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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.

Our doctoral researchers

Since its foundation in 2013, the number of members of the PHGS has grown strongly. While there were only members 35 in the first year, the PHGS now boasts more than 250 active members. The doctoral researchers come from over 30 different countries, starting from Armenia to Venezuela. The majority of the members do their doctorates in the PIER research field particle and astroparticle physics, followed by photon science, infection and structural biology, nanoscience, the competence fields theoretical physics and accelerator research and very new, the emerging topic artefact profiling.

In 2023, the PHGS can look back on more than 200 alumni. The Graduate School is in contact with many of them.

Meet some of our fellows and alumni below.

Theses of PHGS members

The thesis is the crowning finale of each doctoral researcher's time and effort. Since the start of the PHGS in 2013, numerous doctoral theses have been completed by its (former) members.

See list of theses

Meet your mates

The Science campus Bahrenfeld hosts hundreds of early career researchers from all over the world, who form an extremely lively and colorful graduate community.

Image of Mostafa Vahdani/ © DESY/Marta Mayer
Mostafa Vahdani
Mostafa Vahdani, began his doctoral studies in September 2020 at DESY in Accelerator research in the Ultrafast Optics and X-rays research group.
Image of Judita Beinortaite/ © DESY/Marta Mayer
Judita Beinortaite
Judita Beinortaite, started her doctorate in October 2020 at DESY in Accelerators and is part of the research group FTX-AST and FLASHForward.
Portrait of Pascal Stienemeier/ © Pascal Stienemeier
Pascal Stienemeier
Pascal Stienemeier, completed his doctoral studies in the field of Theoretical Particle Physics in 2022 at the Universität Hamburg.