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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 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 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, accelerator research, and artefact profiling. Under the umbrella of PIER, DESY and 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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PIER Day 2025: Advancing Collaboration in AI, Data Science & Beyond

NEWS | 25 November 2025

On 25 November 2025, the PIER Day 2025 took place at Science City Hamburg 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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05 Feb 2026

COAST: Meet-a-Role-Model with Dr Mohammad Vakili

Dr Mohammad Vakili | 5 February 2026, 12:00 - 1:00 p.m. | Online

COAST career lunch talk: Join us, ask questions, network and find out if you could see yourself in a similar job.

09 Feb 2026

Thesis defense: Agata Azzolin

Thesis defense: Agata Azzolin | 09 February 2026, 1:00 p.m. |

The disputation is open to the UHH university public. Title of thesis: Advances in High-Order Harmonic Sources and Applications to Free-Electron Laser Pulse Characterization

26 Feb 2026

Supervision and Leadership for Doctoral Researchers

Dr. Imke Lode (she/her) | 26 + 27 February 2026 | Building 48f / room O1.030

Interactive hands-on workshop with exercises and scientific input, enabling the participants to supervise students in an effective and respectful way:

26 Feb 2026

Grant Proposal Writing in a Nutshell - Seminar for Early-Career Researchers

26 February 2026, 3 - 5:30 pm | Remote

Join us for our seminar "Grant Proposal Writing in a Nutshell" for early-career researchers (doctoral and postdoctoral researchers) taking place remotely on February 26, 2026, ...

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