and is the basis for the PHGS Certificate and Transcript of Records.

Creating Synergies

In their strategic partnership "PIER", DESY and the University of Hamburg combine their strengths in innovation, education and research.
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Partnership for Innovation, Education and Research

PIER is the strategic partnership of DESY and the University of Hamburg ("Partnership for Innovation, Education and Research"). PIER focuses on the research fields particle and astroparticle physics, nanosciences, photon science and infection and structural biology. Additional interdisciplinary areas are theoretical physics and accelerator research. In 2023, artefact profiling was added to the portfolio as a PIER Emerging Topic. Under the umbrella of PIER, DESY and the University of Hamburg jointly provide funding for cross-institutional research projects, promote high-quality education of junior scientists, and foster an innovation-friendly culture on the science campus Bahrenfeld.

The unique research environment of the science campus Bahrenfeld is where all PIER activities unfold. The campus hosts around 3,000 guest researchers from more than 40 countries every year who are attracted by the world-class research facilities available in Bahrenfeld.

PIER News

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From Dark Matter to Dark Triad and Back: Keynote Lecture by Prof. Lucie Flek at the PIER Day 2025

NEWS | 25 November 2025

We are excited to welcome Prof. Lucie Flek from the University of Bonn as our keynote speaker for this year's PIER Day, taking place on November 25th, 2025, at Campus Bahrenfeld.

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PIER Graduate Week 2025 - A Week of Interdisciplinary Exchange and Skills Development

NEWS | 6-10 October 2025

The PIER Graduate Week took place on 6-10 October 2025 on the Science Campus Hamburg-Bahrenfeld.

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Discover how PIER can boost your scientific career

Research Funding

PIER funds various pioneering research fields for pushing your scientific projects to a new level.

Innovation

PIER offers a variety of event formats and activities in order to foster an innovation-friendly culture on the Hamburg Bahrenfeld campus.

Education

The PIER Helmholtz Graduate School ensures that doctoral candidates receive an internationally recognized and optimally supervised education in their respective fields.

EVENTS

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04 Nov 2025

PIER Doctoral Seminar | November 2025

Michael Büker | Three modules between 4 and 12 November 2025 | Campus Bahrenfeld, HARBOR (bldg. 610), seminar room ground floor

The seminar is open to all full and associated members of the PIER Helmholtz Graduate School (PHGS) from the 2nd year of the doctorate. All full members of PHGS must attend th ...

07 Nov 2025

PIER Startup Workshop: Creating Innovation with Systematic Inventive Thinking (SIT)

Andreas Voss (Concis Group! and People & Friends) | 7 November 2025, 9 am - 1 pm | Remote

Learn how to create innovation by "thinking inside the box" in our next PIER Startup Workshop “Creating Innovation with Systematic Inventive Thinking (SIT)” for early stage re ...

19 Nov 2025

Time and Self-Management for Doctoral Researchers

Matthias Mayer | 19 + 20 November 2025, 9:00 a.m. - 5:30 p.m. | room tba

The workplace in academia is becoming ever more demanding and hectic, with PhD students often having to deal as efficiently and effectively with increasing time pressures, hig ...

25 Nov 2025

PIER Day 2025

25 Nov. 2025 | Bahrenfeld campus, CFEL SR I-III and foyer

On Nov. 25th, 2025, PIER will hold its annual PIER Day on Bahrenfeld campus.

Meet PIER

Take a quick roundtrip and discover the PIER activities and program offers.

»I am so happy to be on the Science Campus Bahrenfeld, because here I can work at incredible institutions, do interesting research, and learn a new language at the same time.«

Blae Stacey | Doctoral Researcher PHGS since 2022 | Learn more
 Image of Blae Stacey/ © DESY/Marta Mayer

»I am so happy to be on the Science Campus Bahrenfeld, because here I can work at incredible institutions, do interesting research, and learn a new language at the same time.«

Blae Stacey | Doctoral Researcher PHGS since 2022 | Learn more