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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.

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PIER PhD Reception 2026

NEWS | 19 July 2026

This year's PIER PhD Reception took place on 19 June in the CSSB lecture hall. About 70 doctoral researchers, their supervisors, friends, relatives, and staff from both DESY and Universität Hamburg attended the event to welcome the new doctoral candidates and to honor the doctoral graduates of the PIER Helmholtz Graduate School (PHGS).

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PIER Startup Bootcamp Workshop II: Business Modeling and Pitching

EVENT | Andreas Voss (Concis Group! and People & Friends) | 12 June 2026, 9 am - 4 pm | Bahrenfeld campus, CFEL, SR V

Learn how to create a business model based on your research and improve your pitching skills at our next PIER Startup Workshop “Business Modeling and Pitching” for early stage researchers (doctoral researchers and postdocs), taking place on 12 June 2026.

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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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03 Jul 2026

Thesis defense: Miguel Blanco García

Thesis defense: Miguel Blanco García | 3 July 2026, 10:00 a.m. |

The disputation is open to the UHH university public. Title of thesis: ADSORPTION AND PHOTOOXIDATION OF SARS-CoV 2 SPIKE AMINO ACIDS ON TIO2 POLYMORPHS

03 Jul 2026

Thesis defense: Nele Naomi Striker

Thesis defense: Nele Naomi Striker | 3 July 2026, 10:30 a.m. |

The disputation is open to the UHH university public. Title of thesis: Spatial and Temporal Correlations in Colloidal Systems

06 Jul 2026

Thesis defense: Stepan Zakharov

Thesis defense: Stepan Zakharov | 6 July 2026, 10:00 a.m. |

The disputation is open to the UHH university public. Title of thesis: Measurement of the CP Structure of the Higgs Boson Coupling to Tau Leptons Using Run 3 Data Collected w ...

27 Aug 2026

PIER + COAST: Meet-a-Role-Model with Dr. Daniel Heuchel and Dr. Iris Theophilou

Dr. Daniel Heuchel and Dr. Iris Theophilou | 27 August 2026, 4:30 - 6:00 p.m. | Online

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

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